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A Fabulous Failure
- The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
- By: Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein
- Narrated by: Tom Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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A Fabulous Failure explains why and how the Clinton presidency's progressive statecraft floundered in a world where the labor movement was weak, civil rights forces quiescent, and corporate America ever more powerful....
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A Fabulous Failure
- The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
- Narrated by: Tom Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-31-23
- Language: English
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A Fabulous Failure explains why and how the Clinton presidency's progressive statecraft floundered in a world where the labor movement was weak, civil rights forces quiescent, and corporate America ever more powerful....
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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
- By: Alexander J. Field PhD
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Many believe that despite its destructive character, war boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined....
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The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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Many believe that despite its destructive character, war boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined....
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
- By: Peter Clarke
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower....
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decent book, lousy narrator.
- By manstein on 06-08-10
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-30-10
- Language: English
- A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower....
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American Discontent
- The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age
- By: John L. Campbell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's success....
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Master of the obvious, uses many words
- By Trebla on 10-20-18
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American Discontent
- The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-04-18
- Language: English
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The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's success....
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The Forrestal Diaries
- By: James Forrestal, Walter Millis - editor
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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When James Forrestal resigned as secretary of defense in March 1949 before apparently committing suicide (arguably the highest ranking US government official to do so), he left in his office a large accumulation of files and papers. Among them was a private record....
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CIA edited
- By James A. Bretney on 06-26-21
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The Forrestal Diaries
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-06-20
- Language: English
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When James Forrestal resigned as secretary of defense in March 1949 before apparently committing suicide (arguably the highest ranking US government official to do so), he left in his office a large accumulation of files and papers. Among them was a private record....
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
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In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history....
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Stamped outstanding
- By DARRYL S. BROWN on 02-08-24
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-26-23
- Language: English
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In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history....
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The Devils Will Get No Rest
- FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
- By: James B. Conroy
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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The Devils Will Get No Rest is a “vivid and engaging” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943....
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The Devils Will Get No Rest
- FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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The Devils Will Get No Rest is a “vivid and engaging” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943....
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The Oath
- The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration....
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A look at the Supreme Court
- By Jean on 06-07-14
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The Oath
- The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-18-12
- Language: English
- From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration....
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- By: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon....
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Partisan interpretation of history
- By Chris C. on 11-26-08
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-03-08
- Language: English
- In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon....
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How the Best Did It
- Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
- By: Talmage Boston, John Avlon - foreword
- Narrated by: Talmage Boston
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America's eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today's leaders.
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Captivating book with one liberal mistake
- By Charles on 08-01-24
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How the Best Did It
- Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
- Narrated by: Talmage Boston
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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How the Best Did It is an accessible and insightful explanation of how the most important leadership traits from America's eight greatest presidents can be implemented by today's leaders.
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Japanese American Incarceration
- The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- By: Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
- Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....
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Japanese American Incarceration
- The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- Narrated by: Susanna Jiang
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II....
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William McKinley
- By: Kevin Phillips, Arthur M. Schlesinger
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley’s overshadowed legacy....
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Disappointing
- By B.K. on 02-23-18
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William McKinley
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Series: American Presidents, Book 25
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-31-11
- Language: English
- A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley’s overshadowed legacy....
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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
- By: David M. Jordan
- Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb....
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Very enjoyable “listen”.
- By Ronald Meisburg on 11-23-22
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FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
- Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-26-19
- Language: English
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Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb....
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The Year of Peril
- America in 1942
- By: Tracy Campbell
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II....
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Disappointing
- By David S. on 06-08-20
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The Year of Peril
- America in 1942
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II....
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What If? Volume 2
- Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- By: Caleb Carr, Lance Morrow, Cecelia Holland, and others
- Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future...
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An interesting book tainted by a poor narrator
- By Jayson on 08-24-03
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What If? Volume 2
- Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
- Series: What If?
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-16-01
- Language: English
- There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future...
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What the Heck Are You Up to, Mr. President?
- Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise', and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
- By: Kevin Mattson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he gave a speech that should have changed the country. Instead it led to his downfall....
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American history how it’s meant to be written
- By Amazon Customer on 09-25-20
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What the Heck Are You Up to, Mr. President?
- Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise', and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
- At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he gave a speech that should have changed the country. Instead it led to his downfall....
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The Economists' Hour
- False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
- By: Binyamin Appelbaum
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....
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One-sided ridicule of economists
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-06-19
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The Economists' Hour
- False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-19
- Language: English
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In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....
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JFK's Last Hundred Days
- The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
- By: Thurston Clarke
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been. Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life....
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In Depth and Beautifully Written
- By grace on 06-03-23
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JFK's Last Hundred Days
- The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-16-13
- Language: English
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A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been. Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life....
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Nixon Agonistes
- The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
- By: Garry Wills
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
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Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews)....
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Writing as Smooth as drinking milk on a sunny afternoon
- By RColby on 12-06-23
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Nixon Agonistes
- The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising conclusions about a man whose name has become synonymous with scandal and the abuse of power (Kirkus Reviews)....
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The Sorrows of Empire
- Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
- By: Chalmers Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....
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A must read.
- By Thomas on 02-07-15
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The Sorrows of Empire
- Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-01-07
- Language: English
- Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....
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