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Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
This program is read by the author. Americans didn't just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protester class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents? In Billionaire at the Barricades, Laura Ingraham gives listeners a front row seat to the populist revolution as she witnessed it. She reveals the origins of this movement and its connection to the Trump presidency. She unmasks the opposition, forecasts the future of the Make America Great Again agenda and offers her own prescriptions for bringing real change to the swamp of Washington. Unlike most of her media colleagues, Ingraham understood Trump's appeal and defied those who wrote his political obituary. Now she confronts the president's critics and responds to those who deny the importance of his America First agenda. With sharp humor and insight she traces the DNA of the populist movement: from Goldwater's 1964 campaign, to Nixon's Silent Majority, to Reagan's smashing electoral victories. Populism fueled the insurgency campaigns of Buchanan and Perot, the election of George W. Bush, and the Tea Party rallies of the Obama presidency. But a political novice - a Manhattan billionaire - proved to be the movement's most vocal champion. This is the inside story of his victory and the fitful struggle to enact his agenda. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Ingraham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002512/bk_aren_002512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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His Last Shift (eBook, ePUB)
In the early 2000s, sixteen-year-old Todd Davison and his older brother Wade were living the Canadian hockey dream - playing together in the Western Hockey League, a stepping-stone for many future NHL stars. Todd seemed destined to be one of them; with his incredible speed, skill, and indomitable spirit, he had already defied all odds to become the smallest player in the league. But after facing off against Sidney Crosby at the Canada Winter Games in 2003, that dream became a nightmare when Todd's mysterious shoulder pain led to a devastating cancer diagnosis. Within one year he went from flying around the ice with the world's best players to needing help to cross the stage at his high school graduation. He went from fighting to become a professional hockey player to fighting for his life. His Last Shift - The Playbook of Todd Davison recounts the transformative journey of an incredible young man as he comes to terms with his death long before his time. It is filled with stories of his greatness and glory on the ice and the moments of agony and despair as he goes through painful, unsuccessful treatments. It is during his lowest points, however, that Todd rallies stronger than ever. From his unbelievable junior hockey comeback and creation of the Believe in the Goal foundation - to coaching his last game with a broken back, Todd found a way to live an empowered life in the face of chaos and fear. Told by his brother and teammate, Wade, this book also delves into Todd's spiritual path as he searches for life's meaning and what happens when we leave this world. Ultimately, his story is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend everything, even physical death.- Shop: buecher
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Trump and Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants - he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history. It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that required him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man "who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul". In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject's head as an enduring irritant - and how Singer ("A TOTAL LOSER!" according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump's evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America's standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art - a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Singer, David Remnick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004646/bk_rand_004646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lost Souls: The Forgotten Heroes of Eshowe: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1068min
In January 1879, three columns of British soldiers under the command of Lord Chelmsford, commenced the invasion of the Zulu Kingdom. The southern No. 1 Column led by Colonel Charles Pearson advances on the old mission station at Eshowe. Their intent is to establish a fort and supply depot from which to support the centre No. 3 Column’s advance on the Zulu royal kraal at Ulundi. As the vast column of British soldiers and their African allies slogs its way across the coastal hills, the incessant rain and threat of typhoid promise to be as fearful a nemesis as the lurking armies of Zulu warriors.Unbeknownst to Pearson, calamity struck a hundred miles to the north when nearly half of No. 3 Column is destroyed during a catastrophic battle at a mountain called Isandlwana. Despite the garrison at Rorke’s Drift subsequent repelling of the Zulu onslaught, the entire invasion is left in tatters. Over a thousand imperial soldiers now lie dead, in a war which the Crown never authorised or wanted.Over the coming days, the Zulus surround the fort at Eshowe, cutting off all communications and resupply efforts. With the British Empire now reluctantly committed to war, reinforcements are dispatched from England. In a race against time, Lord Chelmsford rallies the arriving forces into a relief column. Should they fail to break through to Eshowe and relieve the garrison, Colonel Pearson and another thousand British soldiers will suffer the same fate as the poor souls whose bodies still lie unburied along the slopes of Isandlwana. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Waters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126704/bk_acx0_126704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Other Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 751min
Sometimes it is the people we think we know the best who surprise us the most. London, 1986: Klaudia is about to start high school. She's embarrassed by her German father - he's the janitor at her school; he has a funny accent and a limp. And when the kids at school taunt her by saying he was a Nazi during the war, she can't dispute them with confidence. She's never known exactly what he may or may not have done during the war. It is a period of time no one will ever discuss. Leeds, 1995: Eliza is in love. She has dropped out of university to pursue her passion - dance. But then talented artist Cosmo comes along, and soon Eliza realizes that she might have room in her life for two loves. But can she really continue to lie to everyone around her? And why is she so afraid of the truth? Germany, 1930s: Two brothers are trying to fend for themselves during the chaos of the rise of the Third Reich. One brother rallies for the Fuhrer; one holds back. One is seemingly good, one bad. But history seems to tell a completely different story. All of these characters' fates will collide in an audiobook that explores what we are ultimately willing to do for love. Saskia Sarginson hypnotically examines whether our identities are tied to where we've come from in a captivating mystery that shows how sometimes history doesn't tell the true story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marisa Calin, Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002185/bk_aren_002185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The American Revolution Reborn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 732min
