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The Fed and Lehman Brothers
- Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster
- Auteur(s): Laurence M. Ball
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
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The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been heated debate about why the Federal Reserve did not rescue Lehman in the same way it rescued other financial institutions, such as Bear Stearns and AIG. The Fed's leaders from that time, especially former Chairman Ben Bernanke, have strongly asserted that they lacked the legal authority to save Lehman because it did not have adequate collateral for the loan it needed to survive.
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interesting at times, but not helpful
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-08-31
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The Fed and Lehman Brothers
- Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2020-03-31
- Langue: Anglais
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The compelling story of the Lehman Brothers collapse will interest anyone who cares about what caused the financial crisis, whether the leaders of the Federal Reserve have given accurate accounts of their actions, and how the Fed can prevent future financial disasters....
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
- Auteur(s): Robert Kuttner
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
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Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity - between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. A global financial system was devised explicitly to allow nations to manage capitalism. Yet this golden era turned out to be lightning in a bottle. From the 1970s on, a power shift occurred, in which financial regulations were rolled back, taxes were cut, inequality worsened, and disheartened voters turned to far-right faux populism. Can democracy find a way to survive?
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2018-04-23
- Langue: Anglais
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Is today's poisonous alliance of reckless finance and ultra-nationalism inevitable? Or can democracy find a way to survive? Find out more....
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Cobalt
- Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
- Auteur(s): Charlie Angus
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
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The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history.
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A must read for anyone interested in the history and future of mining in Northern Ontario
- Écrit par Andrew G. Chisholm le 2023-07-05
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Cobalt
- Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2022-12-13
- Langue: Anglais
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The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history....
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Black Hearts
- One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
- Auteur(s): Jim Frederick
- Narrateur(s): Corey Snow
- Durée: 12 h et 14 min
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This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.
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Black Hearts
- One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
- Narrateur(s): Corey Snow
- Durée: 12 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2013-03-25
- Langue: Anglais
- This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade....
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Fake Politics
- How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
- Auteur(s): Jason Bisnoff
- Narrateur(s): Brian Sutherland
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.
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Fake Politics
- How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
- Narrateur(s): Brian Sutherland
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-21
- Langue: Anglais
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In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- Auteur(s): Patricia Crisafulli, Andrea Redmond
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 7 h et 19 min
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Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again - this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership.
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Rwanda, Inc.
- How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World
- Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
- Durée: 7 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2012-12-24
- Langue: Anglais
- Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround....
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The Economics of Inequality
- Auteur(s): Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
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Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.
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The Economics of Inequality
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2015-09-22
- Langue: Anglais
- The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of contemporary economics....
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To the Brink and Back
- India's 1991 Story
- Auteur(s): Jairam Ramesh
- Narrateur(s): Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Durée: 8 h et 36 min
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In 1991 India faced its 'Greece moment': an unprecedented financial crisis against the backdrop of political uncertainty and crumbling investor confidence. On 21 June 1991, P. V. Narasimha Rao became prime minister and appointed Dr Manmohan Singh as finance minister. In less than 35 days, the Rao-Singh duo ushered in momentous changes in economic policy - those that transformed the country.
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To the Brink and Back
- India's 1991 Story
- Narrateur(s): Sanjiv Jhaveri
- Durée: 8 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2017-01-01
- Langue: Anglais
- In 1991 India faced its 'Greece moment': an unprecedented financial crisis against the backdrop of political uncertainty and crumbling investor confidence....
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The Patch
- The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
- Auteur(s): Chris Turner
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
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Best-selling author Chris Turner brings listeners onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands of Alberta impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch? This is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the life cycle of the Patch, showing just how deeply it continues to impact the lives of everyone around the world.
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Probably one of the only books on the topic
- Écrit par maxwell le 2019-03-07
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The Patch
- The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2017-09-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Best-selling author Chris Turner brings listeners onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands of Alberta impact the lives of everyone around the world....
