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    • Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
    • By: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order....

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    • A History
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • In the past 50 years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States....

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    • From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
    • By: Moises Naim
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....

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    • The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
    • By: James Carroll
    • Narrated by: James Carroll
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

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    • How the Second World War Changed Us
    • By: Keith Lowe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since....

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    • A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
    • By: Charles A. Kupchan
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Isolationism is making a comeback as Americans tire of foreign entanglement. In this definitive and magisterial analysis, Charles Kupchan explores the enduring connection between the isolationist impulse and the American experience....

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    • The 80-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler
    • By: John Lukacs
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • This is a day-by-day account of the 80-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat....

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    • By: Edward Luce
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy....

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    • Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
    • By: James Graham Wilson
    • Narrated by: Graham Christian Barnard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, George H. W. Bush, and a host of other actors engaged with adversaries....

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    • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    • By: Nicholas Mulder
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war....

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    • Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
    • By: Brendan Simms, Charlie Laderman
    • Narrated by: Damian Lynch
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • A riveting account of the five most crucial days in 20th-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States....

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    • The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
    • By: Rosemary Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin....

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    • By: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the 21st century....

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    • Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
    • By: Penny M. Von Eschen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....

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    • Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
    • By: Tony Wood
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent....

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    • The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
    • By: Joshua Muravchik
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land....

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    • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
    • By: Luke A. Nichter
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did....

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    • How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire
    • By: Lawrence J. Haas
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy....

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