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Pillar of Fire
By: Taylor Branch
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Prentice Onayemi
Length: 29 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch... Read more
Taking Aim at Attack Advertising
By: Kim Fridkin & Patrick Kenney
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Negative campaigning is a central component of politics in the United States. Yet, until now, demonstrating the impact of combative advertising on voters has been elusive. How can we reconcile the findings of a plethora of studies with the methods of politicians? This book cuts through to the central issue: how negative advertising influences... Read more
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The Accidental Prime Minister
By: Sanjaya Baru
Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
When The Accidental Prime Minister was published in 2014, it created a storm and became the publishing sensation of the year. The Prime Minister's Office called the book a work of 'fiction', the press hailed it as a revelatory account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first term in the UPA. Written by Singh's media adviser and trusted... Read more
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Silver, Sword, and Stone
By: Marie Arana
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction
Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest... Read more
Naming Names
By: Victor S. Navasky
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores the events behind the hit film Trumbo.
Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur... Read more
AMERICAN POLITICS
By: JD Lovil
Narrated by: Laura Johnson
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Politics is a mess.If we want our country to survive, we have to find some solutions. Let's argue about it, apply Occam's Razor to figure out the best solutions, and get it done!If you are concerned about immigration, social programs, or freedom in general, you need to read this book. It might give you something to think about.Get this book now,... Read more
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Samuel Colt and Oliver Winchester: The Lives and Careers of America’s Most Influential Gunsmiths
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Scott Clem
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Gunsmiths in early 19th century America were helped along by noted artisans from Germany, Switzerland, and other European powers, but despite advances made in the European and American musket, the requirement of an exterior spark and percussion to ignite powder for a single-shot discharge remained the paradigm. Similarly, the era was unable to... Read more
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Die Ibiza-Affäre - Innenansichten eines Skandals (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier
Narrated by: Oliver Erwin Schönfeld
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Die geheimen Pläne der Rechtspopulisten. Als im Frühsommer 2019 ein Video veröffentlicht wird, das die geheimen Pläne führender österreichischer Rechtspopulisten entlarvt, stürzt die Regierung in Wien. Was sind die Hintergründe der größten politischen Krise der Nachkriegszeit? Das Video entsteht im Sommer 2017. Der FPÖ-Spitzenkandidat... Read more
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Das deutsche Krokodil
By: Ijoma Mangold
Narrated by: Ijoma Mangold
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Ijoma Alexander Mangold lautet sein vollständiger Name; er hat dunkle Haut, dunkle Locken. In den siebziger Jahren wächst er in Heidelberg auf. Seine Mutter stammt aus Schlesien, sein Vater ist aus Nigeria nach Deutschland gekommen, um sich zum Facharzt für Kinderchirurgie ausbilden zu lassen. Weil es so verabredet war, geht er nach kurzer Zeit... Read more
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Geschichte der Globalisierung
By: Jürgen Osterhammel & Niels P. Petersson
Narrated by: Christopher Brehmer
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Globalisierung beginnt nicht erst in der Gegenwart. Sie hat sich über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg entfaltet. Das Buch beschreibt die Vielfalt der wirtschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Prozesse, die heute unter dem Begriff der Globalisierung zusammengefasst werden. Es befasst sich mit deren Ursachen und Auswirkungen, Rhythmen und... Read more
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
By: Marcia Mitchell & Thomas Mitchell
Narrated by: Harriet Dunlop
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested... Read more
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The Assault on American Excellence
By: Anthony T. Kronman
Narrated by: Anthony T. Kronman
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
“I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it’s more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one.” —Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is a threat to our democracy.
College education is under attack from all sides these days. Most of... Read more
The Outlaw Ocean
By: Ian Urbina
Narrated by: Jason Culp & Ian Urbina
Length: 17 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense... Read more
I, Rigoberta Menchú
By: Rigoberta Menchú
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father, and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to... Read more
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The Constitution of Liberty
By: F.A. Hayek
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 20 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government.
The Constitution of Liberty is considered Hayek's classic statement on... Read more
The Levant Express
By: Micheline R. Ishay
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia’s now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress. Libya is a failed state; Egypt returned to military dictatorship; the Gulf States... Read more
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For Alison
By: Andy Parker & Ben R. Williams
Narrated by: Andy Parker & Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived.
In the wake of his daughter's murder, Andy Parker became a national advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation. The night of... Read more
USA
By: Karin Henriksson
Narrated by: Peter Melin
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
USA är ett mångsidigt land med rik historia. Det är ett land med ökade klassklyftor och hög konsumtion, men det är också landet som satte den första människan på månen och landet där Walt Disney introducerade världen för en tecknad mus. Här förklaras landets valrörelser och pengarnas roll i politiken, och vilken betydelse medierna har i... Read more
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Socialism Sucks
By: Benjamin Powell
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while... Read more
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America Is Better Than This
By: Jeff Merkley
Narrated by: Jeff Merkley
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An exposé and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands.
Jeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamed the United States could treat vulnerable young families with such calculated... Read more
The Birth of the FBI
By: Willard M. Oliver
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different.
The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. In The Birth of the FBI,... Read more
Free Enterprise
By: Lawrence B. Glickman
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics.
Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence... Read more
EuroTragedy
By: Ashoka Mody
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Blending economic analysis with political drama, EuroTragedy is a groundbreaking account of the euro's history and tragic consequences. In this vivid and compelling chronicle, Ashoka Mody describes how the euro improbably emerged through a narrow historical window as a flawed compromise wrapped in a false pro-European rhetoric of peace and... Read more
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While
By: Paul Rogat Loeb
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
More relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world
In today's turbulent world it's hard not to feel like we're going backwards; after decades of striving, justice and equality still seem like far off goals. What keeps us going when times get tough? How have... Read more