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    • Empire and the Deep State
    • By: Aaron Good
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy, in particular to understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich....

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    • Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    • By: Chalmers Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....

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    • The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Bill Thatcher
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • "Speak softly and carry a big stick", Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901....

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    • Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
    • By: Husain Haqqani
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • A character-driven history that describes the alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US....

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    • An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
    • By: Michael McFaul
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings
    • This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president....

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    • The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe....

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    • Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
    • By: Gideon Rose
    • Narrated by: Gideon Rose
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

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    • What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today
    • By: Hal Brands
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Madeleine Albright
    • Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
    • Length: 24 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • A national best seller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of America's first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright....

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    • Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
    • By: Trita Parsi
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program....

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    • The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19
    • By: Michael Pembroke
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Covering wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, and a retreat from international engagement with the UN, WHO, Pembroke sketches the history of America's retreat from universal principles....

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    • The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents
    • By: Mark Perry
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Andrew Preston
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • For better or worse - be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally - Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. The United States has been a savior to some, a curse to others....

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    • How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War
    • By: John Gans
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving....

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    • Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace
    • By: Brendan R. Gallagher
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong....

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    • The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963
    • By: Michael Swanson
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military....

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    • By: George W. Bush
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,510 ratings
    • President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life. Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey....

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    • By: Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 25 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • In Bush, Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy....

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    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump....

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