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The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

by Jonathan Cohn ...

Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another ... Read more

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Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another
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Sick

The True Story of How American

by Jonathan Cohn ...

$9.99 USD
Very Special Episodes

Televising Industrial and Social Change

by Jonathan Cohn, Jennifer Porst, Reba Wissner, Philip Scepanski, Barbara Selznick, David Scott Diffrient, Lindsay Giggey, Erin Copple Smith, Ron Becker0, Erin Giannini1, Mimi White2, Brett Mills3, Apryl Alexander4, Christine Becker5, Jorie Lagerwey6, Taylor Nygaard7 ...

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era
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The Burden of Choice

Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture

by Jonathan Cohn ...

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated ... Read more

$22.99 USD

The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. Fundamentally concerned with how the recommendation has come to serve as a form of control that frames a contemporary American as heteronormative, white, and well off, this book asserts that the industries that use these automated
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Media Backends

Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations

by Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, Sander de Ridder, Mark Andrejevic, Philippe Bouquillion, Jonathan Cohn, Faithe Day, Fatima Gaw0, Christine Ithurbide1, Anne Kaun2, Amanda Lagerkvist3, Alexis Logsdon4, Stine Lomborg5, Tim Markham6, Vicki Mayer7, Rahul Mukherjee8, Kaarina Nikunen9, Vibodh Parthasarathi0, Philipp Seuferling1, Ranjit Singh2, Jacek Smolicki3, Fredrik Stiernstedt4, Matilda Tudor5, Zala Volcic6 ...

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Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. ... Read more

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Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systemsMedia backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape.
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The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

by Jonathan Cohn ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cohn, Andrew Colford ...

Unabridged

15 hours 14 min

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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**This program includes an introduction read by the author.Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.**The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half
... Read more

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The Hospital

Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

by Brian Alexander ...

Narrated by Nick Landrum ...

Unabridged

14 hours 51 min

An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises.“With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves. “ —Beth Macy, bestselling author of DopesickBy following the ... Read more

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An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises.“With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves. “ —Beth Macy, bestselling author of DopesickBy following the
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Finance Curse, The

How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge ... Read more

$42.99 USD

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Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now, in The Finance Curse, he brings his knowledge
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The Invention of the Land of Israel

From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand ...

Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the
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Four Threats

The Recurring Crises of American Democracy

by Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler ...

Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

Unabridged

13 hours 10 min

An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them.While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them.While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy,
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Humane

How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

by Samuel Moyn ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

15 hours 7 min

A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In *Humane:*How ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who’s president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere.In *Humane:*How
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Divided We Fall

America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation

by David French ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 18 min

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative
... Read more

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