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The Big Break
- The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
- Narrado por: Tim Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C.
The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting from exclusive parties, poker nights, fundraisers, secluded farms outside town and the halls of Congress; among the oddballs and opportunists and true believers. This book is about the people who see this moment as an opportunity to bet big—on their country or maybe just on themselves. It will take a close look at Washington’s bold-faced names as they try to get their bearings on the post-Trump (and possibly pre-Trump) landscape. And it will introduce readers to the behind-the-scenes players — MAGA pilgrims and Resistance flamekeepers and shapeshifting veterans — who believe they know what Washington, and America, must do if they’re going to survive, or even thrive.
Trump’s arrival in Washington represented a big break in how the city operated. He surrounded himself with outsiders; power structures reorganized around those who knew him or his family and those who could flatter and influence his base. He changed the way the game was played, only it wasn’t actually a game at all. When pro-Trump elements both inside and outside of government plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, the Capitol became a combat zone, then a military fortress.
It was, to put it lightly, a destabilizing time. But how much did the Trump years really change Washington? Has Joe Biden’s presidency heralded a return to normal, as many had hoped? What did ‘normal’ mean before Trump, and what do people think it means now?
The Big Break will follow a cast of D.C. characters in search of answers to these questions. They are a diverse crew—a pollster with a gambling habit, an oil heiress with a big heart, a cowboy lobbyist, a Republican kingmaker who decided to love Trump and his right-hand man who decided he couldn’t any longer. They all share at least one thing in common: They had seen their country go through a Big Break, and they’d come to get theirs.
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An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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Team of Five
- The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump
- De: Kate Andersen Brower
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Residence and First Women - also a New York Times best seller - comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 06-18-20
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Targeted
- The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
- De: Brittany Kaiser
- Narrado por: Brittany Kaiser
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump - and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.
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Heavy on Kaiser, Light on Cambridge Analytica’s Data Operations
- De Morgan H Hoban en 11-05-19
De: Brittany Kaiser
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Sinking in the Swamp
- How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington
- De: Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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An eyewitness account of Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness. Two of Washington's most meddlesome reporters take listeners on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump's Washington, dishing the hilarious and frightening dirt on the charlatans, conspiracy theorists, ideologues, and run-of-the-mill con artists who have infected the highest echelons of American political power.
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Fascinating writing!
- De CBesserman en 02-28-20
De: Lachlan Markay, y otros
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Antisocial
- Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
- De: Andrew Marantz
- Narrado por: Andrew Marantz
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet - and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.
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Amazing read!!!
- De Nick H en 10-23-19
De: Andrew Marantz
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Rush Limbaugh
- An Army of One
- De: Zev Chafets
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
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Do you remember your first time? People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show on the radio. For Zev Chafets, it was in a car in Detroit, driving down Woodward Avenue. Limbaugh's braggadocio, the outrageous satire, the slaughtering of liberal sacred cows performed with the verve of a rock-n-roll DJ-it seemed fresh, funny and completely subversive.
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Enjoyed it, despite poor narration
- De David en 06-02-10
De: Zev Chafets
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The Man Who Ran Washington
- The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
- De: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 26 h y 35 m
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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We Need Baker Now More Than Ever
- De @Gazi2a en 01-08-21
De: Peter Baker, y otros
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Mitch, Please!
- How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky (and America Too)
- De: Matt Jones, Chris Tomlin - contributor
- Narrado por: Matt Jones, Chris Tomlin
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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They say all politics is local. In 2020, Mitch McConnell will have served five full terms as a US Senator. Thirty years. The Senate Majority leader's power is as undeniable as it is infuriating, and the people of Kentucky have had enough. Led by Matt Jones, they (and they alone) have the power to oust him from office. How did Jones, a local boy turned attorney turned sports radio host come to shine the brightest light on McConnell's ineptitude?
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Amazing
- De Danielle Purcell en 04-10-20
De: Matt Jones, y otros
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For
- How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
- De: Charlotte Alter
- Narrado por: Charlotte Alter
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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A new generation is stepping up. There are now 26 millennials in Congress - a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. In The Ones We've Been Waiting For, Time correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation - how grappling with 9/11 as teens, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupying Wall Street and protesting with Black Lives Matter, and shouldering their way into a financially rigged political system has shaped the people who will govern the future.
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Born before the lint roller invented
- De ML Sadler en 03-05-20
De: Charlotte Alter
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The Matriarch
- Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
- De: Susan Page
- Narrado por: Kate Levy
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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A vivid biography of former first lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and underappreciated women in American political history.
