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Fits 1999-01 Sterling Truck LT9500 S119 Silicone Coolant Hose,3"I.D, 36" Length

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Fits 1999-01 Sterling Truck LT9500 S119 Silicone Coolant Hose,3"I.D, 36" LengthSilicone Coolant Straight Hose,3in. I. D, 36 in. Length Goodyear Silicone Coolant Straight Hose SAE 20R1 Standard is engineered to deliver reliable cooling performance in demanding automotive and industrial applications. Specifically meeting the Class A Standard Wall of SAE 20R1, this hose ensures quality, durability, and compatibility with a wide range of coolant systems. Premium silicone material offers exceptional resistance to heat, ozone,

Silicone Coolant Straight Hose,3in. I.D, 36 in. Length

Goodyear Silicone Coolant Straight Hose SAE 20R1 Standard is engineered to deliver reliable cooling performance in demanding automotive and industrial applications. Specifically meeting the Class A Standard Wall of SAE 20R1, this hose ensures quality, durability, and compatibility with a wide range of coolant systems. Premium silicone material offers exceptional resistance to heat, ozone, weathering, and abrasion, providing long-lasting durability and performance in challenging environments. Suitable for coolant systems in engines, radiators, heaters, and other cooling system components across automotive, industrial machinery, agricultural equipment, and marine applications. Upgrade to Goodyear Silicone Coolant Straight Hose SAE 20R1 Standard for reliable cooling performance, durability, and compatibility with automotive and industrial coolant systems.

Features:

  • Silicone rubber, a material known for its resistance to heat, weathering, ozone, and deterioration.
  • Silicone rubber hose maintains flexibility and durability, even when subjected to temperature fluctuations, mechanical stress, and vibration
  • Temperature range, from -56?C to +177?C (-70?F to +350?F).
  • Exceeds the SAE 20R1 standard, specifically meeting the Class A Standard Wall requirements.
  • Reinforced polyester weave construction for added strength and durability, even under high pressure.

Specs:

Centerline Length 914
Centerline Length 3
Centerline Length 36
Color Blue
Construction 4-Ply
Contains Spring No
End 1 Inside Diameter 76
End 1 Inside Diameter 3
End 2 Inside Diameter 3
End 2 Inside Diameter 76
Grade Type OEM Performance
Hose Shape Straight
Material Silicone
Modular No
Molded No

