American Political System
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The Everything American Government Book
- From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
- By: Nick Ragone
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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If the confusion following the last presidential election is any indication, the average citizen knows precious little about the democratic system and the laws that affect their daily lives. The Everything American Government Book unravels the complexities of our democracy and provides listeners with the knowledge necessary to make the right decisions and take an active role in the management of their country. This thoroughly researched work is ideal for anyone brushing up on civics, as well as students of all ages.
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The Everything American Government Book
- From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-12-19
- Language: English
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Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....
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American Politics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Richard M. Valelly
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system.
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insightful
- By Foluso Moran on 18-08-24
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American Politics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-07-18
- Language: English
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American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....
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The Politics Industry
- How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
- By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change - a strategy comprised of a clear set of choices in two key areas: how our elections work and how we make our laws.
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The Politics Industry
- How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: English
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In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....
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The Threat
- How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
- By: Andrew G. McCabe
- Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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On March 16, 2018, just 26 hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy." In The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI.
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Fascinating stuff.
- By LettyBIRD on 03-03-19
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The Threat
- How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
- Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and of the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution....
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- By: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults.
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Required reading for the privileged class
- By jburnmurdoch on 30-09-18
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
- As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....
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It’s Even Worse Than It Looks
- How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
- By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.
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Great insight, a precursor to 2016. What next?
- By Jeremy Ackroyd on 06-01-22
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It’s Even Worse Than It Looks
- How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
- Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government....
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Moving Against the System
- The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness
- By: David Austin
- Narrated by: Chimwemwe Miller
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.
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Moving Against the System
- The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness
- Narrated by: Chimwemwe Miller
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-01-22
- Language: English
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David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the late 1960s....
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The Nonsense Factory
- The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
- By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized "justice". Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency. The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce. How did this happen? In The Nonsense Factory, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that over the past 70 years, the legal system has dangerously confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy.
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The Nonsense Factory
- The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized "justice". Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules....
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
- By: William G. Howell, Terry M. Moe
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government - and if democracy is to be saved, the causes of the crisis must be understood and defused.
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government....
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American While Black
- African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
- By: Niambi Michele Carter
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States's borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment?
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American While Black
- African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....
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What Is a Political Party?
- U.S. Political System | American Geopolitics | Social Studies 6th Grade | Children's Government Books
- By: Baby Professor
- Narrated by: Carmyn Block
- Length: 13 mins
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Here’s a book on social studies that will allow your sixth grader to better understand what a political party, in particular, what the US political party system is. In addition to the definition, your child will also learn about the different functions of political parties.
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What Is a Political Party?
- U.S. Political System | American Geopolitics | Social Studies 6th Grade | Children's Government Books
- Narrated by: Carmyn Block
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 19-07-21
- Language: English
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Here’s a book on social studies that will allow your sixth grader to better understand what a political party, in particular, what the US political party system is. In addition to the definition, your child will also learn about the different functions of political parties....
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Practical Equality
- Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
- By: Robert L. Tsai
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today.
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Practical Equality
- Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today....
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The Punitive Turn in American Life
- How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
- By: Michael S. Sherry
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime", and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies.
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Excellent, but
- By Mr R. on 26-05-23
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The Punitive Turn in American Life
- How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies....
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On Account of Race
- The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
- By: Lawrence Goldstone
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, strong political forces were determined to limit that right. The Supreme Court, Alexander Hamilton wrote, would protect the weak against this very sort of tyranny. Still, as On Account of Race forcefully demonstrates, through the better part of American history the Court has instead been a protector of white rule. And complex threats against the right to vote persist even today.
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On Account of Race
- The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, political forces were determined to limit that right. As On Account of Race demonstrates, through the better part of American history the court has instead been a protector of white rule....
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Hard White
- The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics
- By: Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Hard White explains how the mainstreaming of white nationalism occurred, pointing to two major shifts in the movement. While the book argues that white extremism will have enduring effects on American electoral politics for some time to come, it suggests that the way forward is to refocus the conversation on social solidarity, concluding with ideas for how to build this solidarity.
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Hard White
- The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Hard White explains how the mainstreaming of white nationalism occurred, pointing to two major shifts in the movement....
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