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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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    • Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
    • By: Thomas de Waal
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I....

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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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    • How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey, Art Carden
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment....

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    • Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
    • By: Philip Snow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 25 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between two global giants in this compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present....

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    • How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order
    • By: Rebecca Lissner, Mira Rapp-Hooper
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but the product of forces that will endure....

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    • Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
    • By: Taylor Downing
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983 - the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon. The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one - more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis....

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    • From Mao to Now
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping....

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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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    • By: Michael J. Gerson
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In Heroic Conservatism, Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic in its aspirations....

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    • Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war....

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    • From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom
    • By: William J. Bennett
    • Narrated by: Jon Gauger
    • Series: America: The Last Best Hope, Book 2
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism....

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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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    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 983 ratings
    • For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else....

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    • FDR at War, 1941–1942
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 1
    • Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort....

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    • A History of American Hubris
    • By: Peter Beinart
    • Narrated by: John Morgan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks—a story about the seductions of success....

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    • The Prophetic Statesman
    • By: James C. Humes
    • Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • James C. Humes reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain's most famous prime minister and how his critics' perceptions of them shaped his political career....

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    • A Global History of Prohibition
    • By: Mark Lawrence Schrad
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • As Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon....

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    • The Birth of US Global Supremacy
    • By: Stephen Wertheim
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of US supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars....

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    • How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
    • By: Diana Preston
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war....

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