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- De: Joyce Purnick
- Narrado por: Mark Moseley
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Michael Bloomberg is not only New York City's 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known and admired, few people know the man behind the carefully crafted public persona.
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Not the most captivating, but a decent summary
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- De: Tom Gjelten
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
- A Biography
- De: Miriam Pawel
- Narrado por: Jackson Gutierrez
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In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams.
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Cesar Chávez
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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
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- De: Michael Smerconish
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Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 15 years. He has sounded off on topics as diverse as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and what the color of your Christmas lights says about you. In this collection of 100 of his most memorable columns, Smerconish reflects on American political life with his characteristic feistiness.
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All about Smerc and who cares about the victims
- De Mark J. Rosen en 12-10-20
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The Center Holds
- Obama and His Enemies
- De: Jonathan Alter
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In The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter uses his unmatched access and deep knowledge of politics and history to produce the first full account of America at the crossroads. He pierces the bubble of the White House and of the presidential campaigns with exclusive reporting and rare historical insight. More than a campaign book, this is the epic story of an embattled president facing a historic moment he considered more pivotal than 2008.
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The Best Telling of the 2012 Campaign So Far
- De Mike en 06-11-13
De: Jonathan Alter
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Collision 2012
- Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America
- De: Dan Balz
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Four years ago, a bright young presidential candidate named Barack Obama campaigned on a theme of hope and change, and made history. Today, he finds himself in another bitter, divisive presidential race but without the buzzwords. Instead, an embattled president struggles with a dysfunctionally divided Congress, a controversial healthcare bill, a decade-long war, and a stagnant economy.
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Fascinating. Couldn't stop listening.
- De Gregory E Benoit en 07-24-16
De: Dan Balz
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All Things Possible
- Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
- De: Andrew M. Cuomo
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
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In this full and frank memoir - a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.
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I Love This Book AND the Guvnor (Governor, I Know)
- De Igi M. en 09-02-20
De: Andrew M. Cuomo
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Class Warfare
- Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
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In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.
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Unions are Evil
- De Elton en 09-16-11
De: Steven Brill
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Camelot's End
- Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
- De: Jon Ward
- Narrado por: John Pruden
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The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Ted Kennedy. Camelot's End details the incredible drama of Kennedy's challenge - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its lasting effects - with cinematic sweep. It is a story about what happened to the Democratic Party when the country's long string of successes, luck, and global dominance following World War II ran its course, and how, on a quest to recapture the magic of JFK, Democrats plunged themselves into an intra-party civil war.
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Does character count in political office?
- De marwalk en 07-29-19
De: Jon Ward
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Boom!
- Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
- De: Tom Brokaw
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Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to "turn on, tune in, drop out". While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before.
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boring survey of a generation
- De Andy en 01-01-08
De: Tom Brokaw
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet
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Good story.... but
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In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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Must reading/listening for every American who has despaired of losing our democracy.
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Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy "self-driving" future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think.
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Its code name was “Operation Gold”, a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries.
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On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation's founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders' thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch's Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero.
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Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.
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Pharma
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Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet, exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry.
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My Hijacking
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On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered.
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Childhood memories…a puzzle to solve.
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Charlie's Good Tonight
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Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London’s rhythm and blues clubs. Once installed at the drum seat, he didn’t miss a gig, album or tour in his 60 years in the band.
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Antidote to the Trump Presidency.
If you could sum up Rising Star in three words, what would they be?
Heart Warming, Bright.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Rising Star?
The writer is able make Harvard's Contract Law classes lively.
What does Charles Constant bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Excellent Reader. I wouldn't be able tackle this massive book on my own.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
So far... The Obamas' first date.
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- 08-15-17
Rising Star The making of Barack Obama
Would you consider the audio edition of Rising Star to be better than the print version?
Yes I would it is great
What other book might you compare Rising Star to and why?
May be the book roots because both people are black.
Which character – as performed by Charles Constant – was your favorite?
This one because it is the only one that I have listen to.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It took me 1 mouth to listen to.
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It is just great book to listen to because he is a great man and he comes from a great family
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- 06-26-17
The chronicled detailed events keeps you engaged. Very interesting
Beautifully written. A lot of surprises- I thought I knew all there was to know!
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- 01-02-23
Rising Star: A Psych Biography
This book is interesting, though it is not the best biography of the 44th POTUS. The most useful part of the book might be the first chapter describing the traumatic industrialization of Chicago. I read it because intellectual balance requires I read a critical perspective of a President I admire.
