Modern American Government

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    • By: OpenStax
    • Narrated by: Brian Barrick, Sarah Arya
    • Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • American Government 3e by OpenStax aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses.

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

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    • From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
    • By: Nick Ragone
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....

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    • The Politics of Us and Them
    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,638 ratings
    • As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics....

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    • A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
    • By: David Corn
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

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    • A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

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    • How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
    • By: Jason Vuic
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s....

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    • Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
    • By: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine - Tammany Hall - revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics....

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    • The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Tom Nichols
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 407 ratings
    • Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble - but who is really to blame? Tom Nichols explains....

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    • Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
    • By: Lynn Hudson Parson
    • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • Called the "Bob Gates of his generation", Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all....

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    • Modern Liberalism and American Decline
    • By: Robert H. Bork
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 314 ratings
    • In Slouching Towards Gomorrah, one of our nation's most distinguished conservative scholars offers a prophetic view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling....

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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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    • Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
    • By: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Enrique McGavin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • By: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
    • By: Adam Jentleson
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 441 ratings
    • An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy....

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    • Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
    • By: Nicole Hemmer
    • Narrated by: Maria Rose
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Today's right-wing media personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation....

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    • How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office
    • By: Robert M. Lichtman
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office, Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis, Natalie Simpson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation....

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