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    THEY Made America Great : 31 Endearing Legacies Worth Heeding Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    Spanning more than 250 years of American history, this work is a collection of 31 heartwarming stories of some of our fellow Americans who have traveled that road behind us. Some people here are well known: Harry Truman, George Marshall, Lou Gehrig, the Wright Brothers, Clara Barton, Ulysses Grant, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Quincy Adams, David Crockett, Meriwether Lewis, and Benjamin Franklin. Others presented here are lesser known, but also have contributed to our American legacy.Harry Truman once stated, “The only thing really new, is the history you don’t know.” Professor Allen Guelzo stated, "History, if anything, teaches us humility.” It's been said, “The next time around, history lessons are always more costly.” Distinguished Historian David McCullough affirms, “History is a great way to meet people.” This book does that.Specific to this book, America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association cofounder Ron Stob stated, “By looking at our nation’s past, we can better understand and assess events of today.” Leon E. Panetta of Seaside, California, stated, “Your book highlights what it means to be American, all the while providing a means to reflect on the challenges currently facing the American identity.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Wilson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192176/bk_acx0_192176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Character of American Democracy: Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    Ethical leadership, steeped in integrity and fairness, matters. The future of our nation and our world depends upon the quality of America's character. In this uncompromising, absorbing look at our government and society today, Jill Long Thompson persuasively argues that we all have a meaningful role to play in shaping America's character and future. The citizenry, as well as their elected officials, are responsible for protecting fairness of participation and integrity in elections, as well as in the adoption and execution of laws. In this troubling time when the public is losing trust and confidence in our government, Jill Long Thompson shows us a bipartisan way forward.The book is published by Indiana University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Dr. Long Thompson's book will be a resource for Americans who are seeking ways to secure our democracy and our future as a nation." (The Honorable John Lewis)"This book is a good read for all Americans. Dr. Long Thompson has set an example for all of us in her remarkable career as politician and academician." (The Honorable Lee Hamilton)"Jill Long Thompson has written a bible for public service." (The Honorable Leon Panetta) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235497/bk_acx0_235497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Journey: Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min
    The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy almost 40 years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he had never gotten from his own father. This purpose has driven the General throughout his remarkable career, taking him to Alaska, the Pentagon, and Germany; to Florida during Hurricane Opal, and has also allowed him to work alongside Presidents Bush and Obama and Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Ashton Carter. Journey is a book about leadership. It is packed with the General’s lessons from life in the military: breaking the mold, flying uncharted airspace, battles from Iraq to the Pentagon, Afghanistan to Congress. It’s about pushing limits in an era of diminishing budgets and fewer resources to fuel the furnace of innovation. He chronicles the phenomenal story of the evolution of the US special operations, such as what was achieved when taking down Bin Laden. The General discusses the controversial new technologies that have been allowing America to build new capabilities in cyber warfare. Many believe General Schwartz’s greatest legacy will be the dramatic escalation of the drone program. He is a staunch advocate for it and this book will explain why. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donna Postel, Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010323/bk_brll_010323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 850min
    This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's 42nd president, Bill Clinton. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failures. This is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project. Interviewees offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written. The authors producing this volume had first access to more than 50 of these cleared interviews, including sessions with White House chiefs of staff Mack McLarty and Leon Panetta, Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, National Security Advisors Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, and a host of political advisors who guided Clinton into the White House and helped keep him there. This book thus provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirk O. Winkler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068669/bk_acx0_068669_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clinton Administration personnel
    Clinton Administration personnel ab 30.49 € als Taschenbuch: Walter Mondale Joseph Stiglitz George Tenet Barry McCaffrey Rahm Emanuel Elena Kagan Bill White Nouriel Roubini Dick Morris George Stephanopoulos Leon Panetta Christine A. Varney James Carville Jamie Metzl Robert Malley. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min
    Now with a chapter on the chaos in the Trump administration, The New York Times best-selling, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country.What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States - as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers", wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and - most crucially - enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Each chief can make or break an administration, and each president reveals himself by the chief he picks.  Through extensive, intimate interviews with 18 living chiefs (including Reince Priebus) and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history, revealing to us how James Baker’s expert managing of the White House, the press, and Capitol Hill paved the way for the Reagan Revolution - and, conversely, how Watergate, the Iraq War, and even the bungled Obamacare rollout might have been prevented by a more effective chief.Filled with shrewd analysis and never-before-reported details, The Gatekeepers offers an essential portrait of the toughest job in Washington. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004940/bk_rand_004940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Iraq Study Group Report , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min
