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Title: Chickamauga

Subtitle: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

Author: Jeff Shaara

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Abridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-07

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of one of the Civil War battlefields every American should visit. He captures the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict.

Critic Reviews:

"This is an informative and moving examination of 'hallowed ground' that will appeal to both scholars and Civil War buffs, especially those planning to visit these sites." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Ehhh

If you are looking for a historical book with minimum personnel bios by author, this is not the book for you.

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Title: A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 4

Subtitle: The Growth of America, 1878-1928

Author: Clarence B. Carson

Narrator: Mary Woods

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Starting with the "filling out" of the West, this fourth volume goes beyond the standard historical facts and events of these formative 50 years of American history. Included are crisp and incisive discussions of Darwinism and Socialism and their effects upon American society. Also covered are civil service reform; regulation and the courts; the rise of labor unions; the Spanish-American War; the Panama Canal; World War I; Bolshevism and the spread of Totalitarianism; Nazism in Germany; monetarism and prosperity; and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Coolidge.

Members Reviews:

Reader, beware

This gets a mixed review from me. The reader is really very good, and the basic content seems solid. I was relatively unfamiliar with the period discussed and must say that I learned a lot. But beware: C. Carson has a libertarian agenda, never stated, but clearly evident in the tone of the writing and the evaluations of the various characters. If you are a laissez-faire advocate you will love this. His treatment of the activism of workers and unions is particularly galling. Anything remotely smelling of social activism is given a cold shoulder. One gets the feeling that he even objects to child labor legislation. I enjoyed much more his volume 2 and 3 since these had much less of this agenda. I hesitate to embark on vol 5 as FDR looms! And then there is Reagan to please him, I assume. I am pretty apolitical, but the heartless, uncompassionate (apparently)attitude displayed at times was very irritating to me.

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Title: Ancient America Rediscovered

Author: Mariano Veytia

Narrator: Marvin Payne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-06

Publisher: Big Happy Family, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This is the first English translation of a portion of Historia Antigua de Mexico, written originally in Spanish by celebrated Mexican historian Mariano Veytia. He relates the history, astronomy, and religious practices he discovered from the charts, diagrams, and paintings of the Native Americans. In addition, he presents an account of America'a first settlers, who left from the biblical Tower of Babel at the time of the confusion of tongues.

(P)2006 Big Happy Family, LLC

Members Reviews:

I liked it

Alot of interesting information and theories. It seemed to be written from a religeous point of veiw but I found it to be intreging.

This Book was Writen in 1720-1778

The first thing I feel people should know is that this book was written in about 1720-1778 by Mariano Veytia, it was translated in 2000 by Donald W. Hemingway and W. David Hemingway. This threw me off greatly when I first started listening cause audible says it was released in 11-27-06, thus stupid me thought this would be a relatively recent understanding of the Ancient Americas, but it's not.

This reading is supper religious as you would probably expect from a religious historian in the 1700's. The beginning is dedicated to the breadth of his research and why people should listen and believe what he says, and what he writes about is based on a multitude of resources and understandings that he has gathered. This takes up a significant portion of the book, about 45 min. Yet again this is not out of the norm for a book written in the 1700's.

While all these are normal there was no initial understanding when listening to this book that this was actually written in the 1700s and not 2006 when I was first listening to it, thus I personally was very confused until I did a bit of digging to figure out why someone in 2006 would want to write as if they are from before the 1900s, and that's when I found the true date of this book.

As this is more a historical look of what people thought about the Americas in the 1700s you should expect information that is no longer true, such as the extent in which America is depicted as being in land mass, and you might find it interesting that there are small insights that were floating in the 1700s that people now take for granted, such as the idea that the Irish made it to the Americas before Columbus (change Irish to Vikings and you got some modern history there). The rest is a lot of religious gobildy-gook so take that for what it is.

My Favorite Quote:

Francisco Lope de Gomara [an ancient historian] discusses the customs, laws and rites that the Indians observed at the time of the arrival of the Spanish, with respect to his ancient history he writes very succinctly and superficially, but with much judgment, as can be seen in that work It is not lacking in errors, for there is rarely a history without errors, except in sacred history.