The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more complex matter, filled with uncertainty, fear, and discord. In The American Revolution Reborn, editors Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman compile essays from a new generation of multidisciplinary scholars that render the American Revolution as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. In the first section, "Civil Wars", contributors rethink the heroic terms of Revolutionary-era allegiance and refute the idea of patriotic consensus. In the following section, "Wider Horizons", essayists destabilize the historiographical inevitability of America as a nation. The studies gathered in the third section, "New Directions", present new possibilities for scholarship on the American Revolution. And the last section, titled "Legacies", collects essays that deal with the long afterlife of the Revolution and its effects on immigration, geography, and international politics. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. "This is the most ambitious state-of-the-field collection published since the American Revolution's bicentennial. .. lively and wide-ranging collection of essays." - Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 "A state-of-the-field collection. Its essays rank among the best Revolutionary scholarship." - Benjamin H. Irvin, University of Arizona "The essays in this volume are careful, thought-provoking, and highly effective." - Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University-Camden ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Caldwell Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115492/bk_acx0_115492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 731min
Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma’s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality. Emma’s pretty sister Pam at once enlists with the WAAF and Jim, her politically minded brother, after initially declaring himself a pacifist, joins the RAF. But what should Emma, aged only 16, do? Secretarial collage equips her for a job with MI5 but it’s dull work and Emma yearns for fresh air. She is rescued by a scheme taking on girls as crew for canal boats. Freedom! The war over, Emma travels to India with a documentary film company, lives in Chelsea, falls in love in France and spends time in Paris where she sets about mending a broken heart by writing her first novel. Sitting beside the Seine during a heatwave with her typewriter on her knees, she is unwittingly snapped by legendary photographer Robert Doisneau. The zest, thirst for life and buoyant spirits of Emma, as she recalls in evocative detail the quality of England in the 30s and 40s, give As Green as Grass the feel of a ready-made classic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Rendel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016982/bk_adbl_016982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Renegade: The Making of a President, Hörbuch, Digital, 369min
Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics.This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the world's most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade.Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and president, as well as 21 months covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he?Based on Wolffe's unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and political skills to succeed during his youth and early career. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest.Renegade is an essential guide to understanding President Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides and friends. It is also a riveting and enlightening first draft of history and political psychology. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Wolffe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001878/bk_rand_001878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Iranian Connection: A Novel of Geopolitics, Industrial Espionage, and Entrepreneurship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1200min
By nearly every measure, Cameron Ash (nickname Cash) is a success. Handsome and charismatic, he developed Cameron Industries into a $400-million international powerhouse. His wife and children love him unconditionally and crave his companionship. His management team protects his life even if it endangers their own. Inside, though, Cash is consumed by rage and hungry for revenge. As a teenager, the explosion of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland took the lives of his parents. Twenty-five years later, his drive to find the man behind this act of terror is stronger than ever. When Cash sells Cameron Industries to save his marriage and devote his life to philanthropy, he's blindsided by another tragedy that plunges him deeply into despair. His thirst for answers and his desire for revenge multiply. His attempt to turn his life around is complicated by an unexpected lover, a mysterious stalker, an assassination team, an Alabama restaurateur, and his devious father-in-law. To pull him from his anguish, his management team rallies behind him as he steps in to save a failing technology company. Unknowingly, his efforts place him in the epicenter of an industrial espionage network. Two men and two civilizations are colliding: an Iranian spymaster and an American entrepreneur. Searching for the man behind the Lockerbie bombing, Cash finds hints of explosive secrets about his family and government officials. He discovers secret negotiations that could reshape the Middle East and disrupt American politics. Cash will not back down, and he pushes forward knowing that finding the truth could lead to his death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Rimer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128914/bk_acx0_128914_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Thick: And Other Essays , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
Recommended by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Book Riot, BuzzFeed, Bust, LitHub, The Millions, HelloGiggles, and UrbanDaddy “The author you need to read now.” (Chicago Tribune) “To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth.” (Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist) Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society. Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks as it is beside Jeff Chang and Janet Mock. It also fills an important void on those very shelves: a modern Black American feminist voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms as she covers everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Thick speaks fearlessly to a range of topics and is far more genre-bending than a typical compendium of personal essays. An intrepid intellectual force hailed by the likes of Trevor Noah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Oprah, Tressie McMillan Cottom is “among America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister). This stunning debut collection - in all its intersectional glory - mines for meaning in places many of us miss, and reveals precisel ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tressie McMillan Cottom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051836/bk_adbl_051836_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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