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 163 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 23 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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    • 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 475 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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    • 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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    • 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 186 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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....

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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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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 659 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
    • By: Thurston Clarke
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert Kennedy - formerly Jack's no-holds-barred political warrior - almost lost hope....

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    • Sun Eater, Book 1
    • By: Christopher Ruocchio
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Series: Sun Eater, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,243 ratings
    • The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders....

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    • FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,113 ratings
    • Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR rescued banks, put men to work immediately....

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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 227 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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    • 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 244 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....

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