Overall an interesting listen, If you are into this kind of thing.

incomplete

Would you try another book from Mariano Veytia and/or Marvin Payne?

seems to be just a small part of a much larger book, starts and end abruptly,

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Title: Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence (Knowledge Products) Giants of Political Thought Series

Author: George H. Smith

Narrator: Craig Deitschman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The Declaration of Independence articulates the principles of the American Revolution. This audiobook discusses natural rights; government by consent; the social contract; the difference between alienable and inalienable rights; and the right of revolution against oppressive governments.

Members Reviews:

Not Common Sense

This book does not contain a reading of the Common Sense pamphlet but just a lecture about it. I need to learn to avoid this publisher. I did the same thing with those Shakespeare "unabridged" plays and Hobbes Leviathan that turned out to be an executive summary

Will read more of these presentations.

loved it. Listened to it in one sitting. Historical background of the Revolution is very well done.

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Title: A History of the South, Volume 3

Subtitle: The Crucible of Modernism

Author: Francis Butler Simkins

Narrator: Charlton Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-06

Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In this concluding volume, the South finally comes to grip with the modern world. It does so as a result of three events: World War I, The Great Depression, and World War II. At the end of each of these, change accelerates. By the end of World War II, the region is experiencing the kind of prosperity it has never known. As a direct result of this prosperity, Southern blacks begin their slow but inexorable confrontation with the white political establishment. In the midst of amazing educational reform, blacks are accommodated to an extent that would have been unthinkable 50 years previously. But the South passed through the gauntlet of social upheaval successfully and was able to regain a measure of continuity which continues to be the amazement of visitors to this day. Despite all the change, the South continues to be a region apart.

(P)2006 Audio Connoisseur

Members Reviews:

A History of the South Hardcover â January, 1972 by Francis Butler Simkins

This book, A History of the South Hardcover â January, 1972, is interesting to me, but I do like history, though the style and detail of the information is taxing to read. I'll know a lot more about how the south was colonized and developed for agriculture, cotton, after the area was conquered and settled. I know this is not a book for everyone and my copy, used when I purchased it from Amazon, will be a reference for my library. I like it for the information and first hand delivery by a historian who has long since become history. Originally published and copyrighted in 1947 by Francis Butler and Charles Pierce Roland, titled "The South Old and New: A History 1820-1947". I found the presentation thorough and this was the time in the history of the young America, I wanted to learn from. I wanted to find out how the influence to settle this region of the country had pushed it's inhabitants from the previous settlements and if the newcomers just moved in and started to take over established farmlands and regions, using the labor of the slaves. I needed to know the true history of who it was that sent their emissaries to take over the land once held by native Americans and soon to be the plantations of our historic south. I wanted a first hand account of the strife to remove the natives and then settle into their lands, as we well know now, these lands were in use when the colonists arrived, though with far fewer than when the Spanish came and infected the natives with European diseases. Only limited information is given along these lines. I like the book and will refer back to it in the future.

Five Stars

arrived in fine shape

TRUE HISTORY

Outstanding - documented and argued truthfully -

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Title: Rise of the American Republic

Author: John R. Alden

Narrator: John MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Recommended listening for all Americans as well as for foreigners seeking to gain historical wisdom and insight, this magisterial and lucid history of America, from the beginning to the present, is written with a lighter touch by a respected historian.

©1989 John R. Alden; (P)1989 Blackstone Audiobooks

Members Reviews:

Rise of the American... Review

I've never read or listened to a more shallow book on history. The author jumps from one subject to another like listening to TV news sound bites and never getting to the core subject of the historic era or epoch. He treats the historic literature of each era as if the authors made the history or singularly affected the the course of history by their mere writings rather than the actual persons involved in the history. I wouldn't recommend this book.

Worst History Book I have Read

I have read many books about the American Revolution. At first I thought this author was just not getting his facts right but then as I read more, particularly about the 1980s, I decided he was trying to rewrite history according to his view point. This is the worst history book I have read. I would not recommend it to anyone. He tries to be an intellectual but fits into the glass of "A little learning is a dangerous thing";. Very poor job John Alden.

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Title: Best Friends

Subtitle: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary

Author: Samantha Glen

Narrator: Juliette Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 39 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat and Sparkles, the broken-down packhorse. Meet their rescuers: a famous symphony conductor, a successful architect, veterinarians, and others. Most of all, fall in love with the animals and people who share a special bond and whose often comic, sometimes poignant, always enchanting adventures together will touch your heart, and teach us all the true meaning of Best Friends.

