Bestsellers
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Hugely disappointing book!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-19
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- By Cynthia on 01-11-14
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- By Richard Keohane on 04-08-18
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- By mike on 02-22-24
By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and others
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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The final word on horizontalism on the left
- By Patrick Foote on 02-25-24
By: Vincent Bevins
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- By Joshua Kim on 05-01-12
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Hugely disappointing book!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-19
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- By Cynthia on 01-11-14
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature....
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- By Richard Keohane on 04-08-18
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This essential book lays out the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest....
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- By mike on 02-22-24
By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and others
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If We Burn
- The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- By: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result....
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The final word on horizontalism on the left
- By Patrick Foote on 02-25-24
By: Vincent Bevins
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
- In Search of a Better Life
- By: Anu Partanen
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 06-20-17
By: Anu Partanen
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Progressively Worse
- Why Today's Democrats Ain't Your Daddy's Donkeys
- By: Joe Concha
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1990s, Democrats supported balanced budgets, smaller government, border security, equal opportunity (not outcomes), reducing the deficit, and prioritizing blue-collar issues. However, according to Joe Concha, these are things that Democrats are against now.
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Well Cited
- By Timothy J Keenan on 10-01-24
By: Joe Concha
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state....
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Few forests, but lots of trees
- By Steve Pagano on 10-05-15
By: Francis Fukuyama
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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Fiona Hill
- Narrated by: Fiona Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia....
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Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us
- By Erin on 10-08-21
By: Fiona Hill
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Political Order and Political Decay
- From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....
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Understanding our place thru Poly Sci
- By Gary on 12-29-14
By: Francis Fukuyama
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- By: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....
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Kneecap your kids & destroy internships, 509 & etc
- By Marie on 02-06-20
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The Communist Manifesto
- By: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 political document...
By: Karl Marx, and others
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....
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Worth a listen
- By Amazon Customer on 12-06-19
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- By: Andrei Lankov
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....
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Broad and nuanced account of North Korea
- By Neuron on 07-29-15
By: Andrei Lankov
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The Common Law
- By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Narrated by: Robert Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This is one of the true classics in world legal literature. Written by a master of law and language...
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Horrible Narration
- By Richard on 04-12-06
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Die Achse der Autokraten
- Korruption, Kontrolle, Propaganda: Wie Diktatoren sich gegenseitig an der Macht halten
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Sandra Voss
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Autokratische Herrschaft besteht im 21. Jahrhundert nicht länger nur aus einem Tyrannen an der Spitze, der mit Gewalt sein Volk unterdrückt: Heute werden ...
By: Anne Applebaum
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A New World in Our Hearts
- In Conversation with Michael Albert
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who has been close to Chomsky for roughly half a century and talked with him many hundreds of times, spans a wide range of topics....
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Wow, it's like Neo taking the pill
- By Alan on 09-26-24
By: Noam Chomsky
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Revolutionary Love
- A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World
- By: Rabbi Michael Lerner
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the "capitalist globalization of selfishness" with a globalization of generosity, prophetic empathy, and environmental sanity.
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2030
- How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
- By: Mauro F. Guillén
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The world you know is about to end - will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends....
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Anti border wall and anti Trump
- By Jim Dupuis on 12-05-20
By: Mauro F. Guillén
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The Case for Democracy
- The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
- By: Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them....
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The finest book I have read in many years!!
- By David on 04-06-05
By: Natan Sharansky, and others
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The Rise and Fall of the East
- How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
- By: Yasheng Huang PhD
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside....
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Appalling business-speak
- By Andrea on 09-07-24
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Finish What We Started
- The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy
- By: Isaac Arnsdorf
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself....
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Mass Mental Illness
- By philip on 04-24-24
By: Isaac Arnsdorf
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How Politics Works
- The Concepts Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzgerald
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique guide. How Politics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of politics....
By: DK
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- By: Moises Naim
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....
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Another Power book
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-24
By: Moises Naim
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The Politics Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This invaluable, easy-to-understand guide to world politics and government offers an accessible introduction to more than 80 of the most important theories and big ideas of leaders and politicians throughout history....
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I like it.
- By GTURCIOS on 06-16-23
By: DK
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The Origins of Authoritarianism—and Why It Still Works Today
- From Historical Strongmen and Key Authoritarian Moments in History to Modern Authoritarian Leaders and How Their Regimes Function Today (Government and Politics Book Series)
- By: Eric Nilsen
- Narrated by: Ray Jericho
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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What is authoritarianism? And what made people give others the power to rule over them? Unchallenged authority serves at the heart of authoritarianism.
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A Fascinating Dive into the Roots of Power
- By Vdeva on 09-29-24
By: Eric Nilsen
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....
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Loved it.
- By Richard Lee on 04-10-16
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Democracy
- Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
- By: Condoleezza Rice
- Narrated by: Grace Angela Henry
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history....
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A Case for Democracy
- By Jean on 05-18-17
By: Condoleezza Rice
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Derecha [The Right]
- Poder, corrupción y engaño [Power, Corruption and Deception]
- By: Alejandro Páez Varela, Álvaro Delgado Gómez
- Narrated by: Bobby Sánchez, Alex Ortega
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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La derecha en México ha dominado los poderes formales y los de facto; ha operado las políticas públicas y las finanzas de la nación; se ha apropiado del pensamiento crítico y de la academia...
By: Alejandro Páez Varela, and others