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    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • A Political Life
    • By: Robert Dallek
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the number one New York Times best-selling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Giulio Boccaletti
    • Narrated by: Giulio Boccaletti
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization....

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    • The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
    • By: Tim Weiner
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked....

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    • The Biography of Pope John Paul II
    • By: George Weigel
    • Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • Now, with an updated preface, the latest edition of the definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the 20th century that can still be felt today....

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    • By: Frances FitzGerald
    • Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam - the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists....

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    • The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century
    • By: David Reynolds
    • Narrated by: John FitzGibbon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture....

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    • Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
    • By: Joshua Keating
    • Narrated by: Joshua Keating
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
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    • What is a country? While certain basic tenets - such as the clear demarcation of a country's borders, and the acknowledgment of its sovereignty by other countries and by international governing bodies - seem applicable, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules....

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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 283 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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    • How Neoconservatives Hijacked the Bush Presidency
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • American Empire is at its apex. We are the sole superpower, with no potential challenger for a generation....

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    • America and China, 1776 to the Present
    • By: John Pomfret
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future....

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    • Studies in Character and Statecraft
    • By: Lewis E. Lehrman
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war. Synthesizing a variety of sources, from memoirs and letters to histories and biographies, Lewis Lehrman explains how the Anglo-American alliance worked....

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
    • By: Norman M. Naimark
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought....

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    • Race and Power in the Pacific War
    • By: John W. Dower
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In this monumental history, professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War - race....

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    • How Population Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Paul Morland
    • Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires....

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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 53 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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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system....

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