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The Story of China
- The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
- Auteur(s): Michael Wood
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 20 h et 18 min
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Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.
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The Story of China
- The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 20 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2022-06-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- Auteur(s): Deb Chachra
- Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur
- Durée: 11 h et 25 min
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A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.
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Disappointed
- Écrit par CB le 2023-10-22
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- Narrateur(s): Kathe Mazur
- Durée: 11 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2023-10-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....
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The Art of War
- Auteur(s): Sun Tzu
- Narrateur(s): Seth Thompson
- Durée: 6 h et 35 min
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Enjoy this InAudio unabridged presentation of The Art of War, a fresh new audiobook of the classic military philosophy book. Whether you’re looking to conquer your enemies or fight business battles, The Art of War is a time-tested and influential classic for gaining competitive advantage.
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The Art of War
- Narrateur(s): Seth Thompson
- Durée: 6 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-01
- Langue: Anglais
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Whether you’re looking to conquer your enemies or fight business battles, The Art of War is a time-tested and influential classic for gaining competitive advantage....
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No Mission Is Impossible
- The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
- Auteur(s): Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
- Narrateur(s): Assaf Cohen
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
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In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal return with the intensely absorbing, fast-paced story of 30 of the boldest missions of the Israeli special forces. Bar-Zohar and Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and death-defying commando missions while also sharing the personal stories of both soldiers and top commanders, revealing their hopes and fears. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes they're of immense failures.
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No Mission Is Impossible
- The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
- Narrateur(s): Assaf Cohen
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2015-10-06
- Langue: Anglais
- No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli special forces....
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- Auteur(s): Angela Stent
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
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Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed.
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
- Date de publication: 2019-02-26
- Langue: Anglais
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In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....
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Danger Zone
- The Coming Conflict with China
- Auteur(s): Hal Brands, Michael Beckley
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Wu
- Durée: 8 h et 26 min
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The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real.
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China bad West good
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-07-22
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Danger Zone
- The Coming Conflict with China
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Wu
- Durée: 8 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2022-08-16
- Langue: Anglais
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The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century....
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A Short History of Russia
- How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
- Auteur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Narrateur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
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Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it has been subject to invasion by outsiders, from Vikings to Mongols, from Napoleon’s French to Hitler’s Germans. In order to forge an identity, it has mythologized its past to unite its people and to signal strength to outsiders. In A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, desperate, and exasperating country.
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Encompassing yet succinct
- Écrit par DJDQ le 2023-03-07
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A Short History of Russia
- How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
- Narrateur(s): Mark Galeotti
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-07
- Langue: Anglais
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Russia’s epic and dramatic history told in an accessible, lively and short form, from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin via Catherine the Great, the Russian Revolution and the fall of the USSR....
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China's Great Wall of Debt
- Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
- Auteur(s): Dinny McMahon
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Jackson
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
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Over the course of a decade spent reporting on the ground in China as a financial journalist, Dinny McMahon gradually came to the conclusion that the widely held belief in China’s inevitable economic ascent is dangerously wrong. Debt, entrenched vested interests, a frenzy of speculation, and an aging population are all pushing China toward an economic reckoning. China’s Great Wall of Debt unravels an incredibly complex and opaque economy, one whose fortunes - for better or worse - will shape the globe like never before.
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China's Great Wall of Debt
- Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
- Narrateur(s): Jamie Jackson
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2018-03-15
- Langue: Anglais
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A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world’s second largest economy have started to crumble....
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Auteur(s): Michela Wrong
- Narrateur(s): Michela Wrong
- Durée: 18 h et 2 min
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We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister.
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Do Not Disturb
- The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
- Narrateur(s): Michela Wrong
- Durée: 18 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2021-03-30
- Langue: Anglais
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A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the 20th century....
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Beijing Rules
- How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
- Auteur(s): Bethany Allen
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 12 h et 14 min
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An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its influence worldwide.
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Beijing Rules
- How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 12 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2023-08-01
- Langue: Anglais
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Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance....
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The Bridge
- Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
- Auteur(s): Thane Gustafson
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 18 h et 5 min
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Two opposing narratives vie to explain the strategic future of Europe, one geopolitical and one economic, and both center on the same resource: natural gas. In The Bridge, Thane Gustafson, an expert on Russian oil and gas, argues that the political rivalries that capture the lion's share of media attention must be viewed alongside multiple business interests and differences in economic ideologies. With a dense network of pipelines linking Europe and Russia, natural gas serves as a bridge that unites the region through common interests.
