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    Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman: The Lives and Careers of 19th Century America’s Most Famous Poets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min
    Walt Whitman, the great American poet, is also in many ways a great American enigma, for more and less are known about him than other famous men in 19th century American history. As a young man, when most of his peers were sowing their wild oats, he was considered by many to be a stick in the mud who neither drank nor chased women. Then, as a middle-aged man, when his peers had settled down into quieter lives, he remained single and seems to have pursued romantic relationships with both men and women. Then, of course, there was his poetry, words that summarized both the best and worst about his nation. His seminal work, Leaves of Grass, began as little more than a pamphlet but grew for decades, as each new edition added more poems. By the time of his death, it had become a large volume still studied today. While he wrote other pieces for publication, Leaves of Grass remained his magnum opus and his baby, nurturing and developing it throughout his life. Like many writers of her day, Emily Dickinson was a virtual unknown during her lifetime. After her death, however, when people discovered the incredible amount of poetry that she had written, Dickinson became celebrated as one of America’s greatest poets. Dickinson was notoriously introverted and mostly lived as a recluse, carrying out her friendships almost entirely by written letters. Her work was just as unique; her poetry is written with short lines, occasionally lacked titles, and often used slant rhyme and unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Born in an era when women rarely received more than a rudimentary education, she attended college but left before graduating. Considered by many evangelical Christians to be a pioneer of religious poetry, she struggled during her entire life to fully embrace the Calvinist doctrines taught in her New England home. She seemed to be, in every way, the quintessential Victorian spinster, but her poetry and letters reveal shocking p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124138/bk_acx0_124138_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    America’s Forgotten Wars: The History and Legacy of the Nation’s Forgotten Conflicts on the Way to Becoming a Global Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 369min
    The history of the United States is to a large extent a history of armed conflict. The nation was first forged in war, a tough fight for independence against one of the world’s largest empires, and that fight would resume less than a generation later with the War of 1812. Then there were constant low-level conflicts with Native Americans as the nation expanded westwards, and occasionally the country engaged in full-scale war against the Sioux, Comanche, and Apache. The country also fought the Mexican-American War, starting in 1846, and the bloody Civil War starting in 1861. These conflicts helped the United States establish its modern boundaries and what kind of nation it would be.In the 20th century, the United States came into its own as a global power through even more armed conflicts, including World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and campaigns against several Middle Eastern nations. While not all of these wars were won, they did establish the nation as a superpower, a status America retains today.By the second half of the 19th century, still less than a century old, the United States had become a regional power. It had soundly defeated its southern neighbor, Mexico, and greatly enlarged itself in the process. America’s navy and merchant marines were becoming common sights on the high seas, and the country was at the beginning of the end of its drawn-out conquest of the Native Americans. However, it was a country divided deeply along political and economic lines, a tottering edifice many predicted would split apart. Even before the final tremors from the Mexican-American War had stopped disrupting the southern border, the United States found itself in a bloody civil war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194187/bk_acx0_194187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    America’s Most Influential Editors: The History of the Newspaper Publishers Who Changed American Journalism and Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min
    Well before Lincoln and the “Black Republicans” were cited by secessionist firebrands looking to justify their stances, one of the men they most bitterly opposed was abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison. While many begin their adult lives with very strident views and then mellow over time, he did just the opposite. Raised by a pious single mother, he embraced the general teachings of the Christian faith as a young man, and in his 20s, he became convicted that slavery was the greatest moral evil in the nation. Thereafter, he devoted most of his life to seeing it ended, and he refused to give an inch in the name of compromise on the things he felt strongly about. As he famously put it, “With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” At the end of his life, Garrison could look back on the fact that he had played a major role in ending America’s original sin, and its most evil institution. At the same time, he had also to be aware that many of the wrongs he opposed, such as the death penalty and war, remained in place, while the rights he championed, for men and women of all races, remained to be realized.While Garrison had a profound influence on the abolition movement, few of his contemporaries were as influential as Horace Greeley. There is little one can say about Greeley that has not already been said, much of it during his lifetime, for unlike many others, fame came to him early, and by the end of his life he was already one of the most famous men in the United States. Of course, no one who knew him as a young man would ever have thought that this would be the case, for he was born into less than ideal circumstances, and he went out to work early as a print setter. He experienced several business failures before finding success with the New York Tribune. On the other hand, he enjoyed quick but brief political successes, followed ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138093/bk_acx0_138093_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Politik braucht Strategie - Taktik hat sie genug
    Die Segelcrew zum America’s Cup hat unter 17 Profis einen ausgewiesenen "Strategen", die Bundesregierung unter mehr als 13 000 Mitarbeitern keinen einzigen. Und warum gibt es in der Wirtschaft seit 50 Jahren das strategische Management, während die Politik über keinen Zweig verfügt, der zu Recht "Politische Strategie" genannt werden kann? Joachim Raschke und Ralf Tils zeigen, dass es angesichts wachsender Komplexität auch in der Politik höchste Zeit ist für umsichtige Strategie statt situativer Taktik. Ausgehend von den spezifischen Motiven und Zielen politischer Arbeit im Unterschied etwa zur Wirtschaft erläutern sie politische Strategie und ihre Methodik einfach und praxisbezogen. Sie stellen den gesamten strategischen Prozess vor – Strategiefähigkeit, Strategiebildung und Steuerung – und beleuchten die Rolle der Akteure: Regierung, Opposition, Parteien, Medien und einzelne Politiker. Beispiele gelungener oder missglückter Strategien aus der Geschichte und Gegenwart der Bundesrepublik machen das Erfolgspotenzial dieses Ansatzes anschaulich. "Früher las man Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Sun Tsu, um Strategie zu verstehen. Heute muss man Raschke/Tils lesen." Matthias Machnig, SPD-Stratege und Wirtschaftsminister in Thüringen
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    The Undermining of the American Dream through Illegal Immigration (eBook, PDF)
    Essay from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Leipzig (Institut für Amerikanistik), course: American Dream, language: English, abstract: The United States of America is often referred to as ‘a nation of immigrants’. Over centuries, the prospect of achieving the American Dream has attracted immigrants from all over the world to the country. However, in recent decades many immigrants entered the USA illegally or stayed on after their visas had expired. Actually, the approximated number of undocumented immigrants currently living in the USA widely ranges from “11.5 million to 20 million” (Orchowski 2008, 69), the majority of them hailing from Latin American countries. This uncontrolled influx of immigrants causes various problems in the host nation. Illegal immigration from South and Central America to the USA undermines core elements of the American Dream such as the opportunity of climbing the social ladder, security of life and liberty, and America’s social security for everyone living in the U.S.
