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Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality. Using the French Revolution and its ideals as an example, he demonstrates his belief that any government must put the inherent rights of its citizens above all else, especially politics. After its publication, Paine left England for France and was tried in his absence for libel against the crown. Authoritatively read by Matt Addis.
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This famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke’s opinion on whether France’s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries were actually subverting the true "social order". Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good historical perspective
- De CMC en 08-30-14
De: Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
- A Genius Reconsidered
- De: Russell Kirk
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy, showing how it revealed itself in concrete historical situations in the 18th century and how Burke, through his philosophy, "speaks to our age".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narration too Fast for Me
- De K en 01-16-13
De: Russell Kirk
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This man should be a household name!
- De Darlene Davis en 11-21-11
De: Craig Nelson
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Friends Divided
- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Read
- De Jean en 12-22-17
De: Gordon S. Wood
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Our Constitution the Way it Was
- De: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Narrado por: David Smalley
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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In these transcripts of her American Atheist Radio programs, Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair tells us about Freedom of Religion in Colonial America, American Deism, Rewriting of History by Christians, The Christianity of our Founding as a Nation, Free thought in American Historical Documents, Free thought Organizations in the Early U.S., Thomas Paine - American Deist and Freethinker, Colonel Ethan Allen, James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, Jefferson's Idea of Religious Freedom, and Jefferson on Christianity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal!!!
- De Average Joe en 01-17-18
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The Law
- De: Frederick Bastiat
- Narrado por: Floy Lilley
- Duración: 1 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues in political and economic philosophy. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is an insurmountable conundrum of all statist philosophies. The problem has never been discussed so profoundly and passionately as in this essay by Frederic Bastiat from 1850. This essay might have been written today. It applies to our own time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is abridged
- De Kipling Oren en 09-10-14
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Democracy in America
- De: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 34 h y 4 m
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Most Listenable, if not the Best Translation
- De Michael Allen en 10-04-13
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Samuel Adams
- A Life
- De: Ira Stoll
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Ira Stoll's fascinating biography not only restores this figure to his rightful place in history but portrays him as a man of God whose skepticism of a powerful central government, uncompromising support for freedom of the press, concern about the influence of money on elections, voluble love of liberty, and selfless endurance in a war for freedom has enormous relevance to Americans today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not just a biography. Must-read American History!
- De scott bowlby en 01-15-11
De: Ira Stoll
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is known by us all as the first American.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I have good news and bad news
- De Ernie en 07-22-04
De: Gordon S. Wood
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Inventing a Nation
- Washington, Adams, Jefferson
- De: Gore Vidal
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht, Gore Vidal
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 160
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Volumes have been written about George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Inventing a Nation does. Vidal's consummate skill takes you into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Reader Beware: Mixed with a political agenda
- De Robert en 09-09-04
De: Gore Vidal
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Twelve Who Ruled
- The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
- De: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Warning
- De Josh Rowe en 03-20-21
De: R. R. Palmer, y otros
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,895
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Man and Biography Relevant to Our Day
- De Darwin8u en 11-14-12
De: Jon Meacham
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 21 h y 34 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 523
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent in so many ways...
- De Your Old Pal Sisco en 06-24-14
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Democracy in America (Excerpts)
- De: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
- Highlights
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831 de Tocqueville was sent to America by the French government to study the U.S. penal system, but his real aim was to observe a democratic republic firsthand to see if such an entity could function with dignity and humanity. His travels, which took him to the cities of the Northeast, to the frontier and the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi and through the South, showed him a great deal about the United States. In 1834, he wrote Democracy in America, in which he examines the advantages and pitfalls of democracy, the conditions and conflicts among the races, and the movements that grip the country.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Democracy in America
- De Michael en 02-18-10