16 Best Political Advocacy Books
Political Advocacy is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Political Advocacy audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 16 Political Advocacy audiobooks below.
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Let the Record Show
- By: Sarah Schulman
- Narrator: Rosalyn Coleman Williams
- Length: 27 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 18, 2021
- Language: English
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4.51(756 ratings)
4.51(756 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0044.99 USDThis program includes an introduction read by the author. One of O, the Oprah Magazine‘s 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue‘s 9 LGBTQ+ Books We’re Looking Forward to This Spring, one of andThis program includes an introduction read by the author.
One of O, the Oprah Magazine‘s 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue‘s 9 LGBTQ+ Books We’re Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan‘s LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer‘s Spring Books You Don’t Want to Miss, and one of Bloomberg‘s 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring
“A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now.” –Alexander Chee
Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activismIn just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled–and beat–The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration–and long-overdue reassessment–of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.
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Lead from the Outside
- By: Stacey Abrams
- Narrator: Stacey Abrams
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 24, 2018
- Language: English
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4.26(3961 ratings)
4.26(3961 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD*This program was previously published as Lead from the Outside . This updated edition includes a new preface written and read by Stacey Abrams.* “Abrams’s own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will*This program was previously published as Lead from the Outside . This updated edition includes a new preface written and read by Stacey Abrams.*
“Abrams’s own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will make [Lead from the Outside] touch you in a way few books by politicians can.” — The New York Times
National leader Stacey Abrams has written the guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider and succeeding anyway.Leadership is hard. Convincing others–and yourself–that you are capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and courage. Lead from the Outside is the handbook for outsiders, written with an eye toward the challenges that hinder women, people of color, the working class, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials ready to make change.
Stacey uses her hard-won insights to break down how ambition, fear, money, and failure function in leadership, and she includes practical exercises to help you realize your own ambition and hone your skills. Lead from the Outside discusses candidly what Stacey has learned over the course of her impressive career in politics, business and the nonprofit world: that differences in race, gender, and class provide vital strength, which we can employ to rise to the top and create real and lasting change.
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Run for Something
- By: Amanda Litman
- Narrator: Candace Thaxton
- Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.24(345 ratings)
4.24(345 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.You’ve been depressed since the night of November 8, 2016. You wore black to work the nextThe must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.
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You’ve been depressed since the night of November 8, 2016. You wore black to work the next morning. You berated yourself for your complacency during the Obama years. You ranted on Twitter. You deleted Twitter. You sent emails to your friends saying, “How can we get more involved?” You listened to Pod Save America. You knitted a pussyhat. You showed up to the Women’s March on Washington. You protested Donald Trump’s executive orders. You called your congressman. You called other people’s congressmen. You set up monthly donations to Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. You reactivated Twitter (begrudgingly).
Here’s what you do next: Run for something.
To be specific: Run for local office and become the change you want to see in the world. Forget about Congress. Forget about the Senate. Focus on the offices that get the real sh*t done: state legislatures, city councils, school boards, and mayors.
It doesn’t matter if you’re not a white man over sixty with an Ivy League law degree. (In fact, it’s better if you’re not!)
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the first thing about running for office, or never even imagined you would. That’s what this book is for.
Amanda Litman, experienced in hard-fought state and national election campaigns, is here to give you guidance as well as wisdom and insight from elected officials and political operatives she interviewed for this book.
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Use the Power You Have
- By: Pramila Jayapal
- Narrator: Pramila Jayapal
- Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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4.16(79 ratings)
4.16(79 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn November 2016, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Indian American woman to serve in that role. Two years later, the “fast-rising Democratic star and determined critic of President DonaldIn November 2016, Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Indian American woman to serve in that role. Two years later, the “fast-rising Democratic star and determined critic of President Donald Trump,” according to Politico’s Playbook 2017 “Power List,” won reelection with more votes than any other member of the House. Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, proved her progressive bonafides when she introduced the most comprehensive Medicare-for-All bill to Congress in February.
Behind the story of Jayapal’s rise to political prominence lie over two decades of devoted advocacy on behalf of immigrants and progressive causes–and years of learning how to turn activism into public policy that serves all Americans. Use the Power You Have is Jayapal’s account of the path from sixteen-year-old Indian immigrant to grassroots activist, state senator, and now progressive powerhouse in Washington, DC.
