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The Great Upheaval : America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 (Audio CD) (Abridged)
The Great Upheaval America and the Birth of the Modern World 17881800 - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Jay Winik, Sam Tsoutsouvas (Narrator) Fresh and brilliant, this is the book that completely redefines the founding era. As the 1790s began, America was struggling to survive at home and abroad, and the world was gripped by an arc of revolutionary fervor stretching from Philadelphia and Paris to St. Petersburg and Cairo--with fatal results. While a fragile United States teetered on t... more »he brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, the Islamic peoples were gearing for war, and France plunged into monumental revolution. In The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization and bequeath us the nation -- indeed, the world -- we've inherited.
Audio Review:
Jay Winik's stirring narrative is filled with high drama and strong verbs -- it's a tale whose telling requires the steadiness of an accomplished narrator. Sam Tsoutsouvas' mellow, assured tone establishes the thread of a narrative that roams from the American frontier to the farthest reaches of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great. The drama of those pivotal final years of the eighteenth century--which embraced the American Revolution and Constitution, the French Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon -- is heightened by Winik's sense of the momentous, a word he himself frequently employs. Tsoutsouvas maintains the necessary pace and consistency to modulate the intensity (and frequent ferocity) of this narrative's many scenes of action. An excellent popular history, this is a perfect match of book and narrator. -- AudioFile
Abridged: 10 Compact Discs, Running Time: 750 minutes, Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas« less