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Anti-Americanism
- Auteur(s): Jean-Francois Revel
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Angered by assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that, paradoxically, given his country's especially vehement attack on the U.S., spent several weeks last year at the top of France's best seller list.
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Anti-Americanism
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2004-07-07
- Langue: Anglais
- After the 9-11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon began giving way to blame....
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Fighting Terrorism
- How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism
- Auteur(s): Benjamin Netanyahu
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 4 h et 45 min
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In this newly revised edition of Fighting Terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's Likud Party and a noted authority on international terrorism, offers a compelling approach to understanding terrorism. Netanyahu's points are "soberly and clearly made," says The New York Times, and The Washington Times calls the book "an excellent primer on the groups, motives and methods of the current terrorist threat."
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Fighting Terrorism
- How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
- Durée: 4 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2002-04-19
- Langue: Anglais
- The World Trade Center tragedy, the Oklahoma bombing, the sarin-gas attack in Japan, raise grave questions...
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Mossad
- The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
- Auteur(s): Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrateur(s): Benjamin Isaac
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
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In Mossad, authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's 60-year history.
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Mossad
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-03-01
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Mossad
- The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
- Narrateur(s): Benjamin Isaac
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2014-10-07
- Langue: Anglais
- Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Narrateur(s): Lisette Lecat
- Durée: 9 h et 25 min
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When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger". Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian war.
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Africa’s decline into who knows what,
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-06-09
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Scribbling the Cat
- Travels with an African Soldier
- Narrateur(s): Lisette Lecat
- Durée: 9 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2004-05-20
- Langue: Anglais
- When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....
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Sex and the Constitution
- Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey R. Stone
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 20 h et 41 min
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Constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today's fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception.
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Invaluable book!! Necessary read!!
- Écrit par GabriellaSz le 2021-08-18
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Sex and the Constitution
- Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century
- Narrateur(s): William Dufris
- Durée: 20 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2017-03-21
- Langue: Anglais
- Constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior....
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Why Cities Lose
- The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
- Auteur(s): Jonathan A. Rodden
- Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
- Durée: 10 h et 13 min
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Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography.
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Why Cities Lose
- The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
- Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
- Durée: 10 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-07
- Langue: Anglais
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Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....
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Detroit Resurrected
- To Bankruptcy and Back
- Auteur(s): Nathan Bomey
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
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From thriving Motor City to the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, Detroit has become the nation's cautionary tale. But what led to the fateful day of the filing, and how did the city survive this crisis? Journalist Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of Detroit's decline and the people who fought to save it against impossible odds: Governor Rick Snyder, a self-proclaimed nerd; emergency manager Kevyn Orr, a lawyer with singular dedication; Judge Steven Rhodes, the city's conscience; and retirees who fought to ensure that Detroit kept its promises.
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Detroit Resurrected
- To Bankruptcy and Back
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
- Date de publication: 2016-04-25
- Langue: Anglais
- Journalist Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of Detroit's decline and the people who fought to save it against impossible odds....
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Strongmen
- Mussolini to the Present
- Auteur(s): Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Narrateur(s): Chloe Cannon
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
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My attention was captured by this fascinating book
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-12-19
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Strongmen
- Mussolini to the Present
- Narrateur(s): Chloe Cannon
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2020-11-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- Auteur(s): Mark Fisher
- Narrateur(s): Tom Lawrence
- Durée: 4 h et 10 min
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework.
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- Narrateur(s): Tom Lawrence
- Durée: 4 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2024-01-04
- Langue: Anglais
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....
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Whistleblowers
- Honesty in America from Washington to Trump
- Auteur(s): Allison Stanger
- Narrateur(s): Kate Mulligan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service - yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America.
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Whistleblowers
- Honesty in America from Washington to Trump
- Narrateur(s): Kate Mulligan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2019-09-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service - yet they always suffer for it....
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Small Wars, Big Data
- The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
- Auteur(s): Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 13 h et 53 min
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Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.
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Small Wars, Big Data
- The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 13 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2018-07-10
- Langue: Anglais
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Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population....
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Crossroads of Freedom
- Antietam
- Auteur(s): James M. McPherson
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
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Through historical newspaper accounts and the personal letters of soldiers, the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself are stunningly recreated. You will enter the mind of Robert E. Lee as he makes the fateful decision to cross the Potomac River and take the offensive. You will feel the frustration of Abraham Lincoln as he struggles to convince George McClellan to fight. And you will stand side-by-side with foot soldiers as the peaceful Maryland countryside explodes.
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Crossroads of Freedom
- Antietam
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 5 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2003-12-12
- Langue: Anglais
- Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....
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Under This Roof
- The White House and the Presidency - 21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories
- Auteur(s): Paul Brandus
- Narrateur(s): Tom Zingarelli
- Durée: 7 h et 42 min
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In Under This Roof, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus weaves together stories of the presidents, their families, the events of their time, and an oft-ignored major character, the White House itself. From George Washington to the current occupant, Barack Obama - the story of the White House is the story of America itself, Brandus writes.
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Under This Roof
- The White House and the Presidency - 21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories
- Narrateur(s): Tom Zingarelli
- Durée: 7 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2015-09-01
- Langue: Anglais
- In Under This Roof, award-winning White House journalist Paul Brandus weaves together stories of the presidents, their families, the events of their time....
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The Patriots
- Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
- Auteur(s): Winston Groom
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
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In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the tale of our nation's most fascinating founding fathers - Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams - painting a vivid picture of the improbable events, bold ideas, and extraordinary characters who created the United States of America.
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The Patriots
- Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2020-11-03
- Langue: Anglais
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In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the tale of our nation's most fascinating founding fathers, painting a vivid picture of the improbable events, bold ideas, and extraordinary characters who created the United States of America....
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Dark Money
- The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Auteur(s): Jane Mayer
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 16 h et 54 min
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the rise of a broad-based conservative movement.
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Eye opening
- Écrit par Satchmo Coltrane le 2017-12-28
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Dark Money
- The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
- Durée: 16 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2016-01-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Jane Mayer traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy....
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- Auteur(s): Sebastian Edwards
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.
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American Default
- The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
- Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2018-07-18
- Langue: Anglais
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The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold....
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Eyes on the Prize
- America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
- Auteur(s): Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
- Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
- Durée: 11 h et 5 min
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From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first decade of the civil rights movement are a tribute to the people, black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and the struggle they endured.
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Eyes on the Prize
- America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
- Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
- Durée: 11 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2018-07-03
- Langue: Anglais
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From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- Auteur(s): Catherine Belton
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 18 h et 12 min
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe.
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Read the printed book.
- Écrit par fishface42 le 2021-08-31
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- Narrateur(s): Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Durée: 18 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2020-06-23
- Langue: Anglais
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country....
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John Adams: A Life
- Auteur(s): John Ferling
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 20 h et 45 min
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In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. Bringing to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. this book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.
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John Adams: A Life
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 20 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2018-11-13
- Langue: Anglais
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John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....
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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
- Auteur(s): Mattias Desmet
- Narrateur(s): Dan Crue
- Durée: 7 h et 53 min
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Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold. By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”—a type of collective hypnosis—he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.
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Powerfully informative and inspiring of hope.
- Écrit par Pyper Weiss le 2022-10-10
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The Psychology of Totalitarianism
- Narrateur(s): Dan Crue
- Durée: 7 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2022-06-16
- Langue: Anglais
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Totalitarianism is not a coincidence and does not form in a vacuum. It arises from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script throughout history. Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold....
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