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Politics on the Edge
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- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise....
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So good I immediately listened to it a second time!
- By Thalia on 16-09-23
By: Rory Stewart
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But What Can I Do?
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- Narrated by: Alastair Campbell
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Alastair Campbell is widely regarded as one of our leading political commentators - this book shows why....
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Heavily Biased and Preachy.
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The Fall
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- By: Michael Wolff
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How Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't
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British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get a firm sense that something has gone terribly wrong....
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Clear-eyed, yet hopeful
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-23
By: Ian Dunt
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Turning Points
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- By: Steve Richards
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history....
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Fantastic
- By AJD on 25-09-23
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The Right to Rule
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- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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The Right to Rule is the full story of what has just happened in British politics, and how it has shaped Westminster and, by extension, the nation....
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Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise....
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So good I immediately listened to it a second time!
- By Thalia on 16-09-23
By: Rory Stewart
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But What Can I Do?
- Why Politics Has Gone so Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
- By: Alastair Campbell
- Narrated by: Alastair Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Alastair Campbell is widely regarded as one of our leading political commentators - this book shows why....
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Heavily Biased and Preachy.
- By Richard Elliott on 12-08-23
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The Fall
- The End of the Murdoch Empire
- By: Michael Wolff
- Narrated by: Holter Graham, Michael Wolff
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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As the fallout from the 2020 election and the Dominion lawsuit pummels the reputation of the network, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act in this riveting drama....
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How Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't
- By: Ian Dunt
- Narrated by: Ian Dunt
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get a firm sense that something has gone terribly wrong....
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Clear-eyed, yet hopeful
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-23
By: Ian Dunt
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Turning Points
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- By: Steve Richards
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- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history....
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Fantastic
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By: Steve Richards
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The Right to Rule
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- By: Ben Riley-Smith
- Narrated by: Ben Riley-Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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The Right to Rule is the full story of what has just happened in British politics, and how it has shaped Westminster and, by extension, the nation....
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A Journey
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Tony Blair is the politician who defines our times....
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An Honest, Frank and Personal Journey...
- By Neil on 17-09-10
By: Tony Blair
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Why Nations Fail
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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History made science
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The Storm Is Upon Us
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This is the real story of QAnon - what it is, what it means and where it goes. And be warned - none of it is pretty....
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An excellent insight to Q
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
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Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better....
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Agonisingly long winded
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The Other Pandemic
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- By: James Ball
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- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world’s first digital pandemic....
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Really excellent listen
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-23
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Politics
- Between the Extremes
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Nick Clegg knows the volatile state of modern politics better than anyone else....
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A loss to British politics.
- By KEN HUMES on 23-09-16
By: Nick Clegg
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Zucked
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This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it....
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Everyone should read or listen to this book.
- By Martin Koss on 09-02-19
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Why We're Polarized
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- Narrated by: Ezra Klein
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In Why We're Polarised, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction....
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A great guide to modern politics
- By Jake carbone on 25-04-20
By: Ezra Klein
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We Are Bellingcat
- An Intelligence Agency for the People
- By: Eliot Higgins
- Narrated by: Eliot Higgins
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future....
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Nuts & Bolts
- By Mr. P. G. Harris on 10-03-21
By: Eliot Higgins
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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This book is both an unflinching account of the disease in our politics and an upbeat look for the cure....
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Amazing brilliant witty analysis
- By Amazon Customer on 26-08-23
By: Rafael Behr
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Identity
- The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state....
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Is so bad that it does not allow the content work
- By AGGELOS IOAKIMIDES on 31-03-19
By: Francis Fukuyama
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Show Me the Bodies
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- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and died....
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Oh dear Lord…
- By Lee on 08-02-23
By: Peter Apps
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Going Mainstream
- How Extremists Are Taking Over
- By: Julia Ebner
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Going Mainstream is a dispatch from the darkest front of the culture wars, and a vital wake-up call....
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This is a very important book
- By Susan on 27-08-23
By: Julia Ebner
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The Elephant in the Room
- A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right"
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Whimsical, hilarious and often downright terrifying, The Elephant in the Room captures a defining moment in our time as only Jon Ronson could see it....
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Bit short for a whole credit
- By Moostu on 31-10-16
By: Jon Ronson
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Decision Points
- By: George Bush
- Narrated by: George Bush
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president....
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This is a waste of time
- By Donn Edwards on 04-12-10
By: George Bush
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- By: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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Great book well narrated
- By Megan on 05-09-20
By: Nate Silver
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Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- By: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
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Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era....
