Government History

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    • A History
    • By: Pankaj Mishra
    • Narrated by: Mikhail Sen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • "Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” —Naomi Klein “This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.” —Hisham Matar “A triumphant work of empathy in a...

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 2,585 ratings
    • Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it....

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    • Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
    • By: Michael K. Bohn
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 93 ratings
    • In Presidents in Crisis, a former director of the Situation Room takes the listener inside the White House during 17 grave international emergencies handled by the presidents....

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    • By: Stanley G. Payne
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 15 ratings
    • Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth....

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    • Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
    • By: Geoff Shepard
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 18 ratings
    • The Watergate trials were a legal mess - and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal....

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    • A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-first Century
    • By: Jacques Attali
    • Narrated by: Alan Robertson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 38 ratings
    • What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future....

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    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 31 ratings
    • Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution.....

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    • By: Leon Trotsky
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
    • Length: 53 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 16 ratings
    • The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed....

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    • A Saga of the Russian Revolution
    • By: Yuri Slezkine, Claire Bloom - director
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 45 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 40 ratings
    • On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction....

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    • By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th...

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    • The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
    • By: Jarrett Stepman
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • America is hopelessly divided, but more worryingly, the ideas and “mystic chords of memory” that rest at the cornerstone of our civilization and bind the generations are being severed, attacked, and forgotten. The left has set out to shatter these bonds with a war on American history....

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    • How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico: The Inside Story
    • By: Mike Detty
    • Narrated by: Thomas Stephen Jr.
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 41 ratings
    • The true and shocking story of an undercover smuggling operation....

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    • 9th Edition
    • By: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present.

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • By: Richard Rothstein
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 26 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

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    • The Causes, Battles, and Generals of the War Between the States
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 24 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 18 ratings
    • The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, lasting four years and inflicting over a million casualties. Historians have studied the biggest battles ever since....

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    • From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Helena Rosenblatt
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 21 ratings
    • The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square....

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    • By: Robin Harris
    • Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 56 ratings
    • The history of the Conservative party has, extraordinarily, rarely been written in a single volume for the general reader....

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