Political Ideologies

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Kevin Passmore
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Fascism is notoriously hard to define. Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world....

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    • The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
    • By: Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power....

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Terry Eagleton
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking 10 of the most common objections to Marxism....

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,679 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 258 ratings
    • In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,194 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • By: Alexandra Stein
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing explains how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts....

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    • Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crises has defined the radical right, transforming the Republican party for the next generation....

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    • By: Paul Kengor
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • The worst idea in history is back! Communism has wrecked national economies, enslaved whole peoples, and killed more than a hundred million men and women....

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    • A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
    • By: Jessamyn Conrad
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what, and why - whether it's the economy, income inequality, Obamacare, foreign policy, education, immigration, or climate change....

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    • And the Men Who Made it
    • By: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
    • By: Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood....

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    • A Rediscovery
    • By: Yoram Hazony
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain....

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    • Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
    • By: Kathryn S. Olmsted
    • Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Although paranoia has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, in Real Enemies, Kathryn Olmsted tells us that it was only in the 20th century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories became central to American politics....

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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 895 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: Sir Thomas More
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,105 ratings
    • Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island in this political work written in 1516....

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    • By: Slavoj Zizek
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos....

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