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    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
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    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
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    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

    Written by Robert Evans

    Narrated by Tristan Morris

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    About this audiobook

    A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun-or more intoxicating.

    Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for women's rights to the beer that helped create-and destroy-South America's first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home.

    You'll learn how to:

    • Trip like a Greek philosopher.
    • Rave like your Stone Age ancestors.
    • Get drunk like a Sumerian.
    • Smoke a nose pipe like a pre-Columbian Native American.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 9, 2016
    ISBN9780735286870
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    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
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    Robert Evans

    Robert Evans, the former chief of Paramount Studios, produced many of the most acclaimed and successful films of all time, including The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Marathon Man, and Urban Cowboy. He died in 2019. 

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    • 4/5
      Well written book. Could have been great book if longer. <8 HR on short side. I filter out most books less than 10. As do most I suspect.

      Enjoyed it. Thank you