Showing results by publisher "Basic Books" in Politics & Government
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Distracted
- Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
- By: James M. Lang
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems. Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that...
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Distracted
- Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
- Adolescent Psychology · Education
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- By: Moises Naim
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond. br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public...
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Forensic
- By Anonymous on 16-06-25
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
- Management · Leadership · Political Science
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- By: Jason L Riley
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering...
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Intelligence and the human spirit. Unputdownable
- By JNG on 14-03-23
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Maverick
- A Biography of Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
- Americas · Politicians · Politics & Activism
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James Madison
- America's First Politician
- By: Jay Cost
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally...
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James Madison
- America's First Politician
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
- 18th Century · Americas · Modern
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Birchers
- How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
- By: Matthew Dallek
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in...
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Birchers
- How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
- Liberalism · Americas · Politics & Government
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Blood Brothers
- The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- By: Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An “engrossing and important book" (Wall Street Journal) that brings to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the...
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Blood Brothers
- The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-03-23
- Language: English
- Activists · Americas · Cultural & Regional
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The Affirmative Action Myth
- Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
- By: Jason L Riley
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many...
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The Affirmative Action Myth
- Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
- Americas · Education · Politics & Government
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Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- By: Jefferson Cowie
- Narrated by: André Chapoy
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically...
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Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- Narrated by: André Chapoy
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-11-22
- Language: English
- Americas · Freedom & Security
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A Time to Build
- From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
- By: Yuval Levin
- Narrated by: Ford Enlow
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And...
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Interesting book but lacks evidence for claims
- By Anonymous on 16-05-20
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A Time to Build
- From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
- Narrated by: Ford Enlow
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
- Americas · Civics & Citizenship
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Myth America
- Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
- By: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over...
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Myth America
- Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses, Sasha LaPointe
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-01-23
- Language: English
- Americas · Civics & Citizenship
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American Covenant
- How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again
- By: Yuval Levin
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fractious America Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with irreconcilable political perspectives...
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American Covenant
- How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
- Americas · Law · Political Science
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Terms of Respect
- How Colleges Get Free Speech Right
- By: Christopher L. Eisgruber
- Narrated by: Maxwell Zener
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The president of Princeton, a constitutional scholar, reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discourse and foster mutual respect Conversations about higher education teem with accusations that American colleges and universities...
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Terms of Respect
- How Colleges Get Free Speech Right
- Narrated by: Maxwell Zener
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
- Education · Freedom & Security
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Citizen Cash
- The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
- By: Michael Stewart Foley
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart, Greg Littlefield
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” But he was also the most prominent...
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Citizen Cash
- The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
- Narrated by: Michael Stewart, Greg Littlefield
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-12-21
- Language: English
- Celebrity · Music · Politicians
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The Great Democracy
- How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
- By: Ganesh Sitaraman
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times). Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by...
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A must read if interested in the future of America
- By Yulia on 08-02-20
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The Great Democracy
- How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-12-19
- Language: English
- Americas · Politics & Government · United States
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So Ordered
- An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country
- By: Samuel A. Alito Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Justice Samuel A. Alito elaborates on his judicial philosophy and reflects on the roles of the law, the Constitution, and the courts in preserving America’s spirit of liberty Samuel A. Alito has quietly become one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in recent history. In this...
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So Ordered
- An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-10-26
- Language: English
- Law · Political Science · Politics & Government
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After the Fall
- From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
- By: Ian Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs
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A renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe...
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After the Fall
- From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 05-05-26
- Language: English
- Political Science · Politics & Government
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
- Americas · Freedom & Security · Military
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- By: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-12-18
- Language: English
- Crime · Freedom & Security · Judicial Systems
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- By: Andrew Whitby
- Narrated by: David Piggott
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- Narrated by: David Piggott
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-04-20
- Language: English
- 19th Century · Economic History · Economics
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- By: Matthew Avery Sutton
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They...
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-09-19
- Language: English
- Espionage · 20th Century · War
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