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    • The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
    • By: Jacob Heilbrunn
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon....

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    • Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
    • By: Jon Ward
    • Narrated by: Jon Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
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    • Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s....

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    • Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump
    • By: Eli Merritt
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-23
    • Language: English
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    • The Curse of Demagogues: Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a collection of 32 essays by 22 writers that make the case that the pathway back to a healthy American democracy is for citizens to understand demagogues and defend against them....

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    • Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers....

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    • America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
    • By: Shadi Hamid
    • Narrated by: Amin El Gamal
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
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    • In The Problem of Democracy, Shadi Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism" as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East and beyond....

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    • Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
    • By: Mitchell A. Orenstein
    • Narrated by: Bob Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
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    • Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war....

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    • The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
    • By: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • From the best-selling author of the Don't Know Much About books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators....

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    • A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
    • By: Charles S. Maier
    • Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship....

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    • Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
    • By: Sheldon S. Wolin
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
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    • Democracy is struggling in America. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable....

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    • Inside the Battle for the New Libya
    • By: Frederic Wehrey
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
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    • The death of Colonel Qadhafi freed Libya from 42 years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis....

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    • How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
    • By: Charles Dunst
    • Narrated by: Joe Eyre
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • How we strengthen democracy in the face of rising autocracy....

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    • A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
    • By: James Miller
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
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    • Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? Find out....

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    • The First Totalitarian Dictator
    • By: Paul Corner
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage....

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    • Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome
    • By: Taras Grescoe
    • Narrated by: Jeff Burling
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • This is the story of freedom fighters who defied Italy’s despot by opposing the rising tide of populism and xenophobia. Chief among them: poet and aviator Lauro de Bosis, firstborn of an Italian aristocrat and a New Englander, who transformed himself into a modern Icarus....

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    • The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
    • By: Allen Wells
    • Narrated by: Allen Wells
    • Length: 29 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism—that was Washington's abiding preoccupation—but between democracy and dictatorship.

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    • Facist Terror
    • By: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • Here, for the first time, are the words of the great dictator himself in his twisted manifesto on the political movement he started and is still so feared to this very day....

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    • The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System
    • By: Dmitrii Furman
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin implemented a political system of "imitation democracy," marked by "a huge disparity between formal constitutional principles and the reality of authoritarian rule"....

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