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2019: How Modi Won India
- Written by: Rajdeep Sardesai
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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On 23 May 2019, when the results of the general elections were announced, Narendra Modi and the BJP-led NDA coalition were voted back to power with an overwhelming majority. To some, the numbers of Modi's victory came as something of a surprise....
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opinionated !
- By Placeholder on 01-10-20
Written by: Rajdeep Sardesai
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How to Win an Indian Election
- What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
- Written by: Shivam Shankar Singh
- Narrated by: Terry D’Souza
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't....
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Terry D'Souza Needs to Work on Diction
- By Anonymous on 30-12-19
Written by: Shivam Shankar Singh
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- Written by: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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too much details and practically useless
- By vinay on 23-05-23
Written by: Nate Silver
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Rules for Radicals
- A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
- Written by: Saul D. Alinsky
- Narrated by: Scott Lange
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....
Written by: Saul D. Alinsky
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The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections
- Written by: Prannoy Roy, Dorab R. Sopariwala
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The Verdict uses rigorous psephology, original research, and as-yet-undisclosed facts to talk about the entire span of India's electoral history from the first elections in 1952. Crucially, for 2019, it provides pointers to look out for....
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Good but dry
- By Amit S on 06-04-20
Written by: Prannoy Roy,
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- Written by: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines....
Written by: Quintus Tullius Cicero,
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2019: How Modi Won India
- Written by: Rajdeep Sardesai
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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On 23 May 2019, when the results of the general elections were announced, Narendra Modi and the BJP-led NDA coalition were voted back to power with an overwhelming majority. To some, the numbers of Modi's victory came as something of a surprise....
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opinionated !
- By Placeholder on 01-10-20
Written by: Rajdeep Sardesai
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How to Win an Indian Election
- What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
- Written by: Shivam Shankar Singh
- Narrated by: Terry D’Souza
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't....
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Terry D'Souza Needs to Work on Diction
- By Anonymous on 30-12-19
Written by: Shivam Shankar Singh
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The Signal and the Noise
- Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't
- Written by: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....
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too much details and practically useless
- By vinay on 23-05-23
Written by: Nate Silver
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Rules for Radicals
- A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
- Written by: Saul D. Alinsky
- Narrated by: Scott Lange
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....
Written by: Saul D. Alinsky
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The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections
- Written by: Prannoy Roy, Dorab R. Sopariwala
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Verdict uses rigorous psephology, original research, and as-yet-undisclosed facts to talk about the entire span of India's electoral history from the first elections in 1952. Crucially, for 2019, it provides pointers to look out for....
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Good but dry
- By Amit S on 06-04-20
Written by: Prannoy Roy,
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- Written by: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: Doug Kaye
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines....
Written by: Quintus Tullius Cicero,
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Frankly, We Did Win This Election
- The Inside Story of How Trump Lost
- Written by: Michael C. Bender
- Narrated by: Eric Pollins
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how Donald J. Trump became the first incumbent in three decades to lose reelection....
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Fair and balanced 🙂
- By MSD on 13-09-21
Written by: Michael C. Bender
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The Victory Lab
- The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
- Written by: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign....
Written by: Sasha Issenberg
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Information Wars
- How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
- Written by: Richard Stengel
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation....
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noting new, just added few more info on this topic
- By Brijesh on 29-10-19
Written by: Richard Stengel
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Disloyal: A Memoir
- The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
- Written by: Michael Cohen
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....
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A real life Saul Goodman
- By Anuradha on 16-09-22
Written by: Michael Cohen
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The New Right
- A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
- Written by: Michael Malice
- Narrated by: Michael Malice
- Length: 9 hrs
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Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture....
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A great listen
- By Anonymous User on 27-07-21
Written by: Michael Malice
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- Written by: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....
Written by: Tom Schaller,
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Spin
- Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age
- Written by: Clive Veroni
- Narrated by: Clive Veroni
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni’s Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer marketing....
Written by: Clive Veroni
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The Audacity to Win
- The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
- Written by: David Plouffe
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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The story of the most important political campaign in modern times, by the man who went through it side by side with President Obama....
Written by: David Plouffe
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Russian Roulette
- Written by: David Corn, Michael Isikoff
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the US election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency....
Written by: David Corn,
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Democracy Hacked
- Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age
- Written by: Martin Moore
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers are exploiting our digital infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to influence our politics and elections....
