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    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 48 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • Johnson's monumental history of the United States, from the first settlers to the Clinton administration, covers every aspect of American culture: politics, business, art, literature, science, society and customs, complex traditions, and religious beliefs....

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • A landmark work from the author of Orientalism, this book explores the connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it....

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    • How Europe Went to War in 1914
    • By: Christopher Clark
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I....

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    • Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
    • By: Tara Zahra
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind....

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    • Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
    • By: Ian Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age’s uniquely devastating despots....

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    • New Biography of a Dictator
    • By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

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    • America and Our Imperiled World
    • By: Robert Kagan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • A brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world - and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward....

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    • A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008 ratings
    • The fateful quarter-century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was heaving in its pain....

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    • War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • A bracing assessment of US foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy....

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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,921 ratings
    • Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....

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    • Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
    • By: George Packer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
    • Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favor of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic....

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    • The Man and the Statesman
    • By: A.J.P. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s....

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    • An Invitation to the Great American Story
    • By: Wilfred M. McClay
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country....

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    • The End of Globalization, the Return of History
    • By: Stephen D. King
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable....

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    • How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
    • By: Jonah Goldberg
    • Narrated by: Jonah Goldberg
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,393 ratings
    • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity....

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