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Democracy Inc.
- How Members of Congress Have Cashed in on Their Jobs
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A great telling of an unfortunate part of history
- De Trace en 10-27-20
De: Robert Scheer
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Homewreckers
- How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
- De: Aaron Glantz
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class - among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book - I hope it changes things and mobilizes people to take action!
- De WeaverDreams en 10-20-19
De: Aaron Glantz
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White House, Inc.
- How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business
- De: Dan Alexander
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
White House, Inc. is a newsmaking exposé that details President Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions. Alexander tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for all Americans
- De Gregor en 10-11-20
De: Dan Alexander
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Soul City
- Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
- De: Thomas Healy
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Author Thomas Healy resurrects a forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality in this fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome narrator
- De Arthur F. Jackson en 06-23-21
De: Thomas Healy
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Reckless Endangerment
- How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
- De: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Required reading
- De David en 10-24-11
De: Gretchen Morgenson, y otros
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Bushwhacked
- Life in George W. Bush's America
- De: Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In their second book on our current White House occupant, Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies he used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Richly informative & entertaining...
- De Native Texan en 10-29-03
De: Molly Ivins, y otros
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The Fine Print
- How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind
- De: David Cay Johnston
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen if you love or hate Trump
- De Rob D en 04-19-17
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Deadly Spin
- An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
- De: Wendell Potter
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- De Randy en 01-11-11
De: Wendell Potter
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A Crisis Wasted
- Barack Obama's Defining Decisions
- De: Reed Hundt
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
This book is the compelling story of President Obama’s domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009. Unlike all other presidents except Abraham Lincoln - who decided not to allow slavery to expand westward before he was sworn in - Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency before he took office. The results of these fateful decisions led to Donald Trump taking his place eight years later. This book describes how and why these decisions were made, and discusses whether the outcomes could have been different.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat complicated, not audiobook material
- De Mariana Nolasco en 09-20-20
De: Reed Hundt
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All the Presidents' Bankers
- The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
- De: Nomi Prins
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You better like history about the elite and rich
- De Victor en 01-12-15
De: Nomi Prins
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Bought and Paid For
- The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street
- De: Charles Gasparino
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
According to business reporter Charles Gasparino, President Obama is faking his outrage at Wall Street, and his calls for new policies to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" are just pabulum. In reality, Obama has climbed into bed with Wall Street CEOs, giving them what they want so they will support his liberal, big-government agenda.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Revealing and Convincing
- De Walter en 10-24-11
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Hostile Takeover
- Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America
- De: Matt Kibbe
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Hostile Takeover is a rebellious challenge to the "upper management" of government, who are choking American prosperity and liberty. Matt Kibbe exposes the privileged collusion of Washington insiders - and maps out a proven plan for how to return power from the self-appointed "experts" back to the people. Dubbed "one of the Tea Party's masterminds" by Newsweek, Kibbe reveals how grassroots citizens can and will check the federal behemoth and restore the American enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book from an interesting perspective
- De Aaron en 12-28-12
De: Matt Kibbe
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The Corruption Chronicles
- Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government
- De: Tom Fitton
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Judicial Watch, America's largest nonpartisan government watchdog, has investigated the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. Judicial Watch is the group that helped impeach Bill Clinton and took the Bush White House secrecy all the way up to the Supreme Court. Since the beginning of the Obama administration, this grassroots group has filed over 700 open records demands and dozens of lawsuits, including a successful fight over the secret Obama White House visitor logs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- De Bill Redfield en 01-30-17
De: Tom Fitton
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Third World America
- How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
- De: Arianna Huffington
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation - that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. It's the dark flipside of the American Dream - an American Nightmare of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad... but with a ray of hope
- De Maciej en 10-20-10
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New Deal or Raw Deal?
- How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
- De: Burton Folsom Jr.
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton Folsom, Jr., exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain---ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America needed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen!
- De Book and Movie Lover en 06-14-09
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FDR's Folly
- How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
- De: Jim Powell
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 319
In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Scones for the Tea Party
- De Chiefkent en 06-11-12
De: Jim Powell