Political Nonfiction

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    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....

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    • How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
    • By: Elizabeth Rusch
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • America is the greatest democracy in the world...isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
    • By: Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Busted is Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their explosive investigation into the acts committed by rogue members of the narcotics squad....

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    • Being American in the World We've Made
    • By: Ben Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Ben Rhodes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092 ratings
    • At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism....

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    • By: Brian Klein
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Series: The Reich Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • An incredible historical truth stretching from Hitler’s infamous bunker in Berlin to the White House in Washington threatens the very heart and soul of American democracy....

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    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • By: Mike Royko
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
    • By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    • Narrated by: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani....

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    • One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
    • By: Pete Buttigieg
    • Narrated by: Pete Buttigieg
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,119 ratings
    • Shortest Way Home is a mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal....

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    • A Memoir of Politics, Sex, Aids, and Survival
    • By: Sean Strub
    • Narrated by: David Drake
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Strub takes you through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the organization that transformed a stigmatized cause into one of the defining political movements of our time....

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    • Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
    • By: Amy Sohn
    • Narrated by: Amy Sohn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Best-selling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, anti-vice activist and US postal inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women’s rights at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • Minute by Minute
    • By: Jonathan Mayo
    • Narrated by: Russell Bentley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963....

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    • The Legacy of the War and Its Impact on Political and Military Thinking Since 1945
    • By: Matthias Strohn
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking....

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    • The Princess Who Became King
    • By: Ellen Galford
    • Narrated by: Susan Spain
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Convinced that unnamed babies are not truly alive, King Tuthmosis I’s wife Ahmose immediately names her newborn daughter Hatshepsut....

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    • The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
    • By: Robert Schmuhl
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Mr. Churchill in the White House presents a new perspective on the politician, war leader, and author through his intimate involvement with one Democratic and one Republican president during his two terms as prime minister.

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    • Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA
    • By: Jim Hougan
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan-then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine-set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital.

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