American Elections

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: L. Sandy Maisel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system....

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    • The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
    • By: Dana Bash, David Fisher
    • Narrated by: Dana Bash
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash tells the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our country.

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    • The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
    • By: A. J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America....

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    • Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Richard L. Hasen
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years - most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections - Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined....

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    • A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
    • By: Jessamyn Conrad
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what, and why - whether it's the economy, income inequality, Obamacare, foreign policy, education, immigration, or climate change....

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    • The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
    • By: Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Author Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs....

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    • On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
    • By: Tim Alberta
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 26 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,169 ratings
    • The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence....

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    • The Essential American
    • By: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 30 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War....

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    • John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
    • By: John Bicknell
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas....

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    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

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    • Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
    • By: Jonathan Lemire
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Lemire
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • In the more than five tumultuous, paradigm-shifting years of Donald Trump’s presidency and beyond, his near-constant lying has become a fixture of political life. It is inextricably linked with how his party behaves, how the Democrats respond to it, and how he remains relevant....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
    • By: Niambi Michele Carter
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • The Last Days of the American Republic
    • By: Chalmers Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of US dependence on a permanent war economy....

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    • The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
    • By: Rebecca Traister
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the last two years, the United States - its history, assumptions, prejudices, and vocabulary - have all cracked open....

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