Bestsellers
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War for Eternity
- Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
- By: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance106
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Story106
An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.” Since then, he has grown exponentially...
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The Industrial Revolution and it's consequences...
- By Kindle Customerd on 04-24-20
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Erasing History
- By: Jason Stanley
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance337
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Story337
From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century...
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A Must Read.
- By Elyse Cann on 01-02-25
By: Jason Stanley
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How Fascism Works
- The Politics of Us and Them
- By: Jason Stanley
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,845
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Performance1,591
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Story1,572
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen “With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism...
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A Warning Too Clear to Ignore
- By Chip Auger on 10-30-18
By: Jason Stanley
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Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall659
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Performance586
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Story582
A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and...
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couldn't believe this was on audible
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-22
By: Michael Parenti
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
- By: Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall985
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Performance804
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Story792
This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism"....
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Vast and intricate analysis of horror
- By Roger on 08-04-08
By: Hannah Arendt
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall897
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Performance828
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Story828
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times "A masterful...
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A Triumphant Work -Puts It All Together With Laser Clarity
- By Sjhoffman on 09-19-24
By: Anne Applebaum
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War for Eternity
- Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
- By: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance106
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Story106
An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.” Since then, he has grown exponentially...
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The Industrial Revolution and it's consequences...
- By Kindle Customerd on 04-24-20
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Erasing History
- By: Jason Stanley
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall367
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Performance337
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Story337
From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century...
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A Must Read.
- By Elyse Cann on 01-02-25
By: Jason Stanley
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How Fascism Works
- The Politics of Us and Them
- By: Jason Stanley
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,845
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Performance1,591
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Story1,572
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen “With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism...
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A Warning Too Clear to Ignore
- By Chip Auger on 10-30-18
By: Jason Stanley
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Blackshirts and Reds
- Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall659
-
Performance586
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Story582
A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and...
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couldn't believe this was on audible
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-22
By: Michael Parenti
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
- By: Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall985
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Performance804
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Story792
This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism"....
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Vast and intricate analysis of horror
- By Roger on 08-04-08
By: Hannah Arendt
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Autocracy, Inc.
- The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Anne Applebaum
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall897
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Performance828
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Story828
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times "A masterful...
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A Triumphant Work -Puts It All Together With Laser Clarity
- By Sjhoffman on 09-19-24
By: Anne Applebaum
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The Coming of the Third Reich
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,308
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Performance1,829
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Story1,830
There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany....
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Compelling and depressing
- By Tad Davis on 06-30-10
By: Richard J. Evans
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Strongmen
- Mussolini to the Present
- By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,148
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Performance996
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Story994
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the...
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Fascism expert talks fascism
- By sparky on 12-04-20
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- By: Barbara Demick
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,265
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Performance3,349
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Story3,345
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....
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The man who wants to be GOD
- By Gohar on 05-08-10
By: Barbara Demick
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They Thought They Were Free
- The Germans, 1933-45
- By: Milton Mayer
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall728
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Performance637
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Story636
First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of 10 Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had...
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Time might change ones behaviour pattern
- By Robert on 07-15-17
By: Milton Mayer
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall194
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Performance167
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Story167
“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition...
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Post covid revised edition, Avoid this.
- By mike on 02-22-24
By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and others
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Modern China has long been portrayed as Communists fighting for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Red Dawn Over China shows how unlikely the Party's victory was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union
By: Frank Dikötter
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To Catch a Fascist
- The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
- By: Christopher Mathias
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance27
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Story27
“Absorbing.” —THE NEW YORKER, BEST BOOKS OF 2026 A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions. Demonized as “extremist” by...
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Couldn’t stop listening! Extremely compelling!
- By K on 02-06-26
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- By: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance67
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Story67
Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024 Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024 This program is read by the author. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them. "A profoundly urgent intervention...
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Butler’s reading of Butler was stunning
- By Joseph Schneider on 07-19-24
By: Judith Butler
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 46 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall772
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Performance681
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Story674
Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness....
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An Excellent Read
- By Rodney on 09-19-13
By: Ian Kershaw
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The Echo Machine
- How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
- By: David Pakman
- Narrated by: David Pakman
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall400
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Performance376
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Story376
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A vital exploration as we head into the 2026 midterm elections of how right-wing extremism, media manipulation, and ideological echo chambers have eroded critical thinking and deepened political divisions—and how we can fight back to save our...
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An smartly written take on the future of the US
- By Bradley Smith on 04-01-25
By: David Pakman
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Live Not by Lies
- A Manual for Christian Dissidents
- By: Rod Dreher
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,818
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Performance2,478
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Story2,463
The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers. For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft"...
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A Must Read For All Christians!
- By Chuck B. on 10-02-20
By: Rod Dreher
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The Project
- How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
- By: David A. Graham
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance134
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Story134
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news...
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Valid Information
- By Kindle Customer on 06-17-25
By: David A. Graham
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Adolf Hitler
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall993
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Performance876
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Story877
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....
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Strange Person
- By Mark on 11-25-14
By: John Toland
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On Xi Jinping
- How Xi's Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World
- By: Kevin Rudd
- Narrated by: Kevin Rudd
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.
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Informed research with deep insights, but very hard to follow.
- By Josh Carter on 02-18-25
By: Kevin Rudd
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
- The Fight for Our Future
- By: Maria Ressa
- Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall423
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Performance375
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Story376
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney...
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Wow
- By po on 01-29-23
By: Maria Ressa
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Escape from Freedom
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall422
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Performance347
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Story343
lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom....
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Why is this not required reading in high school?
- By Xander on 09-07-16
By: Erich Fromm
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The Anatomy of Fascism
- By: Robert O. Paxton
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,272
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Performance1,079
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Story1,063
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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Great book for getting a clearer idea of fascism
- By Amazon Customer on 11-02-17
By: Robert O. Paxton
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show "A gripping and unsettling account." – Washington Post Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal...
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The Great Reset
- And the War for the World
- By: Alex Jones
- Narrated by: Joe Kredjetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall757
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Performance669
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Story666
In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet....
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Great Content - Narrator Not Alex
- By Reader on 10-18-22
By: Alex Jones
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
- New One-Volume Edition
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall260
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Performance210
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Story207
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He...
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A very difficult book
- By Jason Baumbach on 04-09-20
By: Karl Popper
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The Road to Serfdom
- By: Friedrich A Hayek
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century.
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Wonderful Work
- By w.bergen on 11-06-25
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Travelers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
- By: Julia Boyd
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance88
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Story88
This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon....
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Cautionary Tale for Current Events
- By Amazon Buyer on 05-14-19
By: Julia Boyd
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
- The Militarization of America's Police Forces
- By: Radley Balko
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance96
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Story95
A comprehensive exploration of how police forces have become militarized—both in equipment and mindset—and what that means for American democracy. “Fascinating and at times wrenching.” ―The New Yorker The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the...
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Agenda driven anti law enforcement
- By Mark Bliss on 02-16-22
By: Radley Balko
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How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism
- Canons
- By: Ece Temelkuran
- Narrated by: Ece Temelkuran
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep.
By: Ece Temelkuran