Best Political Speeches Of 2019 - April 2024

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250237238
• ASIN: 1250237238
• ISBN: 1250237238
• Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

The President Is Missing

The White House is the home of the president of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US president vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?   An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's best-selling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office - the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities, the soul-wrenching pow... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076HYXZV9
• ASIN: B076HYXZV9
• Manufacturer: Hachette Audio

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501168681
• ASIN: 1501168681
• ISBN: 1501168681
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe's Shameless Trick for lowering an audience's expectations. And it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of code language to appeal to specfic groups and an eye-opening assortment of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, and the Yoda Techn... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0804189935
• ASIN: 0804189935
• ISBN: 0804189935
• Brand: THREE RIVERS
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

The Fight of Our Lives - Defeating the Ideological War Against the West

• ASIN: B07P173V8F
• ASIN: B07P173V8F

Censored 2019: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2017-2018

“For more thanforty years, Project Censored has been our watchdog on the establishment media, casting its eye on how the information that we receive––and don’t receive––shapes our democracy. We need it more than ever today!”—Christopher Finan, Executive Director, National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)  THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE STORIES PRESENTED IN CENSORED 2019:--“Open-Source” Intelligence Secrets Sold to Highest Bidders--ICE Intends to Destroy Records of Inhumane Treatment of Immigrants--Indigenous Communities around World Helping to Win Legal Rights of Nature-... [Read More]

• ASIN: 160980869X
• ASIN: 160980869X
• ISBN: 160980869X
• Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press

KILLER BLOW (DI Sara Ramsey Book 2)

From M A Comley, the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Justice series which has sold over two and a half million copies worldwide.  A hunter on the prowl...  On the scent of his next victim.   DI Sara Ramsey has to dig deep to find an evil suspect who gets a thrill out of chasing victims to their deaths. The murderer is smart, inventing new methods of tracking down his victims.   Just as the inspector senses she's closing in on the culprit, they change their MO, undoing all her hard work.   The media is striking fear into the residents.   Can Sara set aside her p... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07L9DNV2Q
• ASIN: B07L9DNV2Q
• Manufacturer: Jeamel Publishing Limited

Obama: 101 Best Covers: 'A New Illustrated Biography Of The Election Of America's 44th President (Paperback)'

Dramatic and startling - The GuardianWitness Barack Obama as you’ve never seen him before — as feminist, communist, fashion model, Jew, Muslim terrorist, Messiah, Superman, George Washington, President Roosevelt, Julius Caesar and Hindu deity Lord Shiva.Obama: 101 Best Covers shows America’s ex-president in all these guises and more, on the front pages of the world’s leading print publications.NEW BARACK PHOTO BIOGRAPHYDuring his time in the White House, former US President Barack Obama amassed more newspaper and magazine covers than any other in history. This new post-presidency legac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0956939457
• ASIN: 0956939457
• ISBN: 0956939457
• Manufacturer: White Labels Books

Indu Sarkar

• ASIN: B07QVM6YWH
• ASIN: B07QVM6YWH

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

Instant New York Times BestsellerAs the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006265506X
• ASIN: 006265506X
• ISBN: 006265506X
• Manufacturer: Harper

Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition

Thomas Sowell's indispensable examination of the most popular economic fallaciesIn Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies about urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, as well as economic fallacies about academia, about race, and about Third World countries.Sowell shows that fallacies are not simply crazy ideas but ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0465022030
• ASIN: 0465022030
• ISBN: 0465022030
• Manufacturer: Basic Books

The Conservative Case for Trump

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

• ASIN: B01JY0N5JY
• ASIN: B01JY0N5JY
• Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing

Darkest Hour [Blu-ray]

Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman gives a "towering performance" (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0788XV93Y
• UPC: 025192396717
• ASIN: B0788XV93Y
• Brand: Universal Studios
• Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divid... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501174215
• ASIN: 1501174215
• ISBN: 1501174215
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump (Canons)

What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry.What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reordering them, Sears unearthed a trove of beautiful verse that was just waiting to be discovered.This groundbreaking collection will give readers a glimpse of Trump's innermost thoughts and feelings on everything from the nature of truth, to what he hates about Lord Sugar. And it will reveal a hitherto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1786892278
• ASIN: 1786892278
• ISBN: 9781786892270
• Manufacturer: Canongate Books

American Political Speeches

9780143121954

• UPC: 20446802
• Rating: 5.0

American Political Speeches - eBook

A selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American historyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard

• UPC: 862846027
• Rating: 5.0

Selected Political Speeches - eBook

Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the

• UPC: 520030725
• Rating: 3.5

Cicero: Selected Political Speeches

As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy,

• UPC: 516221
• Rating: 3.5

Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes : Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech

An election-year guide to understanding the language of the electeds, spin-meisters, and flacks of American

• UPC: 38180851
• Rating: 4.3

THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason) - eBook

This carefully crafted ebook: “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason)” is formatted for your eReader with a

• UPC: 513435486

Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches - eBook

I do not think — and the Hon. Mussolini agreed with me in one of the conversations I had with him — that people abroad, especially in England and the United States, know much about

• UPC: 521759419

Voices of Radical Change : Greatest Speeches of Political and Social Transformation

Speeches of visionaries and great leaders who inspired change and influenced the course of history. Every speech marks a figure or moment in history that represents political or social transformation. A thoughtful compilation of orations

• UPC: 13905544

Behind the Carbon Curtain : The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the

• UPC: 55312927

Lincoln : Political Writings and Speeches

A new scholarly edition of Lincoln's writings and speeches providing fresh insight into the man, the politician and political

• UPC: 21279053