Bestsellers
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The Secret History of the World
- By: Mark Booth
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,771
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Performance1,531
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Story1,536
In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories....
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A unique perspective
- By Robin on 04-09-12
By: Mark Booth
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The End of History and the Last Man
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall391
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Performance320
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Story314
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....
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An important discussion expertly narrated
- By Kevin Teeple on 06-27-19
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The History of White People
- By: Nell Irvin Painter
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall912
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Performance790
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Story788
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively....
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Destroys the myth that race is about skin color
- By Emily L. on 08-25-14
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance95
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Story94
"A provocative history" of intrigue and class struggle in ancient Rome - "an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire" (Publishers Weekly)....
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another side to Roman history
- By Darksnovia on 04-16-22
By: Michael Parenti
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000 Year History
- By: Josephine Quinn
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance57
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Story57
An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global. “Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues...
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Middling
- By Amazon Customer on 11-14-24
By: Josephine Quinn
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The Case for Colonialism
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Warren du Plooy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story18
“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article, “The Case for Colonialism,” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor.
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Hell is the Impossibility of Reason
- By Jonathan Baron on 09-10-25
By: Bruce Gilley
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The Secret History of the World
- By: Mark Booth
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1,771
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Performance1,531
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Story1,536
In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories....
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A