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Shorting the Grid
By: Meredith Angwin
Narrated by: Eric G. Meyer
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problem because near-misses increase their profits. Meredith Angwin describes how closed meetings, arcane auction rules, and five-minute planning horizons will topple the reliability of our electric grid. Shorting the Grid shines light on the... Read more
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The Cold War
By: Odd Arne Westad
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 22 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues... Read more
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The Dirty Tricks Department
By: John Lisle
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"In this oddly entertaining audiobook, narrator Pete Cross takes listeners through the many experiments and devices created by the R&D branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII... Listeners will be both transfixed and horrified by the decisions weighed, and taken." - AudioFile Magazine
John Lisle reveals the untold story of... Read more
The Trials of Harry S. Truman
By: Jeffrey Frank
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the “beguiling” (The New York Times) first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how a seemingly ordinary man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century.
The nearly eight years of Harry... Read more
Maverick
By: Jason L Riley
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and... Read more
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Capitalism in America
By: Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economistwriter and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.
From even the start of his fabled career, Alan Greenspan was duly famous for his deep... Read more
American Character
By: Colin Woodard
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these key strands... Read more
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The Indomitable Florence Finch
By: Robert J. Mrazek
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Fly Girls shares the riveting story of an unsung World War II hero who saved countless American lives in the Philippines.
When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and... Read more
Napoleon
By: Adam Zamoyski
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 27 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist.
"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as... Read more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
By: Bandy X. Lee
Narrated by: Bandy X. Lee, Luba Kessler, M.D., Betty P. Teng...
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the audiobook up to date—because this is still not normal.
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international... Read more
The War Below
By: Ernest Scheyder
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder.
A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more... Read more
Terror, Love and Brainwashing
By: Alexandra Stein
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love & Brainwashing draws on the author's twenty-five years of study and research to explain how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts.
Illustrated... Read more
Genghis Khan
By: Frank McLynn
Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and... Read more
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Hegemony or Survival
By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Brian Jones
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The world's foremost intellectual activist narrates his irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow
The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood—the heavens—as a militarized sphere of influence. Our... Read more
Private Government
By: Elizabeth Anderson
Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely... Read more
Silent Invasion
By: Deborah Birx
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 22 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive, inside account of the Trump Administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic from White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member, Dr. Deborah Birx.In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across... Read more
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The Sky Is Falling
By: Peter Biskind
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump’s victory and the rise of alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography—everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades of popular culture—from superhero franchises such as the Dark Knight,... Read more
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The Vanishing American Adult
By: Ben Sasse
Narrated by: Ben Sasse
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America's parents, teachers, and governing officials." — AudioFile Magazine
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the author.
In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented... Read more
A Participatory Economy
By: Robin Hahnel
Narrated by: Chris Bergman
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy, but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like.A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to... Read more
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It Stops Here
By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson
Narrated by: Rueben George
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD
A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.
It Stops Here is the profound story of... Read more
The Plot to Save South Africa
By: Justice Malala
Narrated by: Nick Boraine & Justice Malala
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war.
Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela had been released after twenty-seven years in prison... Read more
Prey
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries.In Prey, the best-selling author of Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, presents... Read more
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The Greatest Generation - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage,... Read more
India Since Independence Part 1
By: Bipin Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee & Aditya Mukhe...
Narrated by: Prateek Dutt Sharma
Length: 18 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the forging of India, the world's largest democracy, is a rich andinspiring one. This volume, a sequel to the India's Struggle forIndependence, analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes ithas achieved in the light of its colonial legacy and century-long struggle forfreedom. It covers the framing of the Constitution... Read more
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