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  • Why Nations Fail Audiobook By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson cover art

    • Why Nations Fail

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,521 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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  • The Road to Unfreedom Audiobook By Timothy Snyder cover art

    • The Road to Unfreedom

    • Russia, Europe, America
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,510 ratings

    • With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....

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  • The Bully Pulpit Audiobook By Doris Kearns Goodwin cover art

    • The Bully Pulpit

    • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,348 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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  • The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution Audiobook By Francis Fukuyama cover art

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  • If We Burn Audiobook By Vincent Bevins cover art

    • If We Burn

    • The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
    • By: Vincent Bevins
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings

    • From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....

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  • The Dictator's Handbook Audiobook By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith cover art

    • The Dictator's Handbook

    • Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
    • By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings

    • This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....

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  • Progressively Worse Audiobook By Joe Concha cover art

    • Progressively Worse

    • Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys
    • By: Joe Concha
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • In the 1990s, Democrats supported balanced budgets, smaller government, border security, equal opportunity (not outcomes), reducing the deficit, and prioritizing blue-collar issues. However, according to Joe Concha, these are things that Democrats are against now.

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  • The Nordic Theory of Everything Audiobook By Anu Partanen cover art

    • The Nordic Theory of Everything

    • In Search of a Better Life
    • By: Anu Partanen
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017 ratings
    • In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....

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  • The Flag and the Cross Audiobook By Samuel L. Perry, Philip S. Gorski, Jemar Tisby - foreword cover art

    • The Flag and the Cross

    • White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Samuel L. Perry, Philip S. Gorski, Jemar Tisby - foreword
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings

    • Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows....

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  • The Narrow Corridor Audiobook By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson cover art

    • The Narrow Corridor

    • States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings

    • From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....

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  • Finish What We Started Audiobook By Isaac Arnsdorf cover art

    • Finish What We Started

    • The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
    • By: Isaac Arnsdorf
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

    • The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....

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  • The Real North Korea Audiobook By Andrei Lankov cover art

    • The Real North Korea

    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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  • How to Be a Dictator Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • How to Be a Dictator

    • The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Jack Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings

    • No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....

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  • The Unaccountability Machine Audiobook By Dan Davies cover art

    • The Unaccountability Machine

    • Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
    • By: Dan Davies
    • Narrated by: Peter Dickson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want....

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  • Carnage and Culture Audiobook By Victor Davis Hanson cover art

    • Carnage and Culture

    • Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings

    • Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world....

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  • The Great U.S.-China Tech War Audiobook By Gordon G. Chang cover art

    • The Great U.S.-China Tech War

    • By: Gordon G. Chang
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

    • The United States and China are locked in a “cold tech war", and the winner will end up dominating the 21st century. America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents....

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  • Washington Bullets Audiobook By Vijay Prashad cover art

    • Washington Bullets

    • A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
    • By: Vijay Prashad
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point....

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  • 2030 Audiobook By Mauro F. Guillén cover art

    • 2030

    • How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
    • By: Mauro F. Guillén
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 379 ratings

    • The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....

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  • Our Own Worst Enemy Audiobook By Tom Nichols cover art

    • Our Own Worst Enemy

    • The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Tom Nichols
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 403 ratings

    • Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble - but who is really to blame? Tom Nichols explains....

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  • Dream Hoarders Audiobook By Richard V. Reeves cover art

    • Dream Hoarders

    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 418 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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