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The Unexpected President
By: Scott S. Greenberger
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled... Read more
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Dancing Bears
By: Witold Szabłowski
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.In... Read more
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Protecting the President
By: Dan Bongino
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today's highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from murderous terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever. In an age of hyper-partisan politics, emotions are... Read more
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Tomorrow Will Be Different
By: Sarah McBride
Narrated by: Sarah McBride
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history
“The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book.”—Vice President Kamala Harris
“If you’re living your... Read more
Tell Me How It Ends
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young... Read more
Fire in the Lake
By: Frances FitzGerald
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 22 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of... Read more
Political Scandals
By: the Speech Resource Company
Narrated by: the Speech Resource Company
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Politicians, government officials, lobbyists, party officials, and others have been accused—and some prosecuted—of various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices throughout the years. Political Scandals includes speeches from the accused and the accusers in the political arena.Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by... Read more
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Alexander Hamilton
By: Teri Kanefield
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
When most of us go for a walk, a single sense-sight- tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times-bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to read everything nature has to offer. A single lowly weed can serve as his compass, calendar, clock, and even pharmacist. In How to Read... Read more
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The Return of Marco Polo's World
By: Robert D. Kaplan
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy
“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street... Read more
What Happened to Bernie Sanders
By: Jared H. Beck, Esq.
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
For the first time, the definitive answer to the relative disappearance of Bernie Sanders and his political revolution in our new Trumpocracy. One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the US 2016 presidential election is still being fought by both parties. As the case of Russian hacking and collusion is investigated, and Hillary Clinton... Read more
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The Infernal Library
By: Daniel Kalder
Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Infernal Library is a harrowing audiobook tour of “dictator literature” in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse.
Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots... Read more
Can It Happen Here?
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates “Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that... Read more
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Separate and Unequal
By: Steven M Gillon
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality
In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders --... Read more
The Winner's Curse
By: Richard H. Thaler
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
While the rationale behind economics always seems to be at the forefront of political and institutional life, many economic theories in relation to consumer behavior have not been studied in detail. Here, in The Winner’s Curse, Richard Thaler challenges today’s accepted economic wisdom by... Read more
Putinomics
By: Chris Miller
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s... Read more
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Capital
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Derek Le Page
Length: 43 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes... Read more
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Rechts gewinnt, weil Links versagt
By: Roberto J. De Lapuente
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Eine Linke Alternative ist möglich Die gesellschaftliche Linke steckt seit Jahren in der Krise und schafft es nicht, sich als Alternative für Deutschland zu etablieren. Daran hat natürlich auch die neoliberale Kampagne gegen linke Politik einen Anteil, aber Roberto De Lapuente zeigt in seiner kritischen Analyse auch, dass viele Probleme der... Read more
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Armed in America
By: Patrick J. Charles
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment.This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its... Read more
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Movie Nights with the Reagans
By: Mark Weinberg
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.
Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as... Read more
A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance
By: Emma Gray
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
""If not you, then who? If not now, then when? We need more women to speak up and make their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives. We need you in this fight.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, from a Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance So—the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you... Read more
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
By: Annelise Orleck
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.
Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food... Read more
Skin in the Game
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more
There Are No Dead Here
By: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Narrated by: Sylvia Gonzalez
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.
Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just... Read more
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Narrated by: John Chancer
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger,... Read more