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1999- 2001 Sterling Truck LT9500
2001 Sterling Truck LT9500
1999- 2001 Sterling Truck AT9500
2001 Sterling Truck AT9500
1999- 2000 Sterling Truck AT9513
1999- 2000 Sterling Truck LT9511
1999- 2001 Sterling Truck LT9513
2001 Sterling Truck LT9513
1999- 2001 Sterling Truck LT9522
2001 Sterling Truck LT9522
1999- 2000 Sterling Truck AT9522
1999- 2000 Sterling Truck ST9500
2003 Autocar LLC. Xpeditor WX
2003 Autocar LLC. Xpeditor WXR
2000- 2002 Western Star 4900
2000- 2001 Western Star 4900
2001- 2002 Western Star 4900
2002- 2004 Western Star 4900SA
2002- 2003 Western Star 4900SA
2005- 2007 Western Star 4900SA
2010- 2013 Western Star 4900SA
1997- 2001 Western Star 4900E
2000- 2002 Western Star 4900E
2001- 2002 Western Star 4900E
2002- 2004 Western Star 4900EX
2003 Western Star 4900EX
2002- 2004 Western Star 4900FA
2003 Western Star 4900FA
2006 Western Star 4900FA
2005- 2007 Western Star 6900XD
2014 Western Star 6900XD
2016 Western Star 6900XD
1981- 1982 Western Star WSH
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1986 Autocar AT
1981 Autocar C / DC
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1988 White/GMC WX
1989 White/GMC WXLL
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1994- 1995 White/GMC WIA
1988 White/GMC WCM
1983- 1988 White WX
1984- 1988 White WX
1988 White WIA
1985- 1988 White WCL
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2000- 2001 Volvo ACL
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1996- 1998 Volvo WI
1997 Volvo WC
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1981- 1982 GMC Brigadier
1981- 1985 Mack R
1985 Mack MH
1981 Mack RS
1985- 1991 Mack RW
1985 Mack RW
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1981 Mack RWL
1981- 1982 Mack RWS
1982- 1985 Mack RWS
1982 Mack WL
1981- 1982 Mack WS
1984 Mack WS
1992- 1993 Mack CL
2001- 2003 Mack CL
2004- 2007 Mack CL
1998 Freightliner Century Class
2001- 2004 Freightliner Century Class
2001 Freightliner Century Class
2001- 2002 Freightliner Classic
2001 Freightliner Classic
2003 Freightliner Classic
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2001 Freightliner Classic XL
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2002 Freightliner Columbia
2003- 2004 Freightliner Columbia
2006 Freightliner Columbia
2017- 2018 Freightliner 114SD
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1981- 1983 Freightliner FLC120
1982- 1988 Freightliner FLC120
1987- 1988 Freightliner FLC120
1993- 1994 Freightliner FLD112
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1997 Freightliner FLD112
1998 Freightliner FLD112
2000- 2001 Freightliner FLD112
2001 Freightliner FLD112
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1997- 1998 Freightliner FLC112
1987- 1990 Freightliner FLC112
1996- 1998 Freightliner FLC112
1981- 1988 Freightliner FLT086
1981- 1983 Freightliner FLT086
1981 Freightliner FLT086
1988- 1998 Freightliner FLD120
1988 Freightliner FLD120
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1993- 2001 Freightliner FLD120
1996- 1997 Freightliner FLD120
1997 Freightliner FLD120
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2003 Freightliner FLD120SD
2016 Freightliner S2C
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2003 Freightliner FLD132
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1993 Freightliner FLL086
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1994- 1997 Freightliner FLB
1995 Freightliner FLB
1997 Freightliner FLB
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1982- 1991 Ford CL9000
1990- 1991 Ford CL9000
1981- 1991 Ford CLT9000
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1996 Ford LTLA9000
1983 Ford LTL9000
1985 Ford LTL9000
1997- 1999 Kenworth T2000
1997 Kenworth T2000
1993- 1994 Kenworth T450
1993 Kenworth T450
1995 Kenworth T450
1986- 1994 Kenworth T600A
1986- 1990 Kenworth T600A
1993 Kenworth T600A
1996- 1997 Kenworth T600A
1994- 1999 Kenworth T600A
1995- 1996 Kenworth T600A
1996- 1999 Kenworth T600A
1996- 1998 Kenworth T600A
1999 Kenworth T600A
2002- 2007 Kenworth T600A
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1987- 1990 Kenworth T800
1991- 1999 Kenworth T800
1993 Kenworth T800
1996- 1997 Kenworth T800
1995- 1996 Kenworth T800
2004- 2006 Kenworth T800
1996- 2000 Kenworth T800
1996- 1998 Kenworth T800
1998- 2001 Kenworth T800
1999- 2001 Kenworth T800
1999- 2000 Kenworth T800
2002 Kenworth T800
2004- 2007 Kenworth T800
2000- 2003 Kenworth T800
2000 Kenworth T800
2001- 2002 Kenworth T800
2003 Kenworth T800
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1981 Kenworth W900
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1997- 1999 Kenworth W900
1997 Kenworth W900
1999 Kenworth W900
2000- 2003 Kenworth W900
2003- 2007 Kenworth W900
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1989- 1990 Kenworth T400
1992- 1994 Kenworth T400
1993 Kenworth T400
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1981 Kenworth K100
1983- 1985 Kenworth K100
1981- 1987 Kenworth C500
1981- 1985 Kenworth C500
1992 Kenworth C500
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1993 Kenworth C500
1994 Kenworth C500
1985- 1999 Kenworth K100E
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1991- 1994 Kenworth K100E
1994- 1996 Kenworth K100E
1976- 1980 Peterbilt 282
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1977- 1978 Peterbilt 200
