American Politics Audiobooks | Politics

Innovating in a Secret World: The Future of National Security and Global Leadership

Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic, global, commercial world with its thriving innovations. The other is the world of national security, in which innovation is a matter of life or death. The conflict is about secrecy. Innovating in a Secret World is a detailed examination of the U.S. government and innovation landscapes and of the current trends in often secret national security-related research and development (R&D). Based on case studies, detailed research, and interviews with executives at Fortune 500s, startup entrepreneurs, and military directors and program managers, this accessible and timely book is a must-listen. Tina P. Srivastava evaluates whether the strategy of technology innovation in the world of national security leaves certain innovations behind or unintentionally precludes certain classes of innovators from participating. This examination unfolds in a complex, dynamic system that includes the legal framework in which technology innovation must exist.

Tina P. Srivastava (Author), Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

Audiobook

Mueller Report, The - Volume II: Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 P

This report is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which states that , '[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel 's work, he shall provide the Attorney General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions [the Special Counsel] reached.' The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials-hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government-began that same month. Additional releases followed in July through the organization WikiLeaks, with further releases in October and November. In late July 2016, soon after WikiLeaks's first release of stolen documents, a foreign government contacted the FBI about a May 2016 encounter with Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos had suggested to a representative of that foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That information prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities.

Iii Robert S. Mueller, Robert S. Mueller, Iii (Author), Man With A Cat (Narrator)

Audiobook

Unmasked: Big Media's War Against Trump

Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, bestselling author, publisher, and activist L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today. As the founder and president of the Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America and is uniquely positioned to offer this blazing critique of the bias in the national media and how they undermine American democracy. Using coverage of the rise of Donald Trump and his presidency as a case study of sorts, Bozell and his co-author Tim Graham expose all the different types of bias that can occur-both hidden and overt-and examine their insidious effects. This narrative also follows and analyzes the campaigns-and results-of the 2018 midterms, providing the most comprehensive, detailed, and explosive analysis to date concerning how the media willingly stokes divisiveness in American politics.

L. Brent Bozell (Author), Phil Paonessa (Narrator)

Audiobook

Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963

The history that the textbooks left out. For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author Donald Jeffries refers to as the court historians. American Crimes and Cover-Ups: 1776-1963 fights back by scrutinizing the accepted history of everything from the American War of Independence to the establishment reputation of Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers, the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, both World Wars, US government experimentation on prisoners, mental patients, innocent children and whole populated areas, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and much, much more. Secular saints like Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are examined in a critical way they seldom have been. Jeffries spares no one and nothing in this explosive new book. The atrocities of Union troops during the Civil War, and Allied troops during World War II, are documented in great detail. The Nuremberg Trials are presented as the antithesis of justice. In the follow-up to his previous, bestselling book Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics, Jeffries demonstrates that crimes, corruption, and conspiracies didn't start with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. History should be much more than cardboard villains and impossibly unrealistic heroes. Thanks to the efforts of the court historians, most Americans are historically illiterate. American Crimes and Cover-Ups: 1776-1963 is a bold attempt at setting the record straight.

Donald Jeffries (Author), Lars Mikaelson (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics

The Land of Flickering Lights is a unique contribution to American political writing at this or any other time. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado lifts a veil on Congress to reveal, in his words, 'through a series of actual stories-about the people, the politics, the motives, the money, the hypocrisy, the stakes, the outcome-the pathological culture of the capitol and the consequences for us all.' Bennet eloquently chronicles the dramatic full stories behind five debates and decisions crucial to all Americans: the highly politicized nominations and appointments of judges at all levels; the recent tax cut that massively increased our debt and financial inequality across the country; the shredding of the Iran nuclear deal that undermined our longstanding bipartisan approach to foreign policy; the corruption caused by money in politics and why it has caused inaction on climate change and much else; and the ugly sabotage by a minority of the 'Gang of Eight's' bi-partisan plan to reform our immigration policies, which would have resolved all the issues we currently face. By revealing how these decisions were truly made, Bennet sheds vital new light on each of these five crucial events and what Americans have lost in the process, illuminating how and why our government is at loggerheads today.

Michael Bennet (Author), Michael Bennet (Narrator)

Audiobook

Trump 2024: The Ultimate Nightmare

Trump 2024 - The ultimate nightmare. That's what some are calling the prospect of another four years of Donald Trump as President. Certainly, whichever side of the political spectrum you're on, it's clear his opinion notwithstanding, that Trumps statements and actions , rather than 'making America great', are dividing it. And favoring certain segments of the population over others. Then there are the dark clouds of scandal, inappropriate and illegal behaviour that have envolved the Trump White House. With, as you are well aware, many of his former associates doing jail time. And as investigations continue, certainly more to come. The Donald, after portraying himself, falsely, as a great businessman who would run America like a business, has, in reality, run America into the ground. Gutting environmental protections, starting trade wars, and cuddling up to International Right Wing dictators. But the ultimate nightmare of four more years of the bully from Queens, would be his control of the courts. Imagine an America with every judge, at every judicial level, of the calibre of Brett Kavanaugh. All singing the praises of, and bowing down to King Donald. This is the course Trump and Mitch Mcconnell are now forging ahead with. Creating a Judicial system where only the Donald can win. In this no holds barred book, Investigative Reporter Atherton Cooper dives into the swamp of lies, deceit , illegally and immorality that are the stock in trade of the current occupant of the white house.

