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Best Sellers
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story5 out of 5 stars 93
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another cracking spy yarn, and this one is true!
- By Kirsty on 31-12-2018
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 218
From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read
- By AndrewH on 28-06-2017
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
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On War
- By: Carl von Clausewitz
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
A Prussian soldier and writer, von Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory...
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story5 out of 5 stars 93
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another cracking spy yarn, and this one is true!
- By Kirsty on 31-12-2018
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- By: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 218
From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broad, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read
- By AndrewH on 28-06-2017
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....
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On War
- By: Carl von Clausewitz
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 4
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
A Prussian soldier and writer, von Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory...
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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- By: Kathleen Belew
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building....
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat
- By: Giles Milton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story5 out of 5 stars 121
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Boys Own stuff but I loved it. ..
- By I. B. McKenzie on 19-11-2016
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Church History in Plain Language
- Fourth EditionFourth Edition
- By: Bruce L. Shelley
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
Dr. Bruce Shelley's church history is not only the first choice of many laypeople and church leaders but the standard text in many college classrooms....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really well laid out and solid narrator
- By Hermand on 29-08-2017
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson - editor
- Narrated by: Levar Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need more leaders like this!
- By Vivien on 11-04-2018
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A Pope and a President
- John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
- By: Paul Kengor
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth of the bond that developed between the two....
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Synthesis
- By Shane on 29-05-2016
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The Master of Auschwitz:
- Memoirs of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant SS
- By: Rudolf Hoess
- Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
The first-hand account of the life, career, and the practices of horror at Auschwitz....
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A Place of Greater Safety
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 33 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
A tour-de-force of historical imagination....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Long
- By mrs on 01-07-2015
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The Burglary
- The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
- By: Betty Medsger
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Betty Medsger
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists....
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12 Strong
- The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
- By: Doug Stanton
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-2019
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The Private Lives of the Tudors
- Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Tracy Borman takes us behind the scenes to reveal the intimate secrets of the Tudor court and the private lives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Facinating
- By Jane on 15-06-2016
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Mi historia [Becoming]
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Jane Santos
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Escucha el íntimo, poderoso e inspirador libro de memorias de la exprimera dama de Estados Unidos....
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too focused on personality and drama.
- By steve on 16-08-2018
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive, Objective yet Self-Aware
- By Marcus on 28-04-2018
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Pik-sen Lim
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines....
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Catch-67
- The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
- By: Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
From best-selling Israeli author Micah Goodman comes Catch-72, a controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
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One Minute to Midnight
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- By: Michael Dobbs
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story5 out of 5 stars 23
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best history book, I've ever read/heard.
- By Mark W on 09-12-2017
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 3: The History
- By: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In all of Roman history there was never a more turbulent year than A.D. 69, the ill-omened "Year of the Three Emperors"....
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Fractured America
- The Many Divisions in the U.S. and How to Fix Them
- By: Paul Brakke
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Why are there so many divisions America? What can we do to fix these divisions that are tearing the U.S. apart? Fractured America begins by looking at the first racial divide going back to Civil War times. Then, it fast-forwards to discuss the present conflicts....
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Antifa
- The Anti-Fascist Handbook
- By: Mark Bray
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4
As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism - also known as "antifa." Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and '30s....
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Three Days in Moscow
- Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
- By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrated by: Bret Baier
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today....
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Jerusalem
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day, and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Biography of a City
- By Nelson C on 03-12-2015
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Living History
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding.
- By K. Miller on 27-09-2016
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Blood, Class, and Empire
- The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Anthony May
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's 'special relationship' with Britain....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hitch is gone. Sigh.
- By Daivin on 16-01-2015
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The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs
- By: M Clement Hall, Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs comprehensively covers the history, progressing through a timeline dating back to antiquity and examining all of the different religious, political, foreign, and military issues that affect Iran today....
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Churchill
- By: Roy Jenkins
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 38 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost 60 years...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent from start to finish
- By Anonymous User on 09-01-2019
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- By: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing.
- By sheep on 03-04-2017
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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
- By: Suzanne M. Desan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Suzanne M. Desan
- Length: 24 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
The French Revolution shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clarity leaves me feeling informed
- By Stan on 31-05-2015
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership
- By: Jon Knokey
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of perhaps the greatest leadership journey in American history....
