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Why Not Me?: The Inside Story Behind the Making and the Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, Hörbuch, Digital, 346min
Updated with more on the real race in 2000!First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office...Why Not Me? chronicles the dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, who would become the first Jewish president of the United States. Meet the president as a young man. Witness the Franken campaign in its infancy, as the candidate pledges "to walk the state of New Hampshire, diagonally and then from side to side." Go behind the scenes and meet Team Franken, the candidate's brain trust: including brother and deputy campaign manager Otto, a recovering sex addict and alcoholic, and campaign manager Norm Ornstein, the think-tank policy wonk who masterminds the single-issue (ATM fees) campaign. Cheer as Franken stuns the pundits by defeating Al Gore for the Democratic nomination, then is swept into office carrying all fifty states and the District of Columbia.Then, through excerpts from Bob Woodward's detailed account of the first hundred days, The Void, go inside the Franken White House, which is gripped by crisis from day one. After the highly medicated chief executive exhibits a roller coaster of bipolar behavior, Franken is forced to cooperate with the Joint Congressional Committee on the President's Mood Swings. And when the committee releases Franken's personal diaries to the public, his presidency faces its ultimate crisis.It began on a cold day in January, when Alan Stuart Franken took the oath of office and became the 44th President of the United States. It ended 144 tumultuous days later with the words: "Boy, am I sorry." Here for the first time in paperback is the searing chronicle of Al Franken's journey to the White House - the visionary campaign, the landslide victory, the hookers, the payoffs - told through confessions of key aides, Franken's own diaries, a Language: English. Narrator: Al Franken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000150/bk_bant_000150_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Small Town, Hörbuch, Digital, 312min
The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this grand master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well. That was the thing about New York; if you loved it, if it worked for you, it ruined you for anyplace else in the world.In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Pulsating with the lives of its denizens (bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers) the city inspires a passion that is universal yet unique in each of its eight million inhabitants, including:John Blair Creighton, a writer on the verge of a breakthrough; Francis Buckram, a charismatic ex-police commissioner, and the inside choice for the next mayor, on the verge of a breakdown; Susan Pomerance, a beautiful, sophisticated folk-art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality; Maury Winters, a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness; Jerry Pankow, an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York's nightlife; and, in the shadows of a city reeling from tragedy, an unlikely killing machine who wages a one-man war against them all.Infused with the raw cadence, stark beauty, and relentless pace of New York City, Small Town is a tour de force Block fans old and new will celebrate. Language: English. Narrator: Lawrence Block. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000888/bk_harp_000888_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min
Novels like The Big Sleep and L.A. Confidential, movies like Chinatown, even vampire TV shows like Angel, depict L.A. as existing in the shadows, no matter how bright the sun. That is the style we call noir. In A Bright and Guilty Place, an exhilarating tale of murder in L.A., Richard Rayner finds the source of the city's darkness in real-life events that unfolded in the 1920s, when the booming early years of L.A. started to shade into the Depression, and the city of sunshine revealed the hidden darkness and corruption at its heart. Rayner follows two very different characters: Leslie White, a photographer and budding novelist whose job as a crime-scene investigator for the city prosecutor's office lands him right in the middle of some of the age's biggest scandals; and Dave Clark, a charming, handsome prosecutor-turned-political candidate whose ambition and voracious appetites drive him into the bowels of L.A.'s corrupt politics and perhaps even to murder. The two men live in an L.A. populated by corrupt preachers, dark-hearted oil barons, sexually perverse starlets, and hookers with a heart of gold. It is a city controlled by organized crime to such an extent that when Al Capone came to see about setting up a syndicate there, he was run out of town without a single shot fired. And the tension comes to a boiling point when the head of the crime syndicate, Charlie Crawford, is found murdered in cold blood and the chief suspect is none other than golden boy Dave Clark. Raymond Chandler, that bard of L.A. despair, would later turn the travails of Dave Clark and Leslie White into the superlatively pessimistic fiction which has defined L.A. for generations. And in A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner has done something similar, transporting us to a turning point in the life of a great city. In the murderous events in these pages, we witness how sunny Los Angeles came of age - and got noir. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brett Barry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000393/bk_acx0_000393_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Doc: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 998min
