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    • By: Herbert P. Bix
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    • By: Ari Berman
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since 1965, Give Us the Ballot tells the story of what happened after the Voting Rights Act was passed.

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    • How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Richard Stengel
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • Modern Liberalism and American Decline
    • By: Robert H. Bork
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, one of our nation's most distinguished conservative scholars offers a prophetic view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
    • By: Daniel W. Drezner
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What's more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protesters who compare the president to a child....

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    • Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
    • By: Stephanie Kelton
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594 ratings
    • Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 902 ratings
    • The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower: A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Linda Jaivin
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics, and philosophy across the world for thousands of years....

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    • An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
    • By: Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker - translator
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • In "To an Uneducated Leader", "How to Be a Good Leader", and "Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?", Plutarch explains the characteristics of successful leaders, from being guided by reason and exercising self-control to being free from envy and the love of power....

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