Written with passion and insight, Use the Power You Have offers a wealth of ideas and inspiration for a new generation of engaged citizens interested in fighting back and making change, whether in Washington or in their own communities.
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Youth to Power
- By: Jamie Margolin
- Narrator: Jamie Margolin
- Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
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4.11(145 ratings)
4.11(145 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USD“Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to“Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations.”
— Former Vice President Al GoreClimate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people.... Read moreThe 1963 Children’s March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people.Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don’t have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world.In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of.Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice. -
Trumpocalypse
- By: David Frum
- Narrator: David Frum
- Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 26, 2020
- Language: English
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4.01(564 ratings)
4.01(564 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“I don’t take responsibility at all.” Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history’s epitaph on his presidency. A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump“I don’t take responsibility at all.” Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history’s epitaph on his presidency.
A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn’t have a place for them.
If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly risk the stability of American democracy. They brought the Trumpocalypse upon the country, and a post-Trumpocalypse country will have to find a way either to reconcile them to democracy – or to protect democracy from them.
In Trumpocalypse, David Frum looks at what happens when a third of the electorate refuses to abandon Donald Trump, no matter what he does. Those voters aren’t looking for policy wins. They’re seeking cultural revenge.
It is not enough to defeat Donald Trump on election day 2020. Even if Trump peacefully departs office, the trauma he inflicted will distort American and world politics for years to come. Americans must start from where they are, build from what they have, to repair the damage Trump inflicted on the country, to amend the wrongs that, under Trump, they inflicted upon each other.
Americans can do better. David Frum shows how–and inspires all readers of all points of view to believe again in the possibilities of American life. Trumpocalypse is both a warning of danger and a guide to reform that will be read and discussed for years to come.
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The Marginalized Majority
- By: Onnesha Roychoudhuri
- Narrator: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.98(125 ratings)
3.98(125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEver since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided–that if progressives want to reclaim power, we need to be “pragmatic,” reach across the aisle, and look past identity politics. But whatEver since the 2016 election, pundits have been saying our country has never been more divided–that if progressives want to reclaim power, we need to be “pragmatic,” reach across the aisle, and look past identity politics.
But what if we’re getting the story all wrong?
In The Marginalized Majority, Onnesha Roychoudhuri makes the galvanizing case that our voices are already the majority–and that our plurality of identities is not only our greatest strength but is also at the indisputable core of successful progressive change throughout history.
From the civil rights movement to the Women’s March, Saturday Night Live to the mainstream media, Roychoudhuri holds the myths about our disenfranchisement up to the light, illuminating narratives from history that reveal we have far more power than we’re often led to believe. With both clear-eyed hope and electrifying power, she examines our ideas about what’s possible, and what’s necessary–opening up space for action, new realities, and, ultimately, survival.
Now, Roychoudhuri urges us, is the time to fight like the majority we already are.
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Repeal the Second Amendment
- By: Allan J. Lichtman
- Narrator: Allan J. Lichtman
- Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 28, 2020
- Language: English
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3.92(49 ratings)
3.92(49 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program includes an introduction read by the author. A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America.There’s an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given theThis program includes an introduction read by the author.
A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America.
There’s an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it’s time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data to make a compelling case for the amendment’s repeal in order to create a clear road to sensible gun control in the US. Repeal the Second Amendment explores both the true history and current interpretation of the Second Amendment to expose the NRA’s blatant historical manipulations and irresponsible fake news releases. Lichtman looks at the history of firearms and gun regulations from colonial times to the present to explain how a historically forgotten sentence in the Constitution has become a flash point of recent politics that benefits only the gun industry, their lobbyists, and the politicians on their payroll. He probes court decisions and the effective lobbying and public relations strategies of the gun lobby as well as the ineffectiveness of the gun control movement for lessons in doing better.What emerges is a clear and cogent plan – repeal and replace the Second Amendment without taking guns away from anyone who has them now – to make the US a safer place. It’s time to Repeal the Second Amendment, and Allan Lichtman is the man to bring this radical plan to America.
