Government History

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    • The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Mercieca
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign speeches and other rhetoric seemed on the surface to be simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized to many. As Demagogue for President shows, Trump’s campaign strategy was anything but simple....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Auteur(s): Erik Loomis
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
    • Durée: 9 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Clark
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Clark
    • Durée: 33 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today....

    Prix courant: 41,14 $

    • Why He Died and Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): James W. Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 22 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history....

    Prix courant: 28,95 $

    • The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
    • Auteur(s): David Kilcullen
    • Narrateur(s): John Pruden
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • David Kilcullen was one of the architects of America's strategy in the late phases of the second Gulf War, and also spent time in Afghanistan and other hotspots....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
    • Auteur(s): Gordon Corera
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 12 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present....

    Prix courant: 34,95 $

    • Auteur(s): James C. Scott
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 16 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

    Prix courant: 30,87 $

    • Auteur(s): Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • Auteur(s): Howard W. French
    • Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
    • Durée: 16 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • A History
    • Auteur(s): Dominique Clément
    • Narrateur(s): Ian Sherwood
    • Durée: 9 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence....

    Prix courant: 20,99 $

    • The Politics of Catastrophe
    • Auteur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Narrateur(s): Niall Ferguson
    • Durée: 16 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 évaluations
    • Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
    • Auteur(s): Joseph A. Esposito, Rose Styron - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 8 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed.....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The True Story of Average Americans on the Hunt for WWI Spies
    • Auteur(s): Bill Mills
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The amazing true story of the national paranoia that turned US citizens into volunteer detectives....

    Prix courant: 26,40 $

    • A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
    • Auteur(s): Nick Bryant
    • Narrateur(s): Nick Bryant
    • Durée: 20 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • Auteur(s): Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 évaluations
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    • Auteur(s): Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 23 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....

    Prix courant: 34,96 $

    • Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
    • Auteur(s): Russell Cobb
    • Narrateur(s): Lloyd James
    • Durée: 9 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • Auteur(s): Scott Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 23 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $

    • Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)
    • Auteur(s): Tim Marshall
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Marshall
    • Série: Politics of Place
    • Durée: 10 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses 10 maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today’s world powers and what it means for our future....

    Prix courant: 26,63 $

    • Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
    • Auteur(s): Simon Shuster
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Gamburg
    • Durée: 14 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access....

    Prix courant: 25,63 $