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Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes

• The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
• By: Lech Blaine
• Narrated by: Nick John
• Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
• 4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (5 ratings)

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Quarterly Essay 1: In Denial

• The Stolen Generations and the Right

By: Robert Manne

• Narrated by: Robert Manne
• Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
• Overall 3.5 out of 5 stars 3
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 3
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 3

In this national best seller, Robert Mane attacks the right-wing campaign against the "Bringing Them Home" report that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant ? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun to deny the gravity of the injustice done?

Breaking Biden

• Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration

By: Alex Marlow

• Narrated by: Alex Marlow
• Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 66
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 63
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 63

Over his 50-year career in Washington, Joe Biden has become known for his wild dishonesty, embarrassing policy failings, and an absolute lack of accountability, culminating in his predictably unpopular presidency. But what has not yet been revealed is the vast web of consultants, bureaucrats, corporate titans, foreign interests, and various extended family members (it’s not just Hunter!) who have achieved unfathomable wealth and power while keeping Biden in charge.

• 5 out of 5 stars

Nauseating but necessary

• By Issac Singer on 10-04-23

A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

• Narrated by: Barack Obama
• Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 54,378
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 46,999
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 46,648

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Color me grateful.

• By Angela on 11-19-20

The Sum of Us

• What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By: Heather McGhee

• Narrated by: Heather McGhee
• Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 3,666
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 3,222
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 3,193

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all.

• 4 out of 5 stars

Good book but Recording tech is poor. Glitches

• By Jeannepup on 02-25-21

The United States of Socialism

• Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.

By: Dinesh D'Souza

• Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
• Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 2,822
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 2,464
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 2,449

For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the 21st century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can socialism work now when it has never worked before? In this pathbreaking audiobook, best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza argues that the socialism advanced today by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, and Elizabeth Warren is very different from the socialism of Lenin, Mao, and Castro.

Thank you again Mr. D'Souza

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The Audacity of Hope

• Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
• Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,691
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 6,821
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,777

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope , Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics: a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy".

My Fellow Conservatives, Give This A Listen

• By Dallas D.L. on 02-12-15

• The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

By: Ijeoma Oluo

• Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
• Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 1,390
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,218
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 1,207

Through the last 150 years of American history—from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics—Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.

This was so enlightening.

• By Firewhiskey Reader on 01-07-21

It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

• By: Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols
• Narrated by: Senator Bernie Sanders
• Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 316
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 258
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 257

It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.

A true and unbiased understanding of politics today

• By Sassy monster on 02-21-23

By: Senator Bernie Sanders , and others

By: Madeleine Albright

• Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
• Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,465
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,961
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,923

At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, believed that democracy had triumphed politically once and for all. Yet nearly 30 years later, the direction of history no longer seems certain. A repressive and destructive force has begun to reemerge on the global stage - sweeping across Europe, parts of Asia, and the United States - that to Albright, looks very much like fascism.

• By JAL on 04-19-18

The MAGA Doctrine

• The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

By: Charlie Kirk

• Narrated by: Timothy McKean
• Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 571
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 482
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 482

The Tea Party began as a protest for patriots who feared Big Government. President Trump has become a hero for patriots who are against Big Everything. Fed up with Silicon Valley, the media, liberal higher education, the military-industrial complex, Twitter mobs, swamp monsters, Big Pharma, out-of-control prosecutors, and gun-grabbing fascists, ordinary Americans miss the days when America cared about rule of the people, by the people, and for the people.

• By Matt gray on 03-05-20

Liberal Privilege

• Joe Biden and the Democrats' Defense of the Indefensible

By: Donald J. Trump

• Narrated by: Kimberly Guilfoyle
• Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 843
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 740
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 737

While everyday Americans strive to make an honest living by working hard, liberals within the swamp have perfected a way of barely working while elevating themselves above all of us. Liberal Privilege will take you behind the scenes of the swamp, just as the nation gears up for the next presidential election. In his second book, number one New York Times best-selling author Donald Trump, Jr., reveals the truth the media has long refused to cover. Hear about the countless liberal scandals, years of entrenched racism in the democrat party, and decades of failed polices.

Excellent book. AAA+

• By Danny Giraldo on 09-07-20

There Is Nothing For You Here

• Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By: Fiona Hill

• Narrated by: Fiona Hill
• Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,329
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315

A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.

Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us

• By Erin on 10-08-21

Healing Politics

• A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

By: Abdul El-Sayed

• Narrated by: Abdul El-Sayed
• Length: 10 hrs
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 77
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 66
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 67

In Healing Politics , El-Sayed traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic afflicting our country, an epidemic of insecurity. And to heal the rifts this epidemic has created, he lays out a new direction for the progressive movement. This is a bold, personal, and compellingly original book from a prominent young leader.

• 1 out of 5 stars
• By outraged on 03-22-22

The Chapo Guide to Revolution

• A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

By: Chapo Trap House

• Narrated by: Felix Biederman, Virgil Texas, Brendan James, and others
• Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 1,414
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,241
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 1,223

In a manifesto that renders all previous attempts at political satire obsolete, The Chapo Guide to Revolution shows you that you don’t have to side with either the pear-shaped vampires of the right or the craven, lanyard-wearing wonks of contemporary liberalism. These self-described “assholes from the Internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate.

my beautiful boy virgil has a voice like an angel.

• By Dale on 08-22-18

The Age of Entitlement

• America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

• Narrated by: Christopher Caldwell
• Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 648
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 558
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 554

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high - in wealth, freedom, and social stability - and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations.

Do laudable ends justify unconstitutional means?

• By LBJ on 02-08-20

Decades of Decadence

• How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity

By: Marco Rubio

• Narrated by: Marco Rubio
• Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 24
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 22
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 22

In Decades of Decadence , Marco Rubio exposes the elites’ attacks on the four key elements of American strength: good local jobs, stable families, geographical communities, and a sovereign nation that serves as a beacon of freedom and prosperity. These have been eroded not only by globalization, but by the lies we tell ourselves, including, “Anyone who loves each other is a family,” “Real community can be found on the internet,” and “We’re all citizens of the world.”

A wake-up call

• By Ken Mahanes on 06-15-23

Renaissance Nation

• How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland

By: David McWilliams

• Narrated by: David McWilliams
• Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 20
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 18
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 17

In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world. Characteristically brilliant and timely, Renaissance Nation is a thrilling account of Ireland’s vertiginous rise and a timely exploration of its conflicted present, where stark decisions await the next generation of would-be revolutionaries.

great irish economic and social commentary.

• By Stephen on 02-07-20

Necessary Noise

• How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good News for America
• By: Star Parker, Richard Manning
• Narrated by: Alecia Hill
• Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 48
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 47
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 47

Star Parker was among the many reeling and confused as Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. But, she argues, a silver lining to this outcome is the debate that has since ruled our media and private conversations. The ongoing noise of debate can seem overwhelming, but our country needs the authentic and candid dialogue of its people. And Trump's presidency provides us with an opportunity like never before to engage and work to preserve the values upon which America was built. Necessary Noise honestly examines the crossroads where we find ourselves.

One of the most amazing books of our time.

• By Eric on 12-06-19

By: Star Parker , and others

Publisher's summary

What makes a top bloke? Does the myth of the larrikin still hold sway? And whatever happened to class in Australia?

In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes, with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer. This is a riveting narrative of how image conquered politics, just as globalisation engulfed the Australian economy. While many got rich and entertained, look where we ended up.

Blaine shows how first Howard, then Morrison, brought a cohort of voters over to the Coalition side, 'flipping' what was once working-class Labour culture. He weaves in his own experiences as he explores the persona of the Aussie larrikin. What are its hidden contradictions - can a larrikin be female, Indigenous or Muslim, say? - and how has it been transformed by an age of affluence? He makes the case that the time has come to bury a myth and for the nation to seize a new reality.

“Anti-authoritarianism doesn’t need the vocabulary of the bush poets, the accent of Mick Dundee or the imprimatur of the shock-jocks and media tycoons to blossom. It sounds like Grace Tame, and acts like Behrouz Boochani, and looks like Adam Goodes.” (Lech Blaine, Top Blokes )

Lech Blaine is the author of the memoir Car Crash . His writing has appeared in The Monthly , Guardian Australia , The Best Australian Essays , Griffith Review , Kill Your Darlings and Meanjin . He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowship.

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