Political History
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Alter Egos
- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle over American Power
- Auteur(s): Mark Landler
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp, Mark Landler
- Durée: 14 h et 5 min
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New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler takes us behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches, where Obama and Clinton honed their two competing worldviews: his, cautious, inward-looking, suffused with a sense of limits; hers, muscular, optimistic, unabashedly old-fashioned.
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Alter Egos
- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle over American Power
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp, Mark Landler
- Durée: 14 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2016-04-26
- Langue: Anglais
- New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler takes us behind the speeches and press conferences, to the Situation Room debates and picnic-table lunches....
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Patton
- The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
- Auteur(s): Martin Blumenson
- Narrateur(s): William Lavelle
- Durée: 8 h et 27 min
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This detailed and persuasive study by the author of The Patton Papers was described by Patton's daughter Ruth as "an extraordinary book". It is widely considered the best biography ever written of the General, an American hero as compelling as he was complex.
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Great book. We researched.
- Écrit par Canadian le 2021-06-02
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Patton
- The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
- Narrateur(s): William Lavelle
- Durée: 8 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 1999-12-15
- Langue: Anglais
- In paying final tribute to his Third Army commander, General Eisenhower said: "He was one of those..."
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Consequences of Capitalism
- Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
- Auteur(s): Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 14 h et 10 min
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How do politics shape our world, our lives, and our perceptions? How much of “common sense” is actually driven by the ruling class’ needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet? Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen, connections between neoliberal “common sense” and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.
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Disconnected Fear Mongering
- Écrit par AdamGoodwin le 2022-05-30
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Consequences of Capitalism
- Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 14 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2021-01-05
- Langue: Anglais
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Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society....
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The Wealth of a Nation
- A History of Trade Politics in America
- Auteur(s): C. Donald Johnson
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 27 h et 6 min
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Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era.
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The Wealth of a Nation
- A History of Trade Politics in America
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 27 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2019-02-05
- Langue: Anglais
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Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era....
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Radicalized
- New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
- Auteur(s): Peter R. Neumann, Alexander Starritt - translator
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
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The 2015 Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq that shows the possibility of foreign attackers working with citizens of the country. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a training and operations base for a new generation of jihadis.
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Radicalized
- New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2016-12-30
- Langue: Anglais
- Peter R. Neumann explains the phenomenon of the "new jihadis" and why the threat of terrorism and ISIS in the West is greater than ever before....
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Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive
- And the Truth That Sets Us Free
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Walton
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Walton
- Durée: 7 h et 8 min
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The proclaimed hope of America rings most hollow for Native peoples, people of color, the rural poor, and other communities pressed to the margins. Author Jonathan Walton exposes the cultural myths and misconceptions about America's identity. Focusing on its manipulation of Scripture and the person of Jesus, he redirects us to the true promises found in the gospel. Walton identifies how American ideology and way of life has become a false religion and reveals that orienting our lives around American nationalism is idolatry.
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Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive
- And the Truth That Sets Us Free
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Walton
- Durée: 7 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2019-01-08
- Langue: Anglais
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Author Jonathan Walton exposes the cultural myths and misconceptions about America's identity. Focusing on its manipulation of Scripture and the person of Jesus, he redirects us to the true promises found in the gospel....
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American Secession
- The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
- Auteur(s): F. H. Buckley
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 4 h et 55 min
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Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue - it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries. There's another reason why secession beckons, says F. H. Buckley: we're too big. In population and area, the United States is one of the biggest countries in the world, and American Secession provides data showing that smaller countries are happier and less corrupt.
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American Secession
- The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 4 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2020-05-12
- Langue: Anglais
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Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue - it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries....
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Reconstruction
- A Very Short Introduction
- Auteur(s): Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race relations after the abolition of slavery and rise of Jim Crow. Reconstruction also struggled to successfully manage the Southern resistance towards a Northern, free-labor pattern. But the failures cannot obscure a number of notable accomplishments, with decisive long-term consequences for American life.
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Reconstruction
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-23
- Langue: Anglais
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The Reconstruction era is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race relations after slavery was abolished....
