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    The Great Man Theory
    The Great Man Theory
    The Great Man Theory
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    The Great Man Theory

    Written by Teddy Wayne

    Narrated by Adam Barr

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    This deeply poignant and dyspeptically funny novel follows a liberal armchair-revolutionary as he desperately tries to save America from itself, one lecture at a time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJul 12, 2022
    ISBN9781666609028
    Author

    Teddy Wayne

    Teddy Wayne is the author of six novels and a winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a former columnist for the New York Times, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

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    • 4/5
      This 'Death of a Salesman' paints the demise of the Age of Reason through the tragicomic failings of a struggling intellectual. Though a tad grotesk at times, a poingant critique of the post-truth society we somehow managed to create and a sad account of youthful idealism being overtaken by a reality growing more dystopian by the day.
    • 3/5
      Book much better than the reader. Why must readers adapt other voices to represent different characters. The writing does that on its own.
    • 3/5
      A very insightful view point stitched together in a compelling story.
    • 3/5
      Not many likable characters in this book, a bit of a challenge thus. Yet it's fascinating.