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Effecting Change
- By C. S. Horler on 07-07-18
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Seven Ways to Change the World
- How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face
- By: Gordon Brown
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
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When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an unprecedented impact. But out of such disruption can come a new way of thinking, and in this superb new book, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face in 2021 and beyond....
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Global problems require global solutions
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By: Gordon Brown
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On Being Unreasonable
- Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better
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- Narrated by: Kirsty Sedgman
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On Being Unreasonable mounts a vital and spirited defence of why and how being unreasonable can help improve the world....
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fascinating
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-23
By: Kirsty Sedgman
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Divided
- Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
- By: Tim Marshall
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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New from the number-one Sunday Times best-selling author of Prisoners of Geography. We feel more divided than ever. This riveting analysis tells you why....
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Good book undermined by obtrusive narration
- By Michael Sweeney on 30-01-19
By: Tim Marshall
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Kind of Blue
- A Political Memoir
- By: Ken Clarke
- Narrated by: Ken Clarke
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
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In Kind of Blue, Clarke charts his remarkable progress from working-class scholarship boy in Nottinghamshire to high political office and the upper echelons of both his party and of government....
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True Blue
- By Ms Del on 08-11-16
By: Ken Clarke
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Worth Dying For
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- Narrated by: Ric Jerom
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When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams....
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Arrgh - the Narrator
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Means of Ascent
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Superb
- By KR on 06-10-15
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The New Right
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- By: Michael Malice
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- Length: 9 hrs
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Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture....
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Hugely interesting book
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By: Michael Malice
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The Fall
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Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. As the fallout from the 2020 election and the Dominion lawsuit pummels the reputation of the network, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act in this riveting drama.
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The Year That Broke Politics
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- By: Luke A. Nichter
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of the campaign.
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Turning Points
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- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Every few weeks in British politics, a columnist will reach for the word ‘unprecedented’ as a cabinet minister resigns or yet another inquiry is called. We have become so accustomed to turmoil that it is impossible to take a breath and see where we are headed. In this magisterial history, respected broadcaster and journalist Steve Richards puts the recent chaos into context and takes a step back to explore ten critical moments that have shaped modern Britain.
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Fantastic
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The Electoral College
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- By: Thomas E. Weaver
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Told through the lenses of specific people who both influenced the process and were impacted by the results, The Electoral College looks at how the Electoral College has changed US history and why it endures.
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To Build a Black Future
- The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
- By: Christopher Paul Harris
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When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emergent from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave.
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The Normal Curve
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An examination of UK politics and politicians from 1945 to 2023, written for people who hate or ignore both. A manifesto for a political future based on philosophy and wisdom about how our political system should be changed—which, of course, means goodbye to party politics....
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The Fall
- The End of the Murdoch Empire
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Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. As the fallout from the 2020 election and the Dominion lawsuit pummels the reputation of the network, the battling Murdoch heirs position themselves for the final act in this riveting drama.
By: Michael Wolff
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The Year That Broke Politics
- Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
- By: Luke A. Nichter
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of the campaign.
By: Luke A. Nichter
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Turning Points
- Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
- By: Steve Richards
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Every few weeks in British politics, a columnist will reach for the word ‘unprecedented’ as a cabinet minister resigns or yet another inquiry is called. We have become so accustomed to turmoil that it is impossible to take a breath and see where we are headed. In this magisterial history, respected broadcaster and journalist Steve Richards puts the recent chaos into context and takes a step back to explore ten critical moments that have shaped modern Britain.
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Fantastic
- By AJD on 25-09-23
By: Steve Richards
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The Electoral College
- A Biography of America's Peculiar Creation Through the Eyes of the People Who Shaped It
- By: Thomas E. Weaver
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Told through the lenses of specific people who both influenced the process and were impacted by the results, The Electoral College looks at how the Electoral College has changed US history and why it endures.
By: Thomas E. Weaver
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To Build a Black Future
- The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
- By: Christopher Paul Harris
- Narrated by: Landon Woodson
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought. To Build a Black Future examines the spirit and significance of this insurgency, offering a revelatory account of a new political culture—responsive to pain, suffused with joy, and premised on care—emergent from the centuries-long arc of Black rebellion, a tradition that traces back to the Black slave.
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The Normal Curve
- A Manifesto for a Secular & Philosophical Future for Britain
- By: Derek Ruskin
- Narrated by: Derek John Ruskin
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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An examination of UK politics and politicians from 1945 to 2023, written for people who hate or ignore both. A manifesto for a political future based on philosophy and wisdom about how our political system should be changed—which, of course, means goodbye to party politics....
