Private Government

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    • How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
    • By: Elizabeth Anderson
    • Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives....

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    • Management's Guide to Working with Private Equity
    • By: Adam Coffey
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • This invaluable resource can help you devise a winning PE game plan for your own company that offers you greater freedom and financial success....

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    • By: Michael Meyer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Cuff and Rosie are lovers on the small Caribbean island of St. Croix, where rum and Bob Marley reggae and calypso rule. The sky is as blue as ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: K.T. Tomb
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Lots of people feel invisible in the world, but with Edward Mann it’s quite literal. Be careful what you wish for... Having hit rock bottom and ...

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    • The Smart Student's Guide to Locke's Second Treatise of Government
    • By: Laurence Houlgate
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Understanding John Locke is the second book in a series of books on the classical philosophers. Other books in the Smart Student's Guide series are...

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    • How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
    • By: Scott Martelle
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over....

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    • By: Titus Gebel
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Imagine a system in which a private company offers you protection of life, liberty, and property as a "government service provider". This service includes internal and external security, a legal and regulatory framework, and independent dispute resolution....

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    • The Private World of the Kennedy White House
    • By: Sally Bedell Smith
    • Narrated by: Lee Adams
    • Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • In Grace and Power, New York Times best-selling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight....

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    • When Wall Street Manages Main Street
    • By: Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies....

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    • Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
    • By: Brendan Ballou
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In Plunder, an authoritative exposé of private equity, Brendan Ballou explains what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it....

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    • The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
    • By: Michael Giorgione
    • Narrated by: Michael Giorgione
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • A peaceful mountaintop setting crucially removed from the constant scrutiny of the press, Camp David has served as both a site of critical diplomacy and unparalleled tranquility....

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    • Four Women Face China's New Social Order
    • By: Yuan Yang
    • Narrated by: Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, Naomi Yang, Yuan Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang paints a sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society....

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    • The True Story of a Private Military Contractor's Covert Assignments in Syria, Libya, and the World's Most Dangerous Places
    • By: Simon Chase, Ralph Pezzullo
    • Narrated by: Eric Brooks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022 ratings
    • A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting....

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    • By: Nelson DeMille
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: A John Corey Novel, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,269 ratings
    • Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever heard before, New York Times best-selling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date....

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    • Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity Implosion
    • By: Steven M. Davidoff
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 07-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This audiobook is a whirlwind tour of the players determining the destiny of corporate America, including the government, private equity, strategic buyers, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds....

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    • Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador
    • By: Ambassador James C. Hormel, Erin Martin
    • Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • This is the memoir of James C. Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different....

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    • How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do About It
    • By: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Narrated by: Sohrab Ahmari
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Provocative, original, and cutting across partisan lines, Tyranny, Inc. tells the inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless—and how we can fight back....

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    • How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
    • By: Daniel Schulman
    • Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 845 ratings
    • Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now....

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    • Finance for the Rest of Us
    • By: Gerald Epstein
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.

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