The Peacemakers
Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship
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In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability.
Covering a broad range of historical examples, from Yitzhak Rabin's efforts for Arab-Israeli peace to Dag Hammarskjöld's effectiveness as secretary-general of the United Nations and Mahatma Gandhi's pioneering use of nonviolence as a political tool, Jentleson argues that individuals can shape policy - because they have. For each leader, Jentleson tells us who they were as an individual, why they made the choices they did, how they pursued their goals, and what they were able to achieve.
An ambitious book for ambitious people, The Peacemakers is a useful guide for anybody who wants to achieve meaningful change on the global stage.
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Disappointing, Silly And Really Childish Book.
- De Eireannach en 04-14-17
De: James Kirchick
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- De: Angela Stent
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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More like The West against the world
- De Felis N en 01-18-20
De: Angela Stent
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Reconciliation
- Islam, Democracy, and the West
- De: Benazir Bhutto
- Narrado por: Rita Wolf
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Female Muslim insight
- De Craig Bell en 03-07-08
De: Benazir Bhutto
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Winter Is Coming
- Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
- De: Garry Kasparov
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 986
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 885
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 884
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has grown into not only a dictator but a global threat. With his vast resources and nuclear weapons, Putin is at the center of a worldwide assault on political liberty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A polemic against Putin
- De David en 05-27-16
De: Garry Kasparov
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The Cold War
- A World History
- De: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 22 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ideological confrontation with roots in the industrial revolution and with continuing implications for the world today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A lenghy treatise on the Cold War
- De Donald Hill en 11-21-17
De: Odd Arne Westad
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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
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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
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,310
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
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The Mighty and the Almighty
- Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
- De: Madeleine Albright
- Narrado por: Madeleine Albright
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Does America have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State and best-selling author of Madam Secretary, offers a thoughtful and often surprising look at the role of religion in shaping America's approach to the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The point??
- De Thomas en 11-04-06
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The Death of Democracy
- Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- De: Benjamin Carter Hett
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 497
Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In this dramatic audiobook, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. Benjamin Carter Hett is one of America’s leading scholars of 20th-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of the feckless politicians of the Weimar Republic show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I can't trust the author's account of these events
- De Example: Mark Twain en 11-10-19
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Hard Choices
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrado por: Kathleen Chalfant, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Duración: 26 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,465
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,264
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,259
Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Senior Stateswoman in need of Editor
- De Cynthia en 07-20-14
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Jean en 11-10-15
De: Niall Ferguson
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A Failed Empire
- The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
- De: Vladimir Zubok
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 194
Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Focus on the Top Leadership
- De Augustus T. White en 08-13-10
De: Vladimir Zubok
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Ben-Gurion
- A Political Life
- De: Shimon Peres, David Landau
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Shimon Peres was in his early 20s when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the "Old Man", as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke this figure of stirring contradictions - a prophetic visionary and a canny pragmatist who early grasped the necessity of compromise for national survival.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Perfomance, Less than Stellar Story
- De Alexander en 01-02-12
De: Shimon Peres, y otros
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Cuba Libre
- A 500-Year Quest for Independence
- De: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years, the authors provide an incisive overview for anyone interested in exploring beyond the enduring stereotypes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lost Opportunity (and time)
- De Alexander Piquer en 05-04-18
De: Philip Brenner, y otros
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Asia's Reckoning
- China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
- De: Richard Mcgregor
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good info to learn, but...
- De Neal en 02-24-18
De: Richard Mcgregor
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Interventions
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Interventions, by Noam Chomsky, is getting new press after the Pentagon banned the book from Guantanamo Bay's prison library. Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best. Not since his all-time best-selling title, 9/11, published in the Open Media series in 2001, have readers and listeners had a timely, short, affordable Chomsky. Unlike 9/11, Interventions is a writerly work - a series of more than 30 tightly argued essays aimed at various aspects of U.S. power and politics in the post-9/11 world. While critical of U.S. military interventions around the globe, each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chomsky on Fire
- De Susie en 01-09-13
De: Noam Chomsky
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Kevin Smith
- 05-08-19
Nice to focus on world leaders
A good book Focusing both on political leaders and people who make a change in the world. I enjoyed hearing about contributions from people from different places.
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