By: Derek Ruskin
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Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
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So good I immediately listened to it a second time!
- By Thalia on 16-09-23
By: Rory Stewart
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From Ballots to Mugshots
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- By: Thomas T. Taylor
- Narrated by: Jack Pemberton
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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When it comes to politics, the journey from the ballot box to public office is often perceived as a noble path, driven by a desire to serve the public and make a positive impact on society. However, lurking behind the scenes is a darker side of politics, rife with corruption, crime, and their far-reaching consequences. From Ballots to Mugshots: A Study of Political Corruption, Crime, and Consequences in the U.S. peels back the curtain on the insidious world of political corruption, revealing its many forms and the mechanisms that enable it.
By: Thomas T. Taylor
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American Breakdown
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From the former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, a must-hear account of how America suffers from a “trust deficit” that has weakened its cornerstone institutions and divided our society.
By: Gerard Baker
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The New Technology State
- How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares—and What We Can Do About It
- By: Bill Raduchel
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Sixty years ago, legendary economist John Kenneth Galbraith issued a grim prophecy that the global elite would harness the potential of the burgeoning computing revolution to accumulate even more wealth and power.
By: Bill Raduchel
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The San Marcos 10
- An Antiwar Protest in Texas
- By: E. R. Bills
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Part of a coordinated, nationwide Vietnam moratorium effort that confounded and infuriated the Nixon White House, the San Marcos 10 challenged their suspension, taking their case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Author E. R. Bills offers this fascinating glimpse into the 1960s antiwar movement in Texas, the extraordinary measures to quell it, and the broader social activism in which it participated.
By: E. R. Bills
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Democracy Under Siege
- The Threat of AI-Powered Voter Manipulation
- By: David Ewen
- Narrated by: Jason Wyatt
- Length: 26 mins
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Prepare to be taken on a thought-provoking journey as Dr. David K. Ewen uncovers the ominous challenges that arise when artificial intelligence (AI) and democratic processes intersect. In his book, Democracy Under Siege: The Threat of AI-Powered Voter Manipulation, Dr. Ewen explores the transformative impact of advanced AI language models like ChatGPT on political campaigns and communication. However, as exciting as this new technology is, it also poses a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes.
By: David Ewen
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Next Acts
- Common Sense Solutions for a New Florida and a New America
- By: James Oaksun
- Narrated by: James Oaksun
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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“When I reflect on my life experience, I can identify three broad categories on which I focused to bring my world into better, more stable, and more successful alignment….” In this challenging and thought-provoking new book, James Oaksun argues that those same three areas–repeal, repair, and prepare–are precisely what Florida, and America, need to focus on in order to thrive in the middle years of the 21st century.
By: James Oaksun
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24/7 Politics
- Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
- By: Kathryn Cramer Brownell
- Narrated by: Patricia Shade
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits.
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Nasty Politics
- The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement
- By: Thomas Zeitzoff
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Why do politicians engage in nasty politics? Why do they use insult, accusations, intimidation, and in rare cases violence against their domestic political opponents? In Nasty Politics, Thomas Zeitzoff answers these questions by examining this global political trend in the US, Ukraine, and Israel and looking at how key leaders such as Trump, Zelensky, and Netanyahu use it. Nasty Politics highlights how it influences the kinds of politicians who run for office and deepens our understanding for why so many politicians now rely on outsized anger and withering insults for political gain.
By: Thomas Zeitzoff
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Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha
- By: Rahul Roushan
- Narrated by: Siddhanta Pinto
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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This book analyses why Hindutva as an ideology is no longer anathema and what brought about this change. Why did a country that was ruled for decades by people espousing Nehruvian secularism suddenly began to align with the ‘communal politics’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? The book is the story of this transformation.
By: Rahul Roushan
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Dark PR
- How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment
- By: Grant Ennis
- Narrated by: Annabelle Indge
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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In Dark PR, Grant Ennis–drawing on his decades of experience working in the environmental, philanthropy, and public health sectors–reveals exactly how multinationals go about hoodwinking and manipulating us. In doing so, he lifts the lid on the nine devious frames contained within the cross-industry corporate disinformation playbook.
By: Grant Ennis
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Brutal Campaign
- How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics
- By: Robert L. Fleegler
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Robert L. Fleegler's narrative history of the 1988 election draws from untapped archival sources and revealing oral history interviews to uncover just how consequential this moment was for American politics. Identifying the seeds of political issues to come, Fleegler delivers an engaging review of an election that set a template for the political dynamics that define our lives to this day.