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Insightful
- De Jean en 04-14-19
De: Susan Page
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart
- Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End
- De: Dave Pell
- Narrado por: John Parsons, Peter Coyote, L. J. Ganser, y otros
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a time capsule; a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle - when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Who better to examine this unhinged period in all of its twists and turns than news addict Dave Pell, a.k.a. the internet’s managing editor?
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Couldn’t stop listening!!
- De Rofar4 en 11-16-21
De: Dave Pell
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Hatemonger
- Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
- De: Jean Guerrero
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Stephen Miller is one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He has crafted Donald Trump’s speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims and separate families, and outlasted such Trump stalwarts as Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions. But he’s remained an enigma. Until now. Emmy- and PEN-winning investigative journalist and author Jean Guerrero charts the 34-year-old’s astonishing rise to power, drawing from more than 100 interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials.
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Deplorable on purpose
- De M. Alice Fisher en 08-15-20
De: Jean Guerrero
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The Great Revolt
- Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
- De: Salena Zito, Brad Todd
- Narrado por: Bob Hess
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate that will have repercussions - for Republicans and Democrats - for years to come.
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Explaining Trump's 2016 presidential victory
- De Wayne en 05-10-18
De: Salena Zito, y otros
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Lyndon
- An Oral Biography
- De: Merle Miller
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 32 h y 39 m
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Best-selling presidential biographer Merle Miller has crafted a candid portrait of one of the most complex, fascinating, difficult, and colorful figures in American history. From his birth in 1908 to his death in 1973, the story of Lyndon B. Johnson is told with no sparing his personal excesses and contentious public image - while also highlighting the strength of his greatest accomplishments in Washington.
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Flawless
- De Jeffrey en 01-04-21
De: Merle Miller
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The Kennedys
- An American Drama
- De: Peter Collier, David Horowitz
- Narrado por: Christopher Hurt
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
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Who are the Kennedys? Are they the brilliant, heroic, extraordinary people their admirers believe them to be? Or are they arrogant, competitive, self-absorbed children of a willful and immensely rich patriarch, as their detractors claim? In fact, they are all of these things, and more.
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Well-written (and narrated) Kennedy history.
- De SBG en 09-17-19
De: Peter Collier, y otros
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- Mr. P
- 06-17-23
Devoured this book!
Usually when I buy political books, I start with enthusiasm, but rarely finish them. They just get too heavy. This book, on the contrary, gets into the minds of a lot of political insiders; and those minds are full of strange complexities. A fascinating read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-20-23
Hm. People in politics can be interesting
This is about the people around the Big Wig politicians. They their spot for awhile and then change. Thank goodness
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- Bajagringa
- 10-08-23
Sad But (Is It?) True
Having worked for the Federal Government in the last century and early part of this, I will say there were more good guys or at least those who tried. Trump and times clearly appear to have brought out the worse in people. How sad.
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- Oliver
- 06-15-23
Good dive into modern DC pool of insanity
All the characters are sick. Meaning, they all have degrees and forms of mental illness. The author is great at forming their stories and showing just how wild these modern times are. Good listen if you like a bleak look at the human condition
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- Mike Pasquarella
- 08-13-23
Washington DC insight
This was a very educational read for someone who had and continues to have no real interest in politics. Or in Washington DC, other than making sure there our country stays afloat. So I DO study and vote.
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- Mike B.
- 07-02-23
Performance was the best part...
I downloaded this book because I had seen Ben on a cable show and it sounded like it would be worth an Audible credit. It was a pretty good book, but the best part was Tim's narration. Tim made it seem like you were in the room with him. There were things in the book that were "new news" and unfortunately totally believable given the state of our politics today. Of course, this gives me really awful heartburn and a feeling of dread for the future.
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- HENRY D. MALANOWSKI
- 08-16-23
A sad expose
I guess the crews that play the game and get paid very well had to be this way. Opportunists who scheme and dream. Highlight of book was a player who fell from face and said: Before this happened, I thought they liked me.”
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- Jdb
- 07-04-23
Very enjoyable
I had not listened to a story quite like this. I’d heard Ben on a podcast and then found my way to the book. His writing (together w the excellent narration) brought these characters to life - many unsavory ones I wouldn’t normally follow. It shines a light inside Washington and how things get done. I was rapt from beginning to end. Well done.
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- High Standards
- 07-06-23
Washington is a weird world
Interesting character studies of those behind the scenes of our politics and government. Not exactly encouraging, but at least Ben leaves us at the end with the youngest member of Congress and the perhaps vain hope that he's the beginning of a different way of doing things in DC.
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- Tabitha Hates Pizza
- 06-22-23
Fascinating, sometimes disgusting- like Washington
Brisk, fascinating character studies of those who make up the DC sideshow. Horrifying, and great.
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