
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
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Chris Hedges
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We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority - which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected-presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade level.
In this "other America", serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture - attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies - to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
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In Mike Huckabee's new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, he asks the question, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times best-selling author explores today's American culture, drawing from his travels as a presidential candidate to present average, small-town people and families, and their optimistic resilience in the face of hard times.
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- De Dorothy Ella en 02-13-15
De: Mike Huckabee
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Angry White Men
- American Masculinity at the End of an Era
- De: Michael Kimmel
- Narrado por: Aaron Williamson
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One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced the winner, a distressed Bill O'Reilly lamented that he didn't live in "a traditional America anymore". He was joined by others who bellowed their grief on the talk radio airwaves, the traditional redoubt of angry white men. Why were they so angry?
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Interesting book; Wrong reader
- De Carolina A. Miranda en 05-02-18
De: Michael Kimmel
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Trickle Up Poverty
- Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security
- De: Michael Savage
- Narrado por: Robert Louis
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Trickle Up Poverty is your best defense against the Obamanomics that are dragging the middle class, and everyone else, into a Marxist-Socialist death spiral. The Savage manifesto you hold in your hands shows how Obama is circumventing the Constitution to push through his radical agenda - and, most important, how we can restore our country to the power and prestige that Barack Obama and his corrupt and degenerate "czars" are trying to destroy.
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The book is much better than the radio show
- De Jonnie en 12-19-10
De: Michael Savage
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- De: Evan Osnos
- Narrado por: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- De Neuron en 11-06-15
De: Evan Osnos
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We Were Feminists Once
- From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
- De: Andi Zeisler
- Narrado por: Joell A. Jacob
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Today, feminism is no longer a dirty word, and women purporting to stand up for women's equality now include high-powered names like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Emma Watson. Hip underwear lines sell granny pants with "feminist" emblazoned on the back. In every bookstore, there are scores of seductive feminist how-to business guides telling women how to achieve "it all".
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Fantastic book despite shoddy narration
- De Seth H. Wilson en 05-19-16
De: Andi Zeisler
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy".
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My Fellow Conservatives, Give This A Listen
- De Dallas D.L. en 02-12-15
De: Barack Obama
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An Inconvenient Book
- Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems (Unabridged)
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Glenn Beck
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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The world is a mess. It seems that everywhere listeners turn, there's another problem. What is needed now are solutions. If only there was a man who could simplify things, cut through the rhetoric, and fix everything. Then, if he was just able to put all of that insight into something that people could buy...in a store and online...man, that would great. Wait a minute!
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Waste of Time and Money
- De Crystal en 04-11-09
De: Glenn Beck
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The Conservative Heart
- How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
- De: Arthur C. Brooks
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it is time for a new kind of conservatism - one that helps the vulnerable without mortgaging our children's future. In Brooks' daring vision, this conservative movement fights poverty, promotes equal opportunity, celebrates earned success, and values spiritual enlightenment. It is an inclusive movement with a positive agenda to help people lead happier, more hopeful, and more satisfied lives.
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Outstanding recitation of conservatism!
- De GLENNO en 08-06-15
De: Arthur C. Brooks
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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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We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Modern Ireland
- De: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 22 h y 11 m
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In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society - perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism.
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Relentlessly Negative
- De John en 06-02-22
De: Fintan O'Toole
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Bending Adversity
- Japan and the Art of Survival
- De: David Pilling
- Narrado por: Tim Andes Pabon
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling captures the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Japan.
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Good book, but terribly read
- De Kallan Resnick en 10-24-14
De: David Pilling
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America: The Farewell Tour
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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Terrible narrator for the book
- De H U Rehman en 10-01-18
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Death of the Liberal Class
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Chris Hedges examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establishment and that each of these institutions has sold out the constituents it represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.
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Integrity-Can You Tell Me Where It's Gone?
- De Mel en 06-14-12
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American Fascists
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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedoms and our way of life.
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Please, read or listen to this book.
- De D en 06-22-07
De: Chris Hedges, y otros
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Wages of Rebellion
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Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class - investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance.
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Excellent, important book
- De Eric L, Montreal en 09-06-15
De: Chris Hedges
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Unspeakable
- De: Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb-thrower who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else.
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Complexity of corporate neoliberalism explained
- De Dwayne en 11-09-16
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I Don't Believe in Atheists
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There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: Christian fundamentalists, who see religious faith as their exclusive prerogative, and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the religious majority - those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith - are caught in the middle.
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An author who knows little but thinks he knows all
- De GLENN en 04-16-09
De: Chris Hedges
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America: The Farewell Tour
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
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Terrible narrator for the book
- De H U Rehman en 10-01-18
De: Chris Hedges
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Death of the Liberal Class
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Chris Hedges examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues that there are five pillars of the liberal establishment and that each of these institutions has sold out the constituents it represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.
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Integrity-Can You Tell Me Where It's Gone?
- De Mel en 06-14-12
De: Chris Hedges
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American Fascists
- The Christian Right and the War on America
- De: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong
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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedoms and our way of life.
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Please, read or listen to this book.
- De D en 06-22-07
De: Chris Hedges, y otros
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Wages of Rebellion
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Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class - investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance.
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Excellent, important book
- De Eric L, Montreal en 09-06-15
De: Chris Hedges
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Unspeakable
- De: Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb-thrower who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else.
