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Bloomsbury presents The Art of Becoming a Citizen by Gail Godwin, read by Rosemary Benson From the three-time National Book Award nominee and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin comes an incandescent reflection on past and present that speaks urgently to our current political moment...

It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On 20th January 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics — eight of them as President of the United States...

Here at Citizen Tales, I tell the real extraordinary stories of real ordinary people. These stories are based on real-life characters and events. I talk to those people, and then narrate the story here in my own style. Often, they may include things that are not easy to hear. But I believe if we want to understand them as our fellow humans, we must listen to them. Also, their journeys can teach us very valuable lessons.But it doesn't end with that. I, with the help of the community that I hope to grow with this podcast, want to create an everlasting archive of human stories; of real stories ...

Alexandra Reeves investigates the sovereign citizen movement, a fringe ideology whose followers reject government authority and face serious legal consequences. From extremist origins to courtroom chaos to global spread, each episode explores how this anti-government phenomenon threatens democratic institutions. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that...

Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people's destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a women's human rights advocate speaking up to end violence against women and change the world to ensure gender equality, sustainable development, and peace. Yoon has seen the struggle for human rights in all corners of the world, meeting with people in urban slums and the offices of the United Nations.

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.

Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people's destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a women's human rights advocate speaking up to end violence against women and change the world to ensure gender equality, sustainable development, and peace.

Citizen-Surgeon takes listeners into the otherwise inaccessible, remote, and intense world of life and surgery within a combat zone. In the backdrop of the US-led war in Afghanistan, amid a defining US Marine Corps’ offensive to conquer the Marjah region of Helmand Province, [then] US Navy Commander Paul Roach and his company-mates assemble and congeal as a medical unit in Southern California, transport from the United States to their tents in Dasht-e-Margo (the “Desert of Death”) in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

In one way or another Newt Gingrich has been leading a revolution for most of his life. Citizen Newt is the definitive account of that struggle. Writing with the full cooperation of Speaker Gingrich and the players around him, New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley captures the events, ideas, failures, and successes of Newton Leroy Gingrich - one of the most complex, influential, and durable political figures of our time.

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The Citizen Soldier Podcast is Tucson’s leading source for uncompromised news, real-world awareness, and a mindset rooted in discipline, strength, and personal responsibility. Hosted by "The Rooster of Tucson" Scott Ryan Paulson, the show is designed for individuals who refuse to stay passive in a rapidly changing world. This is not distraction disguised as content—it is built for clarity, growth, and actionable awareness. This is not a politic podcast .. left and right are screws of the same nut.At its core, the podcast cultivates a powerful mindset: one that values awareness over ...

Фотограф из Москвы вещает о проблемах на пути. Видеограф с ВДНХ рассказывает про сложности межличностых отношений. Мужчина Алексеевского района ноет об одиночестве. Простой парень из России ищет друзей и признания. Проработанный гражданин мира мечтает о путешествиях.

It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America. When he was in...

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America. The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he...

Die kraftvollen, offenen und detailreichen Memoiren einer amerikanischen Ikone, die zeigen, wie das Leben nach der Präsidentschaft aussieht: Triumphe, ...

Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down. Part Mafia history, part deeply researched social commentary, part Horatio Alger gone horribly awry, Citizen Wynn is a modern morality tale with instant appeal to 100 million Americans who gamble regularly as well as millions more who recognize the Wynn name from Macao to Monaco.

Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,” Leibovich has spent his career writing...