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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,205 ratings
    • This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
    • By: Thomas Fleming
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper’s Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a "holy martyr" in the fight against Southern slave owners....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
    • By: Barry Eichengreen
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • By: Peter Carlson
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • it on foot, much of it through snow, in 26 days.

      This is a marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits living in the shadows of the Civil War....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
    • By: Julian E. Zelizer
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • By: Evan Wright
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,042 ratings
    • They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater. Today it is the world's second biggest economy....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
    • By: Jim Frederick
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328 ratings
    • This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • How We Lost Trust and Confidence in America's Generals and Politicians
    • By: Stuart Scheller
    • Narrated by: Stuart Scheller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • How Trade Shaped the World
    • By: William J. Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

    Regular price: $19.77

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