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In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento.
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Terrible reading
- By J. W. Matthews on 06-18-24
By: Don H. Doyle
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Underwriters of the United States
- How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- By: Hannah Farber
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.
By: Hannah Farber
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Why War?
- By: Richard Overy
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled Why War?, it conveyed Freud's conclusion that the "death drive" made any deliverance impossible.
By: Richard Overy
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The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- By: Benn Steil
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events.
Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s thrilling account brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, we see and understand like never before Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe.
Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. The Marshall Plan provides critical context into understanding today’s international landscape. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.
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A Deeply Researched Narrative
- By Jean on 10-18-18
By: Benn Steil
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Enduring Alliance
- A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order
- By: Timothy Andrews Sayle
- Narrated by: John B. Leen
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the Western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict.
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Strong on the 1st 40 years, weak on the last 30.
- By Annalise on 04-04-22
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Deterring Armageddon
- A Biography of NATO
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Peter Apps
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together could they avoid a catastrophic global atomic conflict. Over the 75 years since, the alliance has indeed avoided war with Russia, also becoming a major political, strategic and diplomatic player well beyond its borders. Deterring Armageddon takes the listener from backroom deals that led to NATO's creation, through the Cold War, the Balkans and Afghanistan to the current confrontation with the Kremlin following the invasion of Ukraine.
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Americans Need To Understand NATO.
- By philip on 06-30-24
By: Peter Apps
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The Age of Reconstruction
- How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
- By: Don H. Doyle
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento.
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Terrible reading
- By J. W. Matthews on 06-18-24
By: Don H. Doyle
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Underwriters of the United States
- How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- By: Hannah Farber
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.
By: Hannah Farber
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Why War?
- By: Richard Overy
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was "a way of delivering mankind from the menace of war." Published the next year as a pamphlet entitled Why War?, it conveyed Freud's conclusion that the "death drive" made any deliverance impossible.
By: Richard Overy
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The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- By: Benn Steil
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events.
Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s thrilling account brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, we see and understand like never before Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe.
Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. The Marshall Plan provides critical context into understanding today’s international landscape. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.
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A Deeply Researched Narrative
- By Jean on 10-18-18
By: Benn Steil
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Empire of God
- How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
- By: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire.
By: Robert Spencer
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In the Shadow of Liberty
- The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States
- By: Ana Raquel Minian
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, David Shih, Marie-Françoise Theodore, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide
- By: Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became one of the most celebrated women in America when she prevented a deadly sedative from entering the U.S. market. A Canadian-born pharmacologist and physician, Kelsey saved countless Americans from the devastating side effects of thalidomide, routinely given to pregnant women to prevent morning sickness. As the FDA medical officer charged with reviewing Merrell Pharmaceutical’s application for approval, Kelsey was unconvinced that there was sufficient evidence of the drug’s efficacy and safety.
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Dangerous Jokes
- How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor
- By: Claire Horisk
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Dangerous Jokes develops a novel, well-researched, and compelling argument that lays bare the power of demeaning jokes in ordinary conversations. Claire Horisk draws on her expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law, and cognitive science to explain how the element of humor—so often used as a defense—makes jokes more potent than regular speech in communicating prejudice and reinforcing social hierarchies.
By: Claire Horisk
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The Rise and Decline of Nations
- Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
- By: Mancur Olson, Edward L. Glaeser - introduction
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The updated edition of Mancur Olson's award-winning book The Rise and Decline of Nations.
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A gem that should be read by more people
- By David P. Wingert on 08-29-23
By: Mancur Olson, and others
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The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded US protection. The specter of conflict has loomed ever since.
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Good history, limited analysis
- By John on 08-18-24
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An Unholy Traffic
- Slave Trading in the Civil War South
- By: Robert K. D. Colby
- Narrated by: James R. Cheatham
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South.
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One of Four
- World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown Soldier
- By: Travis Davis
- Narrated by: Christian Leatherman
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War One through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting in the battlefields of France in 1917 -1918 to his final resting place—the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Father and Son Dynamics
- By Amazon Customer on 06-27-24
By: Travis Davis
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Universal Basic Income
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Karl Widerquist
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The growing movement for universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining attention from politics and the media with the audacious idea of a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. This volume in the Essential Knowledge series presents the first short, solid UBI introduction that is neither academic nor polemic. It takes a position in favor of UBI, but its primary goal remains the provision of essential knowledge by answering the fundamental questions about it: What is UBI? How does it work? What are the arguments for and against it? What is the evidence?
By: Karl Widerquist
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The Explorers
- A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
- By: Amanda Bellows
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Leon Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown.
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Needs a different title
- By Madyson Chance on 07-06-24
By: Amanda Bellows
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- By: Manisha Sinha
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.
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Managing through narration
- By Julie on 06-18-24
By: Manisha Sinha
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King Hancock
- The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
- By: Brooke Barbier
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to independence. Orphaned young, Hancock was raised by his merchant uncle, whose business and vast wealth he inherited—including household slaves, whom Hancock later freed. By his early thirties, he was one of New England's most prominent politicians.
By: Brooke Barbier
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Esoteric recounting of events lacking in clarity
My take away is that NATO is a dangerous and ineffective child's play, but with guns, and in support of a society of dominance over partnership, lacking in imagination.
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