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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 106 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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    • 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 28 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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    • America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
    • By: Derek Leebaert
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A new understanding of the post-World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower - with global insights for today....

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    • Human Rights in an Unequal World
    • By: Samuel Moyn
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared....

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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 9 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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    • Freedom Equality Power
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • 50 Politics Classics provides commentaries on the books, pamphlets, and speeches of major leaders, from Abraham Lincoln to Winston Churchill....

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    • Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
    • By: John Ikenberry
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • For 200 years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened by illiberal challengers and nationalist-populist movements....

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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 Partial Power
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....

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    • FDR at War and at Peace
    • By: David B. Woolner
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals....

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    • By: Theodore Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: George Pettingell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Roosevelt was a cowboy, a boxer, a politician, a war hero, a father, a devoted husband, and most of all, a real human being. I hope you will listen to this book in his own words and get to know one of America's presidents, and I hope that you will come to appreciate him as much as I have....

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    • The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World
    • By: J. C. Sharman
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J. C. Sharman shows instead that European expansion is better explained by deference to strong Asian and African polities, disease in the Americas, and maritime supremacy....

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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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    • Russia Against the West and with the Rest
    • By: Angela Stent
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....

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    • A History in Twenty Lives
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of 20 remarkable individuals....

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    • Henry Kissinger and His World
    • By: Barry Gewen
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to be admired and hated in equal measure....

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    • How They Changed History and What They Mean Today
    • By: Peter Furtado
    • Narrated by: Debra Michaels, Philip Bretherton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as ‘liberty, fraternity, equality’, articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when social conventions break down....

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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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