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The Small and the Mighty

Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

de Sharon McMahon ...

Narrado por Sharon McMahon ...

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10 hora 13 minutos

**A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.**In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone ... Leer más

$22.50 USD

**A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.**In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone
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The Nerd Reich

Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

de Gil Durán ...

Narrado por Gil Durán ...

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9 hora 29 minutos

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • **“This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.” —**Publishers Weekly (starred review)A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in ... Leer más

$27.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • **“This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an ominous look at an insular elite arrayed against American democracy.” —**Publishers Weekly (starred review)A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

de Jill Lepore ...

Narrado por Jill Lepore ...

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9 hora 8 minutos

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance. … Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times … Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of … the Artificial State,” writes Jill ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance. … Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times … Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of … the Artificial State,” writes Jill
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Rage and the Republic

The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution

de Jonathan Turley ...

Narrado por Jonathan Turley ...

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15 hora 50 minutos

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in
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Gilded Rage

Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

de Jacob Silverman ...

Narrado por Jacob Silverman ...

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11 hora 26 minutos

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

de Omar El Akkad ...

Narrado por Omar El Akkad ...

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5 hora 21 minutos

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now ... Leer más

$17.50 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now
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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 47 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 and features a bonus conversation with the author and Dominic Sandbrook, host of The ... 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 and features a bonus conversation with the author and Dominic Sandbrook, host of The
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On Courage

How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear

de Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer ...

Narrado por Rachel Maddow ...

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6 hora 45 minutos

READ BY RACHEL MADDOWFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

READ BY RACHEL MADDOWFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political
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Regime Change

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

de Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan ...

Narrado por Robert Petkoff ...

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17 hora 7 minutos

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre...the book is packed with news that will stay news...This is reporting of consequence.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker“A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.” —Tina Brown“Riveting and richly textured...What the authors add is the vivid detail that make... ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre...the book is packed with news that will stay news...This is reporting of consequence.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker“A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.” —Tina Brown“Riveting and richly textured...What the authors add is the vivid detail that make...
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Breaking the Law

Exposing the Weaponization of America's Legal System Against Donald Trump

de Alex Marlow ...

Narrado por Alex Marlow ...

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9 hora 15 minutos

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and two-time New York Times bestselling author of the “must-read” (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Breaking the News and Breaking Biden, returns with his third book: an intensely-researched examination into the legal cases against President Trump that threaten not only the conservative movement ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and two-time New York Times bestselling author of the “must-read” (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Breaking the News and Breaking Biden, returns with his third book: an intensely-researched examination into the legal cases against President Trump that threaten not only the conservative movement
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The Conservative Mind

From Burke to Eliot

de Russell Kirk ...

Narrado por Phillip Davidson ...

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19 hora 50 minutos

First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.Kirk ... Leer más

$31.99 USD

First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.Kirk
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Better than Sex

Confessions of a Political Junkie

de Hunter S. Thompson ...

Narrado por Scott Sowers ...

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7 hora 19 minutos

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete ... Leer más

$20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete
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Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

de Clay Risen ...

Narrado por Kevin R. Free ...

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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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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

**The Instant New York Times Bestseller“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 ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

**The Instant New York Times Bestseller“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
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The Death of Trotsky

The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy

de Josh Ireland ...

Narrado por Orlando Wells ...

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12 hora 9 minutos

**A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the YearFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it**On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden ... Leer más

$23.00 USD

**A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the YearFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it**On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as Jacques Mornard into his study. Mornard waited for Trotsky to sit, then smashed an ice pick he had hidden
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Paper Girl

A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

de Beth Macy ...

Narrado por Beth Macy ...

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8 hora 37 minutos

**An Instant National Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair"There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

**An Instant National Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair"There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a
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The Prince

de Niccolo Machiavelli ...

Narrado por Grover Gardner ...

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4 hora 47 minutos

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly
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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

de Yang Jisheng ...

Narrado por Nancy Wu ...

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22 hora 52 minutos

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a
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American Caesar

How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy

de Bradley B. Onishi ...

Narrado por Bradley B. Onishi ...

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7 hora 45 minutos

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracyThis program is read by the author.From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence is underway. Reactionary Catholics dream of a new Christendom. Protestant pastors invoke divine right over ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracyThis program is read by the author.From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence is underway. Reactionary Catholics dream of a new Christendom. Protestant pastors invoke divine right over
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How the World Really Works

The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

de Vaclav Smil ...

Narrado por Stephen Perring ...

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10 hora 7 minutos

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, ... Leer más

$20.00 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not,
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Why We're Polarized

de Ezra Klein ...

Narrado por Ezra Klein ...

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8 hora 32 minutos

**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and
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How to Test Negative for Stupid

And Why Washington Never Will

de John Kennedy ...

Narrado por John Kennedy ...

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8 hora 13 minutos

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the Senator’s tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by his thoughts on various issues and humorous ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the Senator’s tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by his thoughts on various issues and humorous
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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever

de Lloyd Alter ...

Narrado por Cherlandra Estrada ...

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5 hora 19 minutos

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiencyLiving the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert ... Leer más

$29.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiencyLiving the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert
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The Beginning Comes After the End

Notes on a World of Change

de Rebecca Solnit ...

Narrado por Rebecca Solnit ...

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5 hora

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is
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