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Atoms and Ashes
- A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
- Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 12 h et 8 min
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Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.
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Atoms and Ashes
- A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 12 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2022-05-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....
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A Bright Shining Lie
- John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Neil Sheehan
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 35 h et 47 min
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time - the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won.
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Best account of the war in Vietnam
- Écrit par Robert Sischy le 2021-01-13
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A Bright Shining Lie
- John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 35 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2009-08-11
- Langue: Anglais
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One of the most acclaimed books of our time - the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award....
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America: The Farewell Tour
- Auteur(s): Chris Hedges
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 14 h et 17 min
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In an astonishing, tough firsthand reportage, Chris Hedges draws on stories from inside communities across America and reveals how the hurricanes of change have allowed an array of pathologies to arise: the opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling, the corporate coup d'état of government, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the emboldening of violence and hate, the plagues of suicides, and the global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change.
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- Écrit par Ericson le 2019-09-03
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America: The Farewell Tour
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 14 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-21
- Langue: Anglais
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The globally renowned Pulitzer Prize winner gives us an entirely new view of a nation in crisis in a stunning book that holds both liberals and conservatives to account - as rousingly pertinent for Canada as for the disoriented US....
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- Auteur(s): Scott J. Shapiro
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
- Durée: 15 h et 9 min
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It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws on his popular Yale University class about hacking to expose the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society.
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not the best
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-05-08
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
- The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
- Durée: 15 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2023-05-23
- Langue: Anglais
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An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it....
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Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet)
- Auteur(s): Charles Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Tim Lundeen
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the differences among modernities, Taylor sets out his idea of the social imaginary, a broad understanding of the way a given people imagine their collective social life. Retelling the history of Western modernity, Taylor traces the development of a distinct social imaginary.
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Modern Social Imaginaries (Public Planet)
- Narrateur(s): Tim Lundeen
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2013-07-08
- Langue: Anglais
- In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities....
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- Auteur(s): Mehrsa Baradaran
- Narrateur(s): Priya Ayyar
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
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The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities - all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s.
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How the Other Half Banks
- Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
- Narrateur(s): Priya Ayyar
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2016-08-31
- Langue: Anglais
- The United States has two separate banking systems today - one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else....
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The Daughters of Kobani
- A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
- Auteur(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Narrateur(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
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In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States.
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WOW!
- Écrit par Helen le 2021-03-13
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The Daughters of Kobani
- A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
- Narrateur(s): Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2021-02-16
- Langue: Anglais
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In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani....
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An Inconvenient Truth
- The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
- Auteur(s): Al Gore
- Narrateur(s): Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood
- Durée: 3 h et 57 min
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"The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency....[I]nconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish; it grows." -Al Gore
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Worst book ever;I want a refund
- Écrit par ROLF LYSTER le 2024-05-08
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An Inconvenient Truth
- The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
- Narrateur(s): Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood
- Série: An Inconvenient Truth (abridged), Livre 1
- Durée: 3 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2008-05-13
- Langue: Anglais
- "The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly....
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Fiasco
- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- Auteur(s): Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrateur(s): James Lurie
- Durée: 10 h et 15 min
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The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.
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Fiasco
- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- Narrateur(s): James Lurie
- Durée: 10 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2006-07-25
- Langue: Anglais
- Fiasco is a masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants....
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The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- Auteur(s): Benn Steil
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 16 h et 34 min
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events.
Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s thrilling account brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, we see and understand like never before Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe.
Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. The Marshall Plan provides critical context into understanding today’s international landscape. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.-
The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 16 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2018-02-13
- Langue: Anglais
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today....
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Austerity
- The History of a Dangerous Idea
- Auteur(s): Mark Blyth
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
- Durée: 11 h et 2 min
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Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts - austerity - to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system.
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Austerity
- The History of a Dangerous Idea
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
- Durée: 11 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2014-02-04
- Langue: Anglais
- Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse....
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