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The Vanishing American Adult
Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
2017
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A Clarion Call to Save America's Future by Empowering the Next GenerationIn The Vanishing American Adult, Senator Ben Sasse warns of an existential threat facing America. A generation of young people, raised by overprotective parents and coddled by misguided government programs, is ill-equipped to survive in today's highly-competitive global economy.Core coming-of-age experiences like learning the value of work, leaving home to start a family, and ...
Them
Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal
2018
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This New York Times bestseller "argues that Americans are richer, more informed and 'connected' than ever—and unhappier, more isolated and less fulfilled" (George Will, The Washington Post).Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political party isn't just wrong; they're evil. We're the richest country in history, but we've never been more pessimist...
Redeeming Our Time
Lessons on What Really Matters
2027
EN
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**“Ben Sasse is dying in plain sight… He has spoken to the world about his impending demise like a Christian philosopher of death—frank, unafraid, sometimes folksy, always graceful.” —**The Wall Street JournalIn this extraordinary book for anyone grappling with life’s biggest questions, former senator and New York Times bestselling author Ben Sasse offers deep reflections on faith, family and what it means...
Available Jan 19, 2027
Social Conservatism for the Common Good
A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George
2022
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Carl R. Trueman and Other Christian Evangelical Scholars Examine the Life and Work of Renowned Catholic, Social Conservative Thinker Robert P. GeorgeRobert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, is one of the most influential conservative intellectuals of his generation. Among many honors and accolades, George received the US Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush and served as chairman of the United States Commi...
The Vanishing American Adult
Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Unabridged
11 hours 9 min
2017
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**"Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America's parents, teachers, and governing officials." — AudioFile MagazineAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER —** read by the author.In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the...
Them
Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal
Unabridged
9 hours 16 min
2018
EN
This program is read by the author.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing American Adult***, an intimate and urgent assessment of the existential crisis facing our nation.***Something is wrong. We all know it.American life expectancy is declining for a third straight year. Birth rates are dropping. Nearly half of us think the other political pa...
Redeeming Our Time
Lessons on What Really Matters
Unabridged
7 hours
2027
EN
**“Ben Sasse is dying in plain sight… He has spoken to the world about his impending demise like a Christian philosopher of death—frank, unafraid, sometimes folksy, always graceful.” —**The Wall Street JournalIn this extraordinary book for anyone grappling with life’s biggest questions, former senator and New York Times bestselling author Ben Sasse offers deep reflections on faith, family and what it means...
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
- Narrated by
- Kim Niemi
Unabridged
7 hours 26 min
2021
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The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an ...
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
- Narrated by
- Eric Jason Martin
Unabridged
6 hours 39 min
2022
EN
"Narrator Eric Jason Martin adds gusto to this mini-memoir, which spans much of author Bill McKibben's lifetime."-AudioFile on The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon**Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious.“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.”**Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing—knowing—that the United Sta...
Supreme Inequality
The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
- Narrated by
- Dan Woren
Unabridged
14 hours 16 min
2020
EN
**“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, SlateA revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years.**In Supreme Ineq...
American Manifesto
Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
- Narrated by
- Bob Garfield
Unabridged
6 hours 12 min
2020
EN
As is often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least fifty years. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of our identity. In American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves, Bob Garfield examines the tragic confluence of the American preoccupation with identity and the catastrophic disintegration of the mass media. Garfield investigates how we've gotten to this moment when our ident...
Sacred Ground
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
- Narrated by
- Vikas Adam
Unabridged
6 hours 47 min
2018
EN
A “thought-provoking, myth-smashing” exploration of American identity and a passionate call for a more tolerant, interfaith America (Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State)There is no better time to stand up for your values than when they are under attack. Alarmist, hateful rhetoric once relegated to the fringes of political discourse has now become frighteningly mainstream, with pundits and politicians routinely invoking the specter of Islam as a menacing, ...











