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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 11 h et 30 min
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Nightmare Scenario
- Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History
- Auteur(s): Yasmeen Abutaleb, Damian Paletta
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Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host - and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pass, with the outcomes more devastating and consequential than anyone dared to imagine. Nightmare Scenario is the complete story of Donald Trump’s handling - and mishandling - of the COVID-19 catastrophe, during the period of January 2020 up to Election Day that year.
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A look at Trump's crowning incompetence.
- Écrit par Kenneth Chisholm le 2021-10-03
Auteur(s): Yasmeen Abutaleb, Autres
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Landslide
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We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?
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Great book overall
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Auteur(s): Michael Wolff
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
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Why an Author Should Not Narrate Their Own Work
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Preventable
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From former head of Obamacare Andy Slavitt, Preventable is the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented - an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
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Frankly, We Did Win This Election
- The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
- Auteur(s): Michael C. Bender
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Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection - and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent insurrection.
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Narrator is a robot
- Écrit par jill maislin le 2021-07-30
Auteur(s): Michael C. Bender
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I Alone Can Fix It
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- Auteur(s): Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
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The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
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Surprised, not surprised.
- Écrit par Geoff Morley le 2021-07-28
Auteur(s): Carol Leonnig, Autres
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Nightmare Scenario
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A look at Trump's crowning incompetence.
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Landslide
- The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
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Great book overall
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The Looming Tower
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Preventable
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From former head of Obamacare Andy Slavitt, Preventable is the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented - an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
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Frankly, We Did Win This Election
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Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection - and the only one whose defeat culminated in a violent insurrection.
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Narrator is a robot
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I Alone Can Fix It
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Surprised, not surprised.
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The Premonition
- A Pandemic Story
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For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’ taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Poor narration
- Écrit par Peter G le 2021-05-07
Auteur(s): Michael Lewis
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Zero Fail
- The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
- Auteur(s): Carol Leonnig
- Narrateur(s): Maggi-Meg Reed, Carol Leonnig
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Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today - from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled.
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a good account of organizational failings
- Écrit par A le 2021-12-18
Auteur(s): Carol Leonnig
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Peril
- Auteur(s): Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
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The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as number one internationally best-selling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the center of the turmoil, resulting in more than 6,000 pages of transcripts - and a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink.
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Even didn’t know how close the USA came to a meltdown
- Écrit par Stephen Powell le 2021-09-26
Auteur(s): Bob Woodward, Autres
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The Afghanistan Papers
- A Secret History of the War
- Auteur(s): Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
- Narrateur(s): Dan Bittner
- Durée: 9 h et 35 min
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Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: Defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off-course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives.
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Well done curated information
- Écrit par Jose Amaya le 2021-10-02
Auteur(s): Craig Whitlock, Autres
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Hatchet Man
- How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor’s Code and Corrupted the Justice Department
- Auteur(s): Elie Honig
- Narrateur(s): Elie Honig
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In Hatchet Man, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig uncovers Barr’s unprecedented abuse of power as Attorney General and the lasting structural damage done to the Justice Department. Honig uses his own experience as a prosecutor at DOJ to show how, as America’s top law enforcement official, Barr repeatedly violated the Department’s written rules, and those vital, unwritten norms and principles that comprise the “prosecutor’s code”.
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To Whom It May Concern...
- Écrit par D. Belec le 2021-07-17
Auteur(s): Elie Honig
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Betrayal
- The Final Act of the Trump Show
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Karl
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of the shocking final chapter of the Trump show than Jonathan Karl. As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl told the story of Trump’s rise in the New York Times best seller Front Row at the Trump Show. Now he tells the story of Trump’s downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency.
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Great Book | Betrayal
- Écrit par Canadian Dad le 2021-11-20
Auteur(s): Jonathan Karl
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The Reckoning
- Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
- Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrateur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
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The Reckoning will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration’s corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us. America is suffering from PTSD - a new leader alone cannot fix us.
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Great History Lesson
- Écrit par Vivian le 2021-08-24
Auteur(s): Mary L. Trump PhD
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Reign of Terror
- How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
- Auteur(s): Spencer Ackerman
- Narrateur(s): Spencer Ackerman
- Durée: 13 h et 55 min
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For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions, sanctioned torture, and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open.
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Would have preferred a clearer narrator
- Écrit par olive o'sudden le 2021-10-02
Auteur(s): Spencer Ackerman
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The End of October
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
- Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
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At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons - microbiologist, epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city....
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Amazing and prescient
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-12-28
Auteur(s): Lawrence Wright
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Midnight in Washington
- How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
- Auteur(s): Adam Schiff
- Narrateur(s): Adam Schiff
- Durée: 18 h et 2 min
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In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years.
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gripping story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-10-17
Auteur(s): Adam Schiff
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An Ugly Truth
- Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
- Auteur(s): Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
- Narrateur(s): Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, Holter Graham
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.
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A lot of info proven now to be false
- Écrit par Jamie le 2022-12-05
Auteur(s): Sheera Frenkel, Autres
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Authoritarian Nightmare
- Trump and His Followers
- Auteur(s): John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer
- Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests? John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism. Together, using psychological diagnostic tools, as well as exclusive research and analysis from the Monmouth University Polling Institute, the authors provide us with an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon.
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A very good analysis of the American people.
- Écrit par Abubakarrkay le 2020-10-22
Auteur(s): John W. Dean, Autres
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it
"A book of panoramic breadth...managing to surprise us about even those episodes we...thought we knew well...[With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” (The New York Times Book Review)
From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic.
Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time...inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism...into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina...into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs...into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues...inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function - with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential.
In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.
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“A virtuoso feat.... [Wright has] given us a book of panoramic breadth, [ranging] from science to politics to economics to culture with a commanding scrutiny, managing to surprise us about even those episodes we have only recently lived through and thought we knew well. The story he tells is immediate and often piercingly intimate.... The Plague Year has lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, [and] Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” (Sonali Deraniyagala, The New York Times Book Review)
“Arresting.... Lean-limbed, immersive.... Rich with peerless reportage and incisive critique.... Translates the complexities of epidemiology into plain English.... Wright is at his commanding best...when he places the pandemic in historical context - his detours into the Black Plague and the 1918 Spanish flu are narrative marvels - and in his portraits of the players.” (Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“[An] incredibly crafted telling.... [Wright] is an earnest prober, with sober-minded curiosity.... [He] provides a well-wrought map covering the institutions and politicians that failed America during this stretch of the pandemic [and] crucially highlights those that also saved us - the first responders and the reasonable.” (Eric Allen Been, The Boston Globe)
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- User 35555
- 2021-12-16
A good summary with an americanish angle
Covid is a vaaaast topic to tackle. This book gives story points from the early lab works with Sars to end of 2019’s official story in Wuhan up intil Trump’s downfall. There is a lot of details (not always necessary) on doctors and A LOT of details on american politics. In fact, I learned a lot more on internal US politics that on the virus.
*detail: The narrator is able to handle all the not so usual Chinese names with a great flow easy to listen to.
For someone who is not fully on board with the current restrictions and would like to shed more light on a somewhat alternative storyline, listening to this book will be a more difficult experience. The author seems to adhere 200% to the mainstream politics.
If this book would be published today, it’s possible that it would include a little more critics about how we’ll need to live with all the emerging variants (not all critics are conspirasionists). Such discussions are now more accepted than 1 year ago.
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- C. Emerson Thompson
- 2021-07-14
Balanced Account of a Horrible Year
Not just a “Trump was an idiot and People Died” kind of book. In fact,IMNSHO, he went easy on the Biggest Loser in History”.
However it was a detailed objective balanced account of the first year of the plague (not over folks) interspersed with personal often heart-breaking stories of those so badly affected by piss-poor governmental decisions. Long read/listen but well worth the price.
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- KarenT
- 2021-06-11
Best book about Covid-19 I’ve read so far
I’m not going to mention the other bestseller about covid that’s on the charts, but I found Wright’s book to be far more comprehensive in scope and context. I also found it to be far more objective in assigning blame for America’s many failures in response (there’s enough to go around!). It must be difficult to write a story that is still unfolding, but for those of us seeking answers and explanations and don’t want to wait for the lens of history? This is a Must Read.
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- kellie tweddle
- 2021-07-10
Enlightening Historical Info but …..
The narrator is much too melodramatic and pedantic sounding. And the sing song tone accents every sentence the same. It’s hard to hear the story - because the incessant rhythmic tone is so distracting. I love this author but this is not a good reading.
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- Darcy
- 2021-07-07
Covid in Context
Super concise hit parade of 2020-21 dropped balls that permitted Covid to kill more than 500K (at writing) American citizens. Wright's ability to gather narratives from a national community of riveting sources brings our shared experience of the coronavirus home. It hardly seems possible that all this trauma occurred in just one year. And the story continues. If you have read his book The Looming Tower you know this man knows how to write. This is a great and eye-opening read.
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- Siobhan Ricci
- 2021-07-02
Could’ve been a classic
The Plague Year is just that, the story of covid year one. It has an unorthodox pattern of tracking the virus. The book is almost like snapshots of the outbreak. You follow people at the CDC, people in the government, frontline medical workers and more. Although I did enjoy the book, I thought that with more time maybe the writer could’ve deepened the narrative structure. Because it feels like a glimpse of covid more than the full picture. But Lawrence Wright is a great writer!
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- KP
- 2021-06-14
Amazing
This book flew by. The author does a tremendous job of keeping the reader engaged and explaining medical concepts in an understandable way.
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- Joan
- 2022-02-22
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To hear this outlined Covid story helped me put the puzzle together of the last two years. Oh, what a mess the USA is in. Living one day at a time, amidst this chaos, keeps one moving lock-step like the mechanism of a clock. To hear the story, as it played out, stops me dead in my tracks to realize the years of anxiety I've experienced. At age 75, I stare at myself in the mirror, to see a hollow shell of a person, striped of humaness, as now our nation's leadership finds us on the brink of World War III. When I think it cannot get any worse, I now realize it can. Get in, sit down, hold on and shut up...
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- Sagarika Nag
- 2021-08-28
A simple narrative of very complex events
An (almost) unbiased narrative of the geo-political and pandemic related events that swirled around us in 2020. Its an easy listen on very complex subjects. Lawrence Wright shows us how we all have become the subjects of literature for better or for worse.
Vaccinated & masked.
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- CP Guy
- 2021-07-31
Plague of poor leadership
Sometimes a bit too preachy on racial and wealth disparities. I most appreciated knowing the time lines of what we knew and who knew what about the coronavirus.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-07-04
Great book, but passionate at times
I really enjoyed the title, and it brought to light much of the struggles and calamities of 2020 into a single year. I did think the author was a bit passionate at times in his vilification of Trump. This criticism is highly deserved but delivered almost in melodramatic fashion at times. I would nevertheless still recommend the book to anyone!
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