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    Early America’s Forgotten Wars: The History and Legacy of the Overlooked Conflicts That Helped Shape the Young Nation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 224min
    You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once. (George Washington, referencing Shays’ Rebellion in a letter to Light-Horse Harry Lee)The history of the United States is, to a large extent, a history of armed conflict. The nation was first forged in war, a tough fight for independence against one of the world’s largest empires, and that fight would resume less than a generation later with the War of 1812.Then, there were constant low-level conflicts with Native Americans as the nation expanded westwards, and occasionally, the country engaged in full-scale war against the Sioux, Comanche, and Apache. The country also fought the Mexican-American War, starting in 1846, and the bloody Civil War starting in 1861. These conflicts helped the United States establish its modern boundaries and what kind of nation it would be.In the 20th century, the United States came into its own as a global power through even more armed conflicts, including World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and campaigns against several Middle Eastern nations. While not all of these wars were won, they did establish the nation as a superpower, a status America retains today.However, there have been many other conflicts, some small, some considerable, that helped shape the country and its foreign policy, even as they have been overlooked. While every student knows of the Vietnam War, few are familiar with the Sumatran Expeditions, and while America’s involvement in the Middle East is constantly in today’s headlines, the battles against the Barbary pirates are widely forgotten. In fact, there were conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194153/bk_acx0_194153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education. Recognising Russia was 100 years behind the encircling capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky on a mission to acquire America’s vital secrets to help close the USSR’s yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT - Shumovsky’s destination soon became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to confront and defeat Nazi Germany. Then, in an extraordinary feat that astonished the West, in 1947 American ingenuity and innovation exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the most advanced strategic bomber in the world. Following his lead, other MIT-trained Soviet spies helped acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project. By 1949, Stalin’s fleet of TU-4s, now equipped with atomic bombs, could devastate the United States on his command. Appropriately codenamed BLÉRIOT, Shumovsky was an aviation spy. Shumovsky’s espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes. In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation. She pieces together every aspect of Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Trinder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003884/bk_hcuk_003884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest TragedyOvercoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min
    Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science - not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment system, including Twelve-Step programs and rehabs, has helped some, but it has failed to help many more, and David Sheff explains why. He spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families to learn how addiction works and what can effectively treat it. Clean offers clear, cogent counsel for parents and others who want to prevent drug problems and for addicts and their loved ones no matter what stage of the illness they’re in. But it is also a book for all of us - a powerful rethinking of the greatest public-health challenge of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004846/bk_brll_004846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pearl Harbor: A Captivating Guide to the Surprise Military Strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service That Caused the United States of America’s Formal Entry into World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min
    If you want to discover the captivating history of Pearl Harbor, then pay attention...The attack of the US Pearl Harbor Naval Base changed the entire progress of World War II, and as a result, it was a very formative event both for the United States and Japan. Though the two nations seemed unlikely enemies at the onset of the Second Great War, bloodshed between them would be greater than anyone could have imagined. The future of the world at large was changed on December 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan chose to make a preemptive strike on its most feared Pacific neighbor, the United States of America.In Pearl Harbor: A Captivating Guide to the Surprise Military Strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service That Caused the United States of America’s Formal Entry into World War II, you will discover topics such asThe Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Pre-1941Post-World War I Pearl HarborPost-WWI JapanThe Second Sino-Japanese WarWar in EuropeThe Occupation of IcelandJapan Contemplates WarThe Pearl Harbor AttackImmediate AftermathThe United States Goes to WarAmerica’s Military Prepares for WarWartime in the United States of AmericaThe Tule Lake Relocation CampItaly Switches SidesD-DayPresident Roosevelt DiesThe B-29 SuperfortressIwo Jima and OkinawaThe Bombardment of JapanThe Manhattan ProjectThe Bombing of HiroshimaThe Bombing of NagasakiJapan SurrendersPost-War Occupation of JapanAnd much, much more!So if you want to learn more about Pearl Harbor, then scroll up and click the "add to cart" button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187998/bk_acx0_187998_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    CatoAudio, January, 2011, Hörbuch, Digital, 64min
    Michael Tanner and Chris Edwards on downsizing the federal government. Carmen Reinhardt on America’s debt crisis. Adam S. Posen on whether monetary policy can prevent bubbles. Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. on credit ratings. Barney Frank on redefining “national security”. Jerry L. Jordan on America’s broken monetary and fiscal policy. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/cato/110110/sp_cato_110110_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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