![]() ![]() 2023 Getting through the 352-page book (or 12.5 hours as an audiobook) does require a commitment. 2023 Former President Donald Trump sued journalist and author Bob Woodward, alleging the writer used recordings of interviews in an audiobook without permission. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.Recent Examples on the Web And with any companion-especially on a road trip-listening to an audiobook together can be spellbinding, or at least give you something to laugh about. I Am America (and So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. ![]() I Am America (And So Can You!) (Audio CD)Ĭongratulations - just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.įrom Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: "I want to be you." My stock reply is always: "Then you have to take the whole package."Īnd now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that "whole package," in her inspiring and riveting memoir. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon, and given it an indelible form. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members of the Senate, and even the president is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.Ī senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power.Ī lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and ruminate on what matters most to them. David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers.Īt the heart of this audiobook is Senator Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. ![]() Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Audio CD) ![]()
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