©2001 Sam Alan, Inc.; (P)2001 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"A heartwarming and inspiring tale of love, dedication, and courage." (Library Journal)

"Well-written and informative." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

A MUST Read

I have never read a more heartwarming, honestly told story in my life. Makes me want to be in Utah helping these people. I found the people and the animals so wonderful and the hard work that the people had from the beginning and they never faltered. This is a must read for anyone who loves animals or contributes to any organization. I highly recommend it.

Amazing

This book was amazing and inspiring more than I could have asked for

Very Sweet!

I first heard about the Best Friends organization when they were involved with the rescues after Hurricane Katrina. I am so glad I found this book and learned about the organization--it's beginnings, goals, and many, many successes. It is a fairly old book, but I have visited their website to catch up with their progress, and was glad to see they have grown and fulfilled many of their dreams since the book ended. I have a huge soft spot for all animals, and Best Friends is an organization to be admired for all the good they have done, and will continue to do on behalf of animals. This book is very interesting, well written and narrated very well. Side note--the book does not focus on tragedies or the sadder aspects of rescuing and helping animals--it is very uplifting. I guess the best praise would be that I bought five hard copies of this book to be able to share with some of my fellow animal-loving friends!!

ANIMAL & HUMAN FRIENDSHIP W/SPIRITUAL COMPONENT

This is a true story about a true place, and it had to be told. I heard a few mispronunciations and the writing is not Great Art, but the narrator has a pleasant voice and the story is very well told in an organized way. That said, the people and animals in the story are most wonderful! The people are all gifted and committed and while not necessarily religious, they are all tuned in to a higher power and certainly meditate and envision. A few passages are almost spooky; I am thinking of the list of names. The animals experience wonderful healings. Every transaction is a spiritual working-out. I loved the passage where the brittle city woman with her cigaret got all bent outta shape over a little bitty snake! [This is not a spoiler.] There are also hints about how animal rehabbers and zoo keepers must care for themselves as well as the animals. The book is a fairly easy listen to see what happens and re-listen to get more clarity.

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Title: Soldiers and Slaves

Subtitle: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble

Author: Roger Cohen

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 63 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers, more than 70 of them, perished. After the war, Berga was virtually forgotten, and the experiences of these Americans were buried.

Now, for the first time, their story is told in all its blistering detail. This is the story of hell in a small place over a period of nine weeks, at a time when Hitler's Reich was crumbling but its killing machine still churned. It is a tale of madness and heroism, and of the failure to deliver justice for what the Nazis did to these Americans.

Roger Cohen uncovers exactly why the U.S. government did not aggressively prosecute the commandants of Berga, why there was no particular recognition for the POWs and their harsh treatment in the postwar years, and why it took decades for them to receive proper compensation.

Soldiers and Slaves is an intimate, intensely dramatic story of war and of a largely forgotten chapter of the Holocaust.

Critic Reviews:

"It's Cohen's level of detail that makes this journalistic history come alive." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Soldiers and Slaves

This book should listened to/read by every human being. It will open your eyes to the suffering that humans have had to endure at the hands of others. Mr. Cohen has undoubtably spent many hours in the research. It is an excellent account of the horrors of war, and the brutality that some people of capable of. I often read books about Holocaust because I feel it is an atrocity that should never be forgotten. Thank you Mr. Cohen for making this information available.

Very moving

A very moving account of POW's treated as slave laborers; contrast with The Great Escape (Unabridged) for an idea of how differently POW's were treated by the Germans.

Gripping but sometimes hard to follow

I found Soldiers and Slaves a commendable account of a brutal period. Cohen obviously did his homework and does eloquent justice to a difficult subject filled with horrific crimes. The Nazi prisoners whether American or Hungarian Jew are heroically portrayed but the outcome is all too often miserably sad. Skipping between Nazi camp's and back and forth within the last months of WWII made following the story a little difficult.

Soldiers and Slaves

Relatively well written with respect to detailing the difficulties with Jewish and American life in the concentration camps; however, a very difficult book to follow.

