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    • How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party
    • By: Michael Tackett
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.

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    • The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
    • By: Robert C. Tucker
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In 1929, Stalin plunged Soviet Russia into a coercive "revolution from above", a decade-long effort to amass military-industrial power for a new war. He forced 25 million peasant families into state-run collectives and transformed the Communist Party into a servile instrument....

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    • My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
    • By: Nancy Pelosi
    • Narrated by: Nancy Pelosi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 516 ratings
    • The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.

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    • Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,415 ratings
    • Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....

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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,537 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers
    • By: Marcus Brotherton
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers....

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    • The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,606 ratings
    • In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush....

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    • Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Louise Brealey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Woman of No Importance comes an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players.

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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    • Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
    • By: Stephen Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Series: Stalin, Book 1
    • Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world....

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    • The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
    • By: Katherine May
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,657 ratings
    • An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down....

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    • The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon. Then Joan fell mysteriously ill....

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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,699 ratings
    • In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times....

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    • The Technology That Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
    • By: Craig R. Roach
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

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    • How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; a Memoir
    • By: Leymah Gbowee, Carol Mithers
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Scott
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • As a young woman growing up in Africa, 17-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia....

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    • A History of Its Rise to Power
    • By: Thomas Reppetto
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street....

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    • The Power of Words
    • By: Sir Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Fraser Wilson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye....

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    • The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
    • By: Garry Wills
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots....

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