Civic Science

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    • A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
    • By: Martha S. Jones
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans....

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    • By: Marcus A. Stadelmann
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Political Science for Dummies explores the questions that political scientists examine, such as how our leaders make decisions, who shapes political policy, and why countries go to war....

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    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

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    • China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
    • By: Rush Doshi
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy....

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    • Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Brit Marling
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises....

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    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,596 ratings
    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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    • A Defense of Truth
    • By: Jonathan Rauch
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel 18th-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” - our social system for turning disagreement into truth....

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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 1,239 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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    • 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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    • Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 647 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....

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    • Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
    • By: James Hankins
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars....

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    • Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Sunlight Editions)
    • By: Daniel Sjursen
    • Narrated by: Daniel Sjursen
    • Series: Truth to Power
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Brilliant, listenable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States....

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    • By: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize the well-being of others....

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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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    • Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
    • By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,131 ratings
    • Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom.

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    • Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better than You Found It
    • By: Mallory McMorrow
    • Narrated by: Mallory McMorrow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow details her unlikely journey into politics with a front-row seat to democracy at its breaking point—then outlines the tangible, proven steps that anyone can take to build community, fight for what's right, and create real, lasting change.

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    • The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity
    • By: Charles Lewis
    • Narrated by: Don Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • For citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fictionis now more difficult than ever....

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    • Quick Civics Lessons for the Naturalization Test
    • By: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
    • Narrated by: Tom Brooks
    • Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Thank you for your interest in becoming a citizen of the United States of America. As you prepare for US citizenship, Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons for the Naturalization Test will help you study for the civics and English portions of the test....

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