Audiobooks by Kurt Andersen

Hasta La Vista, America: Trump's Farewell Address

"A deranged finale for a deranged era. Hasta la Vista, America: Trump’s Farewell Address is an original audiobook written by Kurt Andersen and performed by Alec Baldwin. The duo are the creative team behind 2017’s New York Times bestselling Trump parody You Can’t Spell America Without Me. In Hasta la Vista, America, we hear Baldwin’s Trump holed up in the White House with only advisor Hope Hicks there to run the recording session. “Trump” endeavors to deliver not only his Farewell Address but also his 2021 State of the Union Address plus a preview of his forthcoming blockbuster presidential memoir. With music and sound effects."

Kurt Andersen (Author), Alec Baldwin (Narrator)

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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America – A Recent History

"Brought to you by Penguin. How an elite cabal rewrote the American dream for their gain - and left the rest of world behind. Evil Geniuses is the secret history of how, over the last half century, from even before Ronald Reagan through Donald Trump, America has sharply swerved away from its dream of progress for the many to a system of unfettered profit and self-interest for the few. As the social liberation of the 1960s finally ended in the chaos of Vietnam and Watergate, a cabal of rich industrialists, business chiefs, wide-eyed libertarians and right-wing economic radicals were waiting, determined to claw back everything they saw as rightfully theirs. Largely out of sight, they rapidly built and funded a new empire of think tanks and academic institutions and professional organisations, lobbying and political groups, using them to transform politics, media, finance, the legal system and US laws to reinvent and control the political economy. A throwback to the robber barons of a century earlier, they sold the remade system to the people as a nostalgic return to traditional American values. Within a decade, America's flourishing forward-thinking vision was incarcerated by the unchecked financial accumulation and political power of the super-rich. Now, the moneymen are running the show. In this hugely entertaining and deeply researched cultural and economic exposé, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen maps the rich history of intricate networks, unlikely connections and dark truths which are controlling a nation, revealing how on earth America got to where it is now - and what it might do to win its progressive future back. © Kurt Andersen 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Kurt Andersen (Author), Kurt Andersen (Narrator)

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[German] - Meine fantastische Präsidentschaft: Die echte (NO FAKE!) Wahrheit über mich: Donald J. Trump

"'Es gibt gar kein rotes Telefon! Bin sehr enttäuscht.' Mit seiner Trump-Darstellung begeistert der Hollywood-Schauspieler und bekennende Trump-Gegner Alec Baldwin regelmäßig Millionen Fans. Seine grandiosen Auftritte bei 'Saturday-Night-Live' sind weltweit bekannt und haben inzwischen 'absoluten Kultstatus' (Der Tagesspiegel) erreicht. Nun kommt endlich das Buch zur Show! Während er die USA so unfassbar gut regiert wie keiner vor ihm, findet der Präsident trotz allem noch die Zeit, seine Memoiren in Echtzeit für die Nachwelt zu diktieren. So sind wir live dabei, wenn Trump durchs Weiße Haus flaniert und sich darüber ärgert, dass er es nicht kaufen kann. Denn dann würde auch im Oval Office endlich ein ordentlicher Fernseher hängen. Doch eigentlich will er die ganzen Fake News gar nicht sehen. Lieber twittert er die Wahrheit morgens vom Bett aus. Politische Satire oder Tatsachenbericht? Kurt Andersens und Alec Baldwins Trump-Parodie trifft den Ton des 45. amerikanischen Präsidenten so exakt, dass Fiktion und Realität mitunter zu verschwimmen scheinen. Und das ist gerade deshalb so witzig, weil es die wirklich echte Wahrheit sein könnte. Titel der Originalausgabe: 'You Can't Spell America Without Me, The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump, A So-Called Parody by Alec Baldwin & Kurt Andersen'. © 2017 Alec Baldwin. All rights reserved. Für die deutsche Ausgabe: © Verlag C.H.Beck oHG, München 2019. Umschlaggestaltung: nach Vorbild der Originalausgabe, Bonnie Siegler, Eight and a Half. Umschlagabbildung: © Mark Seliger, Alec Baldwin"

Alec Baldwin, Kurt Andersen (Author), Omid-Paul Eftekhari (Narrator)

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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

"Random House presents the audiobook edition of Fantasyland, written and read by Kurt Anderson. You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts Fantasy is the USA’s primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of America's current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling. So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-believe from Salem to Scientology. Fantasyland is a journey that connects the dots between crazed franchises of true believers – a rich freak show tapestry from Mormons to Flat-Earthers and satanic panic, new age quacks to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists of every stripe, creationists to climate change deniers, UFO-obsessives to gun-toting libertarians, showmen hucksters from P T Barnum to Trump himself, all topped off with a dangerous dose of anti-government paranoia and pseudoscience. Along the way, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen has created a unique and raucous history of America and a new paradigm for understanding our post-factual world."

