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How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
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"The defining characteristic of America is our fanaticism: We dream big, we think large, we create grandeur..."
And we created Elizabeth Wurtzel: a celebrated writer who has lent her voice to depression, to women scorned, to addiction, and now to the Constitution of our great states. True to form, Wurtzel brings to life the dry document that framed our nation, homing in on one key feature - the Intellectual Property clause - which she credits for everything cool in our country, from Bruce Springsteen and rock 'n' roll, to Jeff Koons and his stainless steel balloons to half & half in our coffee.
Creatocracy takes everything you thought you knew about pilgrims and their plainly puritanical sensibilities, flips it on its head, throws glitter on it, sets it to a flashy pop score, then throws it a big coming out party. In a movie version of this American origin story, Baz Luhrmann would be calling all the shots. Elizabeth Wurtzel has masterfully written a crash course in American history and the arts, wise and witty, full of humor and insight. This is pop patriotism in audiobook form.
Elizabeth Wurtzel is the author of Prozac Nation, Bitch, and More, Now, Again. She was the pop music critic at New York Magazine and The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Oxford American, The Guardian, and many other publications. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, she is a lawyer at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Elizabeth Wurtzel lives in Greenwich Village.
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- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward - through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it.
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An Amusing & Practical Analysis of Fictional Ideas
- De Lost In The Wash en 09-19-16
De: Manu Saadia
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The Secret Knowledge
- On the Dismantling of American Culture
- De: David Mamet
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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For the past 30 years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, his characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart.
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Mamet's Rubicon
- De Kirk en 08-13-11
De: David Mamet
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
- A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
- De: Daniel J. Boorstin, Douglas Rushkoff - afterword
- Narrado por: Timothy Danko
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of "pseudo-events" - events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported - and the contemporary definition of celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". Since then Daniel J. Boorstin's prophetic vision of an America inundated by its own illusions has become an essential resource for any listeners who wants to distinguish the manifold deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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Boorstin’s deep Conservative mindset reaches through every example in this book.
- De Christine en 10-12-20
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The Course of Human Events
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 37 m
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On May 15, 2003, David McCullough presented "The Course of Human Events" as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture is a tribute to McCullough's lifetime investigation of history.
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A Pitch for History
- De Alan en 09-13-05
De: David McCullough
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America
- Imagine a World Without Her
- De: Dinesh D'Souza
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder? Or is America still the hope of the world? New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise.
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We can think for ourselves
- De score bags en 06-21-14
De: Dinesh D'Souza
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Gumption
- Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
- De: Nick Offerman
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times best seller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights 21 figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day - Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans". After the great success of his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Offerman now focuses on the lives of those who inspired him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes 21 heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning.
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Swagger and mirth
- De Tamara Shope en 09-14-15
De: Nick Offerman
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
- A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
- De: John Taylor Gatto
- Narrado por: Michael Puttonen
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.
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I will never see school the same
- De Nicole en 05-21-15
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Suicide of the West
- How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Jonah Goldberg
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle.
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Put some gratitude in your attitude
- De Amazon Customer en 04-25-18
De: Jonah Goldberg
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The Master Switch
- The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
- De: Tim Wu
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.
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Great Read
- De Roy en 11-12-10
De: Tim Wu
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The Story of America
- Essays on Origins
- De: Jill Lepore
- Narrado por: Colleen Devine
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type. Part civics primer, part cultural history, The Story of America excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dictionary.
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A Fun Read on Historical Subjects
- De Jim en 08-31-13
De: Jill Lepore
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.
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This man should be a household name!
- De Darlene Davis en 11-21-11
De: Craig Nelson
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The Grouchy Historian
- An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
- De: Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger
- Narrado por: Ed Asner
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It's about time someone gave them hell and explained that Progressives can read, too.
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Nice Into into American History
- De Katie Luck en 03-20-18
De: Ed Asner, y otros
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Fantasyland
- How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe...to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demonstrates that what's happening in our country today - this strange, post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through - is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path.
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Bland Title For An Amazing Book!
- De David Larson en 09-07-17
De: Kurt Andersen