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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 1,052 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: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,914 ratings
    • Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition....

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    • Jefferson to Lincoln
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

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    • By: Jane Addams
    • Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In 1889, Jane Addams co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first settlement house in the United States. In this book, she discusses democracy and government....

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 918 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • By: Alexis de Tocqueville
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 724 ratings
    • In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

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    • The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
    • By: Kash Pramod Patel
    • Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 680 ratings
    • A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president....

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    • The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
    • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
    • Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
    • This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy....

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    • New One-Volume Edition
    • By: Karl Popper
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War....

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    • How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket
    • By: Michael Franzese
    • Narrated by: Michael Franzese
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Greed. Lies. Corruption. These are the foundational elements of the American Mafia story. Here, the pursuit of power overshadows even the desire for a dollar, and self-interest outweighs the greater good....

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    • Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
    • By: Steve Phillips
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War....

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    • Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
    • By: Sheldon S. Wolin
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 ratings
    • Democracy is struggling in America. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable....

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    • How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
    • By: Sami Sage, Emily Amick
    • Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated, doom scrolling, lacking a sense of purpose or community...it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the dire state of American democracy and do nothing, because why try when the odds are never in our favor?

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
    • By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government....

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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 2,147 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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