Political History

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    • A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
    • By: Alan Ryan
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard Whatmore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present....

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    • The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality
    • By: Chris Mooney
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • Best-selling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality....

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    • The Legacy of Barack Obama
    • By: Matt Margolis, Mark Noonan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know....

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    • Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Sunlight Editions)
    • By: Daniel Sjursen
    • Narrated by: Daniel Sjursen
    • Series: Truth to Power
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Brilliant, listenable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Jon Meacham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,409 ratings
    • Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....

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    • A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
    • By: David Corn
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 615 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

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    • And the Men Who Made it
    • By: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past....

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    • A Life
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,372 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times best-selling author of The Storm of War....

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    • FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler - The Election Amid the Storm
    • By: Susan Dunn
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency....

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    • And Four Who Tried to Save Her
    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
    • 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that unabashedly places blame for our nation's current problems on the backs of nine very flawed men....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,906 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • By: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics - and a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out....

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    • By: Richard D. Wolff
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy....

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

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    • Antietam
    • By: James M. McPherson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....

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    • A Political History
    • By: Sarah Milov
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation's economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces...

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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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 340 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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    • A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
    • By: Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital....

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