The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday, the frail 26-year-old dentist who has just opened an office at No. 24, Dodge House. Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of 22: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives open to him, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally; he is also living with Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung Hungarian whore with dazzling turquoise eyes, who can quote Latin classics right back at him. Kate makes it her business to find Doc the high-stakes poker games that will support them both in high style. It is Kate who insists that the couple travel to Dodge City, because “That’s where the money is.” And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp really begins - before Wyatt Earp is the prototype of the square-jawed, fearless lawman; before Doc Holliday is the quintessential frontier gambler; before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology - when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.Authentic, moving, and witty, Mary Doria Russell’s fifth novel redefines these two towering figures of the American West and brings to life an extraordinary cast of historical characters, including Holliday’s unforgettable companion, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002603/bk_rand_002603_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rebel Moon Blues
Sass Jordan ist eine der führenden Rocksängerinnen der Geschichte und verkaufte weltweit über eine Million Alben. Während sie in ihrer 40-jährigen Karriere den Blues angesprochen hat, hat sie sich zum ersten Mal ausschließlich auf die Erstellung eines Albums mit Liedern dieser Tradition konzentriert, das ihr Talent als Blues-Sängerin demonstriert. Jordan räumt ein: Der Blues war schon immer ein großer Teil meines Lebens. Es ist ein großer Teil dessen, womit ich aufgewachsen bin. Es war während meiner gesamten Karriere dabei. Ihr erstes Blues-Album erscheint in rohem, erdigem Stil auf dem großartigen Rebel Moon Blues und erscheint am Freitag, den 13. März, bei Stony Plain Records. Es ist das neunte Studioalbum des Juno-Preisträgers und die erste Veröffentlichung seit fast einem Jahrzehnt. Entscheidender ist, dass es auch eine Wasserscheide ist, die einen neuen Kurs in Jordaniens musikalischer Reise einnimmt und gleichzeitig ihre Liebe zum Blues bis zu seiner Quelle zurückverfolgt. Das Album enthält acht Songs, die frisch interpretiert wurden und die Sass Jordan-Behandlung mit ihrer Band Champagne Hookers erhielten: die Gitarristen Chris Caddell und Jimmy Reid, der Bassist Derrick Brady und der Schlagzeuger Cassius Pereira, ergänzt durch den Blues-Harp-Meister Steve Marriner und den Keyboarder Jesse O'Brien.- Shop: odax
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On Campus+The Great John Lee Hooker+5 Bonus TR
Zwei von Hookers weniger bekannten Alben aus seinen inspiriertesten Jahren auf einer CD. Beide LPs wurden remastered und zusammen in dieser speziellen Sammleredition verpackt, die auch 5 Bonustracks aus dem gleichen Zeitraum enthält.- Shop: odax
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Stomp Boogie
Stomp Boogie enthält 70 Aufnahmen aus Hookers frühen Jahren bei verschiedenen Labels, darunter Sensation, King, Chess und Vee-Jay in Chicago. Das 3CD Set wird Fans und Sammler gleichermaßen begeistern. Hooker hat seinen Stil nie bedeutend geändert und diese frühen Aufnahmen bilden die Grundlage für seine späteren Erfolge.- Shop: odax
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Spit
Ron Morelli ist Gründer und Kopf des Brooklyner Labels L.I.E.S. (Resident Advisor #1 Label Of The Year 2012) Von House bis Industrial in 8 TracksRon Morelli ist Gründer und Kopf des Brooklyner Labels L.I.E.S. (Resident Advisor #1 Label Of The Year 2012) Von House ünder metallische Beats bis Industrial in 8 Tracks. There's so much that could be said about Ron Morelli, his L.I.E.S. label, or the fact that his debut album comes to you via Hospital Productions, but instead, here are some words from the man himself. I'm a regular guy, enjoy a good steak, drinking beer, and occasionally a game of pro basketball, Republican talk radio... you know...all the good stuff..... The music on this record is about immediacy, pressure, monotony and stress. A great deal of the feelings conveyed within come from the fear and repulsion of basic human interaction....like if someone sitting behind you on the plane sneezes on you or being forced to shake the clamy hand of a stranger and the intimate paranoias of the mind and dealing with it or not. Not to make some deep intellectual fuck show of this, as it is not...it's just stress music...jammed out quick and recorded. Last year, I was staying in an area where all the hookers did their work...all they would do is smoke cigarettes, read the paper, talk on their cell phones, and spit. They would spit...A LOT. I would step in that hooker spit on the way home, often tracking it into the apartment building as I entered. This is where the title of the record comes from. TRACKS: 1. Radar Version 2. Modern Paranoia 3. Crack Microbes 4. Sledghammer II 5. Fake Rush 6. Director Of... 7. No Real Reason 8. Slow Drown- Shop: odax
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