Political History

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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
    • By: Ray Takeyh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

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    • A Novel of a Dublin Family, Michael Collins, and the Irish Uprising
    • By: Dermot McEvoy
    • Narrated by: John Keating
    • Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • The story - both romantic and terrifying - of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest nation in the world from their shores....

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    • JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
    • By: Peter Dale Scott
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
    • By: Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

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    • Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
    • By: James Bamford
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency....

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    • Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
    • By: Francine Klagsbrun
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 32 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 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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    • 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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    • America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
    • By: M.E. Sarotte
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Although populism is ultimately part of democracy, populist movements constitute an increasing challenge to democratic politics. Comparing political trends across different countries, this compelling audiobook debates what the long-term consequences of this challenge could be....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination....

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    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • Britain's Political History in 365 Days
    • By: Iain Dale
    • Narrated by: Iain Dale
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Writing as an observer of political history, but also as someone with an opinion, acclaimed political broadcaster Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years, with one event per day....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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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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    • The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
    • By: John D. Marks
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control....

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    • Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
    • By: Andrew Lambert
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge, turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size....

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