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- De: Jia Lynn Yang
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good overview
- De steve thomas en 10-21-20
De: Jia Lynn Yang
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The Road to Camelot
- Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign
- De: Thomas Oliphant, Curtis Wilkie
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign for the White House, beginning with his bold failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely excellent
- De TexasLonghorn en 08-22-20
De: Thomas Oliphant, y otros
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Dewey Defeats Truman
- The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent account of the 1948 election
- De A. Crystal en 07-15-20
De: A. J. Baime
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Kill Switch
- The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
- De: Adam Jentleson
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively White, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't bother, narration intolerable!
- De Joseph en 03-08-21
De: Adam Jentleson
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The Black Cabinet
- The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- De: Jill Watts
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
- De Barry en 06-21-20
De: Jill Watts
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The Presidents
- Noted Historians Rank America's Best - and Worst - Chief Executives
- De: Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, Douglas Brinkley - introduction, y otros
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann, Grace Angela Henry
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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The complete rankings of our best - and worst - presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories - their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst leaders in our national history, along with everyone in between.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Much Praise
- De veronica d en 02-05-21
De: Brian Lamb, y otros
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Lincoln's Mentors
- The Education of a Leader
- De: Michael J. Gerhardt
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American’s greatest leader
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book
- De Brian en 03-07-21
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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
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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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We've Got People
- From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
- De: Ryan Grim
- Narrado por: Sean W. Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political stardom - has been building for 30 years...With the party and the nation at a crossroads, this timely and original audiobook offers new insight into how we’ve gotten where we are - and where we're headed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and illuminating, despite tech "issue"
- De DanoB en 08-25-19
De: Ryan Grim
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How Free Speech Saved Democracy
- The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice
- De: Christopher M. Finan, Randall Kennedy
- Narrado por: Tristan Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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How Free Speech Saved Democracy is a revealing reminder that First Amendment rights have often been curtailed in efforts to block progress, and that current measures to reduce hurtful language and to end hate speech could backfire on those who promote them.
De: Christopher M. Finan, y otros
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Reaganland
- America's Right Turn 1976-1980
- De: Rick Perlstein
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy, y otros
- Duración: 45 h y 18 m
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Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Censored by Audible
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-07-20
De: Rick Perlstein
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American Carnage
- On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
- De: Tim Alberta
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 26 h y 23 m
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The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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masterpiece
- De ZZ en 07-26-19
De: Tim Alberta
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Piety & Power
- Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House
- De: Tom LoBianco
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access. Piety & Power cuts to the core of the nation’s most enigmatic politician and unearths new, important, and fascinating anecdotes about Pence’s faith, his marriage to Karen Pence, his bizarre, obsequious relationship with Trump, his deeply buried personality, his ascent to power under John Boehner, and his presidential aspirations and plans for America’s future.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Scary he's so close to the top job
- De John S. en 10-15-19
De: Tom LoBianco
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Confirmation Bias
- Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh
- De: Carl Hulse
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia’s death - using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible dysfunction across all three branches in the nation’s capital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bias is right
- De Shelle Houser en 07-07-19
De: Carl Hulse
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Don't Know Much About the American Presidents
- De: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 48 m
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For more than 20 years since his New York Times best seller Don't Know Much About History first appeared, Davis has shown that Americans don't hate history, just the dull version dished out in school. Now Davis turns his attention to what is arguably the most important and most fascinating subject in American history: our presidents. From the heated debates over executive powers through the curious election of George Washington in 1789 and, for more than 200 years, up through the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, the presidency has been at the heart of American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Biased
- De Justin Swihart en 05-29-13
De: Kenneth C. Davis
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The Man Who Sold America
- Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
- De: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrado por: Joy-Ann Reid
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country’s founding principles. Now in office, he’s put up a "for sale" sign - on the prestige of the presidency, on America’s global stature, and on our national identity. At what cost have these deals come? Joy-Ann Reid's essential new audiobook, The Man Who Sold America, delivers an urgent accounting of our national crisis from one of our foremost political commentators.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good explanation of how we got to where we are
- De Caduceus26 en 07-13-19
De: Joy-Ann Reid
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sins of Her Father
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- Donna Wiebe
- 10-03-20
You can't choose your relatives, But......
Definitely a family history that no one wants repeated. Hopefully, the story is changed as the family moves on in the future.
A very informative book. The author has done a lot of research, just as he usually does.
I enjoy the information that is put forth in Ken Rossignol''s books as I feel that he has done a lot of research and offers a truthful presentation.
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- Cinnamon
- 08-14-22
Must Read for All
Now the real truth is told about Nancy Pelosi and her childhood. That truth is told about her and even Steny Hoyer.
She was raised by a father, who was very racist. He was against segregation and his hero was Benito Mussolini
She is no different don't be fooled - she is a Communist, Racist and now she will do everything to destroy this country.
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