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You’re More Powerful than You Think
- By: Eric Liu
- Narrator: Eric Liu
- Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.89(273 ratings)
3.89(273 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIs this the America you want? If not, here’s how to claim the power to change your country. We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to theIs this the America you want? If not, here’s how to claim the power to change your country.
We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread of grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and $15 Now, people across the country and across the political spectrum are reclaiming power.
Are you ready for this age of bottom-up citizen power? Do you understand what power truly is, how it flows, who has it, and how you can claim and exercise it?
Eric Liu, who has spent a career practicing and teaching civic power, lays out the answers in this incisive, inspiring, and provocative book. Using examples from the left and the right, past and present, he reveals the core laws of power. He shows that all of us can generate power-and then, step by step, he shows us how. The strategies of reform and revolution he lays out will help every reader make sense of our world today. If you want to be more than a spectator in this new era, you need to read this book.
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Generation Occupy
- By: Michael Levitin
- Narrator: Alex Boyles
- Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.89(18 ratings)
3.89(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDFrom the fight for a fifteen-dollar minimum wage to the nationwide teacher strikes, from Bernie Sanders to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, Generation Occupy reveals the lasting impacts of the Occupy movement onFrom the fight for a fifteen-dollar minimum wage to the nationwide teacher strikes, from Bernie Sanders to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, Generation Occupy reveals the lasting impacts of the Occupy movement on American politics and culture.
On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movement’s lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party, and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice at the forefront of a generation. The movement changed the way Americans see themselves and their role in the economy through the language of the 99 versus the 1 percent.
But beyond that, in its demands for fairness and equality, Occupy reinvigorated grassroots activism, inaugurating a decade of youth-led resistance movements that have altered the social fabric, from Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock to March for Our Lives, the Global Climate Strikes, and #MeToo. Bookended by the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, Generation Occupy attempts to help us understand how we got to where we are today and how to draw on lessons from Occupy in the future.
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Where We Go from Here
- By: Bernie Sanders
- Narrator: Bernie Sanders
- Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.87(1228 ratings)
3.87(1228 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDSenator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America’s most popular political figure speaks about what he’s been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressiveSenator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new audiobook, America’s most popular political figure speaks about what he’s been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation.
“Senator Sanders’s gravelly voice and dramatic presentation are surely familiar to listeners. He reads with the same sincerity and earnestness he brought to audiences throughout his extraordinary primary campaign for president of the United States. A seasoned orator, he’s particularly good at changing speed and intonation to emphasize the points he wants you to understand and absorb.” — Publishers Weekly on Our Revolution
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Rebuild the Dream
- By: Van Jones
- Narrator: Van Jones
- Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 21, 2012
- Language: English
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3.86(217 ratings)
3.86(217 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDVan Jones’ journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider ended after his resignation as special advisor to the Obama White House. Now, in Rebuild the Dream, Jones lays bare his experiences, offering a unique perspective on the sevenVan Jones’ journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider ended after his resignation as special advisor to the Obama White House. Now, in Rebuild the Dream, Jones lays bare his experiences, offering a unique perspective on the seven biggest mistakes the administration has made. Then he goes a step further- proposing a bold plan to fix our democracy and restore hope in the American Dream.
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The Democracy Fix
- By: Caroline Fredrickson
- Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 23, 2019
- Language: English
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3.76(16 ratings)
3.76(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDDespite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressivesDespite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressives fought to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific issues, conservatives focused on simply gaining power by gaming our democracy. They understood that policy follows power, not the other way around. Now, in a sensational new book, Caroline Fredrickson–who has had a front-row seat to the political drama in DC for decades while working to shape progressive policies as special assistant for legislative affairs to President Clinton, chief of staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, deputy chief of staff to Senator Tom Daschle, and president of the American Constitution Society–argues that it’s time for progressives to focus on winning. She shows us how we can learn from the right by having the determination to focus on judicial elections, state power, and voter laws without stooping to their dishonest, rule-breaking tactics. We must be ruthless in thinking through how to work to change the rules of the game to regain power, expand the franchise, end voter suppression, win judicial elections, and fight for transparency and fairness in our political system.