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The Bridge
- Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 18 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-31
- Langue: Anglais
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Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet empire, the West faces a new era of East-West tensions. Any vision of a modern Russia integrated into the world economy and aligned in peaceful partnership with a reunited Europe has abruptly vanished....
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Russia Without Putin
- Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
- Auteur(s): Tony Wood
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
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It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the centre of attention for detractors and supporters alike. But as Tony Wood argues, this overwhelming focus on the president and his personality means that we understand Russia less than we ever did before.
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Russia Without Putin
- Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2018-11-13
- Langue: Anglais
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It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent....
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Getting to Maybe
- How the World Is Changed
- Auteur(s): Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina, or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. But extraordinary leaders such as Gandhi and even unlikely social activists such as Bob Geldof most often see themselves as harnessing the forces around them, rather than singlehandedly setting those forces in motion.
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Great Information
- Écrit par Malissa le 2023-05-17
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Getting to Maybe
- How the World Is Changed
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-14
- Langue: Anglais
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Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help....
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Auteur(s): Howard W. French
- Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
- Durée: 16 h et 49 min
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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Excellent Overview
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-05-22
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
- Durée: 16 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2022-04-12
- Langue: Anglais
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Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....
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The Khalistan Conspiracy
- A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984
- Auteur(s): G.B.S. Sidhu
- Narrateur(s): Adwait Karambelkar
- Durée: 9 h et 2 min
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The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement, Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the anti-Sikh violence unleashed thereafter. With a timeline that moves from seven years before to a decade after 1984, the book strives to answer critical questions that continue to linger till today.
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Amazing Read!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-04-23
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The Khalistan Conspiracy
- A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984
- Narrateur(s): Adwait Karambelkar
- Durée: 9 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2022-09-21
- Langue: Anglais
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The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement.
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
- Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
- Auteur(s): William Neuman
- Narrateur(s): Michael Manuel
- Durée: 11 h et 46 min
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Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis—a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty. In the same land where oil—the largest reserve in the world—sits so close to the surface that it bubbles from the ground, where gold and other mineral resources are abundant, and where the government spends billions of dollars on public works projects that go abandoned, the supermarket shelves are bare and the hospitals have no medicine.
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Outstanding
- Écrit par Robert Burns le 2023-03-13
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
- Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
- Narrateur(s): Michael Manuel
- Durée: 11 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2022-03-15
- Langue: Anglais
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Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis—a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty.
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- Auteur(s): Giles Milton
- Narrateur(s): Giles Milton
- Durée: 11 h et 19 min
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Enter Averell Harriman: a railroad magnate and, at the start of the war, the fourth-richest man in America. At Roosevelt’s behest, he traveled to Britain to serve as a liaison between the president and Churchill and to spearhead what became known as the Harriman Mission. Together with his fashionable young daughter Kathy, an unforgettable cast of British diplomats, and Churchill himself, he would eventually manage to wrangle Stalin into the partnership the Allies needed to defeat Hitler.
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The Stalin Affair
- The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
- Narrateur(s): Giles Milton
- Durée: 11 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2024-09-03
- Langue: Anglais
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From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.
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Weak Strongman
- The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia
- Auteur(s): Timothy Frye
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 8 h et 27 min
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Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies - and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy.
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Weak Strongman
- The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 8 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2021-04-06
- Langue: Anglais
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Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy....
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John Turner
- An Intimate Biography of Canada's 17th Prime Minister
- Auteur(s): Steve Paikin
- Narrateur(s): Steve Paikin
- Durée: 12 h et 6 min
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In this masterful and engaging biography, acclaimed journalist Steve Paikin brings to life John Turner (1929-2020), one of the most glamorous and successful politicians in Canadian history.
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John Turner
- An Intimate Biography of Canada's 17th Prime Minister
- Narrateur(s): Steve Paikin
- Durée: 12 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2022-12-29
- Langue: Anglais
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In this masterful and engaging biography, acclaimed journalist Steve Paikin brings to life John Turner (1929-2020), one of the most glamorous and successful politicians in Canadian history....
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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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