Modern Political Theory

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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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    • 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 144 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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    • 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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    • 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 484 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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    • 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 57 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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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • By: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era
    • By: Barry Eichengreen
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of the world. In simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies elites, minorities, and foreigners while lionizing "the people"....

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    • A Review of the Important Political Thinkers from Ancient Times to the Modern Era
    • By: Mario Salas
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Professor Mario Marcel Salas is a retired Assistant Professor of Political Science, having taught Texas Politics, Federal Politics, Political ...

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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 422 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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    • 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 337 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 a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement
    • By: Paul Matzko
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Radio Right tells the story of the 1960s far right, who were frustrated by what they perceived to be liberal bias in the national media, particularly the media's sycophantic relationship with the John F. Kennedy administration....

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    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution.....

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    • The Twin Pillars of Modern Power
    • By: Muhammad Abdelwahid
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-25
    • Language: English
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    • What if the political divide you’ve been told about is a distraction? What if the left–right spectrum is a smokescreen, concealing a deeper, ...

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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 376 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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    • Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
    • By: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine - Tammany Hall - revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics....

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    • The Unknown Ideal
    • By: Ayn Rand
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse....

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    • By: Edmund Burke
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world....

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