2002- 2007 Peterbilt 387
2002- 2003 Peterbilt 387
1987- 1998 Peterbilt 357
1987- 1996 Peterbilt 357
1987- 1992 Peterbilt 357
1989- 1995 Peterbilt 357
1997 Peterbilt 357
1989- 1990 Peterbilt 357
1997- 1999 Peterbilt 357
1991- 1992 Peterbilt 357
1993- 1997 Peterbilt 357
1995- 1997 Peterbilt 357
1997- 2004 Peterbilt 357
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2006 Peterbilt 357
1988- 1999 Peterbilt 378
1988- 1998 Peterbilt 378
1988- 1996 Peterbilt 378
1989- 1994 Peterbilt 378
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2001 Peterbilt 378
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2002 Peterbilt 378
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2004- 2007 Peterbilt 378
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2004- 2006 Peterbilt 320
1987- 1996 Peterbilt 375
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1992 Peterbilt 375
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1996 Peterbilt 385
1997- 2004 Peterbilt 385
1997 Peterbilt 385
2002 Peterbilt 385
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1981- 1986 Peterbilt 310
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1987 Peterbilt 362
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1997- 1998 Peterbilt 362
1997 Peterbilt 362
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1988- 2001 Peterbilt 377
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1997 Peterbilt 377
1989- 1991 Peterbilt 377
1995- 1997 Peterbilt 377
1997- 1998 Peterbilt 377
1989- 1994 Peterbilt 372
1989- 1993 Peterbilt 372
1990- 1991 Peterbilt 372
1993 Peterbilt 372
1981 Peterbilt 352
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2001 International 3800
1979- 1988 International 2275
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Chelsea, US
★★★★★ 5
I'm rereading the book. It's great!
The idea of progress is a relatively knew idea within the history of humans. The idea of progress is fundamental to the ideas of Capitalism and economic growth. Many Americans blindly believe that of progress, economic growth, and Capitalism are leading to the betterment of humans. If one carefully reads the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report, it states that CO2 (and other greenhouse gasses) emissions are driving global warming and thus climate change. That report also says that economic growth and population growth are driving those emissions. Climate change is one of the "progress traps" Wright is talking about. Progress does not inexorably lead to the betterment of humans. Nor do growth economies, including Capitalism. Wright helps readers see the big pictures of how humans have interacted with the Earth in ways that destroy civilizations and threatens to ruin our host, Earth. The Myth of Progress by Tom Wessells is another good book about progress.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2018
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David S. Rush
Boise, US
★★★★★ 4
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up
What is the difference between our 21st century global civilization, the ancient Sumerians, the Easter Islanders of Cook's day, empirical Rome, or the Maya civilization. Answer, not much. The last four are all societies that had their heyday, become stuck in a paradigm, and then brought ecological disaster on themselves via overpopulation and over exploitation of natural resources. "Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up", Wrights quotes from some pertinent graffiti. The cost this time could be in the billions of souls. This a short book 132 pages of actual text with another 68 or so of footnotes at the end. It is a mad rush through human history exploring the collapse of those civilizations and a couple that have been more sustainable. Wright also explores the traps of progress. That is mankind becomes so good at hunting he drives his food source into extinction. Then we become so proficient at an irrigation technology we ruin the land. We become so good at weapons we create bombs that could ruin the whole world. As a race, he contends, we seem to push every technology to the brink, to our collective woe. I read with highlighter in hand. I had to restrain myself for marking whole long sections. As it is, the book now has a pink glow. Several pages have yellow tabs so I can find passages easily again. One such passage from the book summarizes it for me: "The human inability to foresee - or to watch out for - long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer." I remember as a biology major we studied the boom and bust cycle of animal populations. It was suggested in class that the human animal could follow the same cycle. The professor dismissed the idea, but not so Wright. He sees us at the high point in a few years, then the collapse unless we act now. One other passage really struck home with me: "The idea that the world must be run by the stock market is as mad as any other fundamentalist delusion, Islamic, Christian, or Marxist." That tears at the very sand we have our society built on. The sheer pace of Wright's march through history mirrors the author's urgency about how long we have to act to save our society. The countdown has already begun. The question remains, do we have the gumption to take the necessary action. The book is at its heart liberal, and rightly so. Any possible solution to forestall the potential social collapse will not be from the top of the pyramid. They long ago seemed to have forgotten the concept of usufruct; we are just borrowing this planet from our children and grandchildren. Wright holds out a glimmer of hope, but the candle is flickering.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2010
