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Creating the Constitution: 1787
- The Drama of American History
- Auteur(s): James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
- Narrateur(s): Jim Manchester
- Durée: 1 h et 53 min
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Using a narrative format, Creating the Constitution details the events leading up to the writing of the US Constitution and what American leaders went through to create it. The authors describe the conflicts between the new states and the delegates each sent to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the work that was done to resolve the many issues at hand.
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Creating the Constitution: 1787
- The Drama of American History
- Narrateur(s): Jim Manchester
- Durée: 1 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2013-06-14
- Langue: Anglais
- Using a narrative format, Creating the Constitution details the events leading up to the writing of the US Constitution and what American leaders went through to create it....
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How to Feed a Dictator
- Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
- Auteur(s): Witold Szablowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator
- Narrateur(s): Michael Crouch, Peter Francis James, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Durée: 8 h et 13 min
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What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow? Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories.
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How to Feed a Dictator
- Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
- Narrateur(s): Michael Crouch, Peter Francis James, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Durée: 8 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the 20th century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears....
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All the Presidents' Bankers
- The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
- Auteur(s): Nomi Prins
- Narrateur(s): Marguerite Gavin
- Durée: 19 h et 56 min
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Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation.
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All the Presidents' Bankers
- The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
- Narrateur(s): Marguerite Gavin
- Durée: 19 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2014-06-11
- Langue: Anglais
- Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street....
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
- Auteur(s): Fred D. Gray
- Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
- Durée: 5 h et 6 min
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In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years - even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis - these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.
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Such an important listen!
- Écrit par M. Bujold le 2024-05-16
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
- Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
- Durée: 5 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2021-01-26
- Langue: Anglais
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In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....
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Age of Secrets
- The Conspiracy That Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes
- Auteur(s): Gerald Bellett
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
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An acclaimed nonfiction international political thriller exposing the real reason for Watergate, the hidden death of Howard Hughes, and the illicit activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the CIA’s worldwide pursuit of John Meier trying to expose it all, including revealing information on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and critical comments by New York Times best-selling author Jim Hougan.
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This was like listening to a film about it
- Écrit par Book Reader 78 le 2023-11-12
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Age of Secrets
- The Conspiracy That Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2023-09-21
- Langue: Anglais
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Howard Hughes supplied the CIA with a cover organization to hide anything they possess or do. When Meier opted out of the organization, he became an impediment to its continued existence....
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
- Narrateur(s): Richard McGonagle
- Durée: 17 h et 16 min
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- Narrateur(s): Richard McGonagle
- Durée: 17 h et 16 min
- Date de publication: 2008-11-11
- Langue: Anglais
- Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....
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The Power Worshippers
- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
- Auteur(s): Katherine Stewart
- Narrateur(s): Tosca Hopkins
- Durée: 11 h et 26 min
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For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America’s religious nationalists aren’t just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy.
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I didn’t know what I didn’t know…
- Écrit par Paul J. Lane le 2024-03-04
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The Power Worshippers
- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
- Narrateur(s): Tosca Hopkins
- Durée: 11 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2020-03-03
- Langue: Anglais
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For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....
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Team of Vipers
- My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
- Auteur(s): Cliff Sims
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Thomas May, Cliff Sims - introduction
- Durée: 14 h et 19 min
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After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as special assistant to the president and director of White House message strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the president’s inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. This is the story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the president’s team. It's a story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself.
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Awful
- Écrit par Kathy le 2019-02-07
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Team of Vipers
- My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
- Narrateur(s): Daniel Thomas May, Cliff Sims - introduction
- Durée: 14 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2019-01-29
- Langue: Anglais
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The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration, Team of Vipers tells the full story, as only a true insider could....
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Report from Ground Zero
- Auteur(s): Dennis Smith
- Narrateur(s): Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.
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A real inside look at the heart of ground zero.
- Écrit par Mike le 2020-09-09
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Report from Ground Zero
- Narrateur(s): Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2007-02-21
- Langue: Anglais
- Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....
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The Hardest Job in the World
- The American Presidency
- Auteur(s): John Dickerson
- Narrateur(s): John Dickerson
- Durée: 15 h et 44 min
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The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened, misunderstood, almost impossible to do. “The problems in the job unfolded before Donald Trump was elected, and the challenges of governing today will confront his successors”, writes John Dickerson. After all, the founders never intended for our system of checks and balances to have one superior Chief Magistrate, with Congress demoted to “the little brother who can’t keep up”.
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The Hardest Job in the World
- The American Presidency
- Narrateur(s): John Dickerson
- Durée: 15 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2020-06-16
- Langue: Anglais
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From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and current state of the American presidency - and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive....
