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    • Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • By: Nicholas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict....

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    • Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
    • By: Gregg Herken
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails....

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    • The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions
    • By: Susan Eisenhower
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Susan Eisenhower
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational time — by a DC policy strategist, security expert, and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them....

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    • By: Tony Judt
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,312 ratings
    • Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement.....

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    • My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa
    • By: James M. Hawes, Mary Ann Koenig
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit a mercenary navy and suppress the Soviet- and Chinese-backed rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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    • What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today
    • By: Hal Brands
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

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    • Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
    • By: Mark Wolverton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • As the superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship in the late 1950s, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack....

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    • Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
    • By: John Ganz
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Acclaimed political writer John Ganz looks back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • By: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
    • By: Benjamin Cunningham
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow....

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    • John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Dramatic End of the Cold War
    • By: Paul Kengor PhD, Robert Orlando
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • You can’t understand Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan - or how the Cold War came to such a swift and peaceful end - without understanding how much faith they put in the Divine Plan....

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    • A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
    • By: William J. Burns
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time. Here, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career....

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    • How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West
    • By: Malcolm Nance, Rob Reiner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,558 ratings
    • Insightful and shocking, The Plot to Destroy Democracy puts a professional spy lens on Putin's plot and unravels it play-by-play. In the end, Malcolm Nance provides a better understanding of why Putin's efforts are a serious threat to our national security and global alliances....

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    • The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
    • By: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,704 ratings
    • In August 1968 NASA made a bold decision: In just 16 weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon....

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    • From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
    • By: Sten Rynning
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary.

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    • The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
    • By: Noah Feldman
    • Narrated by: Cotter Smith
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationships with FDR, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War....

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    • Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
    • By: Matthew Brzezinski
    • Narrated by: Charles Stransky
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 995 ratings
    • On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

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