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The political landscape has never been so tumultuous: issues with the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a lack of representation in the polls and in our leadership have led to Americans of all ages asking, How did we get here?
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,069
In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good as an intro, skip if you’re a wonk
- De Tony en 01-29-20
De: Ezra Klein
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They Don't Represent Us
- Reclaiming Our Democracy
- De: Lawrence Lessig
- Narrado por: Lawrence Lessig
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 55
In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them” - Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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All Americans should read/listen to this.
- De Christopher W Catron en 03-22-20
De: Lawrence Lessig
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Outsider in the White House
- Special Audio Edition
- De: Bernie Sanders, Huck Gutman, John Nichols - afterword
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
Bernie Sanders' campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized supporters all over the country, drawing attention to issues of economic, racial, and social justice and spotlighting one of the most interesting and unconventional candidates in decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Behind the Scenes with Bernie--- WORTH it!
- De Susie en 02-23-16
De: Bernie Sanders, y otros
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
- Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
- De: Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
The Fierce Urgency of Now animates the full spectrum of forces at play during these turbulent years, including religious groups, the media, conservative and liberal political action groups, unions, and civil rights activists. Above all, the great character in the audiobook whose role rivals Johnson's is Congress - indeed, Zelizer argues that our understanding of the Great Society program is too Johnson-centric.
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Power Grab
- The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP, and Our Republic
- De: Jason Chaffetz
- Narrado por: Jason Chaffetz
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 287
In Power Grab, Chaffetz pulls back the curtain on the world of hypocrisy, political intrigue, and procedural malfeasance that is Washington, DC. With stories you won't hear anywhere else, he shows how the left weaves false narratives, drums up investigations in search of a crime, and refuses to direct congressional oversight towards its appropriate target: the government. Democrats weaponize nonprofit advocacy groups and monetize partisan anger to line the pockets of their political allies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Power Grab
- De Margaret en 10-01-19
De: Jason Chaffetz
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 380
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 377
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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Working Class Republican
- Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism
- De: Henry Olsen
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the 20th century - FDR and Ronald Reagan - as ideological opposites. FDR is hailed as the champion of big-government progressivism manifested in the New Deal. Reagan is seen as the crusader for conservatism dedicated to small government and free markets. But Henry Olsen argues that this assumption is wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing and insightful
- De Thomas Marks en 12-16-19
De: Henry Olsen
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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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Ratf**ked
- The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
- De: David Daley
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 303
With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski, began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks - known to political insiders as "ratf**king" - to a whole new unprecedented level.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Politicians Should Not Get to Choose their Voters
- De Anthony Diaz en 08-24-16
De: David Daley
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Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
- What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
- De: Erica Grieder
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state’s politics and attitude, and yet, according to journalist and Texan Erica Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas. In Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right, Grieder traces the political history of a state that was always larger than life. From its rowdy beginnings, Texas has combined a long-standing suspicion of government intrusion with a passion for business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!
- De ccarp en 06-04-14
De: Erica Grieder
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Election Meltdown
- Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
- De: Richard L. Hasen
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing the mistrust. Voter suppression has escalated as a Republican tool aimed to depress turnout of likely Democratic voters, fueling suspicion. Pockets of incompetence in election administration, often in large cities controlled by Democrats, have created an opening to claims of unfairness.
De: Richard L. Hasen
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It Was All a Lie
- How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
- De: Stuart Stevens
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,739
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,468
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,456
Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A party gone astray
- De Devin en 08-07-20
De: Stuart Stevens
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The Next Red Wave
- How Conservatives Can Beat Leftist Aggression, RINO Betrayal & Deep State Subversion
- De: Jordan Sekulow, Matthew Clark - contributor, Benjamin Sisney - contributor
- Narrado por: Jordan Sekulow
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
The next red wave is coming: November 3, 2020. We face battles on many fronts. The Deep State bureaucracy will stop at nothing to undermine the conservative agenda, even when that's the agenda chosen by the American voter. The liberal bureaucracy will continue to work alongside former liberal government officials from, yes, the Obama Administration and Team Clinton. In this election, the Left's prized goal - exclusively - will be defeating President Donald Trump by whatever means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FABULOUS AND TIMELY
- De Michael Niebuhr en 09-26-19
De: Jordan Sekulow, y otros
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Trumpocalypse
- Restoring American Democracy
- De: David Frum
- Narrado por: David Frum
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 305
A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly risk the stability of American democracy. They brought the Trumpocalypse upon the country, and a post-Trumpocalypse country will have to find a way either to reconcile them to democracy - or to protect democracy from them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Trump More Dangerous Than the Axis of Evil
- De J.B. en 05-26-20
De: David Frum
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The Centrist Manifesto
- De: Charles Wheelan
- Narrado por: Charles Wheelan
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
From debt ceiling standoffs to single-digit Congress approval ratings, America’s political system has never been more polarized - or paralyzed - than it is today. As best-selling author and public policy expert Charles Wheelan writes, now is the time for a pragmatic Centrist party that will identify and embrace the best Democratic and Republican ideals, moving us forward on the most urgent issues for our nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for all rational americans
- De CM en 09-15-15
De: Charles Wheelan
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- Michael V. Charland-Tait
- 02-13-24
good book but could be a bit more engaging
it's really good but some parts get a bit boring but still would definitely recommend
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