Anti-Imperialist Writings by Mark Twain ~ Full Audiobook [speeches]

Anti-Imperialist Writings by Mark Twain audiobook.

Genre: speeches

Anti-Imperialist Writings gathers Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) at his most fiery and uncomfortably funny: a celebrated American voice turning his wit against the language of empire. Written in the early years of the 20th century, these pieces draw on the era's headline conflicts and scandals - including US expansion after the Spanish-American War, violence in the Philippines, and European colonial brutality abroad - to question what nations call duty, progress, and civilization. Across essays, letters, interviews, speeches, and satirical pamphlets, Twain targets the respectable masks of power: politicians who rename conquest as uplift, missionaries and businessmen who claim moral purpose while benefiting from force, and citizens tempted to confuse patriotism with obedience. Works such as the essay 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' and the pamphlet 'King Leopold's Soliloquy' show Twain sharpening satire into indictment, while other selections reveal a darker, prophetic anger beneath the jokes. The result is a compact, provocative listening experience - part political commentary, part moral challenge - that asks how a democracy should look at its flag when the costs are paid by someone else.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:08) Chapter 02

(01:10:08) Chapter 03

(01:12:27) Chapter 04

(01:13:48) Chapter 05

(01:18:43) Chapter 06

(02:07:16) Chapter 07

(02:13:45) Chapter 08

(03:00:49) Chapter 09

(03:39:38) Chapter 10

(04:33:11) Chapter 11

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