Government Theory

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,153 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

    Regular price: $20.00

    • By: Henry Kissinger
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,582 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

    Regular price: $22.35

    • In Search of a Better Life
    • By: Anu Partanen
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020 ratings
    • In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
    • By: Michael Harriot
    • Narrated by: Michael Harriot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,440 ratings
    • From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
    • By: Russell Cobb
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
    • By: Geoff Shepard
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • The Watergate trials were a legal mess - and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,397 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

    Regular price: $19.84

    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • By: Thomas G. West
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

    Regular price: $21.46

    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,111 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • The Secret Society That Hijacked the World
    • By: Jim Marrs
    • Narrated by: Terrence Bayes
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
    • By: Leah Litman
    • Narrated by: Leah Litman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

    Regular price: $14.99

    • How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
    • By: Mike Rothschild
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, takes listeners from the background conspiracies and cults that fed the Q phenomenon, to its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump....

    Regular price: $13.97