Modern Politics

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    • Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
    • By: Lynn Hudson Parson
    • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history....

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    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

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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 510 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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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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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 130 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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    • How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,826 ratings
    • Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 749 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • By: Alasdair MacIntyre
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery....

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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 220 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,512 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone....

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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Madness and Civilization will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: Michael Inwood
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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