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White House Warriors
By: John Gans
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to make what became known as the NSC staff... Read more
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The Prince
By: Niccolo Machiavelli
Narrated by: Kevin Theis
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it is generally agreed that it was... Read more
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Viaje al país de los blancos
By: Ousman Umar
Narrated by: Ousman Umar
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
La odisea de un joven que arriesgó su vida por un futuro mejor. Mi nombre es Ousman Umar. Sé que nací un martes, no sé de qué mes ni de qué año porque en mi tribu eso no importa. Crecí en la sabana africana. Caminaba siete kilómetros para ir a la escuela. Mi vida era feliz y sencilla, hasta que un día, entre juegos, vi un avión volar. Desde ese... Read more
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Rebuilding Sergeant Peck
By: John Peck, Dava Guerin & Terry Bivens
Narrated by: John Peck, Peter Berkrot & Christina Traister
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"Marine Sgt. John Peck is a survivor, but he is also a thriver. His story still makes me smile. I am so grateful that he entered our lives.”—Jennifer Griffin, FOX NewsMarine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years... Read more
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On Democracy
By: E. B. White
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.”These words were written by E. B. White in 1947.Decades before our current political turmoil, White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements that continue to resonate. “There’s only one kind of press that’s any good—” he proclaimed, “a press free from any taint of the... Read more
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Complex Battlespaces
By: Christopher M. Ford & Winston S. Williams
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 20 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. As the nature of how and where wars are fought changes, new challenges to the application of the extant body of international law that regulates armed conflicts arise.This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies series... Read more
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Mr. Wilson's War
By: John Dos Passos
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 23 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Beginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the story of the war we won and the peace we lost, told with a clear historical... Read more
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Spy Watching
By: Loch K. Johnson
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 31 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes.... Read more
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Sacred Liberty
By: Steven Waldman
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention.” Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons,... Read more
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A Dog Named Beautiful
By: Rob Kugler
Narrated by: Rob Kugler
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"This sweet story honoring the bond between animals and their people is a must-read for fans of A Dog Called Hope and Travels with Charley, and anyone open to a good, cathartic cry.” — Booklist, Starred Review
This program is read by the author.
An uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a... Read more
The Words of My Father
By: Yousef Bashir
Narrated by: Yousef Bashir
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear.Yousef Bashir’s story begins in Gaza, on a... Read more
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George Mason
By: William G. Hyland
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law,... Read more
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Reagan
By: Larry Schweikart
Narrated by: Robert Scott
Length: 20 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, featuring never-before-seen documents and sources from the Reagan Presidential Library#1 New York Times bestselling author Larry Schweikart, armed with previously unseen sources from Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Library, uncovers the most important president of the twentieth century and details the life... Read more
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Nuking the Moon
By: Vince Houghton
Narrated by: Vince Houghton
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The International Spy Museum's Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane.
"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." —Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Grunt and Stiff
In 1958, the U.S. Air... Read more
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World
By: Phillips Payson O'Brien
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 19 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief
“Fascinating… greatly enriches our understanding of Washington wartime power.”—Madeleine Albright
Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy--not Douglas MacArthur, not... Read more
Moneyland
By: Oliver Bullough
Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies
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Russia's Crony Capitalism
By: Anders Aslund
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future.
This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of... Read more
Ghosts of Gold Mountain
By: Gordon H. Chang
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous... Read more
Navy SEALs
By: Lance Burton & Don Mann
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From their birth in World War II as combat swimmers clearing the beaches of Normandy to their evolution into fighting men who could operate anywhere in the world by sea, air, or land, the intrepid story of the United States Navy SEALs is one of courage, sacrifice, and world-renowned toughness that echoes of other great military units of... Read more
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This Is Really War
By: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first year abroad was an adventure. She dated sailors, attended dances, and watched the sparkling evening lights from her balcony. But as 1941 progressed, signs of war became imminent. Military wives and children were... Read more
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Bullets and Opium
By: Liao Yiwu
Narrated by: Francois Chau & Edward Chen
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch).
Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very... Read more
The Buried
By: Peter Hessler
Narrated by: Peter Hessler
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.” —Wall Street Journal
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an... Read more
Our Man
By: George Packer
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 20 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*
"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign... Read more
Extra Time
By: Camilla Cavendish
Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL ‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear’ THE TIMES ‘A... Read more
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