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    • A Life in the Cold War
    • By: Robert L Beisner
    • Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
    • Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era....

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    • Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
    • By: J. Samuel Walker
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....

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    • The First World War and American Society
    • By: David M. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history....

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    • Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
    • By: Seth G. Jones
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War....

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    • Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
    • By: Kishore Mahbubani
    • Narrated by: Wes Talbot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The 21st century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic....

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    • Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself....

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    • The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world....

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    • The Conscience of the Country
    • By: Arnold A. Offner
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office, he has been largely overlooked by biographers. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey's life....

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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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    • By: Ronald Spector
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia peace was a brief, fretful interlude....

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    • China's World War II, 1937 - 1945
    • By: Rana Mitter
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 355 ratings
    • The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan....

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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 Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
    • By: James Carroll
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

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    • FDR and the Year That Changed History
    • By: Jay Winik
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II....

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    • A History of Collective Joy
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions....

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    • By: Christopher Lee
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

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    • By: Allan J. Lichtman, Richard Breitman
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions....

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    • Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
    • By: David S. Mason
    • Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 03-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Doug Greene
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare....

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