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    • 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 4,430 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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    • 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 1,498 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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    • 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 47 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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    • 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 1,013 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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    • 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 4,335 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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    • 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 84 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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    • 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 343 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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    • 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 149 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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    • 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 398 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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    • 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 175 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 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 62 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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    • Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Fiona Hill
    • Narrated by: Fiona Hill
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,571 ratings
    • A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia....

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    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Political Order, Book 2
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,872 ratings
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

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    • 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 310 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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    • 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 600 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • 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 377 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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    • 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 132 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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    • 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 415 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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    • The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
    • By: Ahmed Rashid
    • Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Ahmed Rashid, called “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classic....

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