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The Good Fight audiobook

  • By: Peter Beinart
  • Narrator: David Slavin
  • Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 30, 2006
  • Language: English
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The Good Fight Audiobook Summary

Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not command. And they believed that by championing freedom overseas, America itself could become more free. That liberal spirit won America’s trust at the dawn of the Cold War. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after 9/11, and the failed presidency of George W. Bush, America needs it back.

In this powerful and provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a new liberal vision, based on principles liberals too often forget: That America’s goodness cannot simply be asserted; it must be proved. That American leadership is not American empire. And that liberalism cannot merely define itself against the right, but must oppose the totalitarianism that blighted Europe a half century ago, and which stalks the Islamic world today.

With liberals severed from their own history, conservatives have drawn on theirs — the principles of national chauvinism and moral complacency that America once rejected. The country will reject them again, and embrace the creed that brought it greatness before. But only if liberals remember what that means. It means an unyielding hostility to totalitarianism — and a recognition that defeating it requires bringing hope to the bleakest corners of the globe. And it means understanding that democracy begins at home.

Peter Beinart’s The Good Fight is a passionate rejoinder to the conservatives who have ruled Washington since 9/11. It is an intellectual lifeline for a Democratic Party lying flat on its back. And it is a call for liberals to revive the spirit that swept America, and inspired the world.

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The Good Fight Audiobook Narrator

David Slavin is the narrator of The Good Fight audiobook that was written by Peter Beinart

David Slavin’s stories for children are featured in the book and CD of Marlo Thomas’s Thanks & Giving: All Year Long, and the 35th Anniversary edition of Free to Be…You and Me. He is the co-author of three books of satire: Young Dick Cheney: Great American; ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 21st Century Edition; and Dog on the Roof!: On the Road with Mitt and the Mutt. His cultural and political commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, and the Huffington Post, and he was a regular contributor–as both a writer and performer–to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered for over a decade. David has also been a voice-over artist for over 20 years, lending his voice to hundreds of radio and television commercials, numerous audiobooks, and narrations for PBS, National Geographic, the BBC, and The Late Show with David Letterman. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, sight-challenged dog, and noisy bird.

About the Author(s) of The Good Fight

Peter Beinart is the author of The Good Fight

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The Good Fight Full Details

Narrator David Slavin
Length 6 hours 27 minutes
Author Peter Beinart
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date May 30, 2006
ISBN 9780061205743

Additional info

The publisher of the The Good Fight is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780061205743.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Steve

March 13, 2009

A bit dense, but still a good history lesson and reinforcement of what makes liberal values so important to the United States today and in the past. I used the title as the title of my first Liberally Speaking column.

Jennifer

October 02, 2007

I think I might have found a little bit of optimism that we, as a country, don't have to go to hell in a hand basket.

Arlette

February 24, 2008

As a liberal of the old school, I tend to agree with this book. Might deserve another star.

Menz

April 01, 2008

clinton and obama camps...please read this book.

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