A different book on the Holocaust

It is interesting to see the collision of two groups of Jews who had remained largely untouched by the War until quite late, the American Jewish Soldiers and the Hungarian Jews. The Hungarians had managed to protect their Jewish population from deportation almost until the whole country was about to be overrun by the advancing Soviet forces. This is also a story which must bring up the question of fanaticism, when do you finally let you and accept that you have lost, that you were wrong? This is a sad tale with much death and brutality, yet this is as much about survival. Overall, well done and worth reading.

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Title: The Meadow

Author: James Galvin

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history. His portraits illuminate the Western character and evolve a sense of place like no other.

©1992 James Galvin

Critic Reviews:

"These ragged sketches of ranch life along the Wyoming-Colorado border depict Galvin's neighbors--hardscrabble folk--in wry, stoic stories of skill, survival and loss that flash back and forth across 100 years of the high meadow's history - there is spare beauty here, and readers of Richard Ford, Jim Harrison and Rick Bass will feel at home in Galvin's country." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Reading the Meadow is almost like reading a poem..

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I will recommend this book to anyone who has a love of nature and of the history of the settlement of America. My passion is hiking and exploration and I often think to myself that it would be exquisite to somehow be able to time travel at a waterfall or mountaintop to see the events that have taken place over time. The Meadow transports us back in time to the events that have shaped the American west and so vividly recreates the sense of wonder that humans must have felt while in those wild environs.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the clarity of the characters and the overriding theme of man in nature. Most of all I love that the characters do not place blame for their struggles in life. It is a beautiful allegory of the soul moving towards higher consciousness through interaction with natural elements and each other. At one point the main character says that he should never have expanded his home in the meadow as he ended up there alone with no need for all the extra room...it was an insightful comment which we all ask ourselves at some time in our lives...did we really improve anything through our lifelong struggles? The answer, of course, is that the journey was the important element not the end result.

What about Patrick Lawlors performance did you like?

His voice is light and confident.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The Meadow

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Title: Blood, Money, and Power

Subtitle: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.

Author: Barr McClellan

Narrator: Barr McClellan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-04

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President. Utilizing court documents, insider interviews, and even the findings of the Warren Commission, Barr McClellan reveals the complex maneuvers, payoffs, and power plays that changed the history of the 20th century.

If absolute power corrupts, then blood, money, and deception are its allies. This powerful book represents the very best of investigative journalism, with independent corroboration of all key points, and is compelling, convincing, and historically significant

Members Reviews:

An Informative, Intriguing...Excrutiating listen

There is good news and bad news here. Good news first - this is a truly fascinating insider account of Lyndon Johnson's rise to the presidency.

The bad news?

Who, in their right mind (aside from the author), thought that he should narrate this audiobook? Obviously no one put much thought into this, or, as I suspect, they had no choice and the author's ego and copyrights required it. This is one of the WORST narrations I have found in over 200 Audible audiobooks. Imagine Richard Nixon narrating a life story while using a southern accent and you come close. Every word is pronounced (or mispronounced) ponderously and with great gravity so that the listener won't miss a single nugget of "pleasure". I know that I particularly loved hearing "Washington" pronounced as "Woorshington" and the "Military Industrial Complex" mentioned ad nauseum (actually 4 times in 3 consecutive sentences if you can believe it), the terms "with hindsight" and "in hindsight" (which is pretty standard) used as "on hindsight" (not a regionalism, as I come from Texas and have never heard it before). There are numerous inexpicable pauses, stumbles, starts and stops, stutters and many more oddities which become increasingly annoying as they accumulate.

Furthermore, the author speaks SO (pause) SLOWLY (pause) that it is too easy to let the mind wander - this book requires a real effort to get through to the end.

Finally, the self-aggrandizement and condescension gets old pretty quickly but that's to be expected from a Texas attorney, no doubt. A good question might be "And how did YOU avoid indictment, Barr, for all the criminal acts your mentors and associates committed?" That question is never asked.

Do yourself a favor and buy the book - for it IS worth the story - and read it for yourself...This particular telling of the story is mind-numbingly painful.

Too bad, really, for a professional reading would have made this a pure delight rather than the torture that it was/is!

Just as I Suspected ....... and More!

"misskb" is right-on, this is the worst 'listen' I've experienced since joining Audible, but I'm not going to waste as much energy as she did belaboring the point.

This book validates my suspicions of November 22, 1963, I have always felt LBJ was at the bottom of everything that culminated in the death of Kennedy.