
America Last
The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
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Narrado por:
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Kent Klineman
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Jacob Heilbrunn
In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon.
It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically.
America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or the "illiberal imagination"—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is a longstanding tradition within modern American conservatism that cannot be ignored—and what it means for us today.
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Powerful historical political commentary
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Halting reading is hard to stand
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I bought this book without first reviewing the performance, because I am keenly interested in the subject and Jacob Heilbrunn's take, and I thought I could rely on Audible to do an acceptable recording, but THIS PERFORMANCE IS SIMPLY NOT PUBLISHABLE. Why would Audible publish this crap? Why??? This is the last time I will ever automatically buy an Audible recording based on nothing other than my interest in the book without first checking the performance. The fact that Audible would publish this god AWFUL content makes one suspect that it was never reviewed by an editor or QA team, and that suggests that there is something deeply wrong with their publishing model.
DON'T BUY THIS AUDIOBOOK!!!!!!! Buy the Kindle instead and use some kind of Text-to-Speech service to listen. Seriously, it will be better than the "performance" you get in the Audible version, assuming it was even a "performance" by a human. I begin to doubt that it was, because I can't imagine any human reading the text that badly.
Performance So Bad It Beggars Belief
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Bad narration
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Excellent history
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So frustrating
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The Worst Narration Ever?
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Great book. Horrific reading.
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Great walk thru History
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