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 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 217 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 121 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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    • 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 42 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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    • 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 439 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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    • The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
    • By: Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,087 ratings
    • An important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today....

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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 1,164 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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    • 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 235 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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    • 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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    • The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
    • By: John Sides, Chris Tusanovitch, Lynn Vavreck
    • Narrated by: Alex Knox
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a razor-thin presidential election outcome. It culminated in an attack on the US Capitol that attempted to deny Joe Biden's victory....

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    • How Politics Became Our Identity
    • By: Lilliana Mason
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties....

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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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    • How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans
    • By: Ben Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,653 ratings
    • Ben Shapiro uncovers the simple strategy used by liberals and their friends in the media: bully the living hell out of conservatives....

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    • The Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....

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    • George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
    • By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries - Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph - for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet....

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    • The Tumultuous Election of 1800
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Award-winning author John Ferling is a leading authority on the American Revolution....

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