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Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min

Today's political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative campaigning. But history reveals that smear campaigns are as American as apple pie. Anything for a Vote is a look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections, from George Washington to Barack Obama and John McCain. Let the name-calling begin! 1836: Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing women's clothing: "He is laced up in corsets!" 1960: Former president Harry Truman advises voters that "if you vote for Richard Nixon, you ought to go to hell!" Full of sleazy anecdotes from every presidential election in United States history, Anything for a Vote is a valuable reminder that history does repeat itself, that lessons can be learned from the past (though they usually aren't), and that our most famous presidents are not above reproach when it comes to the dirtiest game of all - political campaigning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005311/bk_tant_005311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump exposed a deep divide in American politics and culture, one that pollsters and pundits didn't seem to realize was there. But Trump did, and he used it to his advantage in ways that surprised nearly everyone, even those who voted for him. Perhaps the biggest question on many people's minds is how, exactly, did a crass, unrepentant reality TV star and cutthroat business tycoon secure the majority of the religious conservative vote? Now the New York Times best-selling author of The Faith of George W. Bush and The Faith of Barack Obama turns his pen toward the Trump phenomenon. Through meticulous research and personal interviews, Stephen Mansfield uncovers who Trump's spiritual influences have been and explains why Christian conservatives were attracted to this unlikely candidate. The book ends with a reflection on the vital role of prophetic distance, both historically and now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Mansfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/002224/bk_hove_002224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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God and Donald Trump , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min

With pundits asking, "How did he win?" this book explores whether there was a supernatural element involved. Christian leaders prophesied before the election that God had raised up Donald Trump to lead the nation through a time of crisis. But could this billionaire reality-TV star actually convince the voters he was for real? If so, what is God doing now, not only in Donald's Trump's life, but also in the life of the nation? Trump is an enigma, a brash self-promoter, casino owner, and man of the world. Yet he is also a devoted husband and father who has surrounded himself with men and women of faith and has made religion a key component of his image. God and Donald Trump is a powerful first-person account of one of the most contentious elections in American history, with exclusive interviews and insightful commentary from the men and women who were there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Pruden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/002341/bk_hove_002341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1355min

Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a sweeping international lens that juxtaposes a struggling democracy with enticing ideologies like Fascism and Communism. Ira Katznelson, "a towering figure in the study of American and European history" (Cornel West), boldly asserts that, during the 1930s and 1940s, American democracy was rescued yet distorted by a unified band of southern lawmakers who safeguarded racial segregation as they built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power. This original study brings to vivid life the politicians and pundits of the time, including Walter Lippmann, who argued that America needed a dose of dictatorship; Mississippi’s five-foot-two Senator Theodore Bilbo, who advocated the legal separation of races; and Robert Oppenheimer, who built the atomic bomb yet was tragically undone by the nation’s hysteria. Fear Itself is a necessary work, vital to understanding our world - a world the New Deal first made. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012977/bk_adbl_012977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy: A Satire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

Come along with Governor Mike Huckleberry as he seeks the Republican nomination for president and thereby also seeks to deliver America from what he sees as its current death spiral into religious, moral, economic, and racial decay. Huckleberry is the one, the only chosen one, who can--with none other than Jesus himself whispering advice in his ear--rescue America from a gruesome army of gay, drug-addicted, taco-chomping deviants, rabble herds of "junior scholars" who run wild in urban jungles, and entitled, abortion-loving America haters who broadcast treason from deep within the Satanic labyrinth of MSNBC. In this candid first-person memoir, Huckleberry gives you an insider's view of his beleaguered campaign, such as it is: a hilarious clown car packed with an astonishing array of fear-mongering grotesques, xenophobic paranoids, closeted bigots, and rapacious, self-promoting Conservative pundits, all of them poised to commandeer America's future in the name of God and unrestrained capitalism (not necessarily in that order). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Curt Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/029119/bk_acx0_029119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mandarin Club , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min

A contemporary Washington mystery with a high-tech China twist. A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis. It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the US recognizes the People's Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills that the Mandarin Club members possess. Now, yesterday's dreamers are today's policy makers and pundits, patriots, and spies. Their intimately intertwined past thrusts them together into an international crisis straight from tomorrow's headlines, as America, China, and Taiwan stumble toward war. Told sequentially from the perspective of each of the Stanford originals, the fast-paced tale takes us behind the scenes of rogue intelligence operations and high-tech smuggling, from Washington and Beijing to the wild coastal towns of California. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Burrows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042419/bk_acx0_042419_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Vote.com: How Big-Money Lobbyists are Losing Influence, and the Internet is Giving Power to the People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 205min

Politics as usual - isn't anymore. Tear up what you know or think you know about politics. It's all changing. For thirty years the print and broadcast media - the Fourth Estate - dominated politics. Journalists and pundits shaped the way we perceived and thought about issues and politicians. But today, information, opinion, and raw data abound on the Internet, unfiltered and unvarnished by press secretaries, reporters or spin doctors. The Fifth Estate is the amalgam of Internet technology and the voters who use it; every day, 22 million Americans log on to the Internet looking for news. This combination of average citizens with easy access to information and a direct link to their representatives heralds a new dawning of democracy, putting political power back into the hands of the people. The Internet is about to send the information revolution into reverse, letting us talk back to our political leaders, and the result will be a cultural revolution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: uncredited. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000004/bk_aren_000004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min

Weary of religious conservatives urging "defense of marriage" and atheist polemicists decrying the crimes of religion? Sick of pundits who want only to recast American life in their own image? Americans are stuck in an all-or-nothing landscape for religion in public life. What are reasonable citizens to do? Seen as godless by the religious and weak by the atheists, secularism mostly has been misunderstood. In How to Be Secular, Berlinerblau argues for a return to America’s hard-won secular tradition; the best way to protect religious diversity and freedom lies in keeping an eye on the encroachment of each into the other. Berlinerblau passionately defends the virtues of secularism, reminds us what it is and what it can protect, and urges us to mobilize around its cause, which is for all Americans to continue to enjoy freedom for - and from - religion. This is an urgent wake-up call for progressives in and out of all faiths. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Douglas Wilson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008846/bk_adbl_008846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth-production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others, Sowell draws on empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Cochran Heath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007970/bk_blak_007970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Me and the Table , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min

Stephen Hendry became the youngest professional snooker player in 1985 aged 16 and, in 1990, he was the youngest ever snooker World Champion, at the age of 21.Widely regarded by fans and pundits alike as one of the greatest players of all time in the sport, over a 27-year career, Hendry went on to win the World Championship seven times and was snooker's world number one for eight consecutive seasons between 1990 and 1998. Hendry retired in 2012 with a record-breaking seven World Champion titles under his belt, a record that remains to this day. He's now ready to tell his life story for the first time - from a childhood spent climbing the ranks of the sport, through the highs of the '90s and lows of the 2000s, to his life now as a sports pundit and commentator.An insight into the world of the man behind the cue and what made him such a top-class player. This is the definitive autobiography of the legend that is Stephen Hendry, as told in the author's voice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Hendry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bonn/000040/bk_bonn_000040_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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