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 5 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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    • 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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    • 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 452 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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    • 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: 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 5,277 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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    • 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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    • 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 76 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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    • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    • Narrated by: Jim Vann
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Hoppe takes on one the most difficult subjects in economic and political theory: the provision of security. Addressing those who claim that only the state can and should supply society with protection, Hoppe argues that in fact it is better provided by free markets than government....

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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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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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    • 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 47 ratings
    • This is the memoir of James C. Hormel - a man who grew up feeling different....

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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 1,025 ratings
    • A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting....

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    • Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
    • By: Mariana Mazzucato
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this sharp and controversial international best seller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds with a dynamic private sector. She reveals in detailed case studies that the opposite is true....

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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 27 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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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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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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