American History Election

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 1776-1963
    • By: Donald Jeffries, Ron Paul - foreword
    • Narrated by: Lars Mikaelson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
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    • For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author Donald Jeffries refers to as the court historians. American Crimes and Cover-Ups: 1776-1963 fights back by scrutinizing the accepted history of everything....

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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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    • A Nation Divides on the Eve of War
    • By: Jessica Gunderson
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout the 1850s, the issues of slavery and states' rights had divided the nation. With the election of 1860, these issues finally came to a head, setting the stage for the American Civil War....

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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 1,092 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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    • How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
    • By: Jon Grinspan
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America’s unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty....

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    • From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
    • By: Nick Ragone
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,986 ratings
    • On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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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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    • Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
    • By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

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    • The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics
    • By: Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Party hollowness lies at the heart of our democratic discontents. With historical sweep and political acuity, The Hollow Parties offers answers to pressing questions about how the nation's parties became so dysfunctional-and how they might yet realize their promise.

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    • A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
    • By: David Corn
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 616 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

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