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    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,056 ratings
    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,098 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

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    • By: Cassidy Hutchinson
    • Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,274 ratings
    • Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history, and she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experience as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis.

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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,051 ratings
    • Democracy Awakening is more than a history book; it’s a vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

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    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 914 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,914 ratings
    • Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition....

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    • Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
    • By: Brian Tyler Cohen
    • Narrated by: Brian Tyler Cohen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire—and what Democrats need to do to get us out of it.

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    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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    • Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
    • By: Stuart Stevens
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and fair election....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 639 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • By: Barack Obama
    • Narrated by: Barack Obama
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,771 ratings
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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    • Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
    • By: Adam Kinzinger, Michael D'Antonio - contributor
    • Narrated by: Adam Kinzinger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential election. It was a betrayal of our Constitution, and one of the darkest days in recent history....

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    • Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase (The Great Reset Series)
    • By: Glenn Beck, Justin Trask Haskins
    • Narrated by: Glenn Beck
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • At important meetings in 2021 and 2022, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, and business who support the World Economic Forum’s plan for a Great Reset of capitalism launched a new “call to action” titled the “Great Narrative”....

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    • The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
    • By: Michael Cohen
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,698 ratings
    • The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....

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    • America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
    • By: George Friedman
    • Narrated by: Bruce Turk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,467 ratings
    • The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times best-selling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture....

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    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • By: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics Peter Turchin presents the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames....

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    • By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
    • Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • One of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics.

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    • How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
    • By: Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us....

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    • The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It
    • By: Ari Berman
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority.

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