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    • The Primacy of Local Politics
    • By: Andrew Radin
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Institution Building in Weak States, Andrew Radin argues that the international community's approach to building state institutions needs its own reform. This innovative book proposes a new strategy, rooted in a rigorous analysis of recent missions....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
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    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion. After Mexico declared war on the United States, Kearny’s Army of the West was sent out....

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    • Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life
    • By: Farnoosh Torabi
    • Narrated by: Farnoosh Torabi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Creator of the popular finance podcast So Money Farnoosh Torabi pairs stories from her immigrant upbringing with hard-won industry knowledge and data to show how leaning into your fears can help you take control of your financial future.

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    • Building the Republic
    • By: David Barton, Tim Barton
    • Narrated by: David Fluitt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • America's Constitutional Republic is like no other. Most Americans recognize the names George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, but few can tell you their stories—much less that of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, or Andrew Jackson.

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    • A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793 ratings
    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • How Rome Built - and America Is Building - a New World
    • By: Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • In Empires of Trust, Professor Thomas F. Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics....

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    • Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War-Era Gulf South
    • By: Maria Angela Diaz
    • Narrated by: Angela Juarez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism.

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    • Travel New York
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Vanessa DeSilvio
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Empire State Building towers above the midtown district of New York City. Its solitary spire now stands out on the city skyline, no longer matched by the twin towers....

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    • The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
    • By: Ahmed Rashid
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Rashid examines Central Asia, and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe, to see how the promised nation building in the region has progressed....

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    • Political Economy in the Early Republic
    • By: Brian Phillips Murphy
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political entrepreneurs, including Robert R. Livingston....

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    • Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
    • By: Joshua Zeitz
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 691 ratings
    • First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge....

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    • The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry
    • Narrated by: Pippa Vos
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives....

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    • A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community
    • By: Adam Russell Taylor, John Lewis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Adam Russell Taylor reimagines a contemporary version of the beloved community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings....

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