Written by: Martin Moore
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The Rebels
- Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics
- Written by: Joshua Green
- Narrated by: Philip Hernandez
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil’s Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez....
Written by: Joshua Green
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The Arab Uprising
- The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
- Written by: Marc Lynch
- Narrated by: Nick Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East....
Written by: Marc Lynch
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The Stakes
- America at the Point of No Return
- Written by: Michael Anton
- Narrated by: Dan Crue
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Two months before the 2016 presidential election, an anonymously published essay titled "The Flight 93 Election" rallied conservatives to charge the cockpit by voting for Trump....
Written by: Michael Anton
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Shattered
- Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
- Written by: Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails....
Written by: Jonathan Allen,
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Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump
- Written by: Aaron James
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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In this brisk and trenchant inquiry into the phenomenon that is Donald Trump, James places the man firmly in the typology of the asshole....
Written by: Aaron James
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Turning Points
- Crisis and Change in Modern Britain, from 1945 to Truss
- Written by: Steve Richards
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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In Turning Points, seasoned political commentator and broadcaster Steve Richards explores the most consequential events in modern British history....
Written by: Steve Richards
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Run to Win
- Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World
- Written by: Stephanie Schriock, Christina Reynolds, Kamala Harris - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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From the president of EMILY's List, a playbook for women changing the world in politics, business, or any arena, with a foreword from Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris....
Written by: Stephanie Schriock,
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Hacks
- The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House
- Written by: Donna Brazile
- Narrated by: Donna Brazile
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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From Donna Brazile, former DNC chair and legendary political operative, an explosive and revealing new look at the 2016 election....
Written by: Donna Brazile
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Devil's Bargain
- Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
- Written by: Joshua Green
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump....
Written by: Joshua Green
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The Plot to Betray America
- How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It
- Written by: Malcolm Nance
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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In The Plot to Betray America, New York Times best-selling author and renowned intelligence expert Malcolm Nance reveals exactly how President Trump and his inner circle strategized to commit the greatest acts of treachery in the history of the United States....
Written by: Malcolm Nance
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Broken Heartlands
- A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
- Written by: Sebastian Payne
- Narrated by: Sebastian Payne
- Length: 12 hrs
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Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road trip through 10 constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall from Sebastian Payne—an award-winning journalist and Whitehall editor for the Financial Times....
Written by: Sebastian Payne
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Battle for the Soul
- Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
- Written by: Edward-Isaac Dovere
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats — haunted by Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss in 2016 — were convinced that he would be unbeatable....
Written by: Edward-Isaac Dovere
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Change We Can Believe In
- Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise
- Written by: Obama for Change, Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Andre Blake
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change....
Written by: Obama for Change,
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This Town
- Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America’s Gilded Capital
- Written by: Mark Leibovich
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....
Written by: Mark Leibovich
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Deutschland der Extreme [Germany of Extremes]
- Wie Thüringen die Demokratie herausfordert [How Thuringia Challenges Democracy]
- Written by: Martin Debes
- Narrated by: Mathias Grimm
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Martin Debes beschreibt anhand von Thüringen, warum die großen Volksparteien an Boden verlieren, das Vertrauen in demokratische Prozesse und staatliche Institutionen schwindet und Politik zu einem Schauplatz von Extremisten und Karrieristen wird. Sein Buch ist die Geschichte eines Landes, das Experimentierfeld extremer politischer Kräfte war und wieder geworden ist.
Written by: Martin Debes
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Os engenheiros do caos
- Como as fake news, as teorias da conspiração e os algoritmos estão sendo utilizados para disseminar ódio, medo e influenciar eleições
- Written by: Giuliano da Empoli
- Narrated by: Luciano Andrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Uma mentira pode dar a volta ao mundo no mesmo tempo que a verdade leva para calçar seus sapatos." Mark Twain. Aos olhos dos seus eleitores, as deficiências dos líderes populistas se transformam em qualidades, sua inexperiência demonstra que não pertencem ao círculo da "velha política", e sua incompetência é uma garantia da sua autenticidade. As tensões que causam em nível internacional são vistas como mostras de sua independência, e as fake News, marca inequívoca de sua propaganda, evidenciam sua liberdade de pensamento.
Written by: Giuliano da Empoli
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The Lie Detectives
- In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
- Written by: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies. The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years.
