56 Results for : congressmen
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Thirty-Six Years in the White House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
For 36 years, from Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Pendel saw the daily comings and goings at the center of American political life in the White House. As doorkeeper, he saw senators, congressmen, royalty, citizens, and scoundrels appear on the White House steps. His intimate memories of that time is a valuable contribution to American history. These are personal memories of interactions with icons of the American political scene. This long out-of-print book is available now as an audiobook. Included in his account are his memories of some of the furnishings in various parts of the house. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian V. Hunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087278/bk_acx0_087278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Surviving Madmen: One Woman’s Encounters with a Governor, Two Congressmen, and a Spouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 281min
One woman’s true story of surviving madmen at work and at home.On July 4th and 5th, 2012, Jerri Lynn Sparks was nearly killed by her Ivy League-educated husband in a vicious assault. Instead of retreating in fear, she fought back and is now fighting to change the system that contributed to her attack by becoming a volunteer firefighter, political advocate, and educational speaker. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kay Webster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148583/bk_acx0_148583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Astronaut Instruction Manual: Practical Skills for Future Space Explorers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
Endorsed by authors, teachers, scientists and congressmen, Mike Mongo's The Astronaut Instruction Manual excites a new generation of space explorers. The audiobook, designed for children between the ages of 8 and 13, is a functioning first-step instruction manual. With excitement and honesty, Mongo encourages his listeners to articulate and personalize their own visions of next-generation space travel. Driven in part by new space celebrities (Commander Chris Hadfield, Elon Musk, Alyssa Carson) and in part by a shift in popular interest in space (SpaceX rockets, the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the Kerbal Space Program video game), The Astronaut Instruction Manual captures a new era of enthusiasm for space exploration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Mongo, Alyssa Carson - foreword. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002155/bk_lili_002155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Seduction of the Innocent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 360min
Comics kill. Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe - people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror "funny books". And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr - comics syndicate troubleshooter - has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader…? No One Delivers Like Max Allan Collins.Inspired by the real-life 1950s witch-hunt against Tales From the Crypt publisher EC Comics, Seduction of the Innocent pulls back the curtain for an insider’s view of the history of comics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004741/bk_brll_004741_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1010min
They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply believers. Behind the scenes at every National Prayer Breakfast since 1953 has been the Family, an elite network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. Their goal is "Jesus plus nothing". Their method is backroom diplomacy. The Family is the startling story of how their faith - part free-market fundamentalism, part imperial ambition - has come to be interwoven with the affairs of nations around the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Guskin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002035/bk_harp_002035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Room 1515: The Peacock Trilogy, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 523min
Agent Peacock doesn't argue. She disables people.Secret Agent Peacock spies on congressmen and lobbyists in Room 1515 of the Emerald Hotel in Washington D.C. She is a trained killer and a superb seductress. Arthur Pendleton plays on the short-term greed of capitalists and politicians, amassing gold with each transaction. His goal is to collapse the world's economy and establish a one-world government.Peacock goes on a mission to win the heart of Pendleton and thwart his plans, even if she has to marry him. She learns about a plot to assassinate the President. She also learns she's pregnant. The decisions she makes will determine the fate of the world. A fan of Tom Clancy, the author weaves themes of political and international intrigue into Room 1515, the first in The Peacock Trilogy, Book 1. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Gramour. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/009148/bk_acx0_009148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Untangling the Black Web , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
When David's wife dies at the hands of a corrupt medical system, David is out for justice. With his skills as a lawyer and his position inside the biggest health insurance company in America - American True Care - he plans to bring down the system, from the inside. David begins to work his way up the company while recruiting a clandestine team to build a covert case against American True Care. But this is a dangerous game and the players have ties to the highest levels of government. Propped up by lobbyists, senators, congressmen, and even the White House, American True Care will do whatever it takes to keep hold of its power. As the web of deception and danger tightens around David and his team, they begin to realize that to win they have to risk it all - even their lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010613/bk_tant_010613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 684min
In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion - including faith, dogma, and revelation - leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans don't believe in evolution (and congressmen deny global warming), and warns that religious prejudices and strictures in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the best-selling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable "truth" by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm - to individuals and to our planet - in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004985/bk_tant_004985_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
Peter Schweizer's bombshell investigation reveals how Washington really works: politicians extort money from us, then use it to buy each other's votes. Our legislators' desire for cash influences everything-from how they write laws to when they vote on a bill. His audiobook reveals: Obama's "Protection Money": How the Obama Administration targeted industries for criminal investigation but chose not to pursue key political donors. John Boehner's "Tollbooth": How the Speaker of the House extracts money by soliciting political donations before he will hold crucial votes on the House floor. The "Slush Fund": How politicians extract "campaign contributions" and then convert them to bankroll lavish lifestyles complete with limos, private jets, golf at five-star resorts, fine wines, and cash for family members. Capitol Hill's "Underground Economy": How congressmen use a little-known loophole that allows them to secretly link their votes to cash. Extortion finally makes clear why Congress is so dysfunctional: it's all about making money, not making law. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014520/bk_acx0_014520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
Eric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel-a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and a front-line defender of civil rights. What are the odds that a disheveled, zaftig, closeted kid with the thickest of Jersey accents might wind up running Boston on behalf of a storied Irish Catholic political machine, drafting the nation's first gay rights laws, reforming Wall Street after the Great Recession, and finding love, after a lifetime assuming that he couldn't and wouldn't? In Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, one of America's first out members of Congress and a gay and civil rights crusader for an era is confirmed as a hero of our age. But more than a biography of an indispensable LGBTQ pioneer, this funny, beautifully rendered, warts-and-all graphic account reveals the down-and-dirty inner workings of Boston and DC politics. As Frank's longtime staff counsel and press secretary, Eric Orner lends his first-hand perspective to this extraordinary work of history, paying tribute to the mighty striving of committed liberals to defend ordinary Americans from an assault on their shared society.- Shop: buecher
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