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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. 

“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future. “Essential...

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. 

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...

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century...

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.

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...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Evil Geniuses comes an electrifying, provocative history of American delusion—“an important book for understanding America in the age of Trump” (Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk). “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes...

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...

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. Natalie and Asher’s marriage has long been marked by fault lines, quiet rifts in how they view their fellow Americans and...

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".

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

"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.