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American Amnesia
By: Helen E. Krieble
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
People are who they are because of what they have been through, where they came from, who they learned from, and all the things that have happened to them. The same is true not just for individuals, but also for families, communities, and nations. America, too, has its own unique character, also formed by its memories, history, things it has... Read more
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Talleyrand: The Life and Legacy of France’s Most Influential Diplomat
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Steve Knupp
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.” - Talleyrand While Metternich is most associated with the Congress of Vienna, France, despite its turbulence, had its own influential representative there: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Known simply as Talleyrand, his name ultimately became associated with crafty, manipulative... Read more
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Point Man
By: Kevin Dockery & Chief James Watson
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the start. One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member—a "plank owner"—of America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs.
Through three tours in the jungle hell of Vietnam, he walked the point—staying alert to... Read more
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy
By: Michael Mandelbaum
Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to other countries. His history of the four periods... Read more
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International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Edition
By: J. Reid Meloy & Jens Hoffmann
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 46 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In recent history, planned violent attacks have persisted in the United States and abroad. These attacks have continued to illustrate the need for improved threat assessment and management efforts at local and national levels.
In the few years since its publication in 2014, the International Handbook of Threat Assessment has become the gold... Read more
Picking Presidents
By: Gautam Mukunda
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States?
In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested... Read more
Sold Out
By: James Rickards
Narrated by: James Rickards
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history comes Jim Rickards’ second prediction – the collapse of our global economy.
The supply chain crisis is coming to a head. Today, your favorite products are missing from store shelves, caught in supply chain limbo somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what does this supply chain... Read more
The Most Dangerous President in History
By: Nick Adams
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
President Biden is the most dangerous president in American history.Many Americans still think of Joe Biden as an average guy who supports the working class. But in reality, he has carried out a destructive agenda against our entire system of freedom. He has fully embraced the Green New Deal agenda, along with woke sexual and racial politics,... Read more
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Arbitrary Lines
By: M. Nolan Gray
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling.
The good news is that reform is in the air, with states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and... Read more
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
By: Ray Dalio
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles—whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide—shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate 2008’s events and navigate... Read more
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Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
Narrated by: Shahzad Bhiwandiwala
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to a socialist economy. Planning not only built India’s data... Read more
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Chuck Yeager
By: Don Keith
Narrated by: Josh Robert Thompson
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true story of United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager.
Bold, brash, and brimming with courage, Chuck Yeager burst onto the scene as a national hero in 1947, when he became the first to fly an airplane faster than the speed of sound. Yet... Read more
The Lion and the Fox
By: Alexander Rose
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him.
In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral... Read more
Histoire du fascisme
By: Frédéric Le Moal
Narrated by: Paul GEORGES
Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Qu'est-ce que le fascisme ? Cette question ne cesse de se poser aux historiens avec la même force qu'elle le faisait aux contemporains de Mussolini. Fut-il un mouvement réactionnaire, conservateur ou révolutionnaire ? Se situait-il à gauche ou à droite ? Autre question cruciale : quelle place y occupa le Duce, et peut-on réduire le fascisme à un... Read more
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La guerra en las palabras
By: Oswaldo Zavala
Narrated by: Olallo Rubio
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Una historia intelectual de la hegemonía que funcionó como la plataforma para lanzar la “guerra contra el narco”: primero desde un plano simbólico y después como una campaña permanente de violencia organizada. El fenómeno del narcotráfico en México ha estado siempre determinado por el lenguaje. Durante más de cuatro décadas, el sistema político... Read more
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Nossa ingratidão - Abridged
By: Ruy Barbosa
Narrated by: Guga Almeida
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Seremos injustos em lançar à conta da Regência essa política de crimes a favor da escravidão?" Neste artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa ingratidão", publicado no Diário de Notícias, o grande orador se defende das acusações da imprensa por ele supostamente não ter dado o devido crédito à Princesa Isabel no processo abolicionista. Read more
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Nossa democracia - Abridged
By: Ruy Barbosa
Narrated by: Guga Almeida
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Que é um republicano? Qual a característica que distingue uma da outra a república e a monarquia?" Neste artigo intitulado "Nossa democracia", escrita em abril de 1889 – pouco antes, portanto, da Proclamação da República –, Ruy Barbosa promove uma reflexão sobre essa forma de governo, analisando a postura da imprensa da época. Notável, além do... Read more
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O dever da oposição - Abridged
By: Ruy Barbosa
Narrated by: Tom Bueno
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
O texto "O dever da oposição" foi originalmente publicado no Jornal do Comércio, em 1885. Nele, o leitor encontra figurões da história política brasileira como personagens de um debate escrito com o português incorruptível de Ruy Barbosa – dá gosto de ler! No artigo, Ruy dá uma lição aos senadores Paulino de Sousa e João Alfredo sobre os... Read more
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Nossa veracidade - Abridged
By: Ruy Barbosa
Narrated by: Tom Bueno
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A extinção do elemento servil foi, no sentido mais estrito da palavra, uma conquista popular". O artigo de Ruy Barbosa intitulado "Nossa veracidade", de onde se extraíram estas palavras, foi publicado no Diário de Notícias em 3 de abril de 1889, portanto, quase um ano depois da assinatura da Lei Áurea. Uma defesa veemente do autor perante os... Read more
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La mariscala
By: Claudia Nuñez
Narrated by: Kámala Videla
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú Read more
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Trafficking Data
By: Aynne Kokas
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain.
In Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and... Read more
Uncommon Wrath
By: Josiah Osgood
Narrated by: Ana Clements
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good.
In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two... Read more
Scorched Earth
By: Jonathan Crary
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the... Read more
Invasion
By: Luke Harding
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics
“An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.” —Anne Applebaum, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more