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In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we've all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things.
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Blah, Blah, Blah.
- De Michael en 07-15-10
De: Tony Judt
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The Socialist Temptation
- De: Iain Murray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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Just 30 years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away — and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again.
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Full Of Important Insights
- De Ralph Alderson en 12-17-20
De: Iain Murray
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- De: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.
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Robotic narrator
- De Shahin en 09-19-18
De: Francis Fukuyama
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The Idea of America
- De: Gordon S Wood
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history
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Sophisticated analyses
- De Roger en 01-25-12
De: Gordon S Wood
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A New Textbook of Americanism
- De: Jonathan Hoenig - editor
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hoenig
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Most people have no idea what the United States represents. Ayn Rand did grasp America's political essence down to its roots. Seventy-two years in the making, this book illuminates why the United States is "the only moral country in the history of the world" and features never-before-published discussions with Ayn Rand, plus work from Leonard Peikoff and the New Intellectuals.
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A Great Introduction to Objectionism
- De Lester C Liby en 06-27-19
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American Secession
- The Looming Threat of a National Breakup
- De: F. H. Buckley
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
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Americans have never been more divided, and we're ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue - it all invites us to think that we'd be happier were we two different countries. There's another reason why secession beckons, says F. H. Buckley: we're too big. In population and area, the United States is one of the biggest countries in the world, and American Secession provides data showing that smaller countries are happier and less corrupt.
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GREAT TO MAKE YOU THINK
- De Brian en 03-01-23
De: F. H. Buckley
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Blood Oil
- Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
- De: Leif Wenar
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.
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Caveat: Human beings -- Totally untrustworthy
- De lost the power cord could you send me another cord address 13 east wilmont ave somers point nj 08244 en 05-17-16
De: Leif Wenar
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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
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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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Very well done
- De JLyman en 08-27-17
De: Ganesh Sitaraman
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Why Vote Leave
- De: Daniel Hannan
- Narrado por: Daniel Hannan
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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MEP and award-winning political writer Daniel Hannan argues for a British exit ahead of the coming referendum. Hannan demonstrates that the EU is past its sell-by date, rendered obsolete by technological advances, shrinking economically and less relevant to our economic needs than ever. Worse than that, he shows that the EU can’t reform, can’t be democratic and can’t be divorced from its goal of ever-closer political union.
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A MUST READ EVEN AFTER THE REFERENDUM!
- De Christine en 06-28-16
De: Daniel Hannan
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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
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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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Good points and lots of good information
- De Jamie B en 08-15-12
De: E. J. Dionne