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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.

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.

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 best-selling 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.

How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? 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.

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 40 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. 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.

Drei bekannte Märchen aus dem Märchenschatz von Hans Christian Andersen und den Gebrüdern Grimm: Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot, Das häßliche Entlein, Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse - in einer Hörspielfassung von Kurt Vethake.

Prinzessin Rosenmund ist hochmütig und schlägt alle Heiratsanträge aus, auch diesen von Prinz Ehrlichherz. Ehrlichherz fasst jedoch einen Plan und kommt als Schweinehirt verkleidet aufs Schloss. Er kreiert Dinge, unter anderem einen Topf, der "O du lieber Augustin" spielen kann, die die Prinzessin unbedingt haben möchte. Als Bezahlung möchte er Küsse von ihr, die sie ihm auch widerstrebend gewährt. Als ihr Vater von den Küssen erfährt, wirft er sie aus seinem Schloss. Ob Prinz Ehrlichherz sie wohl aufnimmt?

Kurt Andersen has one of those careers that makes him the envy of a lot of folks in media. The guy has had a fairly golden touch, starting with the birth of the late great humor magazine, Spy, which he co-founded with Graydon Carter and Tom Phillips. He's also been a columnist for The New Yorker and editor in chief of New York. And he currently hosts public radio's popular Studio 360, which has won a Peabody Award.

"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 Audiobuch 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.

Die schönsten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen und den Gebrüdern Grimm - in diesem Hörspiel hört ihr "Das häßliche junge Entlein", "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot" und "Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse".

"Die schönsten Märchen" - in Folge 23 dieser zauberhaften Hörspielreihe hört ihr "Das tapfere Schneiderlein" nach den Gebrüdern Grimm und "Des Kaisers neue Kleider" nach Hans Christian Andersen.

Die schönsten Märchen - in Folge 10 dieser zauberhaften Hörspielreihe hört ihr Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt nach Hans Christian Andersen und Der fliegende Koffer nach Wilhelm Hauff.