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Fight for Liberty
- Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump
- By: Mark Lasswell - editor, Jon Meacham - introduction
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano, Ewan Chung, Nimo Gandhi, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy - reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord....
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Fight for Liberty
- Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano, Ewan Chung, Nimo Gandhi, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Jane Oppenheimer, Eric Pollins, Paul Rogan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-07-20
- Language: English
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Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy - reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord....
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America Last
- The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
- By: Jacob Heilbrunn
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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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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So frustrating
- By SarahMc on 03-13-24
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America Last
- The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
- 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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Testimony
- Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
- By: Jon Ward
- Narrated by: Jon Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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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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True Unbiased Journalism
- By S. Schneider on 06-03-23
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Testimony
- Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
- 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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The Curse of Demagogues
- Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump
- By: Eli Merritt
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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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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Well done! Everything you'd want to know.
- By OpenTheBooks&Listen on 06-24-23
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The Curse of Demagogues
- Lessons Learned from the Presidency of Donald J. Trump
- 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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Power Systems
- 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
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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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This is not a book, it's an interview
- By Christine on 03-08-13
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Power Systems
- Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
- Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
- 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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The Problem of Democracy
- 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
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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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The Problem of Democracy
- America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
- 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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The Lands in Between
- 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
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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 Lands in Between
- Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
- 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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Strongman
- 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
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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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An absolute must read
- By Full of Regret... on 02-03-21
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Strongman
- The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
- 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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The Project-State and Its Rivals
- A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- By: Charles S. Maier
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 25 hrs and 3 mins
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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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The Project-State and Its Rivals
- A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- 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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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- By: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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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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Essential listening....
- By M. Levine on 02-25-11
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-30-10
- Language: English
- 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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The Burning Shores
- Inside the Battle for the New Libya
- By: Frederic Wehrey
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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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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amazing yet painful book
- By Ghassan Tranesh on 09-20-18
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The Burning Shores
- Inside the Battle for the New Libya
- 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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Defeating the Dictators
- How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
- By: Charles Dunst
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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How we strengthen democracy in the face of rising autocracy....
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Regulate capitalism and nurture entrepreneurship
- By marwalk on 07-30-23
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Defeating the Dictators
- How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
- 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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Can Democracy Work?
- 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
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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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Challenging, Dense, Enlightening, and Hopeful
- By Alex on 12-07-18
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Can Democracy Work?
- A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
- 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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Mussolini in Myth and Memory
- The First Totalitarian Dictator
- By: Paul Corner
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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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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Mussolini in Myth and Memory
- The First Totalitarian Dictator
- 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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Possess the Air
- 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
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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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Brilliant book, outstanding author, mediocre reader
- By John Faithful Hamer on 02-27-20
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Possess the Air
- Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome
- 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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Summary and Analysis of It Can't Happen Here
- Narrated by: Jack Nolan
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 02-27-17
- Language: English
- This is a summary and analysis of It Can't Happen Here and not the original book....
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Latin America's Democratic Crusade
- The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
- By: Allen Wells
- Narrated by: Allen Wells
- Length: 29 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Latin America's Democratic Crusade
- The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
- 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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Benito Mussolini
- Facist Terror
- By: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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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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Benito Mussolini
- Facist Terror
- 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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Imitation Democracy
- The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System
- By: Dmitrii Furman
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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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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Imitation Democracy
- The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System
- 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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Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall
- Narrated by: Paul Bartlett
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 08-11-21
- Language: English
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Get the main key ideas from this summary of Ben Rhode’s After the Fall in just a short listen....
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