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Taking America Back
- The Conservative Movement and the Far Right
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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Publisher's summary
A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War.
As David Austin Walsh shows, the mainstream conservative movement and the far right have been intertwined for nearly a century, and both were born out of a “right-wing popular front” linking racists, anti-Semites, and fascists in a broad coalition opposed to socialism, communism, and New Deal liberalism.
Far from being outliers in the broader conservative coalition, these extremist elements were foundational in the creation of a rightwing political culture centered around shared political enemies, a penchant for conspiracy theories, and a desire to restore America to its “authentic” pre–New Deal values.
The popular front included the original “America First” movement, the John Birch Society, the American Nazi Party, the George Wallace presidential campaign of 1968, and the fight over the National Endowment for the Humanities. And connecting this disparate coalition was William F. Buckley, Jr., the editor of National Review and America’s leading “responsible conservative.'
The book is published Yale University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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In Children of the Beast, author William Ramsey traces the impact of the Great Beast, occultist Aleister Crowley, upon the culture and history of the Twentieth Century and the New Millennium. Based upon a wide examination of diverse sources, Ramsey reveals in the book how varied individuals such as Adolf Hitler, Ian Fleming, Arthur C. Clarke, H. R. Giger, Timothy Leary and David Bowie are connected to and influenced by the Prophet of the New Age, Aleister Crowley. Filled with new research and unique insight into the lives of famous personalities, Children of the Beast investigates the ...
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Very well researched
- By My Daughter's Table on 08-09-24
By: William Ramsey
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Eisenhower for Our Time
- People for Our Time
- By: Steven Wagner
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Wagner examines a series of defining moments that were among Eisenhower's greatest challenges, some of which resulted in his greatest accomplishments: the decision to run for president, his political philosophy of the "Middle Way," the creation of a national security policy, the French Indochina War, Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Little Rock Desegregation Crisis, the Race for Space, and the famous Farewell Address. Wagner looks at Eisenhower's executive ability, leadership, decision making, and willingness to compromise, as well as the qualities of duty, integrity, and good character.
By: Steven Wagner
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Violence over the Land
- Indians and Empires in the Early American West
- By: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West.
By: Ned Blackhawk
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Demagogue
- The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- By: Larry Tye
- Narrated by: Ben Jaeger-Thomas
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In the long history of American demagogues from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use "McCarthyism" to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a weapon of polarizing slander. From 1950 to 1954, McCarthy destroyed many careers and even entire lives, whipping the nation into a frenzy of paranoia, accusation, loyalty oaths, and terror. When the public finally turned on him, he came crashing down, dying of alcoholism in 1957.
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A necessary counterbalance to revisionism
- By Paul Crosby on 07-19-20
By: Larry Tye
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Into the Darkness
- A Journey of Love, War, and Emotional Freedom
- By: Dave Fielding
- Narrated by: Dave Fielding
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Dave Fielding’s no-holds-barred memoir is not just a tale of covert operations and daring takedowns of the planet's most notorious terrorists in the hostile terrains of Iraq and Syria. It's a raw, unflinching look at the man behind the mission, whose personal life crumbled even as he fought against the darkness both without and within. Fielding's story is a harrowing journey through the underbelly of mental anguish, where the specter of suicide loomed large, and the battle was not just in surviving the external threats but confronting the demons that whispered from the shadows of his mind.
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Disappointing
- By Preston McRae on 08-28-24
By: Dave Fielding
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Far-Right Vanguard
- The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- By: John S. Huntington
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Far-Right Vanguard, John Huntington shows how, for almost a century, the far right has forced so-called "respectable" conservatives to grapple with their concerns, thereby intensifying right-wing thought and forecasting the trajectory of American politics. Ultraconservatives of the 20th century were the vanguard of modern conservatism as it exists in the Republican Party of today.
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Brilliant, focused history that resonates.
- By "teebalicious" on 07-25-23
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Venona
- Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
- By: John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages.
By: John Earl Haynes, and others
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Illiberal America
- A History
- By: Steven Hahn
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
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Comprehensive American History
- By Rolando on 08-27-24
By: Steven Hahn
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The Longest Con
- How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
- By: Joe Conason
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump's path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him.
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Very interesting wide lens view
- By CG on 09-17-24
By: Joe Conason
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When the Clock Broke
- Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
- By: John Ganz
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents.
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Amazing history of the early 90s
- By Aaron R. Isaacson on 06-25-24
By: John Ganz
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Breaking All the Rules
- The Inside Story of the New Space Race
- By: Jim Cantrell
- Narrated by: Tim Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960s US-Soviet space race and eventually led to SpaceX and the explosive growth in commercial space being seen today. The story covers how this revolution began with a band of misfit engineers and scientists and the inside story of how this was eventually ignited with the money and vision of billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson.
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Historical perspective on the current space race
- By Sonia Vohnout on 08-07-24
By: Jim Cantrell
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Making Makers
- The Past, the Present, and the Study of War
- By: Michael P. M. Finch
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy.
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The Reactionary Spirit
- How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World
- By: Zack Beauchamp
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nation’s birth. In The Reactionary Spirit, Beauchamp explains what he calls the reactionary spirit: as strides towards true democracy are made, there is always a faction that reacts by seeking to undermine them and thereby resist change. Brilliantly combining political history and reportage, Beauchamp reveals how the United States was the birthplace of this strange and harrowing authoritarian style, and why we’re now seeing its evolution in diverse nations including Hungary, Israel, and India.
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Well told tale about extremism on the right.
- By Timothy Hoff on 07-20-24
By: Zack Beauchamp
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- By: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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Great history
- By Rhonda S. Black on 10-09-24
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Storm Pegs
- A Life Made in Shetland
- By: Jen Hadfield
- Narrated by: Jen Hadfield
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world. On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more.
By: Jen Hadfield
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On a Sea of Glass
- The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
- By: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive? The authors bring the tragedy to life, telling the story of the ship's design, construction, and maiden voyage.
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One of the best Titanic histories. Mediocre recording.
- By Ariana M. Pisano on 07-22-24
By: Tad Fitch, and others
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Hitler in Los Angeles
- How Jews and Their Spies Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
- By: Steve Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging 20 prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast.
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Phenomenal read!
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-17
By: Steve Ross