Political Thought

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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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    • By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.

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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 16 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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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
    • By: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,410 ratings
    • If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would sound something like this....

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    • Middle-Class Political Thought in the Age of Jackson and Clay
    • By: Joseph W. Pearson
    • Narrated by: Eddie Frierson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In The Whigs' America, Joseph W. Pearson explores a variety of topics, including the Whigs' understanding of the role of the individual in American politics, their perceptions of political power and the rule of law, and their impressions of the past....

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    • Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
    • By: Noel Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction....

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    • Why Ideas Matter
    • By: James Kelman, Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence—spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade more—is about the simple concept that ideas matter. They mutate, inform, create fuel for thought, and inspire actions....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Amy Tintera
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy, Will Damron
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,046 ratings
    • After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer....

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    • Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
    • By: Melvin L. Rogers
    • Narrated by: Diontae Black
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This audiobook narrated by Diontae Black gives a powerful account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy....

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    • A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
    • By: Preet Bharara
    • Narrated by: Preet Bharara
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,700 ratings
    • An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society - from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast....

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    • By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,622 ratings
    • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

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    • From the Intellectual to the Political
    • By: Quassim Cassam
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices....

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    • Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    • By: Eric Hoffer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

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    • By: Elci North
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • America 2272 - The Office of Reproductive Oversight dictates laws for women and men. In a society where babies have become a source of government ...

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    • Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
    • By: Cory Booker
    • Narrated by: Cory Booker
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings
    • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....

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    • His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time
    • By: Eamonn Butler
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Nobel prize-winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance....

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    • Eight Exercises in Political Thought
    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy....

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    • Thoughts After Liberalism
    • By: John Gray
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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