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It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category - a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn't "get it", and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled.
The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as the phony was for Holden Caulfield and the cad was for Anthony Trollope. From Donald Trump to Ann Coulter, from Mel Gibson to Anthony Weiner, from the reality-TV prima donnas to the Internet trolls and flamers, assholism has become the characteristic form of modern incivility, which implicitly expresses our deepest values about class, relationships, authenticity, and fairness.
We have conflicting attitudes about the A-word - when a presidential candidate unwittingly uttered it on a live mic in 2000, it confirmed to some that he was a man of the people and to others that he was a boor. But considering how much the word does for us, and to us, it hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves - at least until now.
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Not funny
- De supermantwo en 08-31-20
De: Jeremy Dauber
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Down Girl
- The Logic of Misogyny
- De: Kate Manne
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Star Book w/bad Narration
- De Cherrybomb en 02-08-19
De: Kate Manne
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Articulate While Black
- Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S
- De: H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best book on language
- De Amazon Customer Bishop Dr Arthur Lewis PhD en 12-07-18
De: H. Samy Alim, y otros
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Good and Mad
- How Women's Anger Is Reshaping America
- De: Rebecca Traister
- Narrado por: Rebecca Traister
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,327
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,172
In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before this, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic - but politically problematic. With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel - from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. She deconstructs society’s (and the media’s) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of resulting repercussions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect book for October 2018.
- De Kate Willette en 10-03-18
De: Rebecca Traister
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Troll Nation
- How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
- De: Amanda Marcotte, David Talbot - foreword
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How could a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate appeal to millions of Americans, enough so that he was able to win the highest office in the land? With this book, journalist Amanda Marcotte will outline how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Steven Finkbeiner en 08-10-18
De: Amanda Marcotte, y otros
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Arrogance
- Rescuing America from the Media Elite
- De: Bernard Goldberg
- Narrado por: Bernard Goldberg
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
In his #1 New York Times best seller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now, in his new blockbuster, Goldberg goes even further. He not only takes on Big Journalism, but offers a twelve-step program to help the media elites overcome their addiction to bias.
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4 out of 5 stars
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wow
- De Douglas en 11-11-03
De: Bernard Goldberg
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Jewish Comedy
- A Serious History
- De: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Dauber
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy - including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not funny
- De supermantwo en 08-31-20
De: Jeremy Dauber
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We Were Feminists Once
- From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
- De: Andi Zeisler
- Narrado por: Joell A. Jacob
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Today, feminism is no longer a dirty word, and women purporting to stand up for women's equality now include high-powered names like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Emma Watson. Hip underwear lines sell granny pants with "feminist" emblazoned on the back. In every bookstore, there are scores of seductive feminist how-to business guides telling women how to achieve "it all".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book despite shoddy narration
- De Seth H. Wilson en 05-19-16
De: Andi Zeisler
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Makers and Takers
- De: Peter Schweizer
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In Makers and Takers, Peter Schweizer broadens his scope to examine the damaging effects of liberal philosophy on ordinary Americans. Drawing on national polls and academic studies, as well as the revealing testimony of liberals themselves, Schweizer shows that liberals are, on the whole, less honest, less generous, lazier, and more materialistic than their conservative counterparts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Eileen J. O'Connor en 03-08-16
De: Peter Schweizer
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The Smallest Minority
- Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
- De: Kevin D. Williamson
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 207
Listener beware: Kevin D. Williamson - the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle - comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutally honest, accurate and relevant
- De Sean en 09-19-19
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- De: Mary Beard
- Narrado por: Mary Beard
- Duración: 1 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short and fabulous
- De André C. en 03-13-20
De: Mary Beard
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The Nineties
- A Book
- De: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrado por: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,868
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Very White Middle-class Take On The Nineties
- De Umar Lee en 02-10-22
De: Chuck Klosterman
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The Long March
- How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
- De: Roger Kimball
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
The architects of America's cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Long March
- De Suzanne en 05-16-06
De: Roger Kimball
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Language Intelligence
- Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
- De: Joseph J. Romm
- Narrado por: Drew Birdseye
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top "100 Agents of Change", has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our language intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion. Romm demonstrates that you don't have to be an expert to vastly improve your ability to communicate. He has pulled together the secrets of the greatest communicators in history to show how you can apply these tools to your writing, speaking, blogging - even your Tweeting.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Liberal Propaganda
- De Craig en 02-05-13
De: Joseph J. Romm
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The N Word
- Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
- De: Jabari Asim
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good points, long winded
- De Amazon Customer en 02-06-21
De: Jabari Asim
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- De: Noah Rothman
- Narrado por: Noah Rothman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, fast summer read
- De Joseph Spiegel en 07-18-22
De: Noah Rothman
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The Death of Right and Wrong
- Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
- De: Tammy Bruce
- Narrado por: Tammy Bruce
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 38
A woman of contradictions, "a gun-toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist", Tammy Bruce is standing in line to become the next Ann Coulter. The "left wing" is engaged in an enormous conspiracy to make moral values relative, to undercut pride and patriotism in our country, to destroy Christian ideology at any cost, to pollute the minds of our youth by means of leftist professors who rewrite history, and to hijack the justice system through morally bankrupt trial lawyers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoughtful analytical review of moral relativism
- De Book and Movie Lover en 07-26-04
De: Tammy Bruce
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The War on the West
- De: Douglas Murray
- Narrado por: Douglas Murray
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,747
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,237
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,207
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every Human (seriously, everyone) Read This!
- De aaron en 04-27-22
De: Douglas Murray
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Angry White Men
- American Masculinity at the End of an Era
- De: Michael Kimmel
- Narrado por: Aaron Williamson
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced the winner, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he didn't live in "a traditional America anymore". He was joined by others who bellowed their grief on the talk radio airwaves, the traditional redoubt of angry white men. Why were they so angry?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book; Wrong reader
- De Carolina A. Miranda en 05-02-18
De: Michael Kimmel