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Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence MP3 Audiobook
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COMMON SENSE AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
by George H. Smith
read by Craig Deitschman
Politics • Unabridged
Book ID(3782) – 1.9 hrs (est.), Published – 05/01/06
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The Giants of Political Thought Series Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. It examines Thomas Paine’s views on the difference between society and government, his defense of republican government, his total rejection of hereditary monarchy, and his belief that Americans should take up arms against the English government. The Declaration of Independence articulates the principles of the American Revolution. This program discusses natural rights, government by consent, the social contract, the difference between alienable and inalienable rights, and the right of revolution against oppressive governments. The Giants of Political Thought Series offers an easy and entertaining way to broaden your mind and your awareness of great ideas.The Origins of Totalitarianism MP3 Audiobook
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by Hannah Arendt
read by Nadia May
Politics • Unabridged
Book ID(4480) – 24.1 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/07
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A recognized classic and definitive account of its subject, The Origins of Totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an “ideological weapon for imperialism,” begining with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.
In her analysis of the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in the twentieth century: Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. She discusses the transformation of classes into masses, the role of propaganda, and the use of terror essential to this form of government. In her brilliant concluding chapter, she discusses the nature of individual isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.
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“With The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt emerges as the most original and profound—therefore the most valuable—political theoretician of our times.”—New Leader
“The work of one who has thought as well as suffered….A disquieting, moving, and thought-provoking book.”—New York Times Book Review
“[L]ooks at almost every pernicious trend in the last century’s politics with stunning subtlety.”—Christopher Caldwell, National Review, 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century
“The most influential single book on the theme of totalitarianism.”—Foreign Affairs 50-Year Bibliography
HANNAH ARENDT (1906-1975) was born in Hanover, Germany, fled to Paris in 1933, and came to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. She was editorial director of Schocken Books from 1946 to 1948. She taught at Berkeley, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and The New School for Social Research.
Volume 1 Jefferson The Virginian MP3 Audiobook
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by Dumas Malone
read by Anna Fields
Presidential Bio. • Unabridged
Book ID(2234) – 15.4 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast sources, it covers Jefferson’s ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Notes on Virginia; his highly controversial governorship; and his early services to the development of the West.
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“Jefferson and His Time is a masterly achievement of scholarship, the finest biography of Jefferson we have or are likely to have, and a monumental triumph of the senior American historian.”—New York Times Book Review
“‘Perfect’ best describes Anna Fields’ reading of a very detailed account of Thomas Jefferson’s first 41 years.” —Booklist
“This is going to be the Jefferson…it will endure as one of the imperishable monuments of biography-and take note that I don’t say ‘American biography,’ I say biography period.”—Gerald W. Johnson
DUMAS MALONE (1892-1986) taught history at American universities such as Yale and Columbia and served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press before becoming the biographer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. His work as historian and biographer has earned him several honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Volume 2 Jefferson and The Rights of Man MP3 Audiobook
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by Dumas Malone
read by Anna Fields
Presidential Bio. • Unabridged
Book ID(2248) – 17.9 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George Washington’s first cabinet; the crucial period of his first differences with Alexander Hamilton and the beginnings of his long struggle with the Federalists.
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“Jefferson and His Time is a masterly achievement of scholarship, the finest biography of Jefferson we have or are likely to have, and a monumental triumph of the senior American historian.”—New York Times Book Review
“Jefferson and the Rights of Man is better, even, than its predecessor, and that is saying a great deal. What I like particularly is that Malone carries his great learning so lightly, that he has, by some miracle, achieved something of Jefferson’s own combination of profundity and erudition and gracefulness.”—Henry Steele Commager
DUMAS MALONE (1892-1986) taught history at American universities such as Yale and Columbia and served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press before becoming the biographer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. His work as historian and biographer has earned him several honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Volume 3 Jefferson and The Ordeal of Liberty MP3 Audio book
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by Dumas Malone
read by Anna Fields
Presidential Bio. • Unabridged
Book ID(2262) – 19.1 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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The third volume in Dumas Malone’s distinguished study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson’s life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state; his retirement to Monticello; his assumption of the leadership of the opposition party; and the crisis during the half-war with France when the existence of political oppression was threatened and the freedom of individuals imperiled.
REVIEWS
“Maintains the mature scholarship established by the earlier volumes. Academic in the best sense, it not only displays an intimate familiarity with the vast literature but contains an acute evaluation of Jefferson’s ideas and ideals.”—Saturday Review
DUMAS MALONE (1892-1986) taught history at American universities such as Yale and Columbia and served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press before becoming the biographer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. His work as historian and biographer has earned him several honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Volume 4 Jefferson The President: First Term MP3 Audiobook
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THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME VOLUME 4
JEFFERSON THE PRESIDENT: FIRST TERM, 1801-1805
by Dumas Malone
read by Anna Fields
Presidential Bio. – Unabridged
Book ID(2271) – 17.9 hrs (est.), Published – 12/01/98
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The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work recounts Jefferson’s eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson’s first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the administrations of Washington and Adams, and many subsequent conflicts. He acquires the vast territory of Louisiana for the United States, challenges the growing power of the federal judiciary, continues to press his opposition to the Hamiltonian doctrine of an overriding central government, assumes the unchallenged leadership of his party, and is universally acknowledged as the preeminent American patron of science and general learning.
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“This is the best so far of an already superbly distinguished series which will constitute when finished one of the finest historical biographies of our time.”—New York Review of Books
“In the grand design of Mr. Malone’s comprehensive biography, the present volume maintains the magnificent quality of the preceding ones and in one sense outstrips them by fulfilling an urgent need in American scholarship….Henceforth no one will dare to pronounce on any aspect of it, without having studied closely this of a great President by a great historian.”—New York Times Book Review
DUMAS MALONE (1892-1986) taught history at American universities such as Yale and Columbia and served for seven years as director of the Harvard University Press before becoming the biographer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. His work as historian and biographer has earned him several honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the John F. Kennedy Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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