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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    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • 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 3,508 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 42,794 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....

    Regular price: $8.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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 197 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • 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 216 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 180 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • 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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    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 128 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 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 746 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.....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 358 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....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • 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....

    Regular price: $13.99

    • 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 181 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Diogenes, M. D. Usher - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters—from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 219 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

    Regular price: $20.63