Decent, but long-winded, and a little bit preachy towards the end

The review is taken from my review originally posted in audible.com with a few edits.

Would you listen to The Secret History of the American Empire again? Why?

Only if I really had to.  It’s very, very long, and it’s not easy to get through in my opinion.  It’s interesting for sure, but there’s just something about it that makes it not easy to listen to.

If you’ve listened to books by John Perkins before, how does this one compare?

Better than his first book.  This book was read by Jonathan Davis.  In John Perkins’ first book, he read it by himself and his voice sounded a bit raspy, as if he was losing his voice a bit.

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Davis’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, i’m pretty sure he did a bunch of the Star Wars audio books.  They are always good, no problems there.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Nope. Not that kind of book.  However if boredom or frustration is an extreme reaction, then maybe that.

Any additional comments?

It’s not a particularly boring book, it could have just been my situation at the time, yet it took me several months to finish.

It’s just that i always seemed to have so much more interesting books that i would go for them instead of finishing this one.

It is however an interesting look at how governments strategise for pretty much taking over the world, and how they shape the minds of everyone around them to help propagate the fallacy that is modern economics which ensures that their empire can stay intact. Everything that is capitalism basically.

I can’t help but feel it could be edited down to make it more concise and interesting though.

It get’s quite preachy towards the end, and while what John Perkins says is correct in terms of ‘how can everyone help’, he’s had the grace of hindsight and already living an amazing life whilst climbing the corporate ladder and taking success and good fortune from it, and then he realises that it’s screwing over the people of the world, yet he’s already taken his benefit.

Better late than never of course, but even though its not, it comes across as a bit hypocritical at the end.

The book is 11 hours and 3 mins, and to be honest is a bit too long

You can download it from here if you’re interested though: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/The-Secret-History-of-the-American-Empire-Audiobook/B002V1JAJI?ref_=audlib-pd-LIBRARY-list

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