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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 143 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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    • 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 96 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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    • 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 210 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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    • 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 55 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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    • 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 127 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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    • 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 16 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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    • 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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    • 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 505 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 Politics of Us and Them
    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,669 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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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 104 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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    • 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 194 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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    • The Anti-Industrial Revolution
    • By: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal....

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    • How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
    • By: Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the UK, and the US, attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying.

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • Essays in Objectivist Thought
    • By: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise....

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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 483 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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    • 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 216 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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