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Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later
- Written by: Darren Reynolds
- Narrated by: Diane Sawyer
- Length: 2 hrs
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This edition of Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later is an audio-only ABC News special created exclusively for Audible and hosted by ABC World News Anchor Diane Sawyer. Sawyer takes listeners back to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, for a “you are there” exploration of the day of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
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Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later
- Narrated by: Diane Sawyer
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release Date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
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July 1914: Countdown to War
- Written by: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand’s own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God’s will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflictmuch less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events.
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July 1914: Countdown to War
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 24-06-13
- Language: English
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The Widow Spy
- My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow
- Written by: Martha D. Peterson
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Widow Spy is the firsthand account of a true Cold War spy operation in Moscow told exclusively by the CIA case officer who lived this experience. Martha D. Peterson was one of the first women to be assigned to Moscow, a very difficult operational environment. Her story begins in Laos during the Vietnam War where she accompanied her husband, a CIA officer. She describes their life in a small city in Laos, ending with the tragic death of her husband. Then her own 30-year career begins in Moscow.
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The Widow Spy
- My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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The Prince
- Written by: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prince was the first great work of modern political and historical analysis, but it suffered from a tragic flaw: Machiavelli chose as his "hero" Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, who, unknown to the author, employed murder as one of his tools of statecraft. The Prince has been studied by Hitler, Stalin, Richelieu, Bismarck, and Frederick the Great, among others.
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The Prince
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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To Dare More Boldly
- The Audacious Story of Political Risk
- Written by: John C. Hulsman
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the rise of political risk analysis, both as a discipline and a lucrative high-stakes industry that guides the strategic decisions of corporations and governments around the world. It assesses why recent predictions have gone so wrong and boldly puts forward 10 analytical commandments that can stand the test of time.
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To Dare More Boldly
- The Audacious Story of Political Risk
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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Russia in Revolution
- An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
- Written by: S. A. Smith
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the 20th century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the 19th century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s.
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Russia in Revolution
- An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Our Tempestuous Day
- A History of Regency England
- Written by: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The tumult and opulence of England’s Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810 he shows no signs of recovering. Public and government business halts as word of his condition leaks out. Hoping to control the crisis, Parliament appoints the king’s unpopular son Prince George IV as Regent or caretaker.
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Our Tempestuous Day
- A History of Regency England
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 15-07-11
- Language: English
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Wages of Rebellion
- Written by: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges - who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class - investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance.
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Wages of Rebellion
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 22-06-15
- Language: English
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My Trade
- A Short History of British Journalism
- Written by: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage...
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My Trade
- A Short History of British Journalism
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 18-04-07
- Language: English
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Mission Failure
- America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
- Written by: Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.
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Mission Failure
- America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
- Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 20-06-16
- Language: English
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- Written by: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators.
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 12-12-17
- Language: English
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Written by: Richard Rothstein
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 26-07-17
- Language: English
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Leviathan
- or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
- Written by: Thomas Hobbes
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
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The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes’ answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods: Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry.
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Leviathan
- or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 29-08-11
- Language: English
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War Is a Racket
- Written by: Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
- Narrated by: Jack Eddelman
- Length: 1 hr
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A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering.This was a speech given by General Butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930's, but it applies even more today! Listen as he frankly discusses, from his experience as a career military officer, how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He then suggests several practical solutions for reducing the pillage.
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Succinct, Timeless and Accurate
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War Is a Racket
- Narrated by: Jack Eddelman
- Length: 1 hr
- Release Date: 18-06-10
- Language: English
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Three Famines
- Written by: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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This is the story of three terrible famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then reappeared under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s.
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Three Famines
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 28-06-11
- Language: English
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The Force of Nonviolence
- An Ethico-Political Bind
- Written by: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how "racial phantasms" inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects.
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The Force of Nonviolence
- An Ethico-Political Bind
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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History Has Begun
- The Birth of a New America
- Written by: Bruno Maçães
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilization in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy, and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?
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History Has Begun
- The Birth of a New America
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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A Lot of People Are Saying
- The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
- Written by: Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new - conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum reveal how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it.
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A Lot of People Are Saying
- The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Daylight Robbery
- How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future
- Written by: Dominic Frisby
- Narrated by: Dominic Frisby
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial Times Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing...
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Daylight Robbery
- How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future
- Narrated by: Dominic Frisby
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Middle East
- Written by: Philip Robins
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The Middle East is notoriously complex and difficult. This compact book on the topic by the University of Oxford's leading expert does not shirk the challenge. Organised thematically, and dealing with all the pivotal issues in the region, from oil and religion to gender and conflict, this comprehensive primer is both easy-to-read and full of insight. Stuffed with historical background, real-life examples, profiles of key figures from Nasser to Gadaffi, and even popular jokes from the area.
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The Middle East
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 18-07-12
- Language: English
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