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- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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- Unabridged
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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 105
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascism expert talks fascism
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The Deficit Myth
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- Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
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- Unabridged
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2 out of 5 stars
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If Then
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- Narrated by: Jill Lepore
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 81
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2 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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2 out of 5 stars
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By: Barack Obama
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Nixonland
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- By: Rick Perlstein
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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- Unabridged
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From one of America's most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide our nation today. Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A 5-Star Book Injured by the Narrator
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It Was All a Lie
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- By: Stuart Stevens
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,279
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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 audiobook, he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not an audiobook about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A party gone astray
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By: Stuart Stevens
Publisher's Summary
A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond.
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography.
In the late 19th century, support for the left began to cluster in cities among the industrial working class. Today, left-wing parties have become coalitions of diverse urban interest groups, from racial minorities to the creative class. These parties win big in urban districts but struggle to capture the suburban and rural seats necessary for legislative majorities. A bold new interpretation of today's urban-rural political conflict, Why Cities Lose also points to electoral reforms that could address the left's under-representation while reducing urban-rural polarization.
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- GREGORY SHEPPARD
- 12-17-20
WTF!? Where are the charts!?
This book is packed with descriptions of charts that are not included with the audio. If do not you have the charts already, beware.