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    • Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
    • By: David Talbot
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,260 ratings
    • An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington....

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    • The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,233 ratings
    • The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena....

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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,106 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

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    • The Great War in the Middle East
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,519 ratings
    • In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....

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    • Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan....

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    • How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time....

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    • America and the World in the Free Market Era
    • By: Gary Gerstle
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,408 ratings
    • Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence, peace, goodwill, and the occasional family row. It’s as comfortable and familiar as a pair of old shoes and yet still glittery and exciting. But what do you really know about it....

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    • By: Robert O. Paxton
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,206 ratings
    • What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question....

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,492 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
    • By: Michael Harriot
    • Narrated by: Michael Harriot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,081 ratings
    • From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....

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    • A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
    • By: Michael Gomez
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that puts early and medieval West Africa on the map of global history....

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    • Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
    • By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,883 ratings
    • Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....

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    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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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 420 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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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • A New History
    • By: John Lewis Gaddis
    • Narrated by: Jay Gregory, Alan Sklar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 962 ratings
    • Riveting, revelatory, and wise, The Cold War tells a story whose lessons it is vitally necessary to understand as America once more faces an implacable ideological enemy....

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