Cults Like Us
Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
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For listeners of Fantasyland and Cultish, a colorful and enlightening pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.
Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained in the DNA of the United States. In this eye-opening book, journalist Jane Borden argues that Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it went secular and became American culture. From our fascination with cowboys and superheroes to our allegiance to influencers and self-help, susceptibility to advertising, and undying devotion to the self-made man, Americans remain particularly vulnerable to a specific brand of cult-like thinking.
With in-depth research and compelling insight, Borden uncovers the American history you didn’t learn in school, including how we are still being brainwashed, making us a nation of easy marks for con artists and strong men. Along the way, she also revisits some of the most fascinating cults in this country—including, the Mankind United and Love Has Won—presenting them as integral parts of our national psyche rather than aberrations.
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- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walker, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong, to find a deeper meaning in life, to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff’s edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it’s this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it’s that the stories are so bizarre and unsettling that we are simply in awe of the mechanics that make these infamous groups tick.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De KJ en 04-12-23
De: Max Cutler
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Buddhism
- A Journey Through History
- De: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism—not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement, but as a dense matrix of interconnections.
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Story of a Murder
- The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
- De: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
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On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly vanished from her home, causing alarm among her friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild. Their demands for an investigation would lead to the unearthing of a gruesome secret and trigger a fevered international manhunt for Belle’s husband, medical fraudster Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great but none of the heart of The Five
- De S. Armor en 04-13-25
De: Hallie Rubenhold
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Drunk on Genocide
- Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)
- De: Edward B. Westermann
- Narrado por: Kevin Meyer
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence.
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- De: Amanda Montell
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,889
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,483
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,458
What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join - and more importantly, stay in - extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this book ASAP
- De chris boutte en 06-17-21
De: Amanda Montell
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The Fifteen
- Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
- De: William Geroux
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Read
- De John Hines en 06-16-25
De: William Geroux
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1999
- The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times
- De: Ross Benes
- Narrado por: Josh Innerst
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
From pro wrestling and Pokémon to Vince McMahon and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late '90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and society today.
De: Ross Benes
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- De: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a best seller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts", anyone?).
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1 out of 5 stars
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words from MY mouth...
- De Amazon Customer en 08-02-19
De: Dorian Lynskey
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Don't Call It a Cult
- The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
- De: Sarah Berman
- Narrado por: Ewa Wolniczek
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 290
Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures, Berman uncovers how dozens of women seeking creative coaching and networking opportunities instead were blackmailed, literally branded, near-starved, and enslaved. Don't Call It a Cult is a riveting account of NXIVM's rise to power, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Detailed (best for those already interested)
- De JR en 05-02-21
De: Sarah Berman
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Cult Following
- The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives
- De: J. W. Ocker
- Narrado por: Kimberly M. Wetherell
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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In Cult Following, Ocker sheds light on the terrifying attraction of cults, demonstrating the elasticity of belief, the desperateness of belonging, and the tragedy of trust.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The closing was a drive home for the message of this book and was touching.
- De andrea en 01-22-25
De: J. W. Ocker
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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies
- The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and Many, Many More
- De: Arthur Goldwag
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 117
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An indispensable guide, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs, crepuscular cabals, and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiar - the Kennedy assassinations, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati, the People's Temple and Heaven's Gate - and some surprising, like Oulipo, a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces, and the Chauffeurs, an 18th-century society of French home invaders, who set fire to their victims' feet.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Dean en 08-21-09
De: Arthur Goldwag
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The Mesopotamian Riddle
- An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
- De: Joshua Hammer
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, The Mesopotamian Riddle whisks you on a wild adventure through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand our past.
De: Joshua Hammer
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A History of the World in Six Plagues
- How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
- De: Edna Bonhomme
- Narrado por: Veronique Olin
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 2
A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story wrecked by silly language and a terrible narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 05-25-25
De: Edna Bonhomme
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A Greek Tragedy
- One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
- De: Jeanne Carstensen
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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On October 28, 2015, a boat meant for only a few dozen passengers capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hundreds of refugees, forced in desperation onto the overloaded boat manned by armed smugglers, were tossed into a roiling sea. The resulting loss of life, the largest in a single day during the crisis in the Aegean, shocked the world. Now, after nearly a decade of research, interviews, and investigation, reporter Jeanne Carstensen has captured every detail of the dramatic twenty-four hours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why there is a need to prepare for rare emergencies in ports throughout the world.
- De Amazon Customer en 03-31-25
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Death on the Devil's Teeth
- The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey
- De: Mark Moran, Jesse P. Pollack
- Narrado por: Tom Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police coverup ran rampant, and the case went unsolved along with the murders of several other young women.
De: Mark Moran, y otros
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On Nixon's Madness
- An Emotional History
- De: Zachary Jonathan Jacobson
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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When Richard Nixon battled for the presidency in 1968, he did so with the knowledge that, should he win, he would face the looming question of how to extract the United States from its disastrous war in Vietnam. It was on a beach that summer that Nixon disclosed to his chief aide, HR Haldeman, one of his most notorious, risky gambits: the madman theory. In On Nixon's Madness, Zachary Jonathan Jacobson examines the enigmatic president through this theory of Nixon's own invention.
Jane kicks arse
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Essential listening for anyone interested in understanding America’s past and present
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Fascinating Topic
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Insightful and balanced
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