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  Twenty-Two Cents an Hour (eBook, ePUB)

  In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while wealthy CEOs grow even wealthier as a direct result. As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted bipartisan legislation which continued to allow workers with disabilities to legally be paid far lower than the federal minimum wage. Drawing on ongoing federal Department of Justice lawsuits, the horrifying story of Henry's Turkey Farm in Iowa, and more, Crandell shows the history of the policies that have led to these unjust outcomes, examines who benefits from this legislation, and asks important questions about the rise of a disability industrial complex. Exposing this complex-which is rooted in profit, lobbying, and playing on the emotions of workers' parents and families, as well as the public-Crandell challenges readers to reexamine how we treat some of our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Twenty-Two Cents an Hour forces the reader to face the reality of this exploitation, and builds the framework needed for reform.

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  The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 760min

  Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history. First, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and in fact has made possible the nation's greatest social reforms. There is little to be gained from a "postpartisan" political world. Second, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history. From the founders' generation to the present, America's egalitarian tradition has appeared and reappeared like an underground river. This egalitarian tradition has triumphed - in the Civil War and Progressive eras, the New Deal, the Great Society - not through some sort of bipartisan partnership nor through outsiders' vital protests but through contentious yet effective party politics. As he did in The Rise of American Democracy, Wilentz masterfully ties together the key figures and moments of American history to completely refresh our thinking about this nation's political and moral character. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001085/bk_high_001085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Global Class War

  The Global Class War ab 16.99 € als epub eBook: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,

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  The Character of American Democracy: Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

  Ethical leadership, steeped in integrity and fairness, matters. The future of our nation and our world depends upon the quality of America's character. In this uncompromising, absorbing look at our government and society today, Jill Long Thompson persuasively argues that we all have a meaningful role to play in shaping America's character and future. The citizenry, as well as their elected officials, are responsible for protecting fairness of participation and integrity in elections, as well as in the adoption and execution of laws. In this troubling time when the public is losing trust and confidence in our government, Jill Long Thompson shows us a bipartisan way forward.The book is published by Indiana University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Dr. Long Thompson's book will be a resource for Americans who are seeking ways to secure our democracy and our future as a nation." (The Honorable John Lewis)"This book is a good read for all Americans. Dr. Long Thompson has set an example for all of us in her remarkable career as politician and academician." (The Honorable Lee Hamilton)"Jill Long Thompson has written a bible for public service." (The Honorable Leon Panetta) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235497/bk_acx0_235497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 924min

  Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader. The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Halliburton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021883/bk_acx0_021883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min

  From the author of the New York Times best seller Jack Kennedy - and Tip O'Neill’s former chief-of-staff - comes the firsthand, one-of-a-kind story of the friendship between President Reagan and the Speaker of the House. They were the political odd couple - the two most powerful men in the country, a pair who, in author Chris Matthews' words, "couldn't be more different or more the same." For six years, Matthews was on the inside, watching the evolving relationship between President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill. Their philosophies were miles apart - Reagan intent on scaling back government, O'Neill fervent in defending it. Yet there was common ground too: long lunches shared on St. Patrick’s Day and a mutual respect - political and personal. Three days after Reagan’s shooting, Tip was the first outsider at the president’s bedside. Drawing not only on his own remarkable knowledge but on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects, Matthews brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice, rendering as lively and novelistic a listen as Jack Kennedy and a timely object lesson in how bipartisan cooperation can work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Matthews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006478/bk_sans_006478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial: Congressional Lawsuits and the Separation of Powers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min

  In an original assessment of all three branches, Jasmine Farrier reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers. By focusing on the lawsuits brought by Congressional members that challenge presidential unilateralism, Farrier provides a new diagnostic lens on the permanent institutional problems that have undermined the separation of powers system in the last five decades, across a diverse array of partisan and policy landscapes.As each section demonstrates, member lawsuits are an outlet for frustrated members of both parties who cannot get their House and Senate colleagues to confront overweening presidential action through normal legislative processes. But these lawsuits often backfire - leaving Congress as an institution even more disadvantaged. Jasmine Farrier argues these suits are more symptoms of constitutional dysfunction than the cure. Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial shows federal judges will not and cannot restore the separation of powers system alone. Fifty years of congressional atrophy cannot be reversed in court.The audiobook is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colleen Patrick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180720/bk_acx0_180720_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership Between the United States and the European Union , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1265min

  For 60 years, the United States has supported European integration on a bipartisan basis - not only because this has served European interests, but because it has promoted American interests as well. As core partners in transatlantic efforts to address regional and global economic, political and security challenges, the US and the EU have collaborated critically over the years to make the world a less turbulent place. That is, until the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. In this era of Brexit and President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric regarding Europe, it has never been more important to understand and defend the EU as a significant and valuable American ally. Written by President Barack Obama’s Ambassador to the European Union, Stars with Stripes provides an analytic yet accessible look at how the US and the EU have worked together effectively on numerous core issues such as trade, the digital economy, climate change and more. In blending humour, personal experience, references to popular culture and incisive analyses of the major issues and players in the diplomatic relationship between the US and the EU, former Ambassador Anthony Luzzatto Gardner tells an illuminating story of this essential partnership and provides an exclusive insider look at US/EU diplomacy as well as the Brussels political scene. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055260/bk_adbl_055260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min

  When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the US and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe and had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict.  Reagan led a bipartisan Congress to restore American command of the seas by building the Navy back to 600 major ships and 15 aircraft carriers. He adopted a bold new strategy to deploy the growing fleet to northern waters around the periphery of the Soviet Union and demonstrate that the NATO fleet could sink Soviet submarines, defeat Soviet bomber and missile forces, and strike aggressively deep into the Soviet homeland if the USSR attacked NATO in Central Europe. New technology in radars, sensors, and electronic warfare made ghosts of American submarines and surface fleets. The US proved it could effectively operate carriers and aircraft in the ice and storms of Arctic waters, which no other navy had attempted. The Soviets, suffocated by this naval strategy, were forced to bankrupt their economy trying to keep pace. Shortly thereafter the Berlin Wall fell, and the USSR disbanded. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011963/bk_tant_011963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 985min

  In his number-one New York Times best seller Crimes against Liberty, David Limbaugh penned a damning indictment of President Barack Obama’s misrule during his first two years in office. In this blockbuster book, Limbaugh sets his sights on the remainder of Obama’s presidency, revealing the president’s latest crimes against liberty. Exposing Obama’s counterfeit image as a champion of bipartisan compromise, Limbaugh relates, in shocking detail, how the president resorts to class-warfare demagoguery to advance a stunningly ideological agenda. We must drastically change course, Limbaugh argues, or else our country will fall into an abyss that could take generations to escape. Controversial, compelling, and original, The Great Destroyer ingeniously picks up where Crimes against Liberty left off. It is Limbaugh’s most powerful book yet. About the author: David Limbaugh is a New York Times best-selling author, a lawyer with the Limbaugh Firm, and a nationally syndicated columnist. In addition to his journalism and law work, he frequently appears on top-tier television and radio programs, including Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, and his brother’s show, Rush Limbaugh. He lives with his family in Missouri.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005001/bk_blak_005001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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