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FDR's Folly
- How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
- Di: Jim Powell
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 9 ore e 26 min
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In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.
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FDR's Folly
- How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 9 ore e 26 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 04/02/2008
- Lingua: Inglese
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The President’s First Year
- None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency
- Di: Douglas Alan Cohn
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 9 ore
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A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of all 44 presidents in their freshman years of the toughest job in the world. Grouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first years in office, The President's First Year takes listeners into the history, thought processes, and results on a case-by-case basis, including how the presidents' subsequent actions prove that they learned - or didn't learn - from their mistakes.
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The President’s First Year
- None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 9 ore
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/01/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- Di: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 28 ore e 48 min
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In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, "I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making." Certainly apt in the midst of the Great Depression, the idea of a nation in the making still resonates today as we measure the achievements and shortcomings of our democracy. Over the 20th century, Americans have worked, organized, marched, and fought to make the nation's ideals a reality for all.
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These United States
- A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 28 ore e 48 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 19/10/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Mapping the Cold War
- Cartography and the Framing of America's International Power
- Di: Timothy Barney
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 45 min
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In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between north and south, east and west.
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Mapping the Cold War
- Cartography and the Framing of America's International Power
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 45 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/04/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Doctored Results
- The Supression of Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
- Di: Ralph W. Moss
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 8 ore e 16 min
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Ralph W. Moss was assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City when he unveiled a cover-up of positive tests with America's most controversial anticancer agent, laetrile. He was ordered by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center officials to falsify reports. He refused. Instead he organized an underground employee group called Second Opinion to oppose the cover-up.
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Doctored Results
- The Supression of Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 8 ore e 16 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 20/02/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Brothers, Rivals, Victors
- Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
- Di: Jonathan W. Jordan
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 23 ore e 35 min
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Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest that shattered Hitler’s hold over Europe. But they also shared an intricate web of relationships going back decades. In the cauldron of World War II, they found their prewar friendships complicated by shifting allegiances, jealousy, insecurity, patriotism, and ambition.
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Brothers, Rivals, Victors
- Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 23 ore e 35 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/04/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Making of Modern Economics
- The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, Second Edition
- Di: Mark Skousen
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 19 ore e 38 min
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Here is a bold, new account of the lives and ideas of the great economists - Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and many others - all written by a top free-market economist and presented in an entertaining and persuasive style. Professor Mark Skousen tells a powerful story of economics with dozens of anecdotes of the great economic thinkers.
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The Making of Modern Economics
- The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, Second Edition
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 19 ore e 38 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/09/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Great Deformation
- The Corruption of Capitalism in America
- Di: David Stockman
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 36 ore e 43 min
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David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution that was meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America and provides a surprising, nonpartisan catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis shows how both liberal and neoconservative interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous.
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The Great Deformation
- The Corruption of Capitalism in America
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 36 ore e 43 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/04/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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Money Well Spent?
- The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
- Di: Michael Grabell
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 14 ore e 18 min
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The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the enormity of the money committed: if you had spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, it still would not add up to the price tag of the stimulus package.
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Money Well Spent?
- The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 14 ore e 18 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 31/01/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Empire Strikes Out
- How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
- Di: Robert Elias
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 15 ore e 2 min
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Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way."
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The Empire Strikes Out
- How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 15 ore e 2 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/11/2010
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Boys of '67
- Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
- Di: Andrew Wiest
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 15 ore e 12 min
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When the 160 men of Charlie Company were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to eighty thousand combat troops in Vietnam by the height of the war in 1968. In the spring of 1966 the war was still popular, and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company returned home, only thirty men were not casualties.
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The Boys of '67
- Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 15 ore e 12 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/12/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Republican Brain
- The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality
- Di: Chris Mooney
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 54 min
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Best-selling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality - it’s just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more. Why won’t Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts?
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The Republican Brain
- The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 54 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/04/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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Ark of the Liberties
- America and the World
- Di: Ted Widmer
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 13 ore e 35 min
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From its earliest beginnings, America has been seen as an icon of liberty with a mission to redeem the world. Often, the ideal fits. But sometimes even our most noble aspirations can be as damaging as they are uplifting. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, the inimitable Ted Widmer traces America's wondrous history.
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Ark of the Liberties
- America and the World
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 13 ore e 35 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/04/2019
- Lingua: Inglese
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Citizen Coke
- The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
- Di: Bartow J. Elmore
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 22 min
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Outsourcing and a trim corporate profile enabled Coke to scale up production of a low-price beverage and realize huge profits. But the costs shed by Coke have fallen on the public at large. Coke now uses an annual 79 billion gallons of water, an increasingly precious global resource, and its reliance on corn syrup has helped fuel our obesity crisis. Bartow J. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs.
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Citizen Coke
- The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 22 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/11/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh
- The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam
- Di: Gregg Jones
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 55 min
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The vivid, fast-paced account of the siege of Khe Sanh told through the eyes of the men who lived it. For seventy-seven days in 1968, amid fears that America faced its own disastrous Dien Bien Phu, six thousand US Marines held off thirty thousand North Vietnamese Army regulars at the remote mountain stronghold called Khe Sanh. It was the biggest battle of the Vietnam War, with sharp ground engagements, devastating artillery duels, and massive US air strikes.
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh
- The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 55 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/04/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- Di: George M. Marsden
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 6 ore e 24 min
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 6 ore e 24 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/02/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Business Solution to Poverty
- Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
- Di: Paul Polak, Mal Warwick
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 7 ore e 18 min
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The nearly three billion people living on two dollars a day are not just the world’s greatest challenge - they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based Design: starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor, armed with a thorough understanding of what they really want and need, and driven by what Polak and Warwick call "the ruthless pursuit of affordability". Polak has been doing this work for years, and Warwick has extensive experience in both business and philanthropy.
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The Business Solution to Poverty
- Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 7 ore e 18 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 09/09/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Disease in the Public Mind
- A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
- Di: Thomas Fleming
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 43 min
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By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper’s Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a "holy martyr" in the fight against Southern slave owners. But Northern hatred for Southerners had been long in the making. Northern rage was born of the conviction that New England, whose spokesmen and militia had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern "slavocrats" like Thomas Jefferson. And Northern envy only exacerbated the South’s greatest fear: race war.
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A Disease in the Public Mind
- A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 11 ore e 43 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/05/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
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Detroit
- A Biography
- Di: Scott Martelle
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 5 min
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When we think of Detroit, we think first of the auto industry and its slow, painful decline, then maybe the sounds of Motown, or the long line of professional sports successes. But economies are made up of people, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America. Detroit: A Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traits - innovation, entrepreneurship, and an inspiring perseverance.
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Detroit
- A Biography
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 5 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/04/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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Fever Dream
- The Daniel Rinaldi Series, Book 2
- Di: Dennis Palumbo
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 22 min
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It has been nearly a year since psychologist Daniel Rinaldi, a trauma expert who consults with the Pittsburgh Police, helped unravel a baffling murder, and now he finds himself drawn into another case. In the midst of a blistering summer heat wave, a daring bank robbery has gone horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except one, Treva Williams, and Rinaldi is called in to treat the young woman.
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Fever Dream
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Fever Dream
- The Daniel Rinaldi Series, Book 2
- Letto da: William Hughes
- Durata: 10 ore e 22 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/11/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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