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Phenomena
- The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ( Read ) listening <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-2018
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint....
New Releases
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What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- By: Elan Journo
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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What is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? What does justice demand of us in this conflict? This audiobook clarifies an intimidatingly complex issue - and upends conventional views about America’s stake in it. In this audiobook, Elan Journo explains the essential nature of the conflict and what has fueled it for so long. What justice demands, he shows, is that we evaluate both adversaries - and America's approach to the conflict - according to a universal moral ideal: individual liberty.
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Forced Founders
- Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- By: Woody Holton
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.
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Fractured America
- The Many Divisions in the U.S. and How to Fix Them
- By: Paul Brakke
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Why are there so many divisions America? What can we do to fix these divisions that are tearing the U.S. apart? Fractured America discusses these many divisions and how to fix them. It begins by looking at the first racial divide going back to Civil War times. Then, it fast-forwards to discuss the present conflicts, such as the controversy over the killings of blacks by cops and the Black Lives Matter movement. It describes the difficulty of ending segregation and ending or delaying affirmative action.
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Prisons and Patriots
- Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory (Asian American History and Culture)
- By: Cherstin Lyon
- Narrated by: Collene Curran
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Cherstin Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, well known for his legal battle against curfew and internment, who also resisted the draft. These dual stories highlight the intrinsic relationship between the rights and the obligations of citizenship, particularly salient in times of war.
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Someone Has to Say It
- The Hidden History of How America Was Lost
- By: Tom Kawczynski
- Narrated by: Jeff Winston
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting at the turn of the last century, this book lays out systematically how Americans have lost control of our government, of our civil society, of our schools, of our companies, and in many cases, even our families.
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Oliver Cromwell: The Controversial Legacy of Britain’s Lord Protector
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: C.M. Sause
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Oliver Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in British history. He managed to dethrone the monarchy and serve Britain as its only nonroyal lord protector. His unfortunate legacy, however, lies in his cruel treatment of the Irish. This brief history dives into the many dividing realities of Cromwell's life. It does not discriminate between the good and the bad but rather lays it all out so listeners can see for themselves what they think of this man who, after his funeral, was dug up and hung like a common peasant.
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What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- By: Elan Journo
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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What is at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? What does justice demand of us in this conflict? This audiobook clarifies an intimidatingly complex issue - and upends conventional views about America’s stake in it. In this audiobook, Elan Journo explains the essential nature of the conflict and what has fueled it for so long. What justice demands, he shows, is that we evaluate both adversaries - and America's approach to the conflict - according to a universal moral ideal: individual liberty.
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Forced Founders
- Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
- By: Woody Holton
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.
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Fractured America
- The Many Divisions in the U.S. and How to Fix Them
- By: Paul Brakke
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Why are there so many divisions America? What can we do to fix these divisions that are tearing the U.S. apart? Fractured America discusses these many divisions and how to fix them. It begins by looking at the first racial divide going back to Civil War times. Then, it fast-forwards to discuss the present conflicts, such as the controversy over the killings of blacks by cops and the Black Lives Matter movement. It describes the difficulty of ending segregation and ending or delaying affirmative action.
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Prisons and Patriots
- Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory (Asian American History and Culture)
- By: Cherstin Lyon
- Narrated by: Collene Curran
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Cherstin Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, well known for his legal battle against curfew and internment, who also resisted the draft. These dual stories highlight the intrinsic relationship between the rights and the obligations of citizenship, particularly salient in times of war.
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Someone Has to Say It
- The Hidden History of How America Was Lost
- By: Tom Kawczynski
- Narrated by: Jeff Winston
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting at the turn of the last century, this book lays out systematically how Americans have lost control of our government, of our civil society, of our schools, of our companies, and in many cases, even our families.
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Oliver Cromwell: The Controversial Legacy of Britain’s Lord Protector
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: C.M. Sause
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Oliver Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in British history. He managed to dethrone the monarchy and serve Britain as its only nonroyal lord protector. His unfortunate legacy, however, lies in his cruel treatment of the Irish. This brief history dives into the many dividing realities of Cromwell's life. It does not discriminate between the good and the bad but rather lays it all out so listeners can see for themselves what they think of this man who, after his funeral, was dug up and hung like a common peasant.
