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The book is not is chronological and is repetitive.

Revisado: 05-13-24

I noticed that the author covered Ford's fight against the FDR's unconditional 'National Recovery Act' as if Ford was wrong, and his Ideas about how to 'Fix' the Hoover / Roosevelt "Great Depression" were loony. Even though what Ford recommend was what his, and other companies had done during the 1920 recession. That was not covered in the story at all, along with the Harding administration ending nearly all of Wilson's "War Socialism Programs", reducing size of the Federal government and it's spending allowed the US Capitolist Economy to fix itself in just a few months! and that lead to the 'Roaring Twenty's'. 3 stars are a bit high.

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This book Not up to 'Culture' Standards.

Revisado: 10-24-23

The story was somewhat muddled,
but Mr. Banks political views were troweled on a bit thick, without the wit and finesse of the "Culture" books.

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I LEARNED THINGS

Revisado: 05-05-23

It was a very interesting and informative book i enjoyed it very much. And highly recommend it.

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A warped view of Reagan thru an MSM filter.

Revisado: 11-26-21

I lived thru, and was politically aware, for the whole Reagan eara, so it was obvious, to me, that the slant and much of this hack job was taken directly from the editorial pages of the: NY Times, Washington Post, and the COX Communications Corp. Papers and the Alphabet broadcast Media of the Reagan eara.
Tha author also filled many of his numerous ridiculously short chapters with hackneyed historical outlines that sounded as if they produced by The "History" Channel or PBS/NPR for use at Democrat Party functions.
This is by far the Worst biography I have listened to!
It is so poorly edited it impossible follow a consistan time line because the auther jumps back and forth from one failure to the next Media hypped "Scandal".
He also padded the book's many chapters with of verbatim transcriptions of: testimony, depositions, and "Summit Meeting minutes!
It does Not even rate one star!

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'A Peoples "History" of The Dark Ages'

Revisado: 07-03-21

This book is ludicrous from it's title on "A World lit only by Fire" should include everything from prehistoric times thru about 1890 AD!
The author may have been attempting to 'cash-in' on Howard Zinn's very popular Soviet- era 'Propagandized' sudo-history of the US. The author states as much in his long afterword, where he claims that "...this is not a work of scholarship...", but a "...kaleidoscope..." of his own views of the 15th & 16th Centuries.
This is bourn out by the authors ignorance of the source wealth of one of the richest man who ever lived Jakob Fugger, that being his family's dominance/monopoly over the Brenner pass from Italy to Bavaria. also that the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt were Greeks!
It also seamed that the author based all his writing, in this book, about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation from Jesuit Propaganda from the Vatican 'Counter Reformation.
All of the above was even more irritating because of the narrator's inability to correctly pronounce some Common names and words; Jakob Fugger as Jacube Fourgar and The Diet of Worms as The Deate Vourms!
I am glad the book was at no cost from the 'Plus Catalog'!

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A Book Useful for Leftist Mental Onanism.

Revisado: 02-10-21

In the introduction, the author goes to great lengths (About 5 minutes) to establish his position as a 'Nonpartisem' and Nonpolitical, Historian free of biases of the academic community, but later, still in the introduction, he uses the example of; "The International Hedgefund manager, Financier and Philanthropist; George Sours..." being the center of a Sinister Web, using his l Billions for nefarious deeds! As an example of a ridiculous internet hox. I was surprised at this DNC party line view. I was shocked, while still in the Introduction, he related the whole DNC / H.R. Clinton Campagne fabricated "Russian Hacking Hox" as a FACT verified by ALL of the American 'Intelligence' Organizations. Granted this book was written in 2017 and he is obviously still in shock at Donald J. Trump's victory. The book's short chapters are in turn made up of historical 'Thum-nails' some interesting and informative but many, not so much; an example; That the Antibabtiest's hated both Lutherans and Roman Catholics because both had the same beliefs about the sacrament of communion! Also, the first part of the book is not useful in the Audio format because of the lack of the necessary 'Charts and Graphs necessary to understand his theories of networks. The author seems to be using this book to introduce his two-volume Bio of Henery Kissenger. I can not but wonder what the author's thoughts are in light of the last 18 to 20 months. I only recommend it in the historical context of more authoritative sources, and then NOT as an 'Audio' book!

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A very good Book but poorly narrated.

Revisado: 01-15-21

This Excellant book and it's subject has proved prophetic, since I first read it 13 years ago. The narrator detracted from the Audio version because of his guttural voice made listening, for me, difficult. Otherwise A Great Listen!

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A restoration Wilson's 'Democrat Sainthood'.

Revisado: 01-11-21

This book, from the Introduction thru the last word is an attempt to refute the last 20 years of actual factual scholarship on the life and administration of the last President of United States that was raised by Black Slaves as servants 'Rented' by the churches his father preached at.
The book Glosses over his Racism and contempt for our Constitution and Republican form of Government.
The author goes so far as to put late 20th/21st Century terms in Wilson's mouth; quoting him as saying "...Aferican Americans..." rather then Negros or more likely the now forbidden "N" word which was, I believe, the term he normally used to refer to All Black Americans!
This Book is a sad attempt to restore Woodrow Wilson's Democrat Party Secular Sainthood.

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An Explanation of The Politics of 2020

Revisado: 11-09-20

I highly recommend this book to anyone that wishes for a better understanding of the sources of the Chaos, from the 'Left' that has dominated our Politics of the past 12 years and beyond.

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A Portrait of a Lovecraftian Human Monster

Revisado: 08-30-20

Mr. Conquest's book fills out the few blank places in the "Dorian Gray" like portrait of this monstrous creature J.V. Stalin, painted in Simon Sebag Montefiore's two-volume works; "Young Stalin" and "STALIN, THE COURT OF THE RED STAR" that I had listened too last month. These three books, along with Victor Sebestyen's "LENIN" and A. Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" are my sources of understanding the first half of the twentieth century concerning the Soviet Union. I recommend Mr. Conquest's book as a "Quicker" but still comprehensive study of this "Breaker of Nations": Joseph V. Stalin.

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