A Great Disorder
National Myth and the Battle for America
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Richard Slotkin
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Red America and Blue America are divided with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity.
A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Richard Slotkin identifies five myths, born of different eras, that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (which he breaks into two opposing camps, Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War, embodied by the multiethnic platoon fighting for freedom. His argument is that while Trump and his MAGA followers have played up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rallied around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality, Blue America, taking its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisions a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. American history—and the foundations of our democracy—have become a battleground. It is not clear at this time which vision will prevail.
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A good title with a vague content
- De d.l.bagnoli en 04-26-25
De: Steven Hahn
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Soldiers and Kings
- Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
- De: Jason De León
- Narrado por: Jason De León
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest and enlightening
- De Amazon Customer en 04-17-24
De: Jason De León
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How the World Ran Out of Everything
- Inside the Global Supply Chain
- De: Peter S. Goodman
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
In How the World Ran Out of Everything, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes listeners deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it—from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in Texas, to a truck driver who Goodman accompanies across hundreds of miles of the Great Plains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read!
- De Adam W Jones en 10-05-24
De: Peter S. Goodman
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The Stained Glass Window
- A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
- De: David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 3
Sitting beneath a stained glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, preeminent American historian David Levering Lewis was struck by the great lacunae in what he could know about his own ancestors. He vowed to excavate their past and tell their story.
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The Big Myth
- How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
- De: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- Narrado por: Liza Seneca
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with 'big government' and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refuting the Chicago School
- De Todd W. Laveen en 06-01-23
De: Naomi Oreskes, y otros
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- De: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrado por: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 56
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De TRACEY D. SCOTT en 06-10-25
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When the Clock Broke
- Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
- De: John Ganz
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing history of the early 90s
- De Aaron R. Isaacson en 06-25-24
De: John Ganz
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- De: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good summary
- De Medz en 01-28-25
De: Henry Farrell, y otros
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- De: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping and insightful
- De Marianna Grossman en 12-27-24
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The Message
- De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,301
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,177
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,177
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English Language,” but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bias
- De Dana en 10-13-24
De: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- De: Jonathan Healey
- Narrado por: Oliver Hembrough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only time in history—England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and Parliament asserted itself like never before. There were no boundaries to politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- De cmurrell en 07-30-23
De: Jonathan Healey
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Tyranny of the Minority
- Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
- De: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 289
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tyranny of the Minority
- De orders en 10-07-23
De: Steven Levitsky, y otros
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Takeover
- Hitler's Final Rise to Power
- De: Timothy W. Ryback
- Narrado por: Richard Attlee
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Inevitable
- De Neil Gussman en 04-28-24
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How Civil Wars Start
- And How to Stop Them
- De: Barbara F. Walter
- Narrado por: Beth Hicks
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016
Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger? Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reveals the limits of a Political Science approach
- De Bill en 01-17-22
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The British Are Coming
- The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1)
- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,344
Rick Atkinson recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where are the Maps?
- De George Reid en 07-08-19
De: Rick Atkinson
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating!
- De Brandon Marken en 07-12-24
De: Alan Taylor
Opinion masquerading as history
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