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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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it's Nearly perfect
- By Kerry on 09-16-20
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81. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-10-20
- Language: English
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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An Historic Achievement
- By Ellen S. Wilds on 04-25-14
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82. The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Story of the World
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-13-13
- Language: English
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On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times....
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Best book of the decade
- By Chuck on 04-21-22
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83. On Tyranny (Expanded Audio Edition)
- Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-19-22
- Language: English
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units....
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Lots of facts, offset by too much fiction
- By Steve M on 05-24-19
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84. Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre.
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The master does it again!
- By AS on 09-14-24
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85. The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
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A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present....
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
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86. The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away....
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- By Leslie Rathjens on 03-05-20
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87. The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-25-20
- Language: English
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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1
- The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
- By: Whitney Alyse Webb
- Narrated by: Grace Noble
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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Volume one of One Nation Under Blackmail traces the origin of the network behind Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the merging of organized crime and intelligence networks during World War II, following their most notable activities through the decades....
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A must have
- By Steven Gerweck on 04-04-23
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88. One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1
- The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
- Narrated by: Grace Noble
- Series: One Nation Under Blackmail, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-21-23
- Language: English
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Alexander Hamilton
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
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Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton....
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An Outstanding & Riveting Book!
- By Kevin on 03-04-05
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89. Alexander Hamilton
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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Team of Rivals
- The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
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On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....
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Beautiful, Heartbreaking, and Informative
- By JJ on 09-10-12
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90. Team of Rivals
- The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-17-11
- Language: English
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided....
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A classic of history books
- By Benedict on 04-04-09
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91. Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-29-08
- Language: English
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.
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We’d be in a much better position if everyone read this
- By Jeffrey Schwartz on 10-01-23
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92. Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-26-23
- Language: English
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....
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A little baffled
- By John Coleman on 07-18-23
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93. The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-18-23
- Language: English
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Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
- Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula
- By: Wilfred Reilly
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.
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I suspected it, Now I know
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-24
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94. Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
- Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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An Excellent History of the Samurai
- By Michael on 08-08-14
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95. A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-07-14
- Language: English
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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Even though I have read a lot of books about this disaster. This has been the most comprehensive and enjoyable.
- By Andy on 05-25-24
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96. Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 3
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
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Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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A Must listen
- By Ron on 11-18-20
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97. The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 3
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: The Gulag Archipelago, Book 3
- Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 10-13-20
- Language: English
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Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: Andrew Tell
- Length: 11 hrs
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Illuminating Franklin and Washington’s relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project....
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Two together, written about at same time
- By fair & balanced on 03-28-21
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98. Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- Narrated by: Andrew Tell
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 02-11-20
- Language: English
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....
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Look past the one-star reviews: this is an enlightening and engaging read.
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-07-22
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99. 1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
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100. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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