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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 114 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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    • 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 381 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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    • 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 258 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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    • 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 344 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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    • 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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    • 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 114 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 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 1,963 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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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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    • 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 370 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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    • 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 564 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 1,959 ratings
    • They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes....

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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 68 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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    • 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 4,415 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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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 299 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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    • 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 1,295 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....

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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 757 ratings
    • What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.....

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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 104 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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    • 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 2,181 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 Military Life
    • By: Edward G. Lengel
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader....

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