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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
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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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 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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Blood, Fire & Gold
By: Estelle Paranque
Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history. Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile world dominated by court politics and patriarchal... Read more
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Hate and Reconciliation
By: Guido Cuyvers
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hatred is human and current. It is an intrinsic part of what can happen between people. Personal experiences can lead people to hate someone. In society and even on a global level, hatred is again and again the motor of misunderstanding and often also of violence between people. Sometimes hate smolders almost unconsciously; at other times he is... Read more
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
Narrated by: Maria Ressa & Rebecca Mozo
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account.Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky... Read more
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617 Squadron
By: Tom Bennett
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In May 1943, Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron on an audacious assault on the dams of the Ruhr valley using Barnes Wallis' ingenious 'bouncing bombs.'
What happened to RAF 617 Squadron after the completion of Operation Chastise?
The raid had been a success, but the bombing offensive against Nazi-occupied territories did not let up and 617 Squadron... 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
Political Choice in a Polarized America
By: Joshua N. Zingher
Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate best matches their own positions? Or do people look at politics as something more akin to a team sport—the specifics do not matter as long as you know what side your team is on? Answering these... Read more
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The Privatization of Everything
By: Donald Cohen & Allen Mikaelian
Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other.
The Privatization of Everything, by the... Read more
Demetrius
By: James Romm
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
The life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323–282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take... Read more
The Woking Dead
By: A. J. Rice
Narrated by: Axel Bosley
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Woking Dead are everywhere. An army of undead ghouls turning millions into mindless, ravenous devourers of all things good and American.Donald J. Trump was the vaccine America needed. He fought for America against the Deep State and the woke maniacs relentlessly destroying everything Americans love. They’re attacking George Washington.... Read more
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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
Disability Pride
By: Ben Mattlin
Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals,... Read more
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