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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 2,205 ratings
    • This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times....

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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 376 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 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....

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    • 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....

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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....

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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 265 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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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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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 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....

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    • How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
    • By: Jason Bisnoff
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....

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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....

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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 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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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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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 2,036 ratings
    • They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes....

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    • 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....

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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 4,622 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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

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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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