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America Last
- The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
- By: Jacob Heilbrunn
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or the "illiberal imagination"—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is a longstanding tradition within modern American conservatism that cannot be ignored—and what it means for us today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History rhymes
- By Amazon Customer on 15-05-2024
- America Last
- The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
- By: Jacob Heilbrunn
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
History rhymes
Reviewed: 15-05-2024
Whether it is WWI, WWII, the Gulf War or Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Heilbrunn explains how the right is quick to blame the West and defend the dictators (whether left or right). The GOP detests the American experiment and craves monarchy/ autocracy and strongmen. Nothing changes.
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Electable
- Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House...Yet
- By: Ali Vitali
- Narrated by: Ali Vitali
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC “Road Warrior” and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way—investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that cycle and those who came before, and what it will take for a woman to finally break the glass ceiling and win the White House.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Subverting the dominant paradigm
- By Amazon Customer on 25-04-2024
- Electable
- Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House...Yet
- By: Ali Vitali
- Narrated by: Ali Vitali
Subverting the dominant paradigm
Reviewed: 25-04-2024
Amazing how the US seems incapable of or unwilling to elect a female president. It will happen and maybe sooner than we think as Joe steps aside for Kamala in 2025/6?
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Oath and Honor
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story5 out of 5 stars 51
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on the Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of the few Republican officials to take a stand against these efforts, witnessed the attack first-hand, and then helped lead the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic recount of a moment in history that will forever change politics in the United States.
- By LF, Brisbane on 15-12-2023
- Oath and Honor
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
A tale of heroism
Reviewed: 23-12-2023
Liz Cheney skilfully describes the deliberate and systematic unlawful attempts by Trump to deny the peaceful transition of power. Time and time again, the shameful and blatant abuse of power by Trump and his acolytes is presented with incontrovertible evidence. Cheney emerges as one of the greatest examples of heroism and patriotism in US history.
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Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 68
Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliance of the uk political system
- By Anonymous User on 25-02-2024
- Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
From naïveté to experience
Reviewed: 15-12-2023
Rory writes with great honesty on his naïveté and self belief which ultimately is in the zone of delusion. His colleagues can see clearly his failings but what’s refreshing about Rory is he doesn’t. He presses on in vanity. It’s a great tale about how candour and integrity are a negative in politics.
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Come Forth
- The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle
- By: James Martin
- Narrated by: James Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
One of America’s most beloved spiritual leaders and the New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and Learning to Pray examines one of the most intriguing events in the New Testament—the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead—and explains its significance for us today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Examining the competing claims
- By Amazon Customer on 10-12-2023
- Come Forth
- The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle
- By: James Martin
- Narrated by: James Martin
Examining the competing claims
Reviewed: 10-12-2023
Fr Martin competently and fairly sums the various legends, claims and interpretations of the story of Lazarus and his significance. His treatment of whether Lazarus was Our Lord’s beloved disciple is the highlight of the book.
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The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 166
The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has studied, lived in and worked with China for more than 40 years, is one of the very few people who can offer real insight into the mindsets of the leadership whose judgement will determine if a war will be fought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- By jeremydt on 21-04-2022
- The Avoidable War
- The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
A realistic and sensible approach
Reviewed: 24-10-2023
Our former PM details a ‘deeply realistic’ plan to ensure the two biggest superpowers avoid war. The strategy to accommodate, monitor and report upon the ‘competition’ between the US and China - to accept the competing world views and world orders- is compelling.
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Losing Our Religion
- An Altar Call for Evangelical America
- By: Russell Moore
- Narrated by: Russell Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation, disgraced leaders, and covered-up scandals. Left behind are millions of believers who counted on the church to be a place of belonging and hope. As greater and greater numbers of younger Americans bleed out from the church, even the most rooted evangelicals are wondering, “Can American Christianity survive?”
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4 out of 5 stars
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Evangelicalism unmasked
- By Amazon Customer on 04-08-2023
- Losing Our Religion
- An Altar Call for Evangelical America
- By: Russell Moore
- Narrated by: Russell Moore
Evangelicalism unmasked
Reviewed: 04-08-2023
Moore does a service by detailing how Trumpism has revealed the nature and practice of white evangelicalism in the US. Not prepared to concede his own faith in the founder, Moore has lost his religion (that which binds) but found his soul.
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American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite U.S Grant biography
- By Omar Shubeilat on 01-03-2020
- American Ulysses
- A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Enlightening and engaging
Reviewed: 29-07-2023
This biography was a total delight and a surprise. I did not expect to be so engrossed with Grant’s story. An exceptional work.
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Preparing for War
- The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
- By: Bradley Onishi
- Narrated by: Bradley Onishi
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in Preparing for War.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustrating pandering
- By Ken on 18-07-2024
- Preparing for War
- The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
- By: Bradley Onishi
- Narrated by: Bradley Onishi
An accurate assessment from a former adherent
Reviewed: 28-06-2023
The author does an excellent job in explaining the origins of contemporary white nationalism in the US, including explaining the ‘ecumenical’ link between ‘radical’ traditional Catholics and white evangelicals. An extraordinary indictment of how the Gospel has been interpreted by white nationalists committed to coercion and power.
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Testimony
- Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
- By: Jon Ward
- Narrated by: Jon Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds light on the evangelical movement's troubling political and cultural dimensions, tracing the ways in which the Jesus People movement was seduced by materialism and other factors to become politically captive rather than prophetic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A genuine offering
- By Amazon Customer on 22-05-2023
A genuine offering
Reviewed: 22-05-2023
Wow! I have just spent the last few days caught up in this extraordinary account. This testimony of Jon’s is indeed raw, honest and direct. As someone from a deep background in a Trad Catholic community, Jon’s life journey resonated deeply with me. I’m so grateful for Jon’s honesty in tracking how a religious community can shape not only one’s personal life but that of a larger group- in this case the bizarre nature of the MAGA phenomenon. We are living in a world where the very nature of reality is constantly being challenged. This powerful and compelling narrative offers the listener/ reader an insight into how we can make a difference, albeit modest, but nonetheless valuable. Listening to Jon’s voice adds to the depth and poignancy of his work. I am thankful for this contribution to the debate of how we can improve our lives and society.
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