Defending the American Way of Life
Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
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The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft power of sport. Athletes became de facto ambassadors of US interests, their wins and losses serving as emblems of broader efforts to shield American culture - both at home and abroad - against communism.
In Defending the American Way of Life, leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history alongside research drawn from previously untapped archival sources to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics. Surveying the significance of sports in Cold War America through lenses of race, gender, diplomacy, cultural infiltration, anti-communist hysteria, doping, state intervention, and more, this collection illustrates how this conflict remains relevant to US sporting institutions, organizations, and ideologies today.
The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black first family, the Obamas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From Quarries to the Oval Office - Unforgettable
- De Susie en 07-14-16
De: Clarence Lusane
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Unholy
- Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
- De: Sarah Posner
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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In this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement’s core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How We Got Here
- De D. Sooley en 06-16-20
De: Sarah Posner
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The Sword and the Shield
- The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- De: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrado por: Zeno Robinson
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Helpful contribution to civil rights history.
- De Adam Shields en 05-13-20
De: Peniel E. Joseph
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Dangerous Charisma
- The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and His Followers
- De: Jerrold M. Post MD, Stephanie R. Doucette
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Offering an in-depth psychological and political portrait of what makes Donald Trump tick, Dangerous Charisma combines psychoanalysis with an investigation into the personality of the current American president. This narrative not only examines the life and psychology of Donald Trump but also provides an analysis of the charismatic psychological tie between Trump and his supporters. In this new book, the psychiatrist who once served under five American presidents applies his expertise to profiling the current resident in the White House with surprising and revelatory results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read book!!
- De Sophie U. en 03-19-20
De: Jerrold M. Post MD, y otros
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Debunking Howard Zinn
- Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
- De: Mary Grabar
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression is an agenda-driven fairy tale that has no place in academia. In Debunking Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar debunks Howard Zinn’s lies and traces the damage his mega-bestseller has done to American education, culture, and politics.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pure Alt-Right apologist.
- De K. Bradrick en 05-11-21
De: Mary Grabar
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
- A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- De: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrado por: Beresford Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality: the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed so much to begin a more vocal and radical push for social change in the 1960s and 1970s.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent Introduction, not thorough at all
- De Grover en 07-29-14
De: Peniel E. Joseph
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Why I Stand
- From Freedom to the Killing Fields of Socialism
- De: Burgess Owens
- Narrado por: Rich Cade
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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American Individualism has been the crown jewel of a nation that has prioritized God, family, and freedom to out-dream its obstacles. It is the freedom of this individual spirit that is under attack by its adversarial ideology, Marxist Socialism. This destructive ideology has resulted in “killing fields” of bodies, souls, and dreams of billions worldwide. Consistent is the destruction of manhood, womanhood, the family, and every pillar that supports love of God and country. Why I Stand documents an ideology that uses trust to divide and betray.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening!
- De Susan Nelson en 03-04-19
De: Burgess Owens
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
- A People's History of Fake News - From The Revolutionary War to The War on Terror
- De: Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Ajamu Baraka - foreword, y otros
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of slavery, the genocide of indigenous people, and the more than a century’s worth of imperialist war that the U.S. has wrought on the planet. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail just what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates engage in humanitarian imperialism, and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still processing
- De D'Juan Eastman en 07-03-19
De: Roberto Sirvent, y otros
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
- The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965
- De: Jia Lynn Yang
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good overview
- De steve thomas en 10-21-20
De: Jia Lynn Yang
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Mothers of Massive Resistance
- White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
- De: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed myriad duties that upheld white over black: censoring textbooks, denying marriage certificates, deciding on the racial identity of their neighbors, celebrating school choice, canvassing communities for votes, and lobbying elected officials.
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3 out of 5 stars
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commendable topic....
- De CB en 10-25-19
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Heaven on Earth
- The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
- De: Joshua Muravchik
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 65
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A biased yet informative masterpiece
- De CodyPeacock12349 en 04-04-21
De: Joshua Muravchik
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The Black Cabinet
- The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- De: Jill Watts
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
- De Barry en 06-21-20
De: Jill Watts
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The Crisis of Zionism
- De: Peter Beinart
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next generation, the liberal Zionist dream - the dream of a state that safeguards the Jewish people and cherishes democratic ideals - may die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Urgent call to save the Jewish state from itself!
- De Mushon en 07-02-12
De: Peter Beinart
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China in the 21st Century, 3rd Edition
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In this fully revised and updated third edition, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies that largely define China's present-day trajectory, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce listeners to the Chinese Communist Party, the building boom in Shanghai, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Anonymous User en 07-11-20
De: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, y otros
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
- De: Jonathan Leaf
- Narrado por: Rick Silversmith
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
In this blast from the past, Leaf exposes the lies and busts the myths propagated by the liberal establishment. Did you know that the civil-rights movement did little to improve the lives of average African Americans and that most Americans actively supported the Vietnam War and the draft?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Biased reviews much?
- De Thomas G en 12-06-20
De: Jonathan Leaf
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The Post-American Presidency
- The Obama Administration's War on America
- De: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
Widely popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times best-selling author Robert Spencer team up for this battle cry about the damage being done by the current administration's policies to the institution of the American presidency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The real truth behind the Obama administration
- De Joyce Blue en 04-10-16
De: Pamela Geller, y otros