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The Only Plane in the Sky (Revised and Expanded Edition for the 25th Anniversary)

An Oral History of September 11, 2001

de Garrett M. Graff ...

Narrado por A Full 45-Person Cast ...

Completo

18 hora 8 minutos

2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is his... ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This is his...
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The Edge of Anarchy

The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

de Jack Kelly ...

Narrado por Traber Burns ...

Completo

11 hora 16 minutos

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for AmericaThe Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for AmericaThe Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill
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All the Wrong Moves

How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump

de Anthony Scaramucci ...

Narrado por Anthony Scaramucci ...

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12 hora 30 minutos

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author.In All the Wrong Moves, Anthony Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author.In All the Wrong Moves, Anthony Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over
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Book and Dagger

How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

de Elyse Graham ...

Narrado por Saskia Maarleveld ...

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10 hora 54 minutos

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly,
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Inflamed

Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm

de Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson ...

Narrado por Janet Metzger ...

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17 hora 11 minutos

Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that ... Leer más

$30.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that
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Blood in the Garden

The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

de Chris Herring ...

Narrado por Brian Hutchison ...

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11 hora 3 minutos

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LISTThe definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit.For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LISTThe definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit.For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise.
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Бразилия. Полная история страны

de Фернандо Нуньес Карвалью ...

Narrado por Игорь Пронин ...

Series series История на пальцах
Completo

9 hora 20 minutos

Благодаря Остапу Бендеру у большинства российских читателей есть представление о главном городе Бразилии. Мулаты, бухта, экспорт кофе… Полтора миллиона человек, и все поголовно в белых штанах. В Бразилии проводятся феерические карнавалы, таких нигде больше нет. Ну и, конечно же, все любители футбола (и не только они) знают, что в Бразилии родились Пеле и Роналду… А еще в Бразилии есть фавелы – ... Leer más

$12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Благодаря Остапу Бендеру у большинства российских читателей есть представление о главном городе Бразилии. Мулаты, бухта, экспорт кофе… Полтора миллиона человек, и все поголовно в белых штанах. В Бразилии проводятся феерические карнавалы, таких нигде больше нет. Ну и, конечно же, все любители футбола (и не только они) знают, что в Бразилии родились Пеле и Роналду… А еще в Бразилии есть фавелы –
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Live Laugh Love

The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

de Kristin Kobes Du Mez ...

Narrado por Sarah Zimmerman ...

Completo

13 hora 3 minutos

"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne**, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.**In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) be... ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne**, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.**In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) be...
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Profiles in Cowardice

A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era

de Jacob Weisberg ...

Narrado por Jacob Weisberg, Samantha Desz, Oliver Wyman ...

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7 hora 55 minutos

**“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump enablers with a few key things in ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

**“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump enablers with a few key things in
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Red Record, The

de Ida B. Wells-Barnett ...

Narrado por Jacqueline Tyler ...

Completo

4 hora 19 minutos

The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, first published in 1895, stands as one of the earliest and most courageous investigative reports on the brutal realities of lynching in America. Drawing on meticulously gathered statistics, documented cases, and firsthand accounts, Wells-Barnett exposes the systemic violence inflicted upon African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. With unwavering ... Leer más

$7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, first published in 1895, stands as one of the earliest and most courageous investigative reports on the brutal realities of lynching in America. Drawing on meticulously gathered statistics, documented cases, and firsthand accounts, Wells-Barnett exposes the systemic violence inflicted upon African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. With unwavering
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The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

de Robert A. Caro ...

Narrado por Robertson Dean ...

Completo

66 hora 7 minutos

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: ... Leer más

$60.00 USD

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew:
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Comanches

The History of a People

de T. R. Fehrenbach ...

Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

Completo

24 hora 55 minutos

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were ... Leer más

$35.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were
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Too Big to Fail

The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves

de Andrew Ross Sorkin ...

Narrado por William Hughes ...

Completo

21 hora 4 minutos

Andrew Ross Sorkin's websiteAndrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie RoseWatch a VideoAndrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to ... Leer más

$30.00 USD

Andrew Ross Sorkin's websiteAndrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie RoseWatch a VideoAndrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to
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Passage of Power, The

de Robert A. Caro ...

Narrado por Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiolibro 4 - Years of Lyndon Johnson
Completo

32 hora 47 minutos

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece. ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2

Fredericksburg to Meridian

de Shelby Foote ...

Narrado por Grover Gardner ...

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52 hora 46 minutos

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.The word narrative is the key to this book’s ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.The word narrative is the key to this book’s
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Alexander Hamilton

de Ron Chernow ...

Narrado por Scott Brick ...

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35 hora 58 minutos

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of ... Leer más

$40.00 USD

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of
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America, U.S.A.

How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

de Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Narrado por Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

Completo

9 hora 37 minutos

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a
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Puerto Rico

A National History

de Jorell Meléndez-Badillo ...

Narrado por Tony Chiroldes ...

Completo

10 hora 27 minutos

This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives ... Leer más

$18.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to todayPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives
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Ted Bundy

A Life from Beginning to End

de Hourly History ...

Narrado por Matthew J. Chandler-Smith ...

Series series Biographies of Serial Killers
Completo

1 horas 13 minutos

Ted Bundy is one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Between the mid and late 1970s, Bundy admitted to the murders of more than thirty young women and girls across the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado.Reports of Bundy’s murders reached the police and trickled down through the press to ordinary citizens; panic ensued. Yet while the killings were taking place, ... Leer más

$4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Ted Bundy is one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Between the mid and late 1970s, Bundy admitted to the murders of more than thirty young women and girls across the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado.Reports of Bundy’s murders reached the police and trickled down through the press to ordinary citizens; panic ensued. Yet while the killings were taking place,
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This Vast Enterprise

A New History of Lewis & Clark

de Craig Fehrman ...

Narrado por Jason Culp, Curtis Michael Holland, Kamali Minter, Leon Nixon, Fred Sanders, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...

Completo

14 hora 53 minutos

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes in American history, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths.“This Vast Enterprise is a page-turner and a fantastic achievement.” —The New York Times • ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes in American history, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths.“This Vast Enterprise is a page-turner and a fantastic achievement.” —The New York Times •
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T.R.

The Last Romantic

de H. W. Brands ...

Narrado por Matt Kugler ...

Completo

35 hora 35 minutos

From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt"A rip-roaring life... Every red-blooded American should read this entertaining book." — Wall Street JournalIn his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so ... Leer más

$49.99 USD

From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt"A rip-roaring life... Every red-blooded American should read this entertaining book." — Wall Street JournalIn his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

de John Berendt ...

Narrado por John Berendt, Jeff Woodman, Will Damron ...

Completo

15 hora 11 minutos

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it ... Leer más

$24.00 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it
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Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

de Clay Risen ...

Narrado por Kevin R. Free ...

Completo

15 hora 30 minutos

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” .. ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” ..
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A Generation of Sociopaths

How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

de Bruce Cannon Gibney ...

Narrado por Wayne Pyle ...

Completo

14 hora 49 minutos

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern ... Leer más

$31.99 USD

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern
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