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Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America

by Robert Kuttner ...

Why did we lose the broadly decent economy of the era after World War II? Why did reformers win all the important arguments about how to renew a good society, only to lose the politics? Why do democracies keep saving capitalism—only to watch plutocrats undermine democracy again and again? How did the failure to restore broad prosperity lead to political backlash and Trump? What lessons might we ... Read more

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Why did we lose the broadly decent economy of the era after World War II? Why did reformers win all the important arguments about how to renew a good society, only to lose the politics? Why do democracies keep saving capitalism—only to watch plutocrats undermine democracy again and again? How did the failure to restore broad prosperity lead to political backlash and Trump? What lessons might we
... Read more
Going Big

FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

by Robert Kuttner ...

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, ... Read more

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With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans,
... Read more

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Going Big

FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

by Robert Kuttner ...

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, ... Read more

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With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans,
... Read more

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The Squandering of America

How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity

by Robert Kuttner ...

A passionate, articulate argument detailing how the United States political system has failed to adapt to the economic challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.The American economy is in peril. It has fallen hostage to a casino of financial speculation, creating instability as well as inequality. Tens of millions of workers are vulnerable to layoffs and outsourcing, health care and ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A passionate, articulate argument detailing how the United States political system has failed to adapt to the economic challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.The American economy is in peril. It has fallen hostage to a casino of financial speculation, creating instability as well as inequality. Tens of millions of workers are vulnerable to layoffs and outsourcing, health care and
... Read more
After the Great Recession

The Struggle for Economic Recovery and Growth

Edited by Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven Fazzari, Mark Setterfield ...

The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent macroeconomists who developed a perspective that predicted the broad outline and many specific aspects of ... Read more

$56.59 USD

The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent macroeconomists who developed a perspective that predicted the broad outline and many specific aspects of
... Read more
The Stakes

2020 and the Survival of American Democracy

by Robert Kuttner ...

To save both democracy and a decent economy, here’s why it’s crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president.The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government—and win the election—Democrats need to nominate and elect an economic progressive. The Stakes explains how the failure of the economy to serve ordinary ... Read more

$18.49 USD

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To save both democracy and a decent economy, here’s why it’s crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president.The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government—and win the election—Democrats need to nominate and elect an economic progressive. The Stakes explains how the failure of the economy to serve ordinary
... Read more

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Audiobook

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

by Robert Kuttner ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

14 hours 38 min

Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity—between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, unions and collective bargaining were legalized. Glass-Steagall reined in speculative finance. At Bretton Woods, a global financial system was devised explicitly to allow ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity—between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, unions and collective bargaining were legalized. Glass-Steagall reined in speculative finance. At Bretton Woods, a global financial system was devised explicitly to allow
... Read more

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Audiobook

Going Big

FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

by Robert Kuttner ...

Narrated by Robert Kuttner ...

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min

Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to cling to power. It is the best of times and the worst of times. In Going Big, bestselling author
... Read more

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Audiobook

The Stakes

2020 and the Survival of American Democracy

by Robert Kuttner ...

Narrated by Robert Kuttner ...

Unabridged

15 hours 22 min

To save both democracy and a decent economy, here's why it's crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president. The 2020 presidential election will be pivotal for the credibility of government and for democracy itself, argues Robert Kuttner in this brief and compelling call to arms. Either we continue the twin slides into corrupt autocracy and corporate plutocracy? the course set in the ... Read more

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To save both democracy and a decent economy, here's why it's crucial that Americans elect a truly progressive president. The 2020 presidential election will be pivotal for the credibility of government and for democracy itself, argues Robert Kuttner in this brief and compelling call to arms. Either we continue the twin slides into corrupt autocracy and corporate plutocracy? the course set in the
... Read more

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Audiobook

Fire Science Fiction

by Cordthwainer Smith, Robert F. Young, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Philip K. Dick ...

Narrated by Various ...

Unabridged

3 hours

Fire Science FictionFive vintage science fiction masterpieces where the heart proves just as alien as the worlds it travels through.Long before science fiction became synonymous with lasers and starships, the genre's golden age masters were asking a stranger, more intimate question: what happens to love when the rules of humanity no longer apply?This collection gathers Five classic tales where ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Fire Science FictionFive vintage science fiction masterpieces where the heart proves just as alien as the worlds it travels through.Long before science fiction became synonymous with lasers and starships, the genre's golden age masters were asking a stranger, more intimate question: what happens to love when the rules of humanity no longer apply?This collection gathers Five classic tales where
... Read more
Black Cat Weekly #201

by Mary Angela Honerman, Tom Larsen, Hal Charles, Devin James Leonard, Gary Earl Ross, B. Morris Allen, J.A. Prentice, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Edith Allonby ...

Series Book 201 - Black Cat Weekly
This issue has more of a fantasy focus than usual—just the way the stories lined up, not a permanent trend—but it really showcases the strengths of modern fantasy writers, as none of the stories is anything like the others. On the mystery front, we have a new Capitán Ernesto Guillén story from Tom Larsen, for those who have been following the Ecuador-set series with interest. Our mystery novel is ... Read more

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This issue has more of a fantasy focus than usual—just the way the stories lined up, not a permanent trend—but it really showcases the strengths of modern fantasy writers, as none of the stories is anything like the others. On the mystery front, we have a new Capitán Ernesto Guillén story from Tom Larsen, for those who have been following the Ecuador-set series with interest. Our mystery novel is
... Read more
Audiobook

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science Fiction

Legendary Authors. Timeless Stories. Endless Imagination.

by Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Robert Silverberg, Robert Bloch, Harry Harrison, Fritz Leiber, Alfred Bester, A. E. van Vogt, Brian W. Aldiss, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Edward Page Mitchell, Jack Williamson, Tom Godwin, Robert Sheckley, Michael Shaara, Francis Stevens, A. H. Gibson, Gene L. Henderson, H. F. Arnold, Richard R. Smith, Frank M. Robinson, Manly Wade Wellman, William Bender Jr., Thomas S. Gardiner, James Bell, Beta McGavin, Alfred Connable, Jack Sharkey, Ron Goulart, Victoria Lincoln, Nelson S. Bond, Ray Cummings, Morton Klass, Elisabeth R. Lewis, John W. Campbell Jr., James Blish, Roger D. Aycock ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Lost Sci-Fi Anthologies
Unabridged

25 hours 47 min

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into the golden age of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10. Featuring more than 25 hours of classic science fiction, this extraordinary collection brings together fifty unforgettable tales from the visionary authors who helped shape one of the world’s most beloved genres.Blast off on daring space ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into the golden age of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10. Featuring more than 25 hours of classic science fiction, this extraordinary collection brings together fifty unforgettable tales from the visionary authors who helped shape one of the world’s most beloved genres.Blast off on daring space
... Read more