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- Doris
- 06-02-20
I thought it was unbiased; it is not
Through a good portion of the book I thought the author's purpose was to present all sides of the 44th president - his qualities, his values, his flaws. He did that, until the last several hours of the book. the whole (short) section on his presidency was nothing but a hatchet job. The only mention of the health care law was the breakdown of the web site. The only mention of Bin Laden was couched in one supposed quote from Obama: "I guess I'm good at killing people." The only discussion of his friends after his first term was how many of them (one is led to believe ALL of them) had come to despise him. According to Garrow, he was a worthless president.
And now look what we have.
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- John Stanko
- 11-26-17
The Encyclopedia of Barack Obama
As you may have assumed from the page count, there is a lot of information here. It sometimes reads more like an encyclopedia than a narrative. “Here is an event that happened, here are the 6 people that were involved, here is what each of them ate, here is what each of them commented on that event, etc.”
I give the author credit for the exhaustive research. Typically, the author only chimes in in his own voice with a subtle jab at Obama over a misstatement or something. The number of different accounts of Obama seem to (by law of averages) create an even handed representation of Barack. Only the last chapter (his presidency) gets a unanimously critical account.
This is the first Obama bio I have read. I assume there are better narratives and unique perspectives out there but it would be hard to beat the amount of information contained in this book. Overall I recommend it.
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- Story Man
- 04-28-18
Very detailed look at Obama's formative years.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend the book to any one who wants a fair and exhaustively researched background of Barack Obama's birth, childhood, schooling, social organizing, state political career, and his rise to becoming President. If they wanted an equally thorough account of his time in office, I would tell them to look elsewhere. The last chapter and epilogue seemed like a rush job compared to the first several chapters. I actually wonder if Mr Garrow had gotten bored with his subject, or is he leaving room for an equally massive volume 2?
What other book might you compare Rising Star to and why?
No other books. Other books are biographies or even short summaries. This is an encyclopedia. Everything you would want to know about Mr Obama's formation with too much information that few people will actually care about.
What does Charles Constant bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
A very human voice to a scholarly tome.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No. It did make me laugh, especially towards the end where Obama's failures as President received far more attention than his successes. His worst traits seem almost quaint and even lovable in hind sight. For example the closing epilogue talks about him being hostile to the press and quotes one supposedly savvy political observer who hoped that the next president would be a restrained and unifying person who understood the powers of the presidential office. Now that is funny!
Any additional comments?
I learned a lot that I hadn't previously known. David Garrow is a genius when it comes to research and documentation. His writing is fairly fluid and very professional. Needs WAY more editing. An abridged version would be far more ideal. The opening prologue is especially painful because it is SO LONG and has a lot to do with life in Chicago but very little to do with Obama. If you are really curious about how Obama came to his beliefs and what shapes him as a person, and have the fortitude to soldier through a lot of information that could have been edited out -like numerous poll results, out dated opinions, etc than I think you will enjoy this.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-25-17
Best Read I have ever had.
I enjoyed reading the book. It was so long that I went back to read the beginning again. I think the writer was the best I have read. He seemed to have done very good research. The reader was excellent. The part I liked most was the relationship President Obama had with his students. C.S. Brown, Seattle
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-13-24
A Caro-esque biography and similarly fantastic
Very detailed, very well done. Almost too long to recommend to anyone who doesn’t love this stuff, but if you’re a fan of Caro l, try Garrow.
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- Roman
- 05-31-17
Refreshingly Objective Biography
What made the experience of listening to Rising Star the most enjoyable?
I was interested in a scholarly and objective treatment of Barak Obama and this book delivers in spades. It is probably the longest book I have ever listened to or read, and it would have been fine with somewhat less detail, but I knew the length before I began listening. Had I stopped reading prior to the epilogue, I would not have rated it so highly, but the last 90 minutes really pulled everything together. The author clearly demonstrates not only how, but why the Obama presidency was such a disappointment----more so to those closest to him than to his foes. If anyone purchases this audiobook and, due to its length, is tempted to stop listening, I strongly encourage him/her to invest an additional 90 minutes and listen to the epilogue.
The narrator did an admirable job and gets a solid five star for no glaring mispronunciations, despite the plethora of obscure surnames.
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