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    • China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
    • By: Rush Doshi
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy....

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    • A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
    • By: Jessamyn Conrad
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what, and why - whether it's the economy, income inequality, Obamacare, foreign policy, education, immigration, or climate change....

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    • By: Ann M. DeLaney
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Confused by caucuses, primaries, and pollsters? Puzzled by the various parties and special interest groups? Politics for Dummies has everything you need to understand local, state, and national politics....

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    • The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
    • By: Drew Westen
    • Narrated by: Anthony Heald
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins....

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    • By: Marcus A. Stadelmann
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Political Science for Dummies explores the questions that political scientists examine, such as how our leaders make decisions, who shapes political policy, and why countries go to war....

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    • A Defense of Truth
    • By: Jonathan Rauch
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel 18th-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” - our social system for turning disagreement into truth....

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    • Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
    • By: James Hankins
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars....

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    • Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a struggle over how to remake the island. Author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of politics and capitalism seek to undermine the nation's resilient vision for a recovery....

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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,089 ratings
    • Democracy Awakening is more than a history book; it’s a vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

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    • By: Barry Goldwater
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star....

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    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,137 ratings
    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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    • A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
    • By: Naomi Wolf
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are becoming increasingly desperate for a restored nation....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • By: Adam B. Cox, Cristina M. Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief, and provide a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays....

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    • No More Gangs in Government
    • By: Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process....

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    • Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....

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    • A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
    • By: Martha S. Jones
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans....

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    • The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,162 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism....

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