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Complexity of corporate neoliberalism explained
- De Dwayne en 11-09-16
De: Chris Hedges
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I Don't Believe in Atheists
- De: Chris Hedges
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There are two radical and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: Christian fundamentalists, who see religious faith as their exclusive prerogative, and New Atheists, who brand all religious belief as irrational. Too often, the religious majority - those committed to tolerance and compassion as well as their faith - are caught in the middle.
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An author who knows little but thinks he knows all
- De GLENN en 04-16-09
De: Chris Hedges
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The Greatest Evil Is War
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
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In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Another amazing title by an amazing journalist.
- De Zzzing en 12-28-22
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War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Chris Hedges
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Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.
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Powerful, perceptive, personal
- De Cx30 en 08-08-07
De: Chris Hedges
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A Genocide Foretold
- Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Ali Nasser
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A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence.
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Our Class
- Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
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Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. At East Jersey State Prison, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play, Caged, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’ artistic and personal discovery, as well as transformation, is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class.
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Riveting Story and Reality
- De Gregorio Bueno en 11-22-21
De: Chris Hedges
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The Culture of Narcissism
- American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
- De: Christopher Lasch
- Narrado por: Barry Press
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a best seller.
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Analysis from the 1970's good bad and ugly.
- De Carl A. Gallozzi en 02-24-20
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Collateral Damage
- America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
- De: Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
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Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians. The testimonies of these soldiers and marines provide a disturbing window into the indiscriminate killing of unarmed and innocent Iraqis that is carried out daily by the occupation forces.
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Vivid and Relevant: one of the best war books...
- De Kevin en 06-18-14
De: Chris Hedges, y otros
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
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This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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Fifty years later, still valid today
- De David Evan Glasser en 11-13-18
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The Misinformation Age
- How False Beliefs Spread
- De: Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
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In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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Veritas!
- De Charles Henderson en 08-11-20
De: Cailin O’Connor, y otros
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Because We Say So
- City Lights Open Media Series
- De: Noam Chomsky
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Because We Say So presents more than 30 concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counternarrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis.
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An antidote against American ignorance
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De: Noam Chomsky
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The Book of Common Fallacies
- Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life
- De: Phillip Ward, Julia Edwards
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
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Everything you thought you knew was wrong! Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.
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A few good entries, but most are obscure
- De Dana en 06-10-16
De: Phillip Ward, y otros
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How Propaganda Works
- De: Jason Stanley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy - particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality - and how it has damaged democracies of the past.
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Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
- De Amazon Customer en 04-18-21
De: Jason Stanley
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When China Rules the World
- The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
- De: Martin Jacques
- Narrado por: Scott Peterson
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According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly little explained or understood.
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Lucid explanation of global economic trends
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De: Martin Jacques
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- Matthew
- 11-19-20
Honest
Sounds like the previous reviewer was upset this book wasn’t what he wanted it to be. The author honestly lays out dire the situation we, as Americans, are in. I’m sorry they didn’t find the hope they were looking for.
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- 06-26-20
Amazing
While depressing this book is a must read given the current state of affairs. Must purchase
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- 01-19-21
Great listen, but not when the kids are in the car
interesting insight and almost crystal balling life in 2021. Went a bit overboard with the porn stories, but was still a great listen.
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- Gregorio Bueno
- 05-08-21
Breathtaking Reality of a Country
This book is a great immersion into our society and what is causing our division. The rising of authoritarian figures that focus on corporate greed and push us against each other. Knowledge is power and it enable us to become a better world.
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- Zachary
- 11-20-23
Prophetic in its understanding of America’s Future
Early in the book its examination in minute detail of our garish culture made me feel like a dog whose master shoves its nose in its shit while saying, “No! Bad!” It emphasized the very shallowness of our culture and then carries this over into the shallowness of our politics, our scholarship, and our religion. Written in 2010, it nonetheless anticipated the rise of a shallow, right wing populism that would feel safer under a dictatorship than under the failing structures of our existing order.
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- 06-26-19
Chris Hedges
Hedges consistently brings sharp analysis to U.S. society, the corporate state and imperialism. Excellent book!
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- Dee Butler
- 04-30-20
Excellent and rare exposure of the Truth
Few books I have read that are as erudite and convincing if the absolute collapse of the American empire.
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- Noah
- 01-08-19
I think if more people read Chris Hedges..
The world would be a better place. No author has impacted me more than he has. This is my favorite book of his. I just finished it and I think it just changed my life. It's so powerful. His ability to diagnose society is impeccable
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- D. S. Turner
- 12-21-19
Graphic language describing violence & pornography
The premise that Americans are distracted by illusion, celebrity status, and trivia is correct. The information could have been delivered without the repeated detailed graphic depictions & statements from porn stars and the descriptive violence regarding wrestling. I wanted the information but it was a painful & disturbing listen. The narrator did not convey that he was disturbed by the graphic reading.
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- Thomas R.
- 02-19-25
Excellent
A great look at modern society. I was surprised it didn’t touch on Guy Debord and ‘Society of the Spectacle’, but it still covered a lot. This book proved to be very prescient. Starts out hilarious, then becomes shocking, then revelatory, then depressing, and finally finishes hopeful. It was very entertaining, and had an abundance of substance and style.
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