Atherton Cooper (Author), Atherton Cooper (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump

Damian Bates, George A. Sorial (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency 'The host of AM Joy on MSNBC argues that President Trump's administration is characterized by grift and venality that demeans the office and diminishes America." -New York Times Book Review, "New & Notable" Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? How did we get here? What will be left of America when he leaves office? Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country's founding principles. Now in office, he's put up a "for sale" sign-on the prestige of the presidency, on America's global stature, and on our national identity. At what cost have these deals come? Joy-Ann Reid's essential new book, The Man Who Sold America, delivers an urgent accounting of our national crisis from one of our foremost political commentators. Three years ago, Donald Trump pitched millions of voters on the idea that their country was broken, and that the rest of the world was playing us "for suckers." All we needed to fix this was Donald Trump, who rebranded prejudice as patriotism, presented diversity as our weakness, and promised that money really could make the world go 'round. Trump made the sale to enough Americans in three key swing states to win the Electoral College. As president, Trump's raft of self-dealing, scandal, and corruption has overwhelmed the national conversation. And with prosecutors bearing down on Trump and his family business, the web of criminality is circling closer to the Oval Office. All this while Trump seemingly makes his administration a pawn for the ultimate villain: an autocratic former KGB officer in Russia who found in the untutored and eager forty-fifth president the perfect "apprentice." What is the hidden impact of Trump, beyond the headlines? Through interviews with American and international thought leaders and in-depth analysis, Reid situates the Trump era within the context of modern history, examining the profound social changes that led us to this point. Providing new context and depth to our understanding, The Man Who Sold America reveals the causes and consequences of the Trump presidency and contends with the future that awaits us.

Joy-Ann Reid (Author), Joy-Ann Reid (Narrator)

Audiobook

Unter Beschuss - Trumps Kampf im Weißen Haus (Ungekürzte Lesung)

In 'Feuer und Zorn' hatte Michael Wolff die chaotischen ersten Monate von Donald Trumps Pra?sidentschaft dokumentiert. Nun ist die Lage ganz anders: Trump hat die fähigsten Berater entlassen, die Weltmacht USA ist endgültig seinen impulsiven Instinkten unterworfen. Gleichzeitig ist er unter Beschuss, von Freund und Feind, von seiner radikalen Basis und dem politischen Establishment in Washington. Wolff schildert in seinem packenden neuen Werk einen amerikanischen Präsidenten, der sich permanent verfolgt fühlt und der sich dabei immer wieder an den Rand der Selbstzerstörung bringt: einen Trump, der rasend ums politische Überleben kämpft. Wolffs Hörbuch ist eine Tragikkomödie und ein großes politisches Drama. Er macht deutlich, wie sehr die amerikanische Außenpolitik mit den Geschäftsinteressen seines Schwiegersohns verquickt ist und warum Trump dem Sonderermittler Robert Mueller noch einmal entkommen konnte; dass Trump Nordkorea nicht auf der Karte finden könnte und Melania wieder bei ihren Eltern wohnt. Und im Zentrum von allem ein Weißes Haus, in dem jeder gegen jeden steht - und alle sich fragen: Wann fliegt uns das hier um die Ohren? 'Unter Beschuss' ist das detailreichste Porträt jenes außergewöhnlichen Mannes, der trotz allem noch immer Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten ist.

Michael Wolff (Author), Alexander Gamnitzer (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Conservative Sensibility

New York Times Bestseller From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, an 'astonishing' and 'enthralling' (Booklist) new examination of how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--'easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written' (Jonah Goldberg). For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat--both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated political writers.

George F. Will (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington

An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making. Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency seems to bring a new crisis, a deepening sense of national unease. Why, and how, has he failed his supporters? And how has he, on occasion, bested his detractors? The Best People takes complete measure of the Trump administration, to grasp with clarity the president and his intentions, and how those intentions are being carried out-or subverted-by the people he has hired. Alexander Nazaryan argues that the 'assault on the administrative state' promised by Steve Bannon in early 2017 never came. What the American people got instead was Wilbur Ross hauling his tennis pro to confirmation hearing preparations; Scott Pruitt running away from rattlesnakes; Reince Priebus enduring insults from junior White House staffers. And yet, bungling as Trump's cabinet members have been, they have managed to either damage or arrest many of the gears that make government run. They have given away public lands to oil companies and allowed corporate lobbyists to make decisions about what is best for the American people, and have done it all while flying on private jets and dining at the finest restaurants, at taxpayers' expense. Meticulously reported and enthrallingly told, The Best People takes readers inside the federal government under Trump's control, a government assailed by the very people charged to lead it, a government awash in confusion and corruption.

Alexander Nazaryan (Author), Robert Fass (Narrator)

Audiobook

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander, read by Karen Chilton. Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement. Challenging the notion that the election of Barack Obama signalled a new era of colourblindness in the United States, The New Jim Crow reveals how racial discrimination was not ended but merely redesigned. By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of colour, the American criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, relegating millions to a permanent second-class status even as it formally adheres to the principle of colourblindness. A searing call to action for everyone concerned with social justice, The New Jim Crow is one of the most important books about race in the 21st century.

Michelle Alexander (Author), Karen Chilton (Narrator)

Audiobook

American Politics Audiobooks in Politics