Ancient Governments

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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    • Six Months That Changed the World
    • By: Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,400 ratings
    • Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....

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    • From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Helena Rosenblatt
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square....

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    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why....

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    • From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy
    • By: Michael Kulikowski
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century....

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    • An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
    • By: Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker - translator
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In "To an Uneducated Leader", "How to Be a Good Leader", and "Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?", Plutarch explains the characteristics of successful leaders, from being guided by reason and exercising self-control to being free from envy and the love of power....

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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico
    • By: Carlos Castaneda
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In this revolutionary book, Carlos Castaneda offers listeners the key to this energetic conditioning for the first time....

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    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years....

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • By: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • By: Samuel Gregg
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Western civilization's genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis...our future is limited.....

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    • The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
    • By: Robin Reames
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded.

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