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Richard Reese (author of Understanding Sustainability)
Phoenix, US
★★★★★ 5
A short book loaded with sharp insights
Every year, Canadians eagerly huddle around their radios to listen to the Massey Lectures, broadcast by the CBC. For the 2004 season, Ronald Wright was the honored speaker. He presented a series of five lectures, titled A Short History of Progress. In 2005, Wright's presentation was published as a short book, and it became a bestseller. Martin Scorsese's movie, Surviving Progress, was based on the book. It was an amazing success for a story contrary to our most holy cultural myths. Wright believed that the benefits of progress were highly overrated, because of their huge costs. Indeed, progress was approaching the point of becoming a serious threat to the existence of humankind. "This new century will not grow very old before we enter an age of chaos and collapse that will dwarf all the dark ages in our past." He pointed out that the world was dotted with the ruins of ancient crash sites, civilizations that self-destructed. At each of these wrecks, modern science can, in essence, retrieve the "black box," and discover why the mighty society crashed and burned. There is a clear pattern. Each one crashed because it destroyed what it depended on for its survival. Wright takes us on a quick tour of the collapse of Sumer, Easter Island, the Roman Empire, and the Mayans. He explains why the two oddballs, China and Egypt, are taking longer than average to self-destruct. The fatal defects of agriculture and civilization are old news for the folks who have been paying attention. It has become customary for these folks to believe that "The Fall" took place when humans began to domesticate plants and animals. Wright thinks the truth is more complicated. What makes this book unique and provocative is his notion of progress traps. The benefits of innovation often encourage society to live in a new way, while burning the bridges behind them as they advance. Society can find itself trapped in an unsustainable way of living, and it's no longer possible to just turn around and painlessly return to a simpler mode. Like today, we know that the temporary bubble of cheap energy is about over, and our entire way of life is dependent on cheap energy. We're trapped. Some types of progress do not disrupt the balance of the ecosystem, like using a rock to crack nuts. But our ability to stand upright freed our hands for working with tools and weapons, which launched a million year process of experimentation and innovation that gradually snowballed over time. We tend to assume that during the long era of hunting and gathering our ancestors were as mindful as the few hunting cultures that managed to survive on the fringes into the twentieth century. But in earlier eras, when big game was abundant, wise stewardship was not mandatory. Sloppy tribes could survive -- for a while. Before they got horses, Indians of the American west would drive herds of buffalo off cliffs, killing many at a time. They took what they needed, and left the rest for legions of scavengers. One site in Colorado contained the carcasses of 152 buffalo. A trader in the northern Rockies witnessed about 250 buffalo being killed at one time. Wright mentioned two Upper Paleolithic sites I had not heard of -- 1,000 mammoth skeletons were found at Piedmont in the Czech Republic, and the remains of over 100,000 horses were found at Solutré in France. Over time, progress perfected our hunting systems. Our supply of high-quality food seemed to be infinite. It was our first experience of prosperity and leisure. Folks had time to take their paint sets into caves and do gorgeous portraits of the animals they lived with, venerated, killed, and ate. Naturally, our population grew. More babies grew up to be hunters, and the availability of game eventually decreased. The grand era of cave painting ended, and we began hunting rabbits. We depleted species after species, unconsciously gliding into our first serious progress trap. Some groups scrambled to find alternatives, foraging around beaches, estuaries, wetlands, and bogs. Some learned how to reap the tiny seeds of wild grasses. By and by, the end of the hunting way of life came into view, about 10,000 years ago. "They lived high for a while, then starved." Having destroyed the abundant game, it was impossible to return to simpler living. This was a progress trap, and it led directly into a far more dangerous progress trap, the domestication of plants and animals. Agriculture and civilization were accidents, and they threw open the gateway to 10,000 years of monotony, drudgery, misery, and ecocide. Wright says that civilization is a pyramid scheme; we live today at the expense of those who come after us. For most of human history, the rate of progress was so slow that it was usually invisible. But the last six or seven generations have been blindsided by a typhoon of explosive change. Progress