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  • The Road to Unfreedom Audiobook By Timothy Snyder cover art

    • The Road to Unfreedom

    • Russia, Europe, America
    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,501 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 Audiobook By Anne Applebaum cover art

    • Twilight of Democracy

    • The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
    • By: Anne Applebaum
    • Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,161 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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  • After the Fall Audiobook By Ben Rhodes cover art

    • After the Fall

    • Being American in the World We've Made
    • By: Ben Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Ben Rhodes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100 ratings

    • At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism....

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  • Hiding in Plain Sight Audiobook By Sarah Kendzior cover art

    • Hiding in Plain Sight

    • The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    • By: Sarah Kendzior
    • Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,143 ratings

    • New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible....

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  • Democracy Matters Audiobook By Cornel West cover art

    • Democracy Matters

    • Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
    • By: Cornel West
    • Narrated by: Cornel West
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage....

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  • The Cruelty Is the Point Audiobook By Adam Serwer cover art

    • The Cruelty Is the Point

    • The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
    • By: Adam Serwer
    • Narrated by: Adam Serwer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 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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  • Tyranny of the Minority Audiobook By Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt cover art

    • Tyranny of the Minority

    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 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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  • After the End of History Audiobook By Francis Fukuyama - contributor, Mathilde Fasting - editor cover art

    • After the End of History

    • Conversations with Francis Fukuyama
    • By: Francis Fukuyama - contributor, Mathilde Fasting - editor
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • Diving into topics like the surprise election of Donald Trump, the destruction of social and political norms, and the rise of China, Fukuyama deftly explains the plight of liberal democracy and explores how we might prevent its further decline....

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  • On Freedom Audiobook By Timothy Snyder cover art

    • On Freedom

    • By: Timothy Snyder
    • Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings

    • 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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  • Strongmen Audiobook By Ruth Ben-Ghiat cover art

    • Strongmen

    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 952 ratings

    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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  • The Authoritarian Moment Audiobook By Ben Shapiro cover art

    • The Authoritarian Moment

    • How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
    • By: Ben Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,044 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 Three Dimensions of Freedom Audiobook By Billy Bragg cover art

    • The Three Dimensions of Freedom

    • By: Billy Bragg
    • Narrated by: Billy Bragg
    • Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • We live in a world where strongman politics are rising, neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties and corporations have undermined democracy....

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  • The Conspiracy to End America Audiobook By Stuart Stevens cover art

    • The Conspiracy to End America

    • Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy
    • By: Stuart Stevens
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 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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  • Power Systems Audiobook By Noam Chomsky cover art

    • Power Systems

    • Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers....

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  • The People vs. Democracy Audiobook By Yascha Mounk cover art

    • The People vs. Democracy

    • Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
    • By: Yascha Mounk
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

    • The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk....

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  • Strongman Audiobook By Kenneth C. Davis cover art

    • Strongman

    • The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
    • By: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • From the best-selling author of the Don't Know Much About books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators....

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  • Testimony Audiobook By Jon Ward cover art

    • Testimony

    • Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
    • By: Jon Ward
    • Narrated by: Jon Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings

    • Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s....

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  • Friendly Fascism Audiobook By Bertram Gross, Mark Crispin Miller - editor, Chris Hedges - introduction cover art

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  • The Narrow Corridor Audiobook By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson cover art

    • The Narrow Corridor

    • States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 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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  • Tragedy and Hope 101 Audiobook By Joseph Plummer cover art

    • Tragedy and Hope 101

    • The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy
    • By: Joseph Plummer
    • Narrated by: Joshua Mackey
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings

    • Based on the groundbreaking research of respected historian Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope 101 reveals an unimaginably devious political system, skillfully manipulated by a handful of elite, which is undermining freedom and democracy as we know it....

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