The Pun Also Rises
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- How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford's first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the...
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- How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-11
- Language: English
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$18.88 or free with 30-day trial
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack - a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton -...
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2011-08-01
- Language: English
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$14.94 or free with 30-day trial
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Cork Boat
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s...
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Cork Boat
- Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2004-02-05
- Language: English
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Cork Boat
- Written by: John Pollack
- Narrated by: John Pollack
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s...
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Cork Boat
- Narrated by: John Pollack
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2004-01-14
- Language: English
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$16.19 or free with 30-day trial
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