Kurt Andersen (Author), Kurt Andersen (Narrator)

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You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody)

"Random House presents the audiobook edition of You Can't Spell America Without Me by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen, read by the authors with Oliver Wyman. Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump’s presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally 'I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books were great and sold extremely, unbelievably well--even the ones by dishonest, disgusting so-called journalists. But those writers didn't understand Trump, because quite frankly they were major losers. People say if you want it done right you have to do it yourself, even when 'it' is a 'memoir.' So every word of this book was written by me, using a special advanced word processing system during the many, many nights I've been forced to stay alone in the White House--only me, just me, trust me, nobody helped. And it's all 100% true, so true--people are already saying it may be the truest book ever published. Enjoy.' Until Donald Trump publishes the ultimate account of his entire four or eight or one-and-a-half years in the White House, the definitive chronicle will be You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President. Trump was elected because he was the most frank presidential candidate in history, a man eager to tell the unvarnished truth about others’ flaws and tout his own amazing excellence. Now he levels his refreshingly compulsive, un-PC candour at his landslide election victory as well as his role as commander-in-chief and leader of the free world. There are intimate, powerful, mind-boggling revelations on every page. You are there with him during his private encounters with world leaders, a few of whom he does not insult. You are there at the genius Oval Office strategy sessions with his advisers. You are there in his White House bedroom as he crafts the pre-dawn Twitter pronouncements that rock the world. And, of course, you are there on the golf course as Trump attempts to manage the burdens of his office. President Trump explains each of the historic decisions that have already made America great again, and how he always triumphs over the fake news media. You'll learn what he really thinks of his cabinet members and top aides not related to him, of the First Lady and the First Daughter and the additional three or four Trump children. Included at no extra charge is a lavish and exclusive portfolio of spectacular, historic and intimate colour photographs of President Trump in private – inside the White House, inside Mar-a-Lago, at Trump Tower and more. You Can’t Spell America Without Me is presented by America’s foremost Trump scholar Kurt Andersen as well as America's foremost mediocre Trump impersonator, Alec Baldwin. 'Hilarious, unbelievable' – The Sunday Times Books of the Year"

Alec Baldwin, Kurt Andersen (Author), Alec Baldwin, Kurt Andersen, Oliver Wyman (Narrator)

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True Believers: A Novel

"NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle In True Believers, Kurt Andersen-the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century-delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling alternates between the present and the 1960s-and indelibly captures the enduring impact of that time on the ways we live now. Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968-an episode she's managed to keep secret for more than forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she's about to let the world in on that shocking secret-as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions. As junior-high-school kids back in the early sixties, Karen and her two best friends, Chuck and Alex, roamed suburban Chicago on their bikes looking for intrigue and excitement. Inspired by the exotic romance of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, they acted out elaborate spy missions pitting themselves against imaginary Cold War villains. As friendship carries them through childhood and on to college-in a polarized late-sixties America riven by war and race as well as sex, drugs, and rock and roll-the bad guys cease to be the creatures of make-believe. Caught up in the fervor of that extraordinary and uncanny time, they find themselves swept into a dangerous new game with the highest possible stakes. Today, only a handful of people are left who know what happened. As Karen reconstructs the past and reconciles the girl she was then with the woman she is now, finally sharing pieces of her secret past with her national-security-cowboy boyfriend and activist granddaughter, the power of memory and history and luck become clear. A resonant coming-of-age story and a thrilling political mystery, True Believers is Kurt Andersen's most ambitious novel to date, introducing a brilliant, funny, and irresistible new heroine to contemporary fiction. Praise for True Believers "Funny, fiendishly smart."-San Francisco Chronicle "A great American novel."-Vanity Fair "A big, swinging novel . . . [a] colorful story . . . This could be the most rambunctious meeting your book club will have for a long time."-The Washington Post "Intelligent and insightful . . . Think The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Atonement, a '60s-era female Holden Caulfield. . . . Andersen is an agile storyteller. . . . [There are] witty, occasionally even profound observations about the '60s and today."-USA Today "So epic: Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, the novel alternates between the present and the 1960s, capturing some of America's most pivotal moments in history like a time capsule."-Marie Claire "This is an ambitious and remarkable novel, wonderfully voiced, about memory, secrets, guilt, and the dangers of certitude. Moreover, it asks essential questions about what it means to be an American and, in a sense, what it means to be America."-Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating and wisely observant."-O: The Oprah Magazine"

Kurt Andersen (Author), Vanessa Hart (Narrator)

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Spark: How Creativity Works

"How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? HOW is Chuck Close's portraiture driven by his inability to remember faces? What pivotal moment helped Rosanne Cash understand the healing power of the stage? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits—movies, novels, paintings, songs—but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first century's most influential and creative thinkers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Yo-Yo Ma, David Milch, Isabel Allende, and Joshua Redman. Burstein pulls back the curtain to reveal the sources of these artists' inspiration and the processes that bring their work into being. ''These artists may not change lead into gold,'' Burstein writes, ''but they lift materials from their familiar contexts, combining, reshaping, transforming them into works of art that change the way we see the world.'' Spark is an invaluable resource for the aspiring writer and artist, but the need for creativity extends well beyond the world of paintbrushes and typewriters. Creativity is integral to business, parenting, education, science, and, perhaps most poignantly, our personal relationships. Rarely do books on creativity illuminate and inspire; this marvelous volume will help you find a spark of your own."

Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen (Author), Julie Burstein (Narrator)

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