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Courage Under Fire
- The Definitive Account from Inside the Capitol on January 6th
- De: Steven A. Sund
- Narrado por: Steven A. Sund
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Steven A. Sund, one of only ten men in history to hold the title of Chief of the US Capitol Police, has coordinated dozens of National Special Security Events, responded to numerous critical incidents and active shooter events, and has protected every living US president. But nothing could have prepared him for the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Ray Epps
- De fair & balanced en 06-25-23
- Courage Under Fire
- The Definitive Account from Inside the Capitol on January 6th
- De: Steven A. Sund
- Narrado por: Steven A. Sund
The story is so much more complicated than I knew
Revisado: 11-08-23
Not only was this story complicated, but it shows the danger we were in on January 6, 2021. Sund describes in detail his thorough view of what happened, and then explains why that wasn’t thorough. But wait! Even the part that he didn’t know may not have completed the story. Layers upon layers.
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Blowback
- A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
- De: Miles Taylor
- Narrado por: Miles Taylor
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly “Anonymous” official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Taylor predicts what could happen inside “Trump 2.0,” the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat.
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We will only have ourselves to blame if we sink into autocracy
- De MS en 07-23-23
- Blowback
- A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
- De: Miles Taylor
- Narrado por: Miles Taylor
Frightening
Revisado: 10-26-23
So much more was going wrong than we heard about in the news. Especially chilling are the descriptions of what is likely with “the next Trump”.
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Unthinkable
- Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
- De: Jamie Raskin
- Narrado por: Jamie Raskin
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.
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Must reading/listening for every American who has despaired of losing our democracy.
- De Shirley Anderson en 01-06-22
- Unthinkable
- Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
- De: Jamie Raskin
- Narrado por: Jamie Raskin
Great story, told beautifully
Revisado: 02-17-23
This book, read by the author (always a plus), is a wonderful and thorough recounting of events personal, political, and civic. Cannot recommend it strongly enough.
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And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Jon Meacham
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end.
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A Winner
- De Diane Moore en 10-31-22
- And There Was Light
- Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Jon Meacham
Wonder if an imperfect, but resolute man
Revisado: 01-05-23
This story of Abraham Lincoln, spanning his entire life, makes me live and admire him more than ever. His dedication to the Union and eventually to emancipation, saved us all from the horror of continued slavery. Although the story is even now not finished, it never would have started without his commitment to end enslavement. If he had only survived, we might have also achieved universal (male) suffrage at the same time. His willingness to pass authority to his political opponent should he lose the 1864 election stands as an instructive lesson to this who would deny democratic processes today.
John Meacham tells a spellbinding story. I just wished didn’t include pauses between each phrase in his narration. It was an intrusive style.
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Lady Justice
- Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
- De: Dahlia Lithwick
- Narrado por: Dahlia Lithwick
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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In Lady Justice, Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, illuminates these many heroes of the Trump years. From Sally Yates and Becca Heller, who fought the Muslim travel ban, to Roberta Kaplan, who sued the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, to Stacey Abrams, who worked to protect the voting rights of millions of Georgians, Lithwick dramatizes in thrilling detail the women lawyers who worked tirelessly to hold the line against the most chaotic presidency in living memory.
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Beautiful
- De susan c en 09-26-22
- Lady Justice
- Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
- De: Dahlia Lithwick
- Narrado por: Dahlia Lithwick
Women Power
Revisado: 12-16-22
This is a description of the work of 5 women lawyers who address critical areas of our rights. Lithwick discusses the main issues, peripheral issues, major actors in the fight with her unfailingly logical and accessible voice.
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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Fiona Hill
- Narrado por: Fiona Hill
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
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Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us
- De Erin en 10-08-21
- There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- De: Fiona Hill
- Narrado por: Fiona Hill
Brilliant.
Revisado: 05-29-22
While she was told by her father “there is nothing for you here” in County Durham, she is actually writing about the effect of lack of opportunity on individual development and it’s effects on creating dangerous political disengagement and the rise of “populist” movements. These movements promise opportunity, but do not actually deliver. What they do deliver is governing bodies that exploit prejudice, enrich the wealthy, and allow corruption to flourish.
Dr. Hill draws parallels between Britain of the 80s, Russia after the dissolution of the USSR, and the US of the last 20 years. She points out the hurtful effects of the vanishing social safety nets in England and America under Thatcher and Reagan. She also weaves in the influence of place and class discrimination in England, racism in America, and gender discrimination everywhere, and their effect on opportunity.
She posits that if we cannot improve individual opportunity through government programs, public-private cooperation, philanthropy and everyone’s volunteer efforts, we will find “there is nothing for anyone, anywhere.” (This is the last sentence of the main text.)
Shiver me timbers.
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