Election History

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    • The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History
    • By: Dana Bash, David Fisher
    • Narrated by: Dana Bash
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash tells the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our country.

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,976 ratings
    • 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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    • The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
    • By: Bob Riel
    • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Quest for the Presidency is an engaging and insightful popular history of American presidential elections from 1789 to the present, analyzing the threads that link campaigns across….

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    • The Rise of Hitler and FDR - Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
    • By: David Pietrusza
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president....

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    • Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters
    • By: Karl Rove
    • Narrated by: Karl Rove
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author and political mastermind Karl Rove comes a fresh look at President William McKinley, who found a message that healed his nation....

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    • The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
    • By: William A. Galston
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
    • By: Edward B. Foley
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this authoritative history of the American Electoral College system, Edward Foley analyzes the consequences of the unparalleled departure from the Jeffersonians' original intent - and delineates what we can do about it....

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    • By: Nic Cheeseman, Brian Klaas
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Authors Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves....

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    • My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK
    • By: Mark Lane
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 550 ratings
    • The last word on the JFK assassination by the New York Times best-selling author and JFK historian.....

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    • The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
    • By: Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Author Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs....

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    • The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    • By: Ari Berman
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since 1965, Give Us the Ballot tells the story of what happened after the Voting Rights Act was passed.

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 956 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • By: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why....

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    • FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103 ratings
    • Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR rescued banks, put men to work immediately....

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    • A Nation Divides on the Eve of War
    • By: Jessica Gunderson
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Throughout the 1850s, the issues of slavery and states' rights had divided the nation. With the election of 1860, these issues finally came to a head, setting the stage for the American Civil War....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
    • By: Jon Grinspan
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America’s unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty....

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    • The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
    • By: Richard McGregor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States....

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