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- Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
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In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia.
After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015.
Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite - until Russia's invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind.
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Only if you are deep into Russian pop culture
Book is just a whole lot of name dropping of Russian pop culture. Story goes nowhere, just one party after another telling us one Russian name after another. Narrator speaks low and monotone with a Russian accent - do not listen to while driving - he will put you to sleep!
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 321
Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and former host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!
- By GrammieR on 04-24-18
By: Bruce Watson
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Seinfeldia
- How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
- By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 730
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 658
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 655
Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. NBC executives didn't think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly 40 million Americans were tuning in weekly.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This bad narration is making me thirsty...
- By Audio Gra Gra on 10-06-16
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Sticky Fingers
- The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
- By: Joe Hagan
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Story4 out of 5 stars 226
Lennon. Dylan. Jagger. Belushi. Leibovitz. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, is an insider's trip through the backstages of storied concert venues, rock-star hotel rooms, and the political ups and downs of the latter half of the 20th century, right up through the digital age: connecting the counterculture of Haight Ashbury to the "straight world".
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hatchet Job
- By SC on 11-12-17
By: Joe Hagan
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My Song
- A Memoir
- By: Harry Belafonte, Michael Shnayerson
- Narrated by: Harry Belafonte, Mirron Willis
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and, most of all, the inspiring triumphs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Khafre on 12-30-11
By: Harry Belafonte, and others
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Dilettante
- True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster
- By: Dana Brown
- Narrated by: Dana Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Dana Brown was a 21-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early-'90s milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair. After the two had a handful of brief interactions (mostly with Brown in the role of cater waiter at Carter’s famous cultural salons he hosted at his home), Carter saw what he believed to be Brown’s untapped potential, and on a whim, hired him as his assistant
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don’t even know where to begin
- By Kelsey Webster on 04-01-22
By: Dana Brown
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Cronkite
- By: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 157
For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America". Yet this very public figure was a remarkably private man. Drawing on unprecedented access to Cronkite's private papers as well as interviews with his family and friends, Douglas Brinkley now brings this American icon into focus as never before. Brinkley traces Cronkite's story from his roots in Missouri and Texas through the Great Depression, to World War II, when he gained notice reporting with Allied troops, and on, following his illustrious career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Giants
- By Robert I on 07-09-12
By: Douglas Brinkley
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Seven Dirty Words
- The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
- By: James Sullivan
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Carlin's CV with no Depth or Insight
- By Dubi on 01-23-14
By: James Sullivan
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Freak Kingdom
- Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
- By: Timothy Denevi
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the process. This skillfully told and dramatic story shows how Thompson saw through Richard Nixon's treacherous populism and embarked on a life-defining campaign to stop it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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author has an internal need for Hunter to be Jesus
- By Anonymous User on 03-22-19
By: Timothy Denevi
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 680
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of 21st-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship far subtler than 20th century strains, that is rapidly rising to challenge the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Elle Kay on 11-25-16
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- By: Evan Osnos
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,270
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- By Neuron on 11-06-15
By: Evan Osnos
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Difficult Men
- Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
- By: Brett Martin
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 597
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium-cable channels like HBO and then basic-cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. No longer necessarily concerned with creating always-likable characters, plots that wrapped up neatly every episode, or subjects that were deemed safe and appropriate, shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, and more tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Praise TV's third golden age!
- By Kali on 10-20-13
By: Brett Martin
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The Mayor of Castro Street
- The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 171
Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical perspective of an activist.
- By Chris on 04-14-15
By: Randy Shilts
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Somebody
- The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
- By: Stefan Kanfer
- Narrated by: Armando Durán
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Brando is perpetually fascinating, both for the power of the characters he portrayed and for his tumultuous personal life. Best-selling biographer Stefan Kanfer seamlessly intertwines the man and the work to give us the fullest and most illuminating appraisal yet. Kanfer takes us from Brando's troubled childhood to his arrival in New York in the 1940s, where he studied with the legendary Stella Adler and became, at age 23, the star of Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire.
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2 out of 5 stars
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so boring, made me not like brando
- By A. Garofalo on 02-20-14
By: Stefan Kanfer
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The Loudest Voice in the Room
- How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country
- By: Gabriel Sherman
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 368
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. With a remarkable level of detail and insight, Vanity Fair magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman puts Ailes’s unique genius on display, along with the outsize personalities - Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, Gretchen Carlson, Bill Shine, and others - who have helped Fox News play a defining role in the great social and political controversies of the past two decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Monumental Achievement
- By L. Kerr on 01-28-14
By: Gabriel Sherman
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Planet Funny
- By: Ken Jennings
- Narrated by: Ken Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
In Planet Funny, Ken Jennings explores this brave new comedic world and what it means - or doesn’t - to be funny in it now. Tracing the evolution of humor from the caveman days to the bawdy middle-class antics of Chaucer to Monty Python’s game-changing silliness to the fast-paced meta-humor of The Simpsons, Jennings explains how we built our humor-saturated modern age, where lots of us get our news from comedy shows and a comic figure can even be elected president of the United States purely on showmanship.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A disappointing effort from a sharp wit
- By Tom Craven on 06-06-18
By: Ken Jennings
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Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
- Opinionated Columns on American Life
- By: Michael Smerconish
- Narrated by: Michael Smerconish
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 15 years. He has sounded off on topics as diverse as the hunt for Osama bin Laden and what the color of your Christmas lights says about you. In this collection of 100 of his most memorable columns, Smerconish reflects on American political life with his characteristic feistiness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All about Smerc and who cares about the victims
- By Mark J. Rosen on 12-10-20