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Mandela: An Audio History
- Commemorative Edition
- Auteur(s): Nelson Mandela
- Narrateur(s): Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman
- Durée: 1 h et 17 min
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The series weaves together more than 50 first-person interviews with an unprecedented collection of archival sound: a rare recording of the 1964 trial that resulted in Mandela's life sentence; a visit between Mandela and his family secretly taped by a prison guard; marching songs of guerilla soldiers; government propaganda films; and pirate radio broadcasts from the African National Congress (ANC).
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Mandela: An Audio History
- Commemorative Edition
- Narrateur(s): Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Joe Richman
- Durée: 1 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2014-02-05
- Langue: Anglais
- Ultimately, over 50 hours of archival recordings and many more hours of contemporary interviews with the living witnesses to South Africa's turbulent history....
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And Yet They Persisted
- How American Women Won the Right to Vote
- Auteur(s): Johanna Neuman
- Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
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In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power.
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And Yet They Persisted
- How American Women Won the Right to Vote
- Narrateur(s): Tanya Eby
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2021-01-26
- Langue: Anglais
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In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power....
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Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- Auteur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
- Durée: 17 h et 59 min
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The 1968 US presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America's shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different and how we got to where we are now.
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wow....just....wow
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-08-20
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Playing with Fire
- The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
- Durée: 17 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2017-11-07
- Langue: Anglais
- An important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today....
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The Beginning or the End
- How Hollywood - and America - Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Auteur(s): Greg Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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Greg Mitchell's The Beginning or the End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to process the Atomic Age. A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military.
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The Beginning or the End
- How Hollywood - and America - Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-07
- Langue: Anglais
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Greg Mitchell's The Beginning or the End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to process the Atomic Age....
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Heaven on Earth
- The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
- Auteur(s): Joshua Muravchik
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 16 h et 33 min
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Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.
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Heaven on Earth
- The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 16 h et 33 min
- Date de publication: 2019-07-24
- Langue: Anglais
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Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land....
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
- Narrateur(s): Elliot Hill
- Durée: 17 h et 22 min
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Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers, and field marshals. It's about states, armies, and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even history "from below" is often about trade unions and workers' parties. But what if that's simply because hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on? What if we are missing the informal, less well documented social networks that are the true sources of power and drivers of change?
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An amazing read
- Écrit par Serguei L. Primak le 2018-04-17
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The Square and the Tower
- Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Narrateur(s): Elliot Hill
- Durée: 17 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2018-01-16
- Langue: Anglais
- A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks....
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Churchill
- Auteur(s): Roy Jenkins
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 38 h et 18 min
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In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins' unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.
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Churchill
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 38 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2002-07-12
- Langue: Anglais
- Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...
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A Higher Loyalty
- Truth, Lies, and Leadership
- Auteur(s): James Comey
- Narrateur(s): James Comey
- Durée: 9 h et 13 min
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In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of powe, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
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Hear it from the man himself
- Écrit par Caledonia43 le 2018-04-18
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A Higher Loyalty
- Truth, Lies, and Leadership
- Narrateur(s): James Comey
- Durée: 9 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2018-04-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions....
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Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- Auteur(s): Rutger Bregman
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 6 h et 34 min
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Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history and beyond the traditional left-right divides as he champions ideas whose time has come.
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It takes a global village
- Écrit par Bruce M. Campbell le 2019-07-20
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Utopia for Realists
- How We Can Build the Ideal World
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 6 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2017-08-11
- Langue: Anglais
- Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today....
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
- Auteur(s): Neil M. Maher
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. With its lavishly funded mandate to send a man to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test in the 1960s culture wars.
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
- Date de publication: 2017-06-27
- Langue: Anglais
- The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival....
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The War on History
- The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
- Auteur(s): Jarrett Stepman
- Narrateur(s): Chris Abell
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
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America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history - the fundamental concepts, institutions, and icons that make our country what it is. And we have failed to protect our history, allowing Hollywood, educators, and the media to rewrite the story of America. We have ignored the invaluable lessons of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
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The War on History
- The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
- Narrateur(s): Chris Abell
- Durée: 7 h et 24 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-01
- Langue: Anglais
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America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history....
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Defeating ISIS
- Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
- Auteur(s): Malcolm Nance
- Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
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ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's view to explain the origins of this occult group, its violent propaganda, and how it spreads its ideology throughout the Middle East and to disaffected youth deep in the heart of the Western world.
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Defeating ISIS
- Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
- Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2017-04-11
- Langue: Anglais
- ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda....
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