Political History

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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • Auteur(s): Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrateur(s): Susan Ericksen
    • Durée: 20 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
    • Auteur(s): Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 20 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
    • Auteur(s): David K. Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stemmed less from his wild charges about communists than his more substantiated claims that "sex perverts" had infiltrated government agencies....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • Auteur(s): Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Blaney
    • Durée: 14 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 474 évaluations
    • Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
    • Auteur(s): Corey Robin
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • Corey Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrateur(s): Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Durée: 8 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-08-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

    Prix courant: 27,72 $

    • An Ethico-Political Bind
    • Auteur(s): Judith Butler
    • Narrateur(s): Coleen Marlo
    • Durée: 5 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • A Modern History
    • Auteur(s): Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 19 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal....

    Prix courant: 28,03 $

    • An Oral History
    • Auteur(s): Russell L. Riley
    • Narrateur(s): David Drummond
    • Durée: 18 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Inside the Clinton White House offers an intimate perspective on these questions and many more, granting listeners unprecedented access to the sensitive Oval Office banter that changed the course of history....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • Auteur(s): Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 17 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 évaluations
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

    Prix courant: 27,97 $

    • Auteur(s): Paul Kengor
    • Narrateur(s): John McLain
    • Durée: 11 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 évaluations
    • The worst idea in history is back! Communism has wrecked national economies, enslaved whole peoples, and killed more than a hundred million men and women....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • In His Own Words
    • Auteur(s): Alex Moore
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Hellegers
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From revolutionary to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world's most controversial leaders and perhaps its most enduring....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • Auteur(s): Jieun Baek
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline McLaughlin
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
    • Auteur(s): Eric Foner
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
    • Durée: 7 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • Auteur(s): David Aaronovitch
    • Narrateur(s): James Langton
    • Durée: 14 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

    Prix courant: 24,49 $

    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • Auteur(s): P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 11 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • Auteur(s): Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrateur(s): Traci Odom
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro
    • Auteur(s): Joan Mellen
    • Narrateur(s): Katina Kalin
    • Durée: 12 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the '50s and '60s....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • Auteur(s): Frédéric Bastiat
    • Narrateur(s): Bernard Mayes
    • Durée: 2 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • First published as a pamphlet in 1850 in response to the socialist-communist plans and ideas being adopted in France at that time, The Law remains equally relevant today....

    Prix courant: 8,73 $

    • Auteur(s): John Ferling
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $