The Man Who Would Be King
Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
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Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher, Karen House has gained unprecedented insights into Saudi Arabia and its controversial leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman through her more than forty years of experience covering the Arab kingdom.
House reveals a leader who like Peter the Great, is a reformer determined to modernize his kingdom but also an autocrat who jails political opponents and rival princes to assure his grip on power. Drawing on extensive interviews with the Crown Prince, his royal relatives, and his inner ring of advisors, The Man Who Would Be King explains in full what shaped the man who is reshaping Saudi Arabia.
Drawing on fresh, headline-making reporting, House balances both sides of this complex ruler. We are introduced to MBS the visionary, who has ushered in reforms for women to participate more equitably, encouraged tourism to the Kingdom, and placed long term bets on green energy and trillion dollar mega-projects like The Line, a hundred-mile-long enclosed futuristic city in the desert that will be run by AI. And we meet MBS the Machiavellian prince, widely accused of having Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi murdered, and of sports washing the kingdom's reputation by investing billions in teams globally, from Premiere League soccer to the LIV (liv) golf tour to the World Cup which the Kingdom will host in 2034.
The Man Who Would Be King reveals MBS in all his complexities, from his rise to power and his vision for the future of his Kingdom, to his ruthless maneuvers to project power—a shrewd broker working to seal a viable deal with Israel and bring peace to Gaza while he cuts oil supplies to manipulate Western politics. It is an unprecedented and much needed in-depth portrait of the leader who, at only thirty-nine, will be a major player on the world stage for the next half century.
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How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.
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The Jailhouse Lawyer
- De: Calvin Duncan, Sophie Cull
- Narrado por: Aaron Goodson, Calvin Duncan
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn’t commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense system and a badly compromised witness, Duncan was left to rot in the waking nightmare of confinement. Armed with little education, he took matters into his own hands. At twenty-one, he filed his first motion from prison: “Motion for a Law Book,” which launched his highly successful, self-taught, legal career. Trapped within this wholly corrupted system, Calvin became a legal advocate for himself and his fellow prisoners as an Inmate Counsel.
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Amazing true story!
- De MimiG en 07-14-25
De: Calvin Duncan, y otros
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Dinner with King Tut
- How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of Egypt or the majestic temples of Mexico, we have a good idea of what the past looked like. But what about our other senses: The tang of Roman fish sauce and the springy crust of Egyptian sourdough? The boom of medieval cannons and the clash of Viking swords? The frenzied plays of an Aztec ballgame...and the chilling reality that the losers might also lose their lives?
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The best of science and history in one book!
- De Lisa Glaser en 07-15-25
De: Sam Kean
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Kincora: Britain's Shame
- De: Chris Moore
- Narrado por: Phil Clark
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades.
De: Chris Moore
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Thomas More
- A Life
- De: Joanne Paul
- Narrado por: Ben Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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homas More: A Life is a monumental biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure. Overturning prior interpretations of this titan of the sixteenth century, Joanne Paul shows Thomas More to have been intellectually and politically central to the making of modern Europe.
De: Joanne Paul
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2024
- How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
- De: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive and explosive account of how Trump and his advisers overcame a dozen primary challengers, four indictments, two assassination attempts, and his own past mistakes to defeat the Democrats, and pave the way for a second term that would be far more aggressive and ruthless than the first.
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Great but bias
- De kenny pitt en 07-13-25
De: Josh Dawsey, y otros
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MBS
- The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
- De: Ben Hubbard
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society of the richest country in the Middle East - and gather as much power as possible into his own hands. Since his father, King Salman, ascended to the throne in 2015, Mohammed bin Salman has leveraged his influence to restructure the kingdom’s economy, loosen its strict Islamic social codes, and confront its enemies around the region, especially Iran.
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Suffers from 'Objective Journalism' Syndrome
- De Anonymous User en 05-09-20
De: Ben Hubbard
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The Last Empress of France
- The Rebellious Life of Eugenie de Montijo
- De: Petie Kladstrup, Evelyne Resnick
- Narrado por: Jilly Bond
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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The dramatic untold story of Eugénie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women’s rights, opened France’s schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown.
De: Petie Kladstrup, y otros
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The Roma
- A Traveling History
- De: Madeline Potter
- Narrado por: Madeline Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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The Roma illuminates the overlooked history of Romani individuals and communities throughout the world. By reflecting on her own experiences as a Romani woman, and the stereotyping, marginalization, and racism she has endured, Potter creates a full-bodied, far-reaching history of a people often maligned and misunderstood, and pays tribute to a culture and its traditions.
De: Madeline Potter
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Hotel Ukraine
- An Arkady Renko Novel
- De: Martin Cruz Smith
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow investigator seeks to solve the murder of a diplomat as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wears on and the effects of Renko’s Parkinson’s Disease worsen. Helped by his lover, journalist Tatiana Petrovna, Renko traces the murder to a Russian paramilitary group aided by a government official who also used to be a romantic partner of Renko. Before long, those responsible for the killing look to similarly dispatch Arkady and Tatiana—all of it leading to a thrilling and action-packed climax.
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A sastisfactory conclusion
- De PattyQB en 07-12-25
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After the Spike
- De: Dean Spears, Michael Geruso
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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In After the Spike, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call, explaining why global depopulation is coming, why it matters, and what to do now. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better—better for the planet, better for the people who remain. This book invites us all to think again.
De: Dean Spears, y otros
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The Mission
- The CIA in the 21st Century
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s battles with Russia and China—and with the President of the United States.
De: Tim Weiner
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
- De: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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In a remote part of 19th-century Afghanistan, two British adventurers pursue their ambition to rule an empire. Using betrayal, threats, and guns, they win the respect of a primitive tribe and become worshipped as gods until one day they draw blood, and the game is up. "The Man Who Would Be King" is an action-packed tale about the pitfalls of colonialism and the temptations and evils of power.
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Varied Stories about Love, Life & Death in the Raj
- De Jefferson en 08-21-18
De: Rudyard Kipling
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The Mailman
- My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
- De: Stephen Starring Grant
- Narrado por: Stephen Starring Grant
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old hometown. Suddenly, he was the guy with the goods, delivering dog food and respirators and lube and heirloom tomato seeds and Lord of the Rings replica swords. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But while he carried the mail, he also carried a whole lot more than just the mail.
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Mundane
- De Lisa G. en 07-11-25
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I Spy: The U.S., Cuba, and the Secret Deal That Ended the Cold War
- De: Dan Ephron, Skybound, Foreign Policy
- Narrado por: Dan Ephron
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Grabación Original
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In 2014, American private contractor Alan Gross was rotting in a Cuban prison, convicted of undermining the Havana regime. At that same time, Cuban intelligence agent Gerardo Hernández was serving two life sentences in a US federal penitentiary on charges related to espionage. Then, it all changed. I Spy: The U.S., Cuba, and the Secret Deal That Ended the Cold War describes how secret negotiations to free the two men helped bring an end to half a century of hostilities between the United States and Cuba.
De: Dan Ephron, y otros