

The Great Upheaval
Author: Jay Winik
Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas
Abridged: 12 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/11/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Modern History, World History, Russian History
Author: Jay Winik
Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas
Abridged: 12 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/11/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Modern History, World History, Russian History
Jay Winik is the author of the New York Times bestseller April 1865. He is a senior scholar of history and public policy at the University of Maryland and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
The Great Upheaval is nothing if not ambitious. In this author's previous book, April 1865, the topic was extremely focused both in timeline and subject matter. Not so in The Great Upheaval. Technically it covers the years 1788-1800 and a majority of the civilized world at that time, attempting to l......more
It's a general misconception even among Americans that we kicked the British out of our country and then things were generally calm until the Civil War. The end of the war was just the start of an ongoing internal conflict that wasn't free of bloodshed and reflected the kind of angry partisanship wh......more
I had high hopes for this book. Jay Winik is a good stylist, with a knack for focusing on underappreciated nuances in the historical record. This book, unfortunately, was a bit of a disappointment. The premise is a good one: to look holistically at US and European history in the period from 1788 to......more
This book was fascinating! After reading Les Miserables I was so disappointed that I did not know more about French history, especially the time period of the French Revolution and then into Napoleon. I knew the French Revolution was bad... who doesn't? But I did not realize how bad. The author at o......more
Whenever I'm reviewing a history book like this one, I struggle greatly to come up with a rating for the book. On the one hand, this is an insane achievement that took over 6 years and an endless amount of research all to provide a Game-of-Thrones-esque overview of one of the most interesting time p......more