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Make this your next listen!

Revisado: 05-08-25

Make this your next listen!

I laughed, I learned…. I love Dan’s calming voice and powerful prose. I love his moving calls to action, and yet his mind-blowing analysis of the issues surrounding the Bible.

This book is also highly accessible for a non-Biblical scholar like me. After listening I bought a hard copy, for myself and for friends and family. If you’re like me and grew up reading Bible stories and listening at Sunday school, you think you know the Bible. Dr. McClellan gives insights that I had never heard anywhere else, and uses solid scholarship to makes his points. I can’t recommend this highly enough.

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Deeply touching while being funny and important.

Revisado: 01-17-25

I always love when the author reads their own book, it makes the experience so much better. Since this book is also deeply personal, it makes it like a private conversation with a close friend… one who is funny, smart, witty, and great at analyzing her own past and part in Christian nationalism. Highly recommend.

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Gripping, brutal, true crime history

Revisado: 03-15-23

I can’t recommend this enough. The story is gripping and told thoroughly enough without getting bogged down in unnecessary detail. The author narrates the story in a crescendo, so by the end I was just left with my jaw on the floor. I thought it was over and it wasn’t even close. Bravo.

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A must read! Relevant to today’s culture wars and increasing lack of separation of church and state

Revisado: 05-05-22

This book was one of the best I’ve listened to on Audible. The performance by the author was perfect, too, and didn’t distract from the work… which I find common with audio books.

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Puts a partisan apostle into context while humanizing him

Revisado: 12-18-21

Even though I respect him as a prophet myself and even know his grandchildren personally, I have long had a problem with some of the more partisan quotes of Ezra Taft Benson. Friends and family still share some of his quotes, thinking they should represent church doctrine. It was nice to hear the author show how even his contemporaries and peers had a problem with how partisan he was, and how it actually hurt the ability of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to grow and prosper in parts of the world. While parts about spouting conspiracy theories from the John Birch Society surprised me, just how rabidly anti-communist he was did not. I also found it interesting that he changed or softened his rhetoric when he became prophet himself.
Overall, a good book that I’m glad I read.

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A must read for Mormons and non-Mormons who want to understand the church’s history with racism

Revisado: 07-06-21

2020 got me reading a variety of books about American racism, including “Caste,” “The New Jim Crow,” “Color of Law,” and “How to be an Anti-Racist,” in order to understand more completely the issue of racism in America. However, I could not find a reliable book describing the racist history of my own faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka LDS or Mormons). This book has been a Godsend (pun intended), and references another book “Religion of another Color” by Paul Reece that I will read next.

To me, this book answers many why questions about the Church’s ban on black Africans holding the priesthood / serving in temples I have been struggling with for decades. It also urges action succinctly like no other book I’ve read on the subject. I listened, but I also just bought the hardcover to share with friends and family… and especially to teach my own children so they don’t grow up and feel disillusioned like I did when I learned of the ban in my later teens.

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YES! If you love flight and air combat, this is a must read. Sweeping history of fighter pilots.

Revisado: 01-22-20

I loved this book. As an Air Force pilot, I can’t get enough of Dan Hampton’s books. He writes as a pilot for other pilots and interested enthusiasts. Well done!

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So good! Moving, powerful, funny! It’ll have your heart pumping red, white, and blue!

Revisado: 09-28-19

I have heard the author a few times in person, and his book was so good! His stories are so powerful, and to have his book read in his own voice makes the experience so much better. Definitely recommend!

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This is a MUST read. Stop whatever you’re reading and go get this!

Revisado: 09-04-19

I have never pre-ordered a book before this, but General and former Secretary of Defense James Mattis is a personal hero of mine. I named my son after him... But why? Because he embodies values that I long to embody, and hope is passed to that son: nobility, servant leadership, humility while being self confident, intelligence & wisdom, pure heart and motives, decisiveness and being willing to act aggressively and boldly in a cause he believes in with all his heart, patriotic without being nationalist. That’s my assessment, based on what I’ve read and seen... but I believe I’m right. Therefore, I was very excited about this book, and stopped reading two other books to get to this. It did not disappoint. His discussion of military history, doctrine, strategy, and even organization management make this book required reading. Stop whatever book you’re reading and go get this.

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Must read for anyone interested in modern warfare

Revisado: 08-29-19

I was expecting a great book, but it exceeded my expectations. It was a gripping story about Red Platoon’s fight for their lives in the mountains of Afghanistan. Must read!

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