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    • 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 2,200 ratings
    • This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

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    • 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 264 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....

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    • Dawn of the Cold War
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today....

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    • 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 352 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....

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    • 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 116 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....

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    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • By: Thomas G. West
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

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    • How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
    • By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
    • Narrated by: Wayne Pyle
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 758 ratings
    • What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.....

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    • 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 5 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....

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    • By: David Harvey
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,969 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • 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 113 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....

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    • 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 71 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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    • 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 388 ratings
    • In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

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    • 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 37 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....

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    • 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 565 ratings
    • In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology....

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    • 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 1,975 ratings
    • They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes....

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    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,472 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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