emilio squillante

Lacked facts so to pad REPETITIVE. Poor

Reviewed: 10-25-22

by the third chapter you see the author's strategy...if I don't want to do the research I can keep repeating what everybody knew before the book and if I keep them nodding their heads I've convinced them.
no scholarship to be found here until the last two chapters.
the C that were repeated in middle chapters could have had more PRO CON analysis. missed opportunity there.
I try not to return books I've listened to but I need revenge for my wasted time. Back this one goes!

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Disappointing rehash. Narrator saved me to finish.

Reviewed: 09-18-22

Narration was the sole positive saving grace. Anything new revealed about FDR? Nein. okay, you enter this mistitled missive of all the great things FDR accomplished knowing his wife hated him on account of his cheating heart, conservative big businessmen for making ante up for the resources they habitually consume but the middle class pays for, ...this stuff is known to all. but what of, for example:
EXPLANATIons of who or why New Dealers became critics of FDRs policies? Almost ignored!
well known that Magic codes were known but his treasonous vulnerability of his airforce in Philippines or fleet in Hawaii not explained. Why?
He was not particularly wealthy so I don't fully understand the factual basis for Brands choice of title.
he should be held to account more for ignoring Hulls warning that most of us already knew of ie his embargo of oil and steel would be tantamount to declaration of war. that traitorous act should have been left to Congress, not him. Also left unexplained.
let's not go to why he was a traitor to jews. or blacks.
Author completely missed the target of his title...no more of Brand's rehashed republished or superficial "analysis " for this reader. Never again for me, I can only read the same repetitive, well documented factoids so many times. harsh I know but comeon, H. W. Brands is a distinguished professor of history and holder of the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Really?! Is this how Graduate Schools train historians nowadays? Just keep republishing under a provocative title that misinforms?
Wouldn't cut the mustard in my profession.

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good but it was no Legacy of Ashes.

Reviewed: 09-13-21

makes you want to scream at the end of your rope, raise the bkack flag. and commence slitting the throats if the politicos. was that reallythe few number of spies the FBI uncovered on their own investigations?
An interesting account of War Command in the Battle pf gibberish, not much to be proud of in this account of a good idea soured by WASHINGTON politics.

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narrator sounds like Linus on Peanuts

Reviewed: 03-15-21

narrator sounds like Linus on Peanuts. i liked the content though. ended too abruptly but good class neveetheless.

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a pseudo short story on early career

Reviewed: 06-27-19

I've heard other narration and like her voice. makes me wish to learn more about her struggles in her lab

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Terrific example that truth is strangerthanfiction

Reviewed: 06-15-19

Pity countries more advanced than ours, for example Portugal or Ecuador, have been able to solve their drug problem. Poor, poor US taxpayer. Seems no one learned the lessons of Prohibition viz the Volstead Act. Sad.

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Misnomer. Not lectures nor entirely re daily life.

Reviewed: 05-03-19

You'll find little in here that is a revelation...mosly a rehash. No evidence of serious scholarship. Instead a meandering of so called lectures which had fake applause both pre- and post chapters that often addressed the topic but just as often digressed into a boring, superficial recant of historical fact. the narrator was painful to listen to...he repeatedly displayed the wierdest, unusual pauses in his sentences. Was not impressed by his liberal peppering of self evident and pointless etymological factoids. Second half of book was shamelessly Anglophilic. Finished entire book waiting for it to get better and sorry to report to you my expectations are dashed. Probably the worst Audible book ever on all three criterion. don't waste your time or credit on this title.

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Not as illuminating as I thought a diary to be.

Reviewed: 05-01-19

full of facts. enjoyed the author's attempt to put. many in context but I fear Rs mind was either too convoluted to understand it's topography OR ELSE the book has fallen short of its potential. I still have gaps...i know that propaganda was used to hoodwink a generation. this, like other works on their times, never seem to get into HOW partial truths become twisted lies which seems to me what an analysis of what gave rise to the philosophy of National Socialism should have focused on. a lot of them thought it a good idea, no? a regrettable and dare I say a repetitive error in this time of political correctness. if we are not to forget we ought analyze more the details of what really contributed to this disaster. how could so many think R made good sense? This book missed that opportunity for me and that omission of Author's License means I had to ding a star. I fear we will get fooled again for the same poorly analyzed reasons.

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Magnificent. How he survived it all is a marvel

Reviewed: 04-28-19

Hollywood has poisoned us with THEIR version of WW2. Our young will never understand how the other side suffered. If we do not stop painting opponents the evil bad guys and us the good guys we are liable to commit the identical mistake our fathers and mothers did.

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Read this after enjoying Lucifer. It was great.

Reviewed: 04-13-19

Why are every successive generation so gullible? This fable successfully generates a plausible narration how evil can spin truth and false and make both stand on their heads. whether it be Hitler or Sauron all the bad guys were attractive to a segment, enough so to shift their world's tectonically. We can learn a lot from the author's fabrication of what is good and what is evil.

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