Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich. One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century.
Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership.
Newly reissued and timely as ever, Fear of Falling places the middle class of yesterday under the microscope and reveals exactly how we arrived at the middle class of today.
©2020 Barbara Ehrenreich (P)2020 TwelveLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In 21st century America, the top 0.1 percent of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90 percent have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9 percent that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country - and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Davena en 01-05-23
De: Matthew Stewart
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Eurotrash
- Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent
- De: David Harsanyi
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia, and cultural surrender. Yet American politicians, technocrats, academics, and pundits argue, with increasing popularity, that Americans should look across the Atlantic for solutions to the nation’s problems, including on issues like health care, the welfare state, immigration, and a bloated bureaucracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Details on many ways Europe is lacking
- De Alicia B. en 11-15-21
De: David Harsanyi
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The Upswing
- How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
- De: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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For Progressives only. Won't make sense otherwise
- De Dennis G. en 12-19-20
De: Robert D. Putnam, y otros
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The Way We Never Were
- American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
- De: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. The 1950s do not present a workable model of how to conduct our personal lives today, Coontz argues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic report on the dangers of nostalgia
- De Richard Stine en 06-29-21
De: Stephanie Coontz
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The Smallest Minority
- Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
- De: Kevin D. Williamson
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Listener beware: Kevin D. Williamson - the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle - comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the “beast with many heads” that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down “the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutally honest, accurate and relevant
- De Sean en 09-19-19
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Blackout
- How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
- De: Candace Owens, Larry Elder
- Narrado por: Candace Owens, Larry Elder
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11,036
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9,783
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9,731
Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the Black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the Black community’s ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American dream.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking!
- De Girl with curls en 09-16-20
De: Candace Owens, y otros
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White Feminism
- From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
- De: Koa Beck
- Narrado por: Koa Beck
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in America, Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragists to the rise of corporate feminism with clear-eyed scrutiny and meticulous detail. She also examines overlooked communities - including Native American, Muslim, transgender, and more - and their ongoing struggles for social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visionary!
- De J. F. Beck en 01-06-21
De: Koa Beck
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What Were We Thinking
- A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
- De: Carlos Lozada
- Narrado por: Christian Barillas
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Useful book
- De Kindle Customer en 11-22-20
De: Carlos Lozada
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Discrimination and Disparities
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,069
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,538
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,513
Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. It is listenable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard Pill To Swallow - I’m better for it
- De Charles en 01-14-19
De: Thomas Sowell
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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 Socialist Temptation
- De: Iain Murray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
Just 30 years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away — and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Full Of Important Insights
- De Ralph Alderson en 12-17-20
De: Iain Murray
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- De: Noah Rothman
- Narrado por: Noah Rothman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fighting the culture wars
- De Dee Arnold en 07-08-22
De: Noah Rothman
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The 10 Big Lies About America
- Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
- De: Michael Medved
- Narrado por: Michael Medved
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on 10 of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country - in spite of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that pollute current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq war, and other contentious issues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth
- De Dominique Bessette en 01-23-17
De: Michael Medved
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Liberal Fascism
- The Secret History of the American Left
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 771
"Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Mark en 05-10-08
De: Jonah Goldberg
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- De: Tom Burrell
- Narrado por: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 104
"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of "No way!" At this pivotal point in history, the idea of Black inferiority should have had a "Going-Out-of-Business Sale." After all, Barack Obama reached America's Promised Land. Yet, as Brainwashed testifies, too many in Black America are still wandering in the wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guidance against the odds.
- De Henry Lee Faulkner en 01-05-21
De: Tom Burrell
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The Trouble with White Women
- A Counterhistory of Feminism
- De: Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper - foreword
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent read!
- De A. Robertson en 11-30-21
De: Kyla Schuller, y otros
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The ideas felt dated, then I checked and realized it was published in 1990. So, thirty years later, many ideas have not stood the test of time
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