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  • On Tyranny cover art

    • On Tyranny

    • Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2017-02-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings

    • The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....

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    • The Road to Unfreedom

    • Russia, Europe, America
    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

    • With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....

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    • Twilight of Democracy

    • The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
    • Written by: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings

    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism....

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    • Adults in the Room

    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • Written by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • Russia's Crony Capitalism

    • The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
    • Written by: Anders Aslund
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future... This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country....

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    • The Future of Freedom

    • Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
    • Written by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Ned Schmidtke
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2004-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world....

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    • On Freedom

    • Written by: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny.

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    • Goliath

    • The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
    • Written by: Matt Stoller
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party - while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy....

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    • The Cruelty Is the Point

    • The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
    • Written by: Adam Serwer
    • Narrated by: Adam Serwer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • To many, our most shocking political crises appear unprecedented—un-American, even. But they are not, writes The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer in this prescient essay collection....

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    • The New Tsar

    • The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
    • Written by: Steven Lee Myers
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

    • The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history....

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    • The Authoritarian Moment

    • How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
    • Written by: Ben Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings

    • According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism....

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    • The Narrow Corridor

    • States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    • Written by: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....

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    • And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    • Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
    • Written by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis, Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament....

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    • Enlightenment Now

    • The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
    • Written by: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 584 ratings
    • The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

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    • Appeasement

    • Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
    • Written by: Tim Bouverie
    • Narrated by: John Sessions
    • Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time"....

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    • Age of Ambition

    • Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
    • Written by: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation....

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    • Tyranny of the Minority

    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • Written by: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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    • How Democracies Die

    • Written by: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

    • Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition....

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    • The Conspiracy to End America

    • Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
    • Written by: Stuart Stevens
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2023-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and fair election....

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    • The Destructionists

    • The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party
    • Written by: Dana Milbank
    • Narrated by: Dana Milbank
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2022-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice....

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