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Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon
- By: Mark Silinsky
- Narrated by: Gregor Hinckley
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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US Department of Defense analyst Mark Silinsky reveals the origins of the Islamic State's sinister obsession with the Western world. Once considered a minor irritant in the international system, the Caliphate is now a dynamic and significant actor on the world’s stage, boasting more than 30,000 foreign fighters from 86 countries.
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History of Cuba: A Captivating Guide to Cuban History, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard L Walton
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are inspiring. Cuba has stared death in the face throughout its rocky history, and most of the time it has gazed into the eyes of death and smiled. Over and over, oppressors have attempted to seize this island and its riches for their own selfish purposes. And over and over, revolutions have risen up to conquer in an attempt to return Cuba to its people.
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From the Front Porch to the Front Page: McKinley and Bryan in the 1896 Presidential Campaign
- Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication
- By: William D. Harpine
- Narrated by: Todd Waites
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The campaign of 1896 gave the public one of the most dramatic and interesting battles of political oratory in American history, even though, ironically, its issues faded quickly into insignificance after the election. In From the Front Porch to the Front Page, author William D. Harpine traces the campaign month by month to reveal the development of Bryan’s rhetoric and the stability of McKinley’s. He contrasts the divisive oratory Bryan employed to whip up fervor with the lower-keyed unifying strategy McKinley adopted.
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Siberia and the Gulag: The History and Legacy of Russia’s Most Notorious Territory and Prison Camp System
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the long course of Russian history, perhaps no aspect of the giant country has generated interest quite like Siberia, the easternmost part of Russia that lies in Asia. Generally speaking, all that is widely known about Siberia is that it is really big and really cold, which, to be fair, are good starting points for a deeper exploration of this fascinating region.
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Rising Sun
- The Innocent Fascist Symbol
- By: Sophie Hammond, Kelly Suen
- Narrated by: J. Wesley Price
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The flag of the rising sun, originally used throughout feudal Japan and during the Meiji Reformation, officially became a battle flag for the new imperial military. During the World War II and well before, the Empire of Japan used the rising sun flag for not just state use or functions but also naval jacks and army banners, cementing its image as a symbol for an aggressive and imperialist Japan. To many Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese, and countless Asian ethnicities, the rising sun flag occupied the same moral space as the swastika and the Nazi flag.
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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer
- William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
- By: Robert M. Owens
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.
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Osman I
- The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s First Sultan
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Osman I is one of history’s most important leaders; the founder of the Ottoman Empire, which conquered Asia Minor, most of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans before reaching the very walls of Vienna. Even after its demise, the politics of the Balkan states are very much influenced by the Ottoman past, and Muslim populations remain in the European lands once occupied by the Ottomans. The Middle East’s politics and conflicts trace back to the dissolution of the empire, and in Turkey, the Ottoman legacy remains a topic of national debate.
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- By: Tony Perrottet
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian and journalist Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising: Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.
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The Carolingian Empire
- The History and Legacy of the Frankish Rulers Who Unified Most of Europe and Established the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Carolingian Dynasty, which carved out a major empire in Europe from 750-887, ushered in an important period in the Early Middle Ages. The Carolingians were in their time seen as the successors of Ancient Rome in the West, and while they sought to reestablish the glory of antiquity, they’re remembered today for effectively founding the states that would become France and Germany.
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The Coming of Democracy
- Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson
- By: Mark R. Cheathem
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Coming of Democracy, Mark R. Cheathem examines the evolution of presidential campaigning from 1824 to 1840. Drawing on period newspapers, diaries, memoirs, and public and private correspondence, The Coming of Democracy is the first book-length treatment to reveal how presidents and presidential candidates used both old and new forms of cultural politics to woo voters and win elections in the Jacksonian era.
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman the Magnificent
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Incredible facts about this Ottoman Empire still surprise anyone who starts discovering those stories. You’ll find out that, for quite a while, this Islamic state was effectively ruled by women, and that’s just the beginning.
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Liberal History
- A Concise History of the Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrats
- By: Duncan Brack
- Narrated by: Patricia Brake
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Political liberalism in Britain: the history of the Liberal Democrats and their predecessor parties, the Liberal Party and the SDP, from the earliest days of liberal thought in the 17th century to the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition and the 2015 and 2017 elections.