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 83 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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    • 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 4,733 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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    • 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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    • 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 5,701 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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    • 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: 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 23 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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    • 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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    • 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 681 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 94 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Perfect Guide to Spotting Bullshit, Avoiding Cheap Tricks and Winning Arguments
    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Chirag Patel
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why"....

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