| The Triumph of Liberty: A 2,000-Year History, Told Through the Lives of Freedom's Greatest Champions Contributor(s): Powell, Jim (Author), Johnson, Paul (Foreword by), Riggenbach, Jeff (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786191678 ISBN-13: 9780786191673 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Political Freedom |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of humankind's great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny's iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this inspiring story through sixty-five biographical portraits. From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made freedom possible, Jim Powell has chosen a few talented, courageous individuals whose lives illustrate the triumphing will of the human spirit. Some of these people, like Martin Luther King Jr., remain famous; others, like John Lilburne, who spent most of his adult life in prison battling England's infamous Star Chamber, are almost unknown. Some of Powell's choices--Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis L'Amour--may be surprising. Others still--like Milton Friedman or Margaret Thatcher--are controversial. Woven together, their moving life stories tell a brilliant epic saga of the triumph of liberty as a whole. |
Contributor Bio(s): Powell, Jim: - Jim Powell graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in history. There, as an editor of New Individualist Review, he helped publish articles by future Nobel Laureates F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and George J. Stigler. He has written for several dozen publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Esquire. He has lectured in several countries as well as at Harvard and Stanford universities. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and is editor of Laissez Faire Books. Powell lives with his family in Westport, Connecticut. Johnson, Paul: -Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and the Spectator, and he lectures around the world. He lives in London. Riggenbach, Jeff: -Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence. |