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1959
- The Year Everything Changed
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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Pop culture exploded in upheaval with the rise of artists like Jasper Johns, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, and Miles Davis. Court rulings unshackled previously banned books. Political power broadened with the onset of Civil Rights laws and protests. The sexual and feminist revolutions took their first steps with the birth-control pill. America entered the war in Vietnam, and a new style in superpower diplomacy took hold. The invention of the microchip and the Space Race put a new twist on the frontier myth.
As Kaplan vividly chronicles, 1959 was a vital year that set the world as we know it in motion, spearheading immense political, scientific, and cultural change. Drawing fascinating parallels between the country in 1959 and today, Kaplan offers a smart, cogent, and deeply researched take on a overlooked period in American history.
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Spies and Lies
- How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
- De: Alex Joske
- Narrado por: James Daniel Burkdoll
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Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.
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Beware of the MSS
- De Reed Ramlow en 03-08-24
De: Alex Joske
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Unrestricted Warfare
- China's Master Plan to Destroy America
- De: Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui
- Narrado por: Scott Pollak
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an adjustment in strategy. Military strategists Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui argue that this dynamic is a crucial weakness in the American military.
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China needs battle experience...
- De Swimfinz17 en 01-21-23
De: Qiao Liang, y otros
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- De: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI.
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Excellent
- De DeeRod en 05-26-23
De: Josh Chin, y otros
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
- De: Michael Rectenwald
- Narrado por: William Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom explores the reach, penetration, power, and impact of Big Digital or the mega-information managers, social media platforms, Artificial Intelligence developers, providers of other web applications and functionalities, and the architects and proponents of the promised Internet of Things.
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Not what I was expecting
- De Anonymous User en 02-11-20
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Dark Territory
- The Secret History of Cyber War
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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As cyber attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.
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Best narrator - Malcolm Hillgartner
- De Greg Davis en 07-20-16
De: Fred Kaplan
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The Dragons and the Snakes
- How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
- De: David Kilcullen
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower—a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a "variety of poisonous snakes." In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict.
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Horrible narrator
- De Paul en 12-21-23
De: David Kilcullen
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Spies and Lies
- How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
- De: Alex Joske
- Narrado por: James Daniel Burkdoll
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.
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Beware of the MSS
- De Reed Ramlow en 03-08-24
De: Alex Joske
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Unrestricted Warfare
- China's Master Plan to Destroy America
- De: Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui
- Narrado por: Scott Pollak
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:
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Historia
A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an adjustment in strategy. Military strategists Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui argue that this dynamic is a crucial weakness in the American military.
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China needs battle experience...
- De Swimfinz17 en 01-21-23
De: Qiao Liang, y otros
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- De: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI.
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Excellent
- De DeeRod en 05-26-23
De: Josh Chin, y otros
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
- De: Michael Rectenwald
- Narrado por: William Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom explores the reach, penetration, power, and impact of Big Digital or the mega-information managers, social media platforms, Artificial Intelligence developers, providers of other web applications and functionalities, and the architects and proponents of the promised Internet of Things.
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Not what I was expecting
- De Anonymous User en 02-11-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre 1959
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- Martha
- 04-16-11
Great window into near past
This book brough together the threads and names of the late 1950's. Names I knew well, but had never seen as parts of larger patterns. Some surprises. Even though I was 12 in the year, I had no sence of how many profound pathes were being started in that time. Reads easily. A full story of the evolution of jazz during the time.
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- James
- 05-25-11
Facinating look at a neglected moment in history
Before listening to this book - the fifties only meant Sputnik, Elvis and doo wop to me (born in 54). How wrong I was. This book opened a new world to me from investigation of classic jazz recordings to some very interesting pre-60's philosophy and thought that I knew nothing of.
If you want your perception of the 50's as a sleepy decade to be given a jolt, this is the book to do it!! Very well done - even handed and broad in scope.
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- Lance
- 05-07-12
1959 was a Fascinating Year!
