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The Big Con
Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America
2008
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The scam of supply-side economics is clearly and convincingly explained in "a classic of political journalism" (Michael Lewis).Jonathan Chait has written for a range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, and considers himself a moderate. But he's convinced that American politics has been hijacked.Over the past three decades, a fringe group of economic hucksters has corrupted and perverted our nation's policies...
Audacity
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
2017
EN
The veteran political journalist presents "a compelling case that [Obama] was one of the most successful presidents of modern times" ( The Guardian ).Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking internat...
Audacity
How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
- Narrated by
- Mike Chamberlain
Unabridged
8 hours 58 min
2017
EN
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded health insurance to millions who previously could not afford it, negotiated an historic nuclear deal with Iran, helped craft a groundbreaking international climate accord, reined in Wa...
The Big Con
The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
Unabridged
9 hours 17 min
2007
EN
The Big Con is a brilliantly revealing look at how the radical ideas of a small group of economic hucksters have taken over the American political system and perverted our nation's policies.American politics has been hijacked. Not by "neocons" or "theocons," but by a fringe group of economic extremists obsessed with radical ideas that favor no one but themselves and their business interests. With dark and engaging wit, Jonathan Chait shows how over the past three decades t...
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Twilight of American Sanity
A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
- Narrated by
- Christopher Grove
Unabridged
12 hours 38 min
2017
EN
“Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment.” — Evan Osnos, The New YorkerA landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress that must be understood if we are to move forward. Equally challenging and profound, Twilight of American Sanity “joins a small ...
- Narrated by
- Dan Woren
Unabridged
6 hours 32 min
2017
EN
NATIONAL BESTSELLER**“Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of theyear.” —**The HillWhat arethe ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards oftruthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J.Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential outcomes, answersthese ques...
The Audacity of Inez Burns
Dreams, Desire, Treachery, and Ruin in the City of Gold
- Narrated by
- Peter Berkrot
Unabridged
13 hours 9 min
2018
EN
San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit.Inez Burns was different. She put everyone to shame with her dazzling, calculated, stone-cold ambition.Born in the slums of San Francisc...
The Airmen and the Headhunters
A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
- Narrated by
- Susan Ericksen
Unabridged
8 hours 58 min
2007
EN
November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet—and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? ...
Rogue Justice
The Making of the Security State
- Narrated by
- Rebecca Mitchell
Unabridged
8 hours 24 min
2016
EN
The definitive account of how America's War on Terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security. The day after September 11, President Bush tasked the Attorney General with preventing another terrorist attack on the United States. From that day forward, the Bush administration turned to the Department of Justice to give its imprimatur to activities that had previously been unthinkable-from the NSA's spying o...
God's Jury
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by
- Robertson Dean
Unabridged
9 hours 40 min
2012
EN
The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826—the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one fo...
The Black Presidency
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
- Narrated by
- Michael Eric Dyson
Unabridged
9 hours 58 min
2016
EN
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice**“A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.”—**SalonMichael Eric Dyson dives deep into the true meaning of Barack Obama’s historic presidency and its effects on the changing landscape of race and blackness in America. How has race shaped Obama’s identity, career, and presidency? What can we learn from his maj...
- Narrated by
- Chris Hayes
Unabridged
5 hours
2017
EN
New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure—wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation—reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first “law and order” president.With the clarity and originality that distinguishe...











