Mark C

Great narration, great book

Revisado: 01-05-23

What an audio book should be about - also great to hear a narrator who can pronounce Chinese!

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Marred by the author’s editorializing

Revisado: 12-20-22

Sadly this book was marred by the author’s editorializing, including his incorporation of himself into the text. I was also dismayed by his poor understanding of patents.

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Great Inteo

Revisado: 10-29-22

A great passionate lecturer. I didn’t agree with all of Cherry’s perspectives, but I certainly enjoyed hearing them.

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A Useful Book About Someone Who Is Not Well Remembered Outside of SC

Revisado: 08-21-22

A useful book, although I found the focus on battles to be a bit overwhelming, and I think the author may be too generous in his treatment of Marion’s relationship with slaves. If you travel down or through South Carolina this book will introduce you to much of the revolutionary war landscape. Still I would have hoped the author brought that landscape more alive: were there alligators in the swamps? What monuments meant remain to Marion? How fast could an army travel around the tough landscape of the low country? How did Marion recognize or not recognize his African American troops? How does his rag rag militia figure into the 2nd Amendment provision about a “well-ordered militia”? The book is well narrated and well organized with each chapter covering district events in Marion’s life.

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Well narrated and we’ll crafted

Revisado: 02-26-22

A wonderfully narrated, well crafted bio. Many new insights for me into the 16th Prez.

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Lively interpretation with lots of facts

Revisado: 09-04-21

A great listen but as is too common the reader does mispronounce the Chinese. It is worth a listen if only to refresh your memory on the chaos of the last administration.

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Couldn’t finish it

Revisado: 08-07-21

Being an artist in one media doesn’t mean being equally proficient in another. I loved the music but the narrative was hardly it’s equal.

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A Great Course, Passionately Narrated

Revisado: 08-15-20

A great listen on a cross-country trip. The book illuminated so much of the lanscape on I70, Fremont culture, complex hunter gatherer, Cahokia, Mississippian, Hopewell, Algonquin, Iriquois, Adeena, and others. I enjoyed listening to parts a second time to refresh my memory and we passed various landmarks.

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The story was interesting, but...

Revisado: 01-09-20

The writing style was a bit uninspired. The narrator was good. A decent two hour listen.

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Worth Reading to Understand the China Hawk's Persp

Revisado: 07-26-19

Although I don't agree with Pillsbury's perspective of one motivation dominating the PRC to replace the US as a goal hegemon, he does Marshall up many telling facts and anecdotes which at a minimum reveal the nativity of our past engagements. Why, I ask, have we not been able to strike a balance. The narrator is good, but his pronunciation of Chinese leaves something to be desired and leaves me to wonder how much Chinese Pillsbury really understood.

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