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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
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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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
The Fall of the FBI
By: Thomas J. Baker
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An FBI veteran explains how the Mueller–Comey cabal turned the FBI from a “swear to tell the truth” law-enforcement agency to a politicized intelligence organization.Americans have lost faith in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an institution they once regarded as the world’s greatest law-enforcement agency. Thomas Baker spent many years... 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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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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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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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
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 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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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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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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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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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 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
Do Everything
By: Christopher H. Evans
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Frances Willard (1839–1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built a national and international movement of women that campaigned for prohibition, women's rights, economic justice, and numerous other social... Read more
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Dark Carnivals
By: W. Scott Poole
Narrated by: Enrique McGavin
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power
The American empire emerged from the shadows of World War II. As the nation's influence swept the globe with near impunity, a host of evil forces followed—from racism, exploitation, and military invasion to killer... 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
Duel of Eagles
By: Peter Townsend
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 20 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In May 1940, Group Captain Peter Townsend took command of 85 Squadron, tasked with preparing it for the defense of Great Britain against German bombers.
It was the beginning of the long, hot, lethal summer in which the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought to the death over England in the furious conflict which ultimately saved Britain from Nazi... Read more
Living a Committed Life
By: Lynne Twist
Narrated by: Lynne Twist
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
What would life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist.
How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond,... Read more
Fighting for Justice
By: Mark Shaw
Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Fighting for Justice exposes the cover-ups of the JFK assassination and the murders of Dorothy Kilgallen and Marilyn Monroe, while revealing for the first time the corrupt inner workings of the Warren Commission based on the firsthand "whistleblower" account of an actual Commission member never identified before.
How does an explosive... Read more