Until I read this book I had no idea so many seminal events happened in 1959. From music to science to politics, the events in 1959 were... I can't think of a better word than seminal. Once Kaplan points these out, one has to expect a decade like the '60s. One might expect something event more dramatic. This book is well worth reading, if you're at all interested in the decades that follow.
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Enjoyed
I enjoyed this book very much. It had a very broad history of the time that really illuminated the beats, jazz music, and race struggles of the time leading up to, at, and beyond 1959. Narration was great. Well-written.
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- John
- 07-17-12
GREAT Audiobook
1959 is the year I was born, so I had some serious interest in this book. I was not disappointed.
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- Sandra Pangburn
- 02-20-22
great book
I loved it! It's a very interesting analysis of history both before and after 1959.
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- Jim
- 12-19-12
Extraordinary Book!
Would you consider the audio edition of 1959 to be better than the print version?
Yes, because Joe Barrett's reading is exceptional. The timbre of his voice is very pleasing and his inflections are pitch perfect. I can't think of anyone who could have delivered a better performance.
What other book might you compare 1959 to and why?
Good question. This work is so comprehensive that it's difficult to compare to another book that isn't a straight-ahead reference. It addresses the political and geopolitical issues of the era, the space program and the important changes in jazz, literature and art. Simply, it's the most engrossing and informative non-fiction book I've read in years. Fred Kaplan had a great idea and employed a brilliant angle. I've listened to this book several times and learn something new with every listen. This work is for anyone interested in a complete (if there is such a thing) education. It's quite impressive and I was delighted to discover it.
Have you listened to any of Joe Barrett’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Never, but very pleased with Joe Barrett's excellent performance.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It's engaging and engrossing, but who has that kind of time? One looks forward to earmarking the time to listen.
Any additional comments?
Five stars! Eagerly await any other works by Fred Kaplan.
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- Douglas
- 03-24-14
Interesting and Educational
This book wasn't what I expected but it was still worth reading. It was certainly interesting and (for me at least) very educational. I really didn't know much about the culture of the late 50's so all of that stuff was new to me. The sections on jazz, art, literature were the highlights for me.
This book is unusual in that it really doesn't attempt to weave different narratives together throughout and then pull them all together at the end or anything like that. There's an introductory chapter and a closing chapter that sort of try to give a broad perspective. But the rest of the book is made up of chapters concerning different areas of America in the late 50's, and there really aren't strong links from chapter to chapter.
The title of the book is neat but not exactly an apt description for the book. The book is basically about the late 50's and the early outbreaks of change that would lead to the dramatic changes of the 60's.
The narrator is fine.
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- William
- 12-19-11
Every excruciating detail related to jazz music.
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
This would have been a 4- or 5-star experience if technology, politics, and rock & roll had been given as much attention as jazz music.
What was most disappointing about Fred Kaplan’s story?
It was extremely difficult to listen to all the details regarding jazz music. You learn the actual DATES on which obscure jazz musicians made obscure recordings, and the recording halls in which they made them. It seems there were also a few mentions of what the musicians had for breakfast on the morning of the recordings, along with the actual street locations of certain recording studios. Hours and hours were devoted to jazz music, but only about an hour total related to rock & roll, computer technology, and politics (one part of a chapter covering the Cuban Missile Crisis). I don't recall anything related to television programming or technology. If The Tonight Show was mentioned, I don't remember it.
Which character – as performed by Joe Barrett – was your favorite?
Not applicable
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment
Any additional comments?
If you want to know all there is to know about jazz music and jazz musicians in the quarter-centuries before and after 1959, this is the book for you. And, oh, yes - the 2 or 3 chapters devoted to William Burroughs and The Naked Lunch were also painful. I knew a lot more about both after reading the wikipedia article than I did after listening to this book.
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- Sparky
- 06-17-21
Both interesting & boring
Parts of the book revealed facts and history I was not aware of, but other parts seemed to drag on with background and details that were both boring and unnecessarily detailed (e.g.: jazz chaptersssss). The narrator sounded robotic & bored as well.
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