    After nine months of examining and analyzing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group issued this report on Dec. 6, 2006. The report calls the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating" and says, "There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved". The report makes a wide-ranging series of 79 recommendations for political, diplomatic, economic, and military action so the U.S. can "begin to move its combat forces" out of Iraq.The co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group were James A. Baker III, who served Pres. Reagan as Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff, and Pres. George H.W. Bush as Secretary of State; and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat who served in Congress for 34 years. Democratic members of the Study Group included former Secretary of Defense William Perry; former Governor and Senator Charles S. Robb; former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta; and Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., advisor to Pres. Clinton. Republican members included former Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor; former Sen. Alan K. Simpson; former Attorney General Edwin Meese III; and former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger. (Former CIA Director Robert Gates was an active member for a period of months until his nomination as Secretary of Defense.)Four organizations participated in preparing the report: United States Institute of Peace; James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University; Center for the Study of the Presidency; and Center for Strategic and International Studies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stow Lovejoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/000050/bk_adbl_000050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American politician Introduction
    American politician Introduction ab 26.99 € als Taschenbuch: Edwin M. Wright Cecilia Muñoz Paul N. Carlin James Oddo Mike Panetta Sekou Biddle David Catania John Jay Scannell William L. O'Brien Stephen D. Krasner David A. Clarke Justin Ross Stuart M. Gerson Eric Ulrich. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 948min
    Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential figure, a formidable stateswoman and the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, marking one of the great political comebacks in history. The story of Hillary’s phoenixlike rise is at the heart of HRC, a riveting political biography that journeys into the heart of “Hillaryland” to discover a brilliant strategist at work. Masterfully unfolded by Politico’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes from more than two hundred top-access interviews with Hillary’s intimates, colleagues, supporters, and enemies, HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy. Loathed by the Obama team in the wake of the primary, Hillary worked to become the president’s greatest ally, their fates intertwined in the work of reestablishing America on the world stage. HRC puts readers in the room with Hillary during the most intense and pivotal moments of this era, as she mulls the president-elect’s offer to join the administration, pulls the strings to build a coalition for his war against Libya, and scrambles to deal with the fallout from the terrible events in Benghazi - all while keeping one eye focused on 2016. HRC offers a rare look inside the merciless Clinton political machine, as Bill Clinton handled the messy business of avenging Hillary’s primary loss while she tried to remain above the partisan fray. Exploring her friendships and alliances with Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Joe Biden, and the president himself, Allen and Parnes show how Hillary fundamentally transformed the State Department through the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003758/bk_rand_003758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
    James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor, who died in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best - and most defining - actors of his generation. The audiobook, as performed by Gandolfini's Sopranos co-star John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco), is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, HBO executives, the star’s acting teachers and coaches, his childhood friends, buddies from his days as a nightclub bouncer, and Hollywood figures including the directors of his posthumously released films. Bischoff decodes Gandolfini’s portrayal of mobsters and bad guys from his breakout role in True Romance with Patricia Arquette to the television series role that made his career, including his portrayals of real people like Leon Panetta in Zero Dark Thirty. Gandolfini’s personal life - from his marriages and family interactions to his deep friendships with his fellow cast members - enriches and enlivens this book, and deepens our understanding of the star. James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is a fascinating look at Gandolfini’s complicated relationship to his roots, to the role that made him wealthy beyond his imagination, and to American notions of masculinity, power and fame. Even as he scaled the heights of his profession, creating a TV character as vivid as Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker and as volcanic as Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski, Gandolfini remained a reluctant celebrity dedicated more to his craft than to his career. James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano delivers a textured, multilayered portrait of the on- and off-screen life of a complex, talented man who rose from an Italian immigrant family in northern New Jersey to join the ranks of America’s most iconic actors. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Ventimiglia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015055/bk_adbl_015055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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