Bestsellers
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The Irony of American History
- By: Reinhold Niebuhr
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance151
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Story152
Forged during the postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before....
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Superlative Book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-29-10
By: Reinhold Niebuhr
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The Secret History of the World
- By: Mark Booth
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,772
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Performance1,532
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Story1,537
In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories....
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A unique perspective
- By Robin on 04-09-12
By: Mark Booth
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall483
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Performance417
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Story414
Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each one telling itself a story...
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Relaxed but packed with insight
- By Tad Davis on 02-14-20
By: Tamim Ansary
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The Case for Colonialism
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Warren du Plooy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story19
“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article, “The Case for Colonialism,” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor.
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Hell is the Impossibility of Reason
- By Jonathan Baron on 09-10-25
By: Bruce Gilley
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The History of White People
- By: Nell Irvin Painter
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall913
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Performance790
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Story788
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively....
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Destroys the myth that race is about skin color
- By Emily L. on 08-25-14
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- By: James W. Loewen
- Narrated by: Brian Keeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,048
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Performance2,305
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Story2,311
This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....
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Of course he has an agenda. He wrote a book!
- By Timothy on 09-02-04
By: James W. Loewen
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The Irony of American History
- By: Reinhold Niebuhr
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
-
Performance151
-
Story152
Forged during the postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before....
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Superlative Book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-29-10
By: Reinhold Niebuhr
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The Secret History of the World
- By: Mark Booth
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,772
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Performance1,532
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Story1,537
In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories....
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A unique perspective
- By Robin on 04-09-12
By: Mark Booth
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall483
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Performance417
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Story414
Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each one telling itself a story...
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Relaxed but packed with insight
- By Tad Davis on 02-14-20
By: Tamim Ansary
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The Case for Colonialism
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Warren du Plooy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story19
“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article, “The Case for Colonialism,” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor.
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Hell is the Impossibility of Reason
- By Jonathan Baron on 09-10-25
By: Bruce Gilley
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The History of White People
- By: Nell Irvin Painter
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall913
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Performance790
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Story788
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively....
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Destroys the myth that race is about skin color
- By Emily L. on 08-25-14
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- By: James W. Loewen
- Narrated by: Brian Keeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,048
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Performance2,305
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Story2,311
This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....
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Of course he has an agenda. He wrote a book!
- By Timothy on 09-02-04
By: James W. Loewen
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The American Patriot's Almanac
- Daily Readings on America
- By: William J. Bennett, John T.E. Cribb
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover 365 reasons to love America as you read the storied history of the United States. The fife and drum of history mark the time of each passing day. And within their cadence, personalities, conflicts, discoveries, ideas, and nations peal and fade. American history...
By: William J. Bennett, and others
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance95
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Story94
"A provocative history" of intrigue and class struggle in ancient Rome - "an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire" (Publishers Weekly)....
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another side to Roman history
- By Darksnovia on 04-16-22
By: Michael Parenti
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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 Cheese and the Worms
- The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
- By: Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi - Translator, John Tedeschi - Translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance91
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Story91
The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the 16th century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death....
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Great book, robotic narrator
- By Andrea Bellevue on 07-22-21
By: Carlo Ginzburg, and others
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- By: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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Story31
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- By Rich S. on 12-14-21
By: Isaiah Berlin, and others
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On Politics
- A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
- By: Alan Ryan
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance32
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Story32
Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....
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Simply no book quite like this
- By Jack Raineri on 12-21-22
By: Alan Ryan
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
- (That You Probably Learned in School)
- By: Larry Schweikart
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance139
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Story140
A conservative historian defends Americaâ€s past by debunking four dozen common liberal myths In this follow-up to the best-selling A Patriotâ€s History of the United States, Professor Larry Schweikart once again challenges liberal historians and their shameful attempts to distort...
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amazingly accurate...
- By Anthony on 01-23-16
By: Larry Schweikart
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance116
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Story115
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday The highly acclaimed unexpurgated notes taken by James...
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obscure but poor gold
- By Dr. A. on 11-20-18
By: James Pope-Hennessy, and others
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In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Quantum Physics and Reality
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Nicholas Masters-Waage
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance52
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Story52
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In...
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Classic Quantum intro/now w. Jude Law!(not really)
- By Fatdexter on 09-25-21
By: John Gribbin
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Before the Birds Sang Words
- By: Ken Bruce
- Narrated by: Ken Bruce, Bill Rogers, Camille Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
The result of of more than a decade of meticulous research, Before the Birds Sang Words is a scholarly, fascinating and playful deep dive into the creation of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, the timeless Audio-Animatronic musical revue that’s been delighting Disneyland audiences for 60+ years.
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I love this book !
- By Mark L. Goldberg on 11-26-25
By: Ken Bruce
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000 Year History
- By: Josephine Quinn
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance57
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Story57
An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global. “Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues...
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Middling
- By Amazon Customer on 11-14-24
By: Josephine Quinn
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance59
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Story60
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust....
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Excellent Historiography not intended as a history
- By Timothy on 02-17-19
By: Ian Kershaw
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The American Story
- Conversations with Master Historians
- By: David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden - introduction
- Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall864
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Performance739
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Story732
In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story. These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American history...
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Stories missing
- By Judith Princz on 01-02-20
By: David M. Rubenstein, and others
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- By: Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: David Strathairn
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall289
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Performance264
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Story263
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....
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mind blowing
- By WILLIAM on 11-27-19
By: Howard Zinn
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The Annals
- The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
- By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance14
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Story14
The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....
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Fascinating history, well done in all regards
- By DAS on 02-24-24
By: Tacitus, and others
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The World
- A Family History of Humanity
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Full Cast
- Length: 68 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance68
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Story68
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian “Succession meets Game of Thrones.”...
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Had To Stop
- By Eugenia on 06-15-23
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- By: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance50
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Story49
Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences....
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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- By Michael D. Rubin on 10-03-18
By: Ludwig von Mises, and others
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance74
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Story75
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory....
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Good, probably should be read and not listened to via audible for the best experience.
- By Tanya on 10-24-16
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
- By: Gary W. Gallagher - editor, Alan T. Nolan - editor
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance69
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Story69
Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners....
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Putting down "The Great Pro-Slavery Rebellion"
- By Buretto on 07-30-18
By: Gary W. Gallagher - editor, and others
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The Rise of the West
- A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Story13
The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....
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The greatest world history book in English
- By Ariel on 12-18-23
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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- By: Clifford Geertz
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he...
By: Clifford Geertz
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A Short History of Ethics
- By: Alasdair MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance57
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Story55
A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers....
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Great philosopher made ridiculous by accents
- By Olivia Walling on 10-04-17
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The Influence of Seapower Upon History
- By: Alfred T. Mahan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance82
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Story79
First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have "devoured" this book, and it was avidly read by presidents (including both Roosevelts), kings...
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Great book, poor quality recording
- By Michael on 05-19-10
By: Alfred T. Mahan
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Silencing the Past
- Power and the Production of History
- By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Narrated by: Shaun Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history...