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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
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1. Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-20-12
- Language: English
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- By Cynthia on 01-11-14
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2. The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-05-13
- Language: English
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Hugely disappointing book!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-19
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3. The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-24-19
- Language: English
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- By Richard Keohane on 04-08-18
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4. The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- By: Anu Partanen
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 06-20-17
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5. The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-28-16
- Language: English
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
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This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- By mike on 02-22-24
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6. The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-21-22
- Language: English
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Progressively Worse
- Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys
- By: Joe Concha
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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In the 1990s, Democrats supported balanced budgets, smaller government, border security, equal opportunity (not outcomes), reducing the deficit, and prioritizing blue-collar issues. However, according to Joe Concha, these are things that Democrats are against now.
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Well Cited
- By Timothy J Keenan on 10-01-24
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7. Progressively Worse
- Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- By Steve Pagano on 10-05-15
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8. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Series: Political Order, Book 1
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-27-11
- Language: English
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Our Own Worst Enemy
- The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
- By: Tom Nichols
- Narrated by: Tom Nichols
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble - but who is really to blame? Tom Nichols explains....
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Interesting but shallow
- By Anonymous User on 09-11-21
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9. Our Own Worst Enemy
- The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
- Narrated by: Tom Nichols
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-19-21
- Language: English
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
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10. Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-09-24
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
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Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....
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Understanding our place thru Poly Sci
- By Gary on 12-29-14
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11. Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Series: Political Order, Book 2
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-30-14
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document...
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12. The Communist Manifesto
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-19-23
- Language: English
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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Fiona Hill
- Narrated by: Fiona Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia....
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Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us
- By Erin on 10-08-21
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13. There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Fiona Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-05-21
- Language: English
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The Great U.S.-China Tech War
- By: Gordon G. Chang
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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The United States and China are locked in a “cold tech war", and the winner will end up dominating the 21st century. America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents....
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Tech War
- By laurie dahlstrom on 07-28-21
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14. The Great U.S.-China Tech War
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-15-21
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- By: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....
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Kneecap your kids & destroy internships, 509 & etc
- By Marie on 02-06-20
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15. Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-03-17
- Language: English
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The Revenge of Power
- How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- By: Moisés Naím
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Moisés Naím’s The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world....
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The narrator does not know the names of some politicians)))
- By Philippe Bogdanoff on 08-28-22
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16. The Revenge of Power
- How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-22-22
- Language: English
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The Flag and the Cross
- White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
- By: Samuel L. Perry, Philip S. Gorski, Jemar Tisby - foreword
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows....
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could use an accompanying pdf
- By A W on 08-08-22
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17. The Flag and the Cross
- White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-01-22
- Language: English
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The European Union
- A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
- By: John Pinder, Simon Usherwood
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy....
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Educational
- By Jeffrey Pagulong on 03-03-22
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18. The European Union
- A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-10-21
- Language: English
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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The final word on horizontalism on the left
- By Patrick Foote on 02-25-24
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19. If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- By: Mauro F. Guillén
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....
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Anti border wall and anti Trump
- By Jim Dupuis on 12-05-20
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20. 2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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