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- Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mounted primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appeared to exhibit too much pragmatism or independence. Moderation and compromise were dirty words in the Republican presidential debates. The GOP, it seemed, had suddenly become a party of ideological purity. Except this development is not new at all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kabaservice doesn't make the case
- De MJE en 01-22-16
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Fear Itself
- The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
- De: Ira Katznelson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 22 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, "a towering figure in the study of American and European history" (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History in Context of Political Science Analysis
- De zsuzsanna en 08-27-15
De: Ira Katznelson
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The Embattled Vote in America
- From the Founding to the Present
- De: Allan J. Lichtman
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
America's political leaders have considered suffrage not a natural right but a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, residence, literacy, criminal conviction, and citizenship. Today, voter identification laws, political gerrymandering, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement, and voter purges deny many millions of citizens the opportunity to express their views at the ballot box. We cannot blame the founders alone for America's embattled vote. Best-selling author Allan Lichtman notes that subsequent generations have failed to establish suffrage as a universal right.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Old Hat ...
- De Richard D. Parker en 01-17-19
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What It Took to Win
- A History of the Democratic Party
- De: Michael Kazin
- Narrado por: Lee Goettl
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the Democratic Party's long-running commitment to creating "moral capitalism" - a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation, and Indian removal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Timely and informative History Book
- De Asha Sceanca en 03-24-22
De: Michael Kazin
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
- Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
- De: Ganesh Sitaraman
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable - and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done
- De JLyman en 08-27-17
De: Ganesh Sitaraman
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Enlightened Democracy
- The Case for the Electoral College, 2nd Edition
- De: Tara Ross
- Narrado por: Tara Ross
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Enlightened Democracy traces the history of the Electoral College from the Constitutional Convention to the present. The Electoral College protects our republic and promotes our liberty. Americans should defend their unique presidential election system at all costs.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hold your breath
- De Ein en 03-13-20
De: Tara Ross
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The Presidents and the Constitution
- A Living History
- De: Ken Gormley - editor
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 21 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office - the first president to the 44th - has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation's chief executive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great book about the presidency & Constitution
- De Rob en 12-27-16
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Big Agenda
- President Trump's Plan to Save America
- De: David Horowitz
- Narrado por: Ian Patterson
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 885
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 759
One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is an indispensable guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are, as well as their methods, motivations, and agenda, including the particular issues with which they will try to advance their destructive goal - and it lays out a strategy to defeat all of it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Title doesn't match content.
- De Gigi en 02-12-17
De: David Horowitz
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- De: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening....
- De M. Levine en 02-25-11
De: Sheldon S. Wolin
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Temptations of Power
- Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East
- De: Shadi Hamid
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy - the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A new perspective
- De Dave114 en 08-06-18
De: Shadi Hamid
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9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America
- And Four Who Tried to Save Her
- De: Brion McClanahan
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 390
Of the 44 presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution, will surprise listeners with his list, which he supports with exhaustive and entertaining evidence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Political opinion without substance.
- De Ella's Dad en 04-27-18
De: Brion McClanahan
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American Character
- A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run-up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agenda of the Progressives, the New Deal, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Biased Misrepresentation
- De Jay Ehret en 06-24-16
De: Colin Woodard
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
- Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
- De: Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
The Fierce Urgency of Now animates the full spectrum of forces at play during these turbulent years, including religious groups, the media, conservative and liberal political action groups, unions, and civil rights activists. Above all, the great character in the audiobook whose role rivals Johnson's is Congress - indeed, Zelizer argues that our understanding of the Great Society program is too Johnson-centric.
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Our Divided Political Heart
- The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
- De: E. J. Dionne
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-listen book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the nation's political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr., argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us Americans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne
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The People vs. Democracy
- Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
- De: Yascha Mounk
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth it
- De DailyShopper en 06-07-18
De: Yascha Mounk
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Why the Right Went Wrong
- Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
- De: E. J. Dionne Jr.
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 20 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
Why the Right Went Wrong offers a historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. Since 1968, no conservative administration could live up to the rhetoric rooted in the Goldwater movement that began to reshape American politics 50 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding, refreshing, inspiring
- De James Adams en 03-19-16
De: E. J. Dionne Jr.
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- De: Gary Gerstle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- De A Reviewer en 10-24-22
De: Gary Gerstle