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- Auteur(s): David Treuer
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau
- Durée: 17 h et 44 min
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The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau
- Durée: 17 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2019-01-22
- Langue: Anglais
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A sweeping history - and counter-narrative - of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present....
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- Auteur(s): Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrateur(s): Brian Nishii
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America’s “War on Terror,” and now playing out in alarming ways on China’s remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China’s leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI.
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- Narrateur(s): Brian Nishii
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2022-09-06
- Langue: Anglais
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data....
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Shadow State
- Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West
- Auteur(s): Luke Harding
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
- Durée: 12 h et 47 min
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Moscow’s support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election has grown into the biggest political scandal of modern times. Its American players are well-known. In Shadow State, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Luke Harding reveals the Russians behind the story: the spies, hackers, and internet trolls. Harding charts how the Kremlin has updated Communist-era methods of influence and propaganda for the age of Facebook and Twitter, and considers the compelling question of our age: what exactly does Vladimir Putin have on President Trump?
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Shadow State
- Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Guy Smith
- Durée: 12 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2020-06-30
- Langue: Anglais
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A thrilling account of how Russia is waging a hidden war against America and the West, using espionage, corruption, fake news, and KGB-style murder....
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De la démocratie en Amérique 1
- Auteur(s): Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrateur(s): Philippe Lebeau
- Durée: 17 h et 34 min
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Tocqueville n'est pas seulement un analyste politique exceptionnel, c'est aussi un philosophe politique qui aide à comprendre les problèmes se posant dans les démocraties modernes. L'égalité des conditions, l'individualisme, le despotisme démocratique, les relations entre maîtres et serviteurs, l'esprit de liberté et l'esprit de religion, autant de notions qui dessinent aujourd'hui encore les contours d'une philosophie de la démocratie.
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De la démocratie en Amérique 1
- Narrateur(s): Philippe Lebeau
- Durée: 17 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2020-11-24
- Langue: Français
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Tocqueville n'est pas seulement un analyste politique exceptionnel, c'est aussi un philosophe politique qui aide à comprendre le...
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Cain
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 8 h et 30 min
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A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment - the definitive police state - and the global technology giants that made it possible.
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Dishonest, Oversimplified, and badly written
- Écrit par youcef diafat le 2023-07-13
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 8 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2021-06-29
- Langue: Anglais
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A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment - the definitive police state - and the global technology giants that made it possible....
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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
- Auteur(s): Randall Balmer
- Narrateur(s): Trevor Thompson
- Durée: 1 h et 58 min
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There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: With righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn’t true.
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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
- Narrateur(s): Trevor Thompson
- Durée: 1 h et 58 min
- Date de publication: 2021-08-10
- Langue: Anglais
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There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: With righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion....
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Stalin
- The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- Auteur(s): Edvard Radzinsky
- Narrateur(s): David McCallum
- Durée: 6 h et 17 min
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The Kremlin intrigues, the private worlds of the Soviet Empire's ruling class, Radzinsky thrillingly brings them to life. And the riddle of that most cold-blooded of leaders, a man for whom nothing was sacred in his pursuit of absolute might, and perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history, is solved.
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This is explanation why Socialism is evil
- Écrit par igor le 2018-09-12
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Stalin
- The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
- Narrateur(s): David McCallum
- Durée: 6 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 1999-04-08
- Langue: Anglais
- Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain...
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The Other Slavery
- The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Auteur(s): Andrés Reséndez
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 12 h et 38 min
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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of 18th-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos.
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The Other Slavery
- The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 12 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2016-11-04
- Langue: Anglais
- A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century....
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Our Last Best Chance
- The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
- Auteur(s): King Abdullah II of Jordan
- Narrateur(s): Nadim Sawalha
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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A news-breaking memoir revealing the secret, high level negotiations that could soon transform the map of the Middle East. Why would a sitting head of state choose to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize is enormous; the cost of failure far greater than we dare imagine.
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Our Last Best Chance
- The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
- Narrateur(s): Nadim Sawalha
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
- Date de publication: 2011-03-22
- Langue: Anglais
- A news-breaking memoir revealing the secret, high level negotiations that could soon transform the map of the Middle East....
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You Call This Democracy?
- How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Rusch
- Narrateur(s): Christina Moore
- Durée: 5 h et 51 min
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The political landscape has never been so tumultuous: issues with the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a lack of representation in the polls and in our leadership have led to Americans of all ages asking, How did we get here? The power to change lies with the citizens of this great country - especially teens! Rather than pointing fingers at people and political parties, You Call This Democracy? looks at flaws in the system - and offers a real way out of the mess we are in.
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You Call This Democracy?
- How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
- Narrateur(s): Christina Moore
- Durée: 5 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2020-03-31
- Langue: Anglais
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America is the greatest democracy in the world...isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them....
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