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 2,060 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...

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • 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 897 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....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 781 ratings
    • In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world's most formidable questions....

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    • The Secret History of the American Left
    • By: Jonah Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183 ratings
    • "Fascists", "Brownshirts", "jackbooted stormtroopers" - such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents....

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    • 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 130 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....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,197 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • 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 573 ratings
    • Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes....

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    • By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox - translator
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world....

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    • 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 1,082 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....

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    • By: Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror....

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    • A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
    • By: Alan Ryan
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....

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    • 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 169 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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    • A Radical History
    • By: Johanna Fernández
    • Narrated by: Joana Garcia
    • Length: 23 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Johanna Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 546 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,181 ratings
    • This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • 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 1,547 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....

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