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Raising Them Right
- By: Kyle Spencer
- Narrator: Kyle Spencer
- Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 18, 2022
- Language: English
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3.6(89 ratings)
3.6(89 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right–and how they’ve partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen InA riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right–and how they’ve partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seen
In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution–online and off–that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses.
In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative tour de force, Kyle Spencer chronicles the people and organizations working to lure millions of unsuspecting young American voters into the far-right fold–revealing their highly successful efforts to harness social media in alarming ways and capitalize on the democratization of celebrity culture.
These power-hungry new faces may look and sound like antiestablishment renegades, but they are actually part of a tightly organized and heavily funded ultraconservative initiative to transform American youth culture and popularize fringe ideas. There is Charlie Kirk, the swashbuckling Trump insider and founder of the right-wing youth activist group Turning Point USA, who dreams of taking back the country’s soul from weak-kneed liberals and becoming a national powerbroker in his own right. There is the acid-tongued Candace Owens, a Black ultraconservative talk-show host and Fox News regular who is seeking to bring Black America to the GOP and her own celebritydom into the national forefront. And there is the young, rough-and-tumble libertarian Cliff Maloney, who built the Koch-affiliated organization Young Americans for Liberty into a political force to be reckoned with, while solidifying his own power and pull inside conservative circles.
Chock-full of original reporting and unprecedented access, Raising Them Right is a striking prism through which to view the extraordinary shifts that have taken place in the American political sphere over the last decade. It establishes Kyle Spencer as the premier authority on a new generation of young conservative communicators who are merging politics and pop culture, social media and social lives, to bring cruel economic philosophies, skeletal government, and dangerous antidemocratic ideals into the mainstream. Theirs is a crusade that is just beginning.
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50+
- By: Bill Novelli
- Narrator: Eric Conger
- Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 06, 2006
- Language: English
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3.25(8 ratings)
3.25(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDBill Novelli doesn’t believe that retirement has to mean rocking one’s way into the sunset. As the head of the strongest organization of retired people in the world, the AARP, Novelli believes that retirement can be a time of action andBill Novelli doesn’t believe that retirement has to mean rocking one’s way into the sunset. As the head of the strongest organization of retired people in the world, the AARP, Novelli believes that retirement can be a time of action and influence rather than one of illness and decline.
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In this inspiring book, Bill Novelli will speak to the growing number of Americans age 50 and older about what they can do to shape the national debate about aging and influence government policy towards retirees. For a long time, many of the government forces in Washington have hoped to divide the nation along various lines and one of those dividing lines is age. Against this “divide and conquer” mentality, Novelli will argue that the common, shared experience of aging will serve not to divide the US, but to unite it. And the united tide of change is potentially enormous: When the Baby Boomer generation ages to the 50- year mark, they will create the largest group of retirees in the history of the country, solidifying a powerful constituency for major change in ways beneficial to the entire nation.
Novelli believes that this group is capable of just about anything. 50+ is a rallying cry for an aging America by a man who knows how to get the job done. -
American Amnesia
- By: Helen E. Krieble
- Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDPeople are who they are because of what they have been through, where they came from, who they learned from, and all the things that have happened to them. The same is true not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, and nations.People are who they are because of what they have been through, where they came from, who they learned from, and all the things that have happened to them. The same is true not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, and nations. America, too, has its own unique character, also formed by its memories, history, things it has been through, and what it has learned.
If people, communities, or even nations lose their memory, they lose their character. That is why cultures throughout the world work at maintaining their identity and passing traditions along to future generations. But what if a nation purposely decides it no longer wants to remember its history? What if a country imposes amnesia on itself?
Helen Krieble argues persuasively that this is precisely what has happened to America. It has lost the memory of its own founding principles, and the sacrifices made over the past 250 years to preserve them. The nation is losing its character. She writes that America cannot be preserved as “the last best hope of Earth” if its own people no longer understand why that is true and are no longer willing to do what it takes to preserve it.
“The duties of citizenship are vitally important,” Krieble writes, “but they are not complicated. It is our duty, as the owners, to defend our freedom against all threats, and to pass it along to future generations undiminished.”
Americans are failing in that duty, but Krieble says there is still time to cure our national amnesia. It begins with rebuilding our understanding of, and commitment to, those founding principles, regaining our national memory.
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