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 85 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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    • 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 3,450 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: Josh Mauldin
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminiscent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe....

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    • Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga
    • By: Julius Evola
    • Narrated by: Michael Moynihan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world....

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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 147 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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    • 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 42,473 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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    • 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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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society....

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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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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 351 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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    • 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 727 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: 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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    • 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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    • Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
    • By: René Descartes
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....

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    • How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
    • By: Adrian Wooldridge
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology....

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    • An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man; 2nd Edition
    • By: Ernest Becker
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The Birth and Death of Meaning uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do....

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    • Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
    • By: Wade Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures....

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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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