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How to Get Rid of a President
By: David Priess
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents
To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often... Read more
The First Soldier
By: Stephen Fritz
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 21 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist.
After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer's erratic decision... Read more
A Very Private Woman
By: Nina Burleigh
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search... Read more
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Embers of War
By: Fredrik Logevall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 32 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led... Read more
The Allies
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order. By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the axis powers, but three great Allied... Read more
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You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late
By: Josephine Wolff
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No
Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach―the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump―makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of... Read more
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John Marshall
By: Richard Brookhiser
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice.
In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the... Read more
Another Fine Mess
By: Tim Moore
Narrated by: Tim Moore
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Another Fine Mess, written and read by Tim Moore.
Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him... Read more
Frauen. Wahl. Recht.
By: Angela Kreuz & Dieter Lohr
Narrated by: Kira Bohn, Eva Sixt, Gunna Wendt, Martin Hofer,...
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Der 19. Januar 1919 stellt für die deutsche Geschichte und die Frauenbewegung ein zentrales Datum dar, das die Geschichtsschreibung indes beiläufig nennt, aber nicht weiter ausführt. Die Ereignisse im zeitlichen Umfeld dieses in jeder Hinsicht milden Wintertages waren weitaus dramatischer und erinnerungsträchtiger: Vier Tage zuvor waren Rosa... Read more
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In Extremis
By: Lindsey Hilsum
Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin.
When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the... Read more
Loaded
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
With President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves, with the NRA portrayed as a group of "patriots" helping to Make America Great Again, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed, historical perspective on the... Read more
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Undaunted
By: Jackie Speier
Narrated by: Jackie Speier
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan’s delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Ryan... Read more
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A Forever Family
By: Rob Scheer
Narrated by: Rob Scheer
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Promise of a Pencil and Kisses from Katie comes an inspirational memoir by the founder of Comfort Cases about his turbulent childhood in the foster care system and the countless obstacles and discrimination he endured in adopting his four children.
Rob Scheer never thought that he would be living the life he is now. He’s... Read more
The War Before the War
By: Andrew Delbanco
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Excellent . . . stunning.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates
The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War
A New York Times Notable Book Selection * Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize* Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * A New York Times Critics' Best Book
For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one... Read more
Mortal Republic
By: Edward J. Watts
Narrated by: Matt Kugler
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author.
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome... Read more
A Savage Order
By: Rachel Kleinfeld
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some... Read more
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Trump Aftershock
By: Stephen E. Strang
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The earthquake the nation never saw coming.? The election of Donald J. Trump sent shockwaves around the world. Shock troops were deployed along with the predictable rent-a-mob who stormed the streets of our nation’s cities. Within hours a movement was born. The Trump agenda, promoted daily to millions of voters and adoring fans, was to “Make... Read more
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Consent and Control in the Authoritarian Workplace
By: Martin Krzywdzinski
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, a large proportion of the world's states are under authoritarian governments. These countries limit participation rights, both in the political sphere and in the workplace. At the same time, they have to generate consent in the workplace in order to ensure social stability and prevent the escalation of conflicts. But how do companies... Read more
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Rick Mercer Final Report
By: Rick Mercer
Narrated by: Rick Mercer
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller.
Rick Mercer can always be relied on to provoke a strong reaction--but what he said one fall day in 2017 truly shocked the nation. In a rant posted on social media, the great Canadian satirist announced loud and... Read more
Reconstruction
By: Allen C. Guelzo
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential... Read more
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Caiga quien caiga
By: José Ugaz
Narrated by: José Carlos Ugaz Sánchez Moreno
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
El 1 de noviembre del 2000, Jose Ugaz recibió una llamada que cambiaría de su vida: en cuestión de horas, se convertiría en el Procurador Ad-Hoc para los casos de corrupción del gobierno de Alberto Fujimori y Vladimiro Montesinos, la investigación penal más importante en la historia del Perú. En Caiga quien caiga, Ugaz revela cómo se fue... Read more
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Blood of the Liberals
By: George Packer
Narrated by: George Packer
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history
George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New... Read more
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
By: Klaus Schwab & Nicholas Davis
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Today, technology is changing everything--how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function, and even what it means to be human.
One need not... Read more
The Children
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 32 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality, The Children is a story one of America's preeminent... Read more
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