Bestsellers
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26,045
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Performance21,650
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Story21,528
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and...
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,595
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Performance2,424
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Story2,424
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our...
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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Las 48 leyes del poder [The 48 Laws of Power]
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Alvarez
- Length: 28 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance81
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Story81
Amoral, inmisericorde, despiadada y, sobre todo, muy instructiva, esta incisiva obra concentra tres mil años de historia del poder en cuarenta y ocho leyes claras y concisas. Robert Greene detalla las leyes del poder en su esencia más cruda, sintetizando el pensamiento de Maquiavelo, Sun Tzu...
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no confiar en los amigos
- By Daniel on 07-25-25
By: Robert Greene
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- By: Gary Gerstle
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance137
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Story136
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism—a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces—that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world...
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- By A Reviewer on 10-24-22
By: Gary Gerstle
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Chain of Ideas
- The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. “Kendi argues brilliantly...
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The author's narration won't be for everyone
- By Jack Attack on 03-25-26
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall143
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Performance131
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Story131
Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and...
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Repetitive
- By Ben on 12-29-23
By: William Strauss, and others
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26,045
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Performance21,650
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Story21,528
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and...
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,595
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Performance2,424
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Story2,424
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our...
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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Las 48 leyes del poder [The 48 Laws of Power]
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Alvarez
- Length: 28 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance81
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Story81
Amoral, inmisericorde, despiadada y, sobre todo, muy instructiva, esta incisiva obra concentra tres mil años de historia del poder en cuarenta y ocho leyes claras y concisas. Robert Greene detalla las leyes del poder en su esencia más cruda, sintetizando el pensamiento de Maquiavelo, Sun Tzu...
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no confiar en los amigos
- By Daniel on 07-25-25
By: Robert Greene
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- By: Gary Gerstle
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance137
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Story136
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism—a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces—that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world...
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- By A Reviewer on 10-24-22
By: Gary Gerstle
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Chain of Ideas
- The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. “Kendi argues brilliantly...
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The author's narration won't be for everyone
- By Jack Attack on 03-25-26
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall143
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Performance131
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Story131
Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and...
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Repetitive
- By Ben on 12-29-23
By: William Strauss, and others
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Rage and the Republic
- The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution
- By: Jonathan Turley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can...
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Mr. Turleys Rage and the Republic is an amazing, in depth, history of Liberty and the American experience, past and present.
- By Tony A. on 02-14-26
By: Jonathan Turley
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- By: Richard Rothstein
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,770
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Performance4,062
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Story4,042
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...
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Better suited to print than audio
- By ProfGolf on 02-04-18
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How the South Won the Civil War
- Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,657
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Performance1,458
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Story1,447
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....
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Disappointing book that wasted such potential.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-21
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall574
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Performance488
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Story487
The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this “riveting and revelatory” (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like...
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A little baffled
- By John Coleman on 07-18-23
By: Neil Howe
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,401
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Performance7,531
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Story7,514
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey...
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An outstanding biography
- By Davis on 07-10-06
By: David McCullough
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Furious Minds
- The Making of the MAGA New Right
- By: Laura K. Field
- Narrated by: Laura K. Field
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance56
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Story56
This audiobook narrated by Laura Field tells the story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump's agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy.
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Thorough and well researched information throughout
- By Chuck Anderson on 01-05-26
By: Laura K. Field
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Fighting the Hate
- A Handbook for Jews Under Siege
- By: Melanie Phillips
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
From the author of The Builder’s Stone and Guardian Angel comes a unique guide to help diaspora Jews respond to global assault against the Jewish...
By: Melanie Phillips
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,932
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Performance6,089
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Story6,048
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before” (Entertainment Weekly) “Probably the best single-volume...
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A Man and Biography Relevant to Our Day
- By Darwin8u on 11-14-12
By: Jon Meacham
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Iran's Grand Strategy
- A Political History
- By: Vali Nasr
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
This audiobook narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolution.
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well detailed history of modern Iran
- By Fr. S. on 06-28-25
By: Vali Nasr
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance98
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Story98
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....
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Mind-blowing
- By John Erlandsen on 10-04-24
By: Mark Fisher
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War Is a Racket
- By: Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
- Narrated by: Jack Eddelman
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall1,299
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Performance1,136
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Story1,125
A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering....
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We all need to hear it
- By L. C. Pinkerton on 02-28-15
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All the Shah's Men
- An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,648
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Performance1,123
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Story1,130
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry. In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower...
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Hard to please
- By Rick on 09-25-04
By: Stephen Kinzer
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The End of History and the Last Man
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall391
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Performance320
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Story314
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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An important discussion expertly narrated
- By Kevin Teeple on 06-27-19
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
- Text and Documents
- By: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,707
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Performance1,469
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Story1,452
Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....
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Hayek's case for individualism over collectivism
- By Wayne on 10-27-18
By: F. A. Hayek, and others
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall623
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Performance529
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Story520
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South...
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- By: Dan Carlin
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10,427
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Performance9,170
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Story9,117
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future. Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human...
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Hardcore Histories Greatest Hits
- By Steven Glover on 10-31-19
By: Dan Carlin
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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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Overall490
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Performance433
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Story433
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. 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...
