Political History

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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 162 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 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 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 622 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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    • The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
    • By: Thomas Rid
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • Three Thousand Years of War and Peace (A Pelican Book)
    • By: Jonathan Holslag
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime....

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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 473 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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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world....

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    • Obama's Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government
    • By: Tom Fitton
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Series: Judicial Watch, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Judicial Watch, America's largest nonpartisan government watchdog, has investigated the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations....

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    • The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK
    • By: John Newman
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of JFK and Vietnam comes a book that uncovers the government's role in the Kennedy assassination more clearly than any previous inquiry....

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    • How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K
    • By: Barr McClellan
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • An insider’s look at America’s greatest unsolved mystery....

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    • A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
    • By: Greg Graffin
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us....

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    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Political Order, Book 2
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881 ratings
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

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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 3,968 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled 14 foreign governments, not always to its own benefit....

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    • A History of Nazi Germany
    • By: Thomas Childers
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • In The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society....

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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 226 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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