63 Results for : crony
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Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 724min
A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again" Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power. And we need to know how to challenge their abuses. John Nichols, veteran political correspondent at the Nation, has been covering many of these deplorables for decades. Sticking to the hard facts and unafraid to dig deep into the histories and ideologies of the people who make up Trump's inner circle, Nichols delivers a clear-eyed and complete guide to this wrecking-crew administration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Kugler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003675/bk_hach_003675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love over Scotland: 44 Scotland Street, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 811min
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits, while Pat attracts several handsome admirers, including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee and good advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak and erstwhile boyfriend Eddie's misdemeanours on her own mind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hilary Neville. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000480/bk_twuk_000480_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 342min
No matter who wins the presidential election, nor which party takes control of the House or the Senate, Americans across the country are increasingly convinced that Washington is the problem. Even when a candidate promises cost cutting, fidelity to the Constitution, fearless independence from crony capitalism, or term limits, somehow candidates always seem to turn into politicians when they get into office. And politicians can’t be trusted. In Devouring Freedom, popular columnist Jim Antle voices the question millions of Americans have begun to ask: Can big government ever be stopped? Antle examines the addiction both parties have to bigger spending, bigger government programs, bigger intrusion in our lives, and bigger dependency on the nanny state, as he exposes how an ever-expanding government inevitably leads to less prosperity, less independence, less ingenuity, less growth, and far less liberty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Maxon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012646/bk_adbl_012646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To Tame a Wolf , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
Summoned from her contemplative life in the abbey, Alexandra Ashford finds herself at the mercy of her malicious guardian, a cousin she fears and despises. He plans to force her to marry his crony and so forfeit her estate. Her only chance of escape is to trust the wounded man imprisoned by her cousin. Taken captive and chained to his torturer's floor, clan laird Ian McGregor is left for dead after a brutal beating. He has little hope of escape. But when his enemy's betrothed offers him freedom and asks for his help, he realizes revenge could be sweet indeed. Facing seemingly unbeatable odds to escape and reach the McGregor stronghold, their greatest challenge is fighting their growing attraction. How will Alexandra react when she realizes she’s the prisoner of the McGregor laird who considers her the “betrothed” of his enemy? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca McKernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118473/bk_acx0_118473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Heist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
Essence® best-selling authors Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond are two rising stars in the world of urban fiction. Heist presents two novellas starring young women hustling their way to the top of the game through daring robbery schemes. In Swinson’s The Ultimate Heist, pampered Shannon Marshall is accustomed to a big-money lifestyle. Her world is shattered, however, when her man is thrown into prison for gun running. Now he’s hatching a plan from jail, and Shannon’s going to have to put her neck on the line if she wants her life of luxury back. Diamond’s Robyn Banks follows DEA Agent Jordan Hayes, a young woman determined to never lead a life of crime like her father. But her conviction is tested when her dad’s gangster crony Keston Bishop begins work on an elaborate robbery, and Jordan becomes intoxicated by the danger and power he radiates. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Beresford Bennett, Celeste Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/004225/bk_reco_004225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min
Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive. In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times best seller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the president's personal transgressions were ultimately inseparable from his political corruption. Hitchens questions the president's refusals to deny accusations of rape by reputable women and lambasts, among numerous impostures, his insistence on playing the race card, the shortsightedness of his welfare bill, his ludicrous war on drugs, and his abandonment of homosexuals in the form of the Defense of Marriage Act. Opportunistic statecraft, crony capitalism, "divide and rule" identity politics, and populist manipulations-these are perhaps Clinton's greatest and most enduring legacies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000852/bk_hach_000852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Murder of the Middle Class: How to Save Yourself and Your Family from the Criminal Conspiracy of the Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 655min
President Obama's goal is to create a two-class society: the poor and the super-rich. Decades of liberals - and even a few supposed "Republicans" - have helped push America toward this goal, and President Obama hopes to finish their work. Why? Because this two-class society cements the crony capitalism that feeds big government and keeps corrupt big shots like Obama and his friends in power, permanently enshrined as the ruling class. Meanwhile, it keeps everyone else hooked on the government like a drug that's impossible to quit. What's standing in the way of Obama and his pals? The middle class. That's why Obama wants to murder the middle class - and he's almost succeeded. Wayne Allyn Root, author of The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide, is back with The Murder of the Middle Class. Root, a serial entrepreneur and self-made man, steps up to defend the middle class and to offer them a rock-solid plan for fighting back. The Murder of the Middle Class is a must-listen for everyone who ever said, "Hey, I did build that myself!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Weiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006759/bk_blak_006759_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cry at Dusk , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 309min
A college football star’s dark past catches up with him when his uncle is murdered. Johnny Marks knows all about running, and not just because he’s a standout on the football field. Ever since he was 12, he’s been raised by his shady Uncle Walter, moving from town to town and using a different name each time, until forged transcripts land him a place at a top-tier college. Johnny, now going by the name Oliver Stringer, doesn’t know why he and his uncle are on the run, only that the reason is somehow connected to his late father. Stringer thinks that by being in the public eye, no one will suspect his past identities. But when he appears on a sports newsreel, the wrong people notice him. Soon Jennifer appears, an angelic-looking but dangerous dame who had caught Stringer in a love triangle a year ago. The third point of that triangle was Herman Bouncett, a sadomasochistic bookie who’s hunting Walter. When his uncle is found shot to death, Stringer is convinced that Bouncett and the bookie’s crony, Pedro Tamus, are behind it. Now he must chase down two diabolical characters, as well as his own family secrets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Ashby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011227/bk_adbl_011227_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min
The left and right have gone to great lengths to blame the problems plaguing our society but neither Washington DC, Wall Street, Mexico, China, the Feds, nor the media are the cause of our problems - nor are they the cure. Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised. But what happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases of the American media, the corruption of crony capitalism, the arrogance of political power brokers, and allegedly unfair global trade deals is not enough? The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue and form lasting, mediating institutions that will trump the elitist bogeymen and scapegoats for generations to come. If we fail as individual Americans to address this core crisis of responsibility, we have only ourselves to blame for what happens next. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David L. Bahnsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107656/bk_acx0_107656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min
From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies", by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the "Redhead under the Bed", in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War, providing the background to the new world of industrial and political espionage. To tell the story of post-Soviet espionage, Lucas draws on exclusive interviews with Russia's top NATO spy, Herman Simm, and unveils the horrific treatment of a Moscow lawyer who dared to challenge the ruling criminal syndicate there. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes from the siloviki, Russia's ruthless "men of power." "The outcome," Lucas argues, "will determine whether the West brings Russia toward its standards of liberty, legality, and cooperation, or whether Russia will shape the West's future as we accommodate (or even adopt) the authoritarian crony-capitalism that is the Moscow regime's hallmark." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009787/bk_adbl_009787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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