Election History

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    • The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
    • By: Dana Bash, David Fisher
    • Narrated by: Dana Bash
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash tells the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our country.

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,971 ratings
    • On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....

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    • The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
    • By: Bob Riel
    • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Quest for the Presidency is an engaging and insightful popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present, analyzing the threads that link campaigns across….

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    • The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
    • By: Edward B. Foley
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this authoritative history of the American Electoral College system, Edward Foley analyzes the consequences of the unparalleled departure from the Jeffersonians' original intent - and delineates what we can do about it....

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    • The Tumultuous Election of 1800
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Award-winning author John Ferling is a leading authority on the American Revolution....

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    • A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
    • By: Joel E. Dimsdale
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media....

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    • Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
    • By: Karl Rove
    • Narrated by: Karl Rove
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author and political mastermind Karl Rove comes a fresh look at President William McKinley, who found a message that healed his nation....

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    • By: Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Authors Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves....

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    • The Rise of Hitler and FDR - Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
    • By: David Pietrusza
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
    • By: Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
    • By: David Levering Lewis
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president....

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    • The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality
    • By: Chris Mooney
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • Best-selling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality....

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    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Julie Maisey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Conspiracy, intrigue and faction-fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 - the longest and bitterest of the 16th century....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crises has defined the radical right, transforming the Republican party for the next generation....

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    • Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns
    • By: Joseph Cummins
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Anything for a Vote is a look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections, from George Washington to Barack Obama....

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