American Economic History

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • Auteur(s): Thom Hartmann
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Série: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Durée: 3 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India
    • Auteur(s): NIKHIL MENON
    • Narrateur(s): Shahzad Bhiwandiwala
    • Durée: 9 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to...

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    • The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron
    • Auteur(s): Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 16 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-07-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • “They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there...

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    • Essays
    • Auteur(s): John Jeremiah Sullivan
    • Narrateur(s): John Jeremiah Sullivan
    • Durée: 11 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape―from high to low to lower than low―by the award-winning young star of...

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    • Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
    • Auteur(s): Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
    • Narrateur(s): Marc Cashman
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 7 évaluations
    • An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone. "In the battle raging between offense and...

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    • China's Playbook for Global Domination
    • Auteur(s): Robert Spalding
    • Narrateur(s): David Bryson, Brett Boles
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 9 évaluations
    • In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to...

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    • On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity
    • Auteur(s): Kaila Adia Story
    • Narrateur(s): Crystal Clarke
    • Durée: 6 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-05-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futures Your favorite Black queer studies professor Kaila Adia Story says the rainbow ain’t never been enough in this introduction to the...

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    • General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): Edward McClelland
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Zinn
    • Durée: 7 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Winner of the 2021 Midland Authors Book Award in History In a time of great inequality and a gutted middle class, the dramatic story of “the strike heard around the world” is a testament to what workers can gain when they stand up for their rights. The tumultuous Flint sit-down strike of...

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    • How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
    • Auteur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Narrateur(s): Annie Lowrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 18 évaluations
    • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty...

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    • Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
    • Auteur(s): Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 15 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 évaluations
    • When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very...

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    • The Race to Capture a Billion Voices
    • Auteur(s): Deepali Gupta
    • Narrateur(s): Mala Mangla
    • Durée: 12 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Today, mobile connections are so readily accessible that it is perhaps easy to forget the time when only the elite had access to a phone provided by the sole operator: the Government of India. It all changed in the early 1990s as liberalisation stirred the Indian economy out of its decades of...

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    • The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
    • Auteur(s): Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
    • Narrateur(s): Andrea Gallo
    • Durée: 13 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet...

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    • Auteur(s): Bernard Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): John Lee
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-06-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 7 évaluations
    • For many centuries, the world of Islam was at the forefront of human achievement—the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of...

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    • Seeing Clearly in the Age of Disruption
    • Auteur(s): Marian Salzman
    • Narrateur(s): Vivienne Leheny
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 évaluations
    • A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades—a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge. “In a world of half-baked hot takes, Marian Salzman is a true seer...

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    • Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
    • Auteur(s): Marcus Rediker
    • Narrateur(s): Cornell Womack
    • Durée: 7 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known...

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    • The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
    • Auteur(s): Ian Kumekawa
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The rise of globalization and financialization as seen from a barge—one Swedish barge, to be exact, built in 1979 "The many-headed hydra of neoliberalism has found its chronicler." —Sven Beckert, author of...

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    • A Novel
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Lethem
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 16 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an...

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • Auteur(s): Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 21 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • How American Wheat Remade the World
    • Auteur(s): Scott Reynolds Nelson
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Arnold
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 évaluation
    • To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power....

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    • Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
    • Auteur(s): Dan Savage
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Savage
    • Durée: 7 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 11 évaluations
    • Celebrated sex advice columnist and founder of the Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly) From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy...

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