Satire History

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    • By: Juvenal
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Listening to The Satires by Juvenal is to come face to face with the corruption, the debauchery, the waste, the sloth, and the mean-spirited greed of ancient Rome....

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    • By: Dennis Miller
    • Narrated by: Dennis Miller
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • There's good news for those that rage at the evening news, shake their heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from social crisis to political crisis to economic crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the nation by its lapels....

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    • A Novel Without a Hero
    • By: William Makepeace Thackeray
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • A vast satirical panorama of a materialistic society and a landmark in the history of realistic fiction....

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    • Important American Documents (I Made Up)
    • By: Alexandra Petri
    • Narrated by: Alexandra Petri
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed....

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    • Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
    • By: Alice Loxton
    • Narrated by: Alice Loxton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • One of the UK's most exciting young historians presents a brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalized it....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,257 ratings
    • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

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    • Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
    • By: Nick Offerman
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,706 ratings
    • The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times best seller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights 21 figures from our nation’s history - Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans"....

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    • By: Ma Jian, Flora Drew - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Blending fact and fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night....

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    • Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America
    • By: David Kahane
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • The vast right wing conspiracy has found its General Patton, and his name is David Kahane....

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    • By: Max Barry
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 682 ratings
    • In Max Barry's hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations, and employees take the last names of the companies they work for....

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    • By: Timur Vermes
    • Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Look Who's Back is a cutting satire on modern media-bloated, celebrity-obsessed society, seen through the eyes of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. It is the Summer of 2011 and things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war....

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    • By: Lyndsay Faye
    • Narrated by: Susie Riddell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 920 ratings
    • A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London....

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    • History's Unknown Chapters
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Giles Milton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past....

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    • Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History
    • By: Jennifer Wright
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 803 ratings
    • Jennifer Wright's It Ended Badly guides you through the worst of the worst in historically bad breakups....

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