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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 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....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • 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 165 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....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • 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 189 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 104 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
    • By: Amy S. Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • > A Wicked War presents the definitive history of the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico - a conflict that turned America into a continental power....

    Regular price: $22.25

    • 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 3,986 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

    Regular price: $21.92

    • 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 94 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....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • 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 72 ratings
    • Judicial Watch, America's largest nonpartisan government watchdog, has investigated the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.43

    • 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....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • 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 623 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.​

    Regular price: $35.09

    • 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 1,886 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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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • By: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 481 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 637 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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 229 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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

    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why....

    Regular price: $15.47