Written by: Sasha Issenberg
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どうする、野党!? 「大きな政治」と「新しい改革」で、永田町の常識を喝破!
- Written by: 直諫の会(重徳 和彦、中島 克仁、 青柳 陽一郎、、 山崎 誠、井坂 信彦), (篠原 豪、落合 貴之、桜井 周、源馬 謙太郎、森田 としかず), (伊藤 俊輔、中谷 一馬、塩村 あやか、藤岡隆 雄、高松 さとし)
- Narrated by: 岩見 聖次, 品田 美穂
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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これは、直諫の会としての決意表明です。古い永田町・メディアの常識や、与野党の不毛な対立、数多くの課題が先送りされる政治が続き、若者に希望ある未来は見通せません。
Written by: 直諫の会(重徳 和彦、中島 克仁、 青柳 陽一郎、、 山崎 誠、井坂 信彦),
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- Written by: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.
Written by: Tom Schaller,
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Feeling Their Pain
- Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care
- Written by: Jared McDonald
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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McDonald shows that perceptions of compassion in candidates for public office are based on the number and intensity of commonalities that bind citizens to political leaders. Commonalities can come in many forms, such as a shared experience, a shared emotion, or a shared identity. Compassion may be universal, such as when candidates convey empathy to all individuals who are struggling. Or compassion may be exclusionary, such as when candidates express a preference for some groups over others.
Written by: Jared McDonald
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Deutschland der Extreme [Germany of Extremes]
- Wie Thüringen die Demokratie herausfordert [How Thuringia Challenges Democracy]
- Written by: Martin Debes
- Narrated by: Mathias Grimm
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Debes beschreibt anhand von Thüringen, warum die großen Volksparteien an Boden verlieren, das Vertrauen in demokratische Prozesse und staatliche Institutionen schwindet und Politik zu einem Schauplatz von Extremisten und Karrieristen wird. Sein Buch ist die Geschichte eines Landes, das Experimentierfeld extremer politischer Kräfte war und wieder geworden ist.
Written by: Martin Debes
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Os engenheiros do caos
- Como as fake news, as teorias da conspiração e os algoritmos estão sendo utilizados para disseminar ódio, medo e influenciar eleições
- Written by: Giuliano da Empoli
- Narrated by: Luciano Andrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Uma mentira pode dar a volta ao mundo no mesmo tempo que a verdade leva para calçar seus sapatos." Mark Twain. Aos olhos dos seus eleitores, as deficiências dos líderes populistas se transformam em qualidades, sua inexperiência demonstra que não pertencem ao círculo da "velha política", e sua incompetência é uma garantia da sua autenticidade. As tensões que causam em nível internacional são vistas como mostras de sua independência, e as fake News, marca inequívoca de sua propaganda, evidenciam sua liberdade de pensamento.
Written by: Giuliano da Empoli
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The Lie Detectives
- In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
- Written by: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies. The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years.
Written by: Sasha Issenberg
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どうする、野党!? 「大きな政治」と「新しい改革」で、永田町の常識を喝破!
- Written by: 直諫の会(重徳 和彦、中島 克仁、 青柳 陽一郎、、 山崎 誠、井坂 信彦), (篠原 豪、落合 貴之、桜井 周、源馬 謙太郎、森田 としかず), (伊藤 俊輔、中谷 一馬、塩村 あやか、藤岡隆 雄、高松 さとし)
- Narrated by: 岩見 聖次, 品田 美穂
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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これは、直諫の会としての決意表明です。古い永田町・メディアの常識や、与野党の不毛な対立、数多くの課題が先送りされる政治が続き、若者に希望ある未来は見通せません。
Written by: 直諫の会(重徳 和彦、中島 克仁、 青柳 陽一郎、、 山崎 誠、井坂 信彦),
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- Written by: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.
Written by: Tom Schaller,
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Feeling Their Pain
- Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care
- Written by: Jared McDonald
- Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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McDonald shows that perceptions of compassion in candidates for public office are based on the number and intensity of commonalities that bind citizens to political leaders. Commonalities can come in many forms, such as a shared experience, a shared emotion, or a shared identity. Compassion may be universal, such as when candidates convey empathy to all individuals who are struggling. Or compassion may be exclusionary, such as when candidates express a preference for some groups over others.
Written by: Jared McDonald