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Crucial for understanding Israel-Palestine today
- By Mark on 12-27-18
By: Ilan Pappe
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The Federalist Papers
- By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall687
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Performance587
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Story580
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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Changes key words and concepts from the original
- By Some guy on 08-14-20
By: Alexander Hamilton, and others
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- By: Chris Hayes
- Narrated by: Chris Hayes
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall721
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Performance671
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Story671
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and...
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Social Media Attention: Who Knew
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-25
By: Chris Hayes
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Capital: All Volumes & The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Frederich Engels
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 109 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance12
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Story12
This audiobook contains all 3 volumes of Capital, as well as Marx and Engel's most renowned work, The Communist Manifesto....
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Amazing reference for all of Marx works!
- By AZ on 07-07-23
By: Karl Marx, and others
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The Death of Expertise (2nd Edition)
- The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
- By: Tom Nichols
- Narrated by: Tom Nichols
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance50
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Story50
Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed...
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Tom Nichols is a partisan hack
- By Carl Almgren on 07-06-25
By: Tom Nichols
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The Beginning Comes After the End
- Notes on a World of Change
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Story18
Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.
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Forward!
- By Susan C. on 03-31-26
By: Rebecca Solnit
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall501
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Performance410
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Story406
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- By Nathan Parker on 10-29-20
By: James C. Scott
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The Anatomy of Fascism
- By: Robert O. Paxton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,273
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Performance1,080
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Story1,064
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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Great book for getting a clearer idea of fascism
- By Amazon Customer on 11-02-17
By: Robert O. Paxton
New releases
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Chain of Ideas
- The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. “Kendi argues brilliantly...
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The author's narration won't be for everyone
- By Jack Attack on 03-25-26
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Story of Capital
- What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
- By: David Harvey
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general listeners through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analyzed chapter by chapter—sometimes...
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A Great way to gain a deeper understanding of Marx.
- By Susan on 04-15-26
By: David Harvey
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Solidarity
- The Work of Recognition
- By: Rowan Williams
- Narrated by: Niall Lucas
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality and conflict. And yet, as both a term and a practice, solidarity is tantalizingly slippery. We are encouraged to ‘show solidarity’, but how can we truly realize it?
By: Rowan Williams
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How States Die
- Membership and Survival in the International System
- By: Douglas Lemke
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
When states die, there are massive consequences. Somalia's death in 1991 created a safe haven for criminal non-state actors and has unsettled the Horn of Africa for decades. When the Iraqi state was dismantled in 2003, a similar set of consequences plagued the Middle East and the international...
By: Douglas Lemke
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Making a Career in Dictatorship
- The Secret Logic behind Repression and Coups
- By: Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
- Narrated by: Russ Williams
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the authoritarian security apparatus to identify which officers participate in repression or coups—and above all, why. The book's compelling theory uncovers career pressure as the secret driver behind the two most...
By: Christian Gläßel, and others
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How Governments Really Work
- What They Do, Why They Fail, and Who Holds Power
- By: Liora Quade
- Narrated by: Michael Bridges
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
What is government really designed to do? Most people believe they understand how governments work. We vote, leaders are chosen, laws are made, and society is managed. It appears structured, transparent, and predictable. But beneath this surface lies a far more complex reality—one shaped by power, influence, negotiation, and human limitation.
By: Liora Quade
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Chain of Ideas
- The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. “Kendi argues brilliantly...
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The author's narration won't be for everyone
- By Jack Attack on 03-25-26
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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The Story of Capital
- What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
- By: David Harvey
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general listeners through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analyzed chapter by chapter—sometimes...
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A Great way to gain a deeper understanding of Marx.
- By Susan on 04-15-26
By: David Harvey
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Solidarity
- The Work of Recognition
- By: Rowan Williams
- Narrated by: Niall Lucas
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for racial justice, the idea of solidarity is often invoked as the answer to inequality and conflict. And yet, as both a term and a practice, solidarity is tantalizingly slippery. We are encouraged to ‘show solidarity’, but how can we truly realize it?
By: Rowan Williams
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How States Die
- Membership and Survival in the International System
- By: Douglas Lemke
- Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
When states die, there are massive consequences. Somalia's death in 1991 created a safe haven for criminal non-state actors and has unsettled the Horn of Africa for decades. When the Iraqi state was dismantled in 2003, a similar set of consequences plagued the Middle East and the international...
By: Douglas Lemke
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Making a Career in Dictatorship
- The Secret Logic behind Repression and Coups
- By: Christian Gläßel, Adam Scharpf
- Narrated by: Russ Williams
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Like no other work before it, Making a Career in Dictatorship dives deep into the authoritarian security apparatus to identify which officers participate in repression or coups—and above all, why. The book's compelling theory uncovers career pressure as the secret driver behind the two most...
By: Christian Gläßel, and others
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How Governments Really Work
- What They Do, Why They Fail, and Who Holds Power
- By: Liora Quade
- Narrated by: Michael Bridges
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
What is government really designed to do? Most people believe they understand how governments work. We vote, leaders are chosen, laws are made, and society is managed. It appears structured, transparent, and predictable. But beneath this surface lies a far more complex reality—one shaped by power, influence, negotiation, and human limitation.
By: Liora Quade