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    • The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced—in one notable case, only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens’ arrests.

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    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....

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    • The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
    • By: James K. Galbraith
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe....

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    • The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
    • By: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
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    • Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

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    • The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges
    • By: Brian Crimmins, Nathan Chappell, Michael Ashley
    • Narrated by: Christian Titus
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • In Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity....

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    • America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
    • By: Timothy Noah
    • Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-13
    • Language: English
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    • For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal....

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    • How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History
    • By: Todd Bensman
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The time has come to acknowledge that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border, starting on Inauguration Day in 2021....

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    • FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
    • By: Sally Denton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • An anarchist assassin, demagogues, and a plotted coup d’état—the forgotten history of the forces that lashed out against FDR as he took the ...

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    • Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
    • By: Paul Gilding
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-24-11
    • Language: English
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    • From author Paul Gilding comes an unflinching look at the challenges we face as a global climate crisis approaches - and the unique opportunities this crisis presents for moving toward an ethic of sustainability....

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    • Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made
    • By: Charles V. Bagli
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors' dollars on a single deal....

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    • Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
    • By: Valentine Low
    • Narrated by: Valentine Low
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them....

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    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
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    • In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war....

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    • The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism - From al Qa'ida to ISIS
    • By: Michael Morell, Bill Harlow
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • Called the "Bob Gates of his generation", Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all....

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    • Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War II
    • By: Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-13
    • Language: English
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    • At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow....

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    • Reflections on Financial Crises
    • By: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Narrated by: Timothy F. Geithner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

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    • The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, Henry M. Paulson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
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    • From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis - from why it happened to where we are now....

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    • A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
    • By: Ben S. Bernanke
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
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    • In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to public service in Washington's halls of power....

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    • Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
    • By: Thomas de Waal
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
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    • The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I....

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