American Political Theory

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    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • By: Thomas G. West
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

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    • And the Men Who Made it
    • By: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past....

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    • The Secret History of the American Left
    • By: Jonah Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183 ratings
    • "Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents....

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    • Jefferson to Lincoln
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
    • By: Lynne Olson
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,589 ratings
    • In Citizens of London, Lynne Olson has written a work of World War II history even more relevant and revealing than her acclaimed Troublesome Young Men....

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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,755 ratings
    • Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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    • How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time....

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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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    • 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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    • Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
    • By: Michael Mandelbaum
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States....

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    • Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
    • By: Samuel G. Freedman
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • During one week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform....

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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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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • By: Andrew Porwancher
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish....

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