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To Obama
- With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
- By: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Every day, President Obama received 10,000 letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read 10 of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation. They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, with anger, fear and respect. To Obama is an intimate look at one man's relationship with the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
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Wonderful insight into the world of a great man
- By Miss Sacha A Ferreira on 29-10-18
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To Obama
- With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
- Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
- By: William Davies
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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What just happened, and how did we get into this mess? Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making. This is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the way, there have been shocking and exhilarating events: the unforeseen 2017 election result, the horrific details of Grenfell Tower and the Windrush scandal, the sudden rise and fall of the Brexit Party.
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This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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American Discontent
- The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age
- By: John L. Campbell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's success by focusing on the long-developing economic, racial, ideological, and political shifts that enabled Trump to win the White House. Campbell argues that Trump's rise to power was the culmination of a half-century of deep, slow-moving change in America.
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Trump's Presidency Defined at it's Scholarly Best.
- By Fraser on 26-04-24
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American Discontent
- The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate.
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 05-07-16
- Language: English
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If Mayors Ruled the World
- Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
- By: Benjamin Barber
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed.
The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes.
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Inspiring read!
- By Anonymous on 15-05-19
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If Mayors Ruled the World
- Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-02-14
- Language: English
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Fighting Misinformation
- Digital Media Literacy
- By: Tara Susman-Peña, Mehri Druckman, Nina Oduro, and others
- Narrated by: Tara Susman-Peña
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Because we are continuously taking in information from a variety of sources, we are under constant threat from those who would intentionally (or accidentally) misinform - from foreign operatives, advertisers, politicians, and general scammers to our own friends and family. To better prepare you, IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) has teamed up with The Great Courses to provide a guide for navigating this tricky landscape with this eight-lecture course designed to arm you with the skills you need to be a savvy media consumer.
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Should be compulsory read before allowed on social media sites!
- By Darren Oakley on 26-07-22
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Fighting Misinformation
- Digital Media Literacy
- Narrated by: Tara Susman-Peña
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-01-20
- Language: English
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Battle for the Soul
- Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
- By: Edward-Isaac Dovere
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance23
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An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic Party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House. The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump...
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Holter Graham is fantastic!
- By KRB on 26-04-22
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Battle for the Soul
- Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles “This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump...
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Insightful and Terrifying
- By S. Dagg on 07-07-24
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Game of Thorns
- By: Doug Wead
- Narrated by: Doug Wead
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Enter Hillary Clinton: a seasoned politician with a slick PR team and the majority of the world's media behind her. Now enter Donald Trump: a brash reality TV star with a penchant for aggressive outbursts on Twitter. Even if these aren't the most obvious ingredients for a presidential race, surely the outcome is a given? Yet in one of the most incredible upsets in modern political history, Donald Trump defied the odds and emerged triumphant, leaving his opponent - and the rest of the world - reeling from her shock defeat. But where did it all go so wrong for Clinton?
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this is an important book to listen to
- By Sion on 09-07-20
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Game of Thorns
- Narrated by: Doug Wead
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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A Purposeful Life
- What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change
- By: Dawn Butler
- Narrated by: Dawn Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Dawn Butler is the trailblazing Labour MP for Brent Central, best known for speaking truth to power. Her tireless campaigning to eradicate injustice, from the Met Police to the NHS, has changed lives, but until now, she's never talked openly about what has inspired and motivated her to persevere in the face of oppression. Drawing from lessons from her own life, Dawn shows how traditional routes to success and power are outdated, and reveals that it's easier than we think to disrupt a broken system.
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Review of a Purposeful Life by Dawn Butler
- By Margaret on 24-04-25
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A Purposeful Life
- What I’ve Learned About Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Change
- Narrated by: Dawn Butler
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-08-23
- Language: English
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The Brainwashing of My Dad
- How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation - And How We Can Fight Back
- By: Jen Senko
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America.
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Should be required reading!
- By MovingTarget on 29-04-22
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The Brainwashing of My Dad
- How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation - And How We Can Fight Back
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts
- How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
- By: Rachel Bitecofer, Aaron Murphy
- Narrated by: Rachel Bitecofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy “Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political...
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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts
- How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
- Narrated by: Rachel Bitecofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Crime in Progress
- Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump
- By: Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I’ve read kind of all the books on this subject . . . and this is the one you want to read.”—Rachel Maddow Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald...
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Crime in Progress
- Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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How Change Happens
- By: Duncan Green
- Narrated by: Christopher Preece
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Human society is full of would-be "change agents", a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Striking then, why so many universities lack programs for social activists, to which students can turn for advice and inspiration.
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How Change Happens
- Narrated by: Christopher Preece
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-03-17
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Strong Leader
- Political Leadership in the Modern Age
- By: Archie Brown
- Narrated by: Jonathan Crowley
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world's preeminent political historians, comes a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama. Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders', dominant individual wielders of power, are the most successful and admirable. Within authoritarian regimes, a collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with a personal dictatorship.
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The Myth of the Strong Leader
- Political Leadership in the Modern Age
- Narrated by: Jonathan Crowley
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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La hora de los depredadores
- By: Giuliano da Empoli, Adolfo García Ortega
- Narrated by: Carles Sianes
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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La aparente estabilidad de las últimas décadas ha quedado atrás, es una etapa que no ha dejado de ser una anomalía: los nuevos líderes vuelven a ejercer el poder mediante acciones despiadadas y caóticas. El respeto a instituciones o derechos ha dejado de tener la menor importancia para los autócratas o los señores de la tecnología, en un mundo con una IA ya fuera de control. Este ensayo se convierte en un viaje apasionante y estremecedor por los nuevos centros del poder, desde Nueva York hasta Buenos Aires o El Salvador, desde las Naciones Unidas hasta Arabia Saudí.
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La hora de los depredadores
- Narrated by: Carles Sianes
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 30-10-25
- Language: Spanish
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The Last Line of Defense
- How to Beat the Left in Court
- By: Eric Schmitt
- Narrated by: Eric Schmitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My good friend, Eric Schmitt, former Attorney General, and now Senator, from the GREAT State of Missouri, has a wonderful new book just out, entitled, The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Eric is a FIGHTER, who beat back Biden’s disastrous...
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The Last Line of Defense
- How to Beat the Left in Court
- Narrated by: Eric Schmitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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The Conscience of a Liberal
- By: Paul Krugman
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal’s achievements. Now, the tide may be...
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The Conscience of a Liberal
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-10-07
- Language: English
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Transformative Scenario Planning
- Working Together to Change the Future
- By: Adam Kahane
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They cannot solve their problems in their current context; the larger system within which they are operating is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They cannot transform this system on their own or by working only with their friends or colleagues; the system is too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector.
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examples
- By Christopher Banda on 12-10-25
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Transformative Scenario Planning
- Working Together to Change the Future
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-12-12
- Language: English
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How to Stay Safe Online
- A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship
- By: Seyi Akiwowo
- Narrated by: Seyi Akiwowo
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Digital spaces are a positive force for change, connection and community, but left unregulated, they are not always safe. Globally, women are 27 times more likely than men to be harassed online. 78% of LGBTQ+ people have experienced hate crime and hate speech online...
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Essential reading in internet age
- By H.W. on 05-08-23
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How to Stay Safe Online
- A digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship
- Narrated by: Seyi Akiwowo
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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