Political Biographies

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    • A Political Memoir
    • By: Ken Clarke
    • Narrated by: Ken Clarke
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • In Kind of Blue, Clarke charts his remarkable progress from working-class scholarship boy in Nottinghamshire to high political office and the upper echelons of both his party and of government....

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    • By: Andrew Morton
    • Narrated by: Andrew Morton, Judy Bennett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world....

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    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell, Ronald Hutton provides a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history....

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    • The Full Story
    • By: Sebastian Payne
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Payne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The sensational inside story of Boris Johnson's last days in power and his sudden, dramatic downfall....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • By: Iain Dale
    • Narrated by: Iain Dale
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 - an office which today is under scrutiny like never before....

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    • Searching for the Truth on Political TV
    • By: Rob Burley
    • Narrated by: Rob Burley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television....

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    • JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case
    • By: James DiEugenio
    • Narrated by: Paul Neal Rohrer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • If you thought you already knew everything there was to know about the Kennedy assassination, think again....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall....

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men....

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    • A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. Listen to learn more about Kelles-Krauz....

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    • The Dawn of Tudor England
    • By: Thomas Penn
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty....

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    • Between the Extremes
    • By: Nick Clegg
    • Narrated by: Nick Clegg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 521 ratings
    • Nick Clegg knows the volatile state of modern politics better than anyone else....

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    • By: Barbara Krasner
    • Narrated by: David Armstrong
    • Length: 12 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Can you name a real spy from history? Meet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were communist spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Learn about their work on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb for the US, and their eventual trial for espionage.

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    • Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
    • By: Geoff Shepard
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Watergate trials were a legal mess - and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal....

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    • The Art of Counterintelligence
    • By: James M. Olson
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and also a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security and trade secrets....

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    • My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK
    • By: Mark Lane
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The last word on the JFK assassination by the New York Times best-selling author and JFK historian.....

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    • Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood
    • By: James DiEugenio
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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