
Restless Giant
The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
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Following up Grand Expectations in the Oxford History of the United States, Restless Giant provides a crisp, concise assessment of the 27 years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush, in a sweeping narrative that seamlessly weaves together social, cultural, political, economic, and international developments.
In exploring a wide range of cultural, social, and economic concerns, Patterson and engrossing narrator Robert Fass show how the persistence of racial tensions, high divorce rates, alarm over crime, and urban decay all led many writers to portray this era as one of decline.
Restless Giant is the 11th volume of the Oxford History of the United States, which includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times best seller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as “state of the art” and “the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship.”
Listen to more of the definitive Oxford History of the United States.©2005 James T. Patterson (P)2010 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Volume one of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US history series in six volumes. “Author’s Last Revision” 1888 by D. Appleton and Company. Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the “father of American history."
De: George Bancroft
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The Trial of the Century
- De: Gregg Jarrett, Don Yaeger - contributor
- Narrado por: Gregg Jarrett
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow’s seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, “colorful, and dramatic” (Publishers Weekly), The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans in the defense of the free exchange of ideas, especially in this divided time.
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Well written and well narrated
- De GERRARD-GOUGH en 02-05-25
De: Gregg Jarrett, y otros
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
- Penguin History of the United States, Book 1
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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Excellent ..
- De aintbuyinit en 09-03-18
De: Alan Taylor
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The American Civil War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gary W. Gallagher
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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Excellent Series
- De Rodney en 07-09-13
De: Gary W. Gallagher, y otros
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Gotham
- A History of New York City to 1898
- De: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 67 h y 25 m
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In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. The events and people who crowd this audiobook guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America....
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THANK YOU!!!!!
- De Stephen F (SPFJR) en 09-29-18
De: Edwin G. Burrows, y otros
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Iron and Blood
- A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Rory Alexander
- Duración: 34 h y 54 m
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German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting. Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically.
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Awesome
- De Will Georgiadis en 04-11-23
De: Peter H. Wilson
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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
- De: Frederic L. Paxson
- Narrado por: Joseph Tabler
- Duración: 24 h y 54 m
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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize-winner in History, 1925. The prize-winning History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 covers a very wide sweep of topics, with unusual strength in handling violent relations between the frontiersman and the Indians. Paxson emphasized the impact on people of the process of moving to the west, downplaying the static aspects of specific localities.
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Horrible. I want my credit back.
- De Alessandra A Navetta en 06-24-23
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The King's Witch
- A Novel
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents’ country estate, where she has learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. She is happy to stay at home when King James of Scotland succeeds to the throne. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism sees witchcraft in many of the old customs - punishable by death.
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I’ve read hundreds of historical fiction books....
- De K&T en 08-03-18
De: Tracy Borman
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American Colossus
- The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 23 h y 29 m
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In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
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8 Thoughts on 'American Colossus'
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: H. W. Brands
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The Incorruptibles
- A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
- De: Dan Slater
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands.
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Very Entertaining/Researched
- De ptr en 02-23-25
De: Dan Slater
Well researched.
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Would you listen to Restless Giant again? Why?
Yes, to allow me to remember more of the information in order to help me teach it in my U.S. History classes.What did you like best about this story?
How it allows me to better understand why we are in the state we are in.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.Why We are the Way We Are
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The author touches on most of the important events during the period. The Nixon episode is very interesting. Every time I hear about it from a different angle I get just a bit better understanding of it. This book also shines a revelatory light on our world just before everything changed after 9/11. That alone made it worth the listen.
Too Soon? Maybe, but still a good listen
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Excellent Big Picture Perspective
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Good Chronicle of the Time Frame
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Not for me
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Would you try another book from James T. Patterson and/or Robert Fass?
maybe , this was just an account of selective historical incidents , not much of analysis or insightIf you’ve listened to books by James T. Patterson before, how does this one compare?
NoIf you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Restless Giant?
not muchAny additional comments?
thought i would learn more about the statesI was looking for more
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