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    • Written by: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2015-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,288 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • Written by: Plato
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2008-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world's most formidable questions....

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    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • Written by: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

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    • Written by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • According to The New York Times, Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer pure Chomsky in clear, accessible prose....

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    • Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
    • Written by: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 814 ratings
    • Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • Written by: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2014-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • Written by: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • Written by: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
    • Written by: Graham Allison
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: A rising power threatened to displace a ruling one....

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    • Written by: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....

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    • Written by: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

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    • June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • Written by: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2005-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....

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    • A History
    • Written by: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
    • Written by: Vivien Spitz
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • Written by: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2004-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • Written by: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues....

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    • Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • Written by: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....

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