American Politics

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    • The Christian Right and the War on America
    • By: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong
    • Narrated by: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 823 ratings
    • Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. No more....

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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 227 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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    • 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 7 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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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,658 ratings
    • As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

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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 1,194 ratings
    • "Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents....

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    • By: Issa Rae
    • Narrated by: Issa Rae
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,090 ratings
    • "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

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    • Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public....

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    • Beyond American Exceptionalism
    • By: Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the "America first" mind-set and the possibilities for a new way forward....

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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 83 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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    • McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
    • By: Scott Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence....

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    • Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Master historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • An American Fight Against Fascism
    • By: Rachel Maddow
    • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,291 ratings
    • Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century....

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    • And Four Who Tried to Save Her
    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that unabashedly places blame for our nation's current problems on the backs of nine very flawed men....

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    • The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
    • By: Spencer W. McBride
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Though Joseph Smith's run for president is now best remembered for its gruesome end, the renegade campaign was revolutionary. Smith called for the total abolition of slavery, the closure of the country's penitentiaries, and the reestablishment of a national bank to stabilize the economy....

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    • In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
    • By: J.M. Adovasio, Jake Page
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that J. M. Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited....

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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,236 ratings
    • Democracy Awakening is more than a history book; it’s a vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

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