had a habit of giving birth to problems that could only be solved by more progress. Progress was the most diabolically wicked curse that you could ever imagine. Maybe we should turn it into an insulting obscenity: "progress you!" Climate scientists have created models showing weather trends over the last 250,000 years, based on ice cores. Agriculture probably didn't start earlier because climate trends were unstable. Big swings could take place over the course of decades. In the last 10,000 years, the climate has been unusually stable. A return to instability will make civilization impossible. Joseph Tainter studied how civilizations collapse, and he described three highways to disaster: the Runaway Train (out-of-control problems), the Dinosaur (indifference to dangers), and the House of Cards (irreversible disintegration). He predicted that the next collapse would be global in scale. Finally, the solution: "The reform that is needed is... simply the transition from short-term thinking to long-term." Can we do it? We are quite clever, but seldom wise, according to Wright. Ordinary animals, like our ancestors, had no need for long-term thinking, because life was always lived in the here and now. "Free Beer Tomorrow" reads the flashing neon sign on the tavern, but we never exist in tomorrow. The great news is that we now possess a mountain of black boxes. For the first time in the human journey, a growing number of people comprehend our great mistakes, and are capable of envisioning a new path that eventually abandons our embarrassing boo-boos forever. All the old barriers to wisdom and healing have been swept away (in theory). Everywhere you look these days; people are stumbling around staring at tiny screens and furiously typing -- eagerly communicating with world experts, engaging in profound discussions, watching videos rich with illuminating information, and reading the works of green visionaries. It's a magnificent sight to behold -- the best is yet to come! Richard Adrian Reese Author of What Is Sustainable
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Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013
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Richard Clark
Charlottesville, US
★★★★★ 5
Wright is right
The fact Wright attacks popular concepts of progress is enough to merit five stars. Until 1955, when I was 25, I naively believed progress was inevitable, natural, and simply a part of human nature and society. I attended the Earl Lectures that year. Swiss Theologian Emil Brunner presented three addresses on "Faith, Hope, and Love" at Berkeley, California. Westminster Press published his series in a book given the same title. I shall quote a few remarks. Brunner traced the burgioning faith in progress to the nineteenth century, when "Darwin's theory of evolution seemed so to support and enlarge this optimistic evaluation of progress as to see it in a cosmic perspective." But the doctrine of progress is not the same as evolution. "Although this idea of progress had a success for which the word 'triumph' is hardly an exaggeration, there were warning voices raised against it, voices of men of weight and importance who were not willng to accept the new doctrine," he said. "It was a new doctrine because it was not known to antiquity, it was not known in the time of the Reformation, it was unknown in all Asiatic culture. It was a new thing! The idea of progress became an axiomatic conviction which needed no proof and could not be disproved." At one point, Brunner said, "Since Hiroshima the world does not believe in progress anymore." The end of WWII was still fresh in our memories, and I suppose that's why he said it. We know, today, that it didn't take long for much of the world to revive and renew its faith in progress. And now it's stronger--and more dangerous--than ever. I'm not opposed to every aspect of progress. Progress, when it moves in wholesome and healthy directions, is a blessing. I'm glad my dentist is able to fill--and save--my teeth without pain. And when it came time for my doctor to pull my cataracts and replace them with implanted lenses, I marveled at the miracle. It was a quick and painless operation, and now I have wonderful vision. It's that dogmatic idea of progress based on greed and cold indifference to global warming that concerns me. It's that ongoing waste of limited resources, whether they be animal, vegetable or mineral, that concerns me. We are pulling the carpet from beneath our feet, and the king is pulling hardest of all. And who is the king? Ignorance! Ignorance is king!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2008
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Kevin S. Grail
Massapequa, US
★★★★★ 5
My favorite book, in any genre
Ronald Wright is an amazing scholar and writer. His style is fun and easy to read while delivering impeccable historical research. I have listed to this book several times over the years and I appreciate it more each time. I recommend the audio version more than the print version because of the compelling way Mr. Wright delivers this 4-Part lecture series to his audience (now in book form). Note to Amazon: Please make this book available on Audible, CDs are cumbersome.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2018

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