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Corporations Are Not People
- Reclaiming Democracy from Big Money and Global Corporations
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- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things--money and corporations--matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre ruling, its ongoing destructive effects, and the growing movement to reverse it. He includes a new chapter, "Do Something!", showing how--state by state and community by community--Americans are using creative strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. Since the first edition, 16 states, 160 members of Congress, and 500 cities and towns have called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and the list is growing. This is a fight we can win!
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- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 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
- By Aaron on 12-28-12
By: Matt Kibbe
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Keeping the Republic
- Saving America by Trusting Americans
- By: Mitch Daniels
- Narrated by: Mitch Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore it to greatness
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great governor, excellent author!
- By Deborah on 12-06-11
By: Mitch Daniels
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Republic, Lost
- How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It
- By: Lawrence Lessig
- Narrated by: Lawrence Lessig
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 579
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 480
In an era of ballooning corporate campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Citizens United, trust in our government is at an all time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress - and that our Republic has been lost.Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but offers cogent strategies to correct our course....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Periods. Where there. Should. Not. Be. Periods.
- By Richard Nielsen on 01-18-12
By: Lawrence Lessig
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American Amnesia
- How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich
- By: Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Like every other prospering democracy, the United States developed a mixed economy that channeled the spirit of capitalism into strong growth and healthy social development. In this bargain, government and business were as much partners as rivals. Public investments in education, science, transportation, and technology laid the foundation for broadly based prosperity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very necessary book, re-illuminating the obvious
- By Matt Lech on 04-10-16
By: Jacob S. Hacker, and others
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story5 out of 5 stars 586
Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Documents how US plutocracy oppresses citizens
- By BruceK on 04-14-17
By: Noam Chomsky
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By the People
- Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
- By: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 179
American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run businesses, practice vocations, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government - not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better. When we object, that government can and does tell us, "Try to fight this, and we'll ruin you."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, some possible solutions
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-16
By: Charles Murray
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Trump's America
- By: Michael Giorgione
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 563
No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In Trump's America: The Truth About Our Nation's Great Comeback, Gingrich describes our country's tremendous turnaround under President Donald Trump's leadership - and confronts the desperate efforts by the elites in academia, the media, and the Washington establishment to undermine and distort his achievements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting perspective, observations
- By William on 06-28-18
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Freedom from the Market
- America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
- By: Mike Konczal
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership - these are the issues driving America's current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? In the tradition of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent explainer on restoring prosperity
- By marwalk on 02-04-21
By: Mike Konczal
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Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death
- By: Allen West
- Narrated by: Allen West
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Texas is booming. But this increase in population has also brought about a shift in the political dialogue within Texas's borders. As more people pour into Texas, they bring with them liberal and socialist ideologies as they try to swing the state from red to blue. In Hold Texas, Hold the Nation West makes his stand, asserting that Texas must hold fast to its conservative ways and resist succumbing to liberal mindsets, or else cease to prosper, and begin to perish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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God bless Texas
- By Jedi Chris on 06-02-20
By: Allen West
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The Centrist Manifesto
- By: Charles Wheelan
- Narrated by: Charles Wheelan
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 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
- By CM on 09-15-15
By: Charles Wheelan
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The Libertarian Mind
- A Manifesto for Freedom
- By: David Boaz
- Narrated by: Scott Feighner
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 274
Libertarianism: A Primer, by David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, continues to be the best available guide to the history, ideas, and growth of this increasingly important political movement - and now it has been updated throughout and with a new title: The Libertarian Mind. Boaz has updated the book with new information on the threat of government surveillance; the policies that led up to and stemmed from the 2008 financial crisis; corruption in Washington; and the unsustainable welfare state.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent all around
- By C. Booth on 09-18-17
By: David Boaz
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Theodore and Woodrow
- How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
- By: Andrew Napolitano
- Narrated by: Scott Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 226
A harsh and revealing political exposé of two beloved presidents. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how Teddy Roosevelt, a bully, and Woodrow Wilson, a constitutional scholar, each pushed aside the Constitution’s restrictions on the federal government and used it as an instrument to redistribute wealth, regulate personal behavior, and enrich the government. Theodore and Woodrow exposes two of our nation’s most beloved presidents and how they helped speed the Progressive cause on its merry way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Case Against Theodore and Woodrow...
- By Joseph D. Klotz on 03-12-13
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The Common Good
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 437
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it, one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process can and must be reversed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Edifying
- By Jean on 03-15-18
By: Robert B. Reich
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
- Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
- By: Ganesh Sitaraman
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable - and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America's republic.