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Broken Bargain
- Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
- By: Kathleen Day
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the US financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping and anti-fraud measures, and fiduciary responsibilities. By the free-market era of the 1980s and 90s, however, Wall Street argued that rules embodied in New Deal-era regulations to protect consumers and ultimately taxpayers were no longer needed - and government agreed.
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Broken Bargain
- Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
- By: H. W. Crocker III
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall440
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Performance409
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Nothing offends liberals more than Western imperialism—it is racism, sexism, and chauvinism all in one. And of course the epitome of Western imperialism is the British Empire, covering at its height a quarter of the globe’s surface and ruling a quarter of the world’s population. Here, best-selling author H. W. Crocker III exposes how the British Empire was actually one of the greatest establishers and defenders of freedom in history.
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Not what I thought it'd be
- By Anonymous on 03-12-11
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-10-11
- Language: English
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Churchill
- By: Roy Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 38 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance437
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Story440
In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins' unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.
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A biography worthy of Churchill
- By Francis on 29-11-07
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Churchill
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 38 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-07-02
- Language: English
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Adolf Hitler
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall206
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Performance183
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Story180
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten.
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good but...
- By MR H. on 05-06-19
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Adolf Hitler
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-05-14
- Language: English
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance97
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By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.
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A full account of Kissinger
- By Mrs on 28-10-16
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-07-13
- Language: English
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The Truth About Muhammad
- Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
- By: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall226
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Performance182
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Story183
In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam - perhaps the first such portrait in half a century - unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.
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WIll there be
- By Zaid on 13-01-09
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The Truth About Muhammad
- Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-10-06
- Language: English
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A History of Fascism, 1914–1945
- By: Stanley G. Payne
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance18
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Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He also suggests that the early Russian communists borrowed many techniques from fascism, and that though we are fairly well-inoculated against fascism itself, the values it represents could still emerge in new forms.
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Many minor errors throws shade on other claims
- By Josephine on 01-09-25
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A History of Fascism, 1914–1945
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- By: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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Excellent book
- By Beau on 29-08-24
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-11-08
- Language: English
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- By: Johan Norberg
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance65
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It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
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Don't look up
- By Thirsty hippo on 09-08-22
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-07-17
- Language: English
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The Death of a President
- November 20-November 25, 1963
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination.
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Brilliant. Definitely worth a second listen.
- By K Hlalat on 08-01-19
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The Death of a President
- November 20-November 25, 1963
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-11-13
- Language: English
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Nine Lives
- By: Aimen Dean, Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall286
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Performance251
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As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy.
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Exceptional first hand account of the Jihad ideology
- By Richard on 17-03-19
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Nine Lives
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-08-18
- Language: English
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Bible and Sword
- England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state - and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
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Terrible narrator.
- By Armin Powalka on 17-01-21
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Bible and Sword
- England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 13-11-09
- Language: English
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance84
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In this devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes, but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and more. This is an empirical study in which “politically correct” theory is repeatedly confronted with facts, and the sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites.
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the most important book you'll ever read
- By ithinkthecatisill on 09-08-16
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The Vision of the Anointed
- Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-08-10
- Language: English
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Suicide of the West
- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
- By: James Burnham
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance44
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Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even "suicidal" tendencies - all of which arise from the “Liberal syndrome” and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime.
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I cannot listen to anymore
- By Steve on 10-05-18
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Suicide of the West
- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-11-11
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance46
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan - a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.
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Accurate title
- By The listener on 18-05-14
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 27-11-12
- Language: English
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- By: James Burnham
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance93
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This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.
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Brilliant at its best moments
- By mernst on 27-05-26
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-05-09
- Language: English
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The Real Watergate Scandal
- Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
- By: Geoff Shepard
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance18
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An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess-and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.
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A story of intrigue and corruption
- By Clive on 21-02-22
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The Real Watergate Scandal
- Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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Charlie Wilson's War
- The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
- By: George Crile
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall108
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Performance63
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Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the agency's history.
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An interesting book, very well narrated
- By Tom on 24-07-11
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Charlie Wilson's War
- The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-06-04
- Language: English
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Winter King
- The Dawn of Tudor England
- By: Thomas Penn
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall303
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Performance237
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A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who managed to win the throne and stay on it for 24 years.
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A Lesser-Known But Fascinating King
- By Olivier on 23-09-12
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Winter King
- The Dawn of Tudor England
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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A Personal Odyssey
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall100
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Performance89
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Story89
Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.
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I'll always be grateful to Dr Sowell.
- By n.a. on 12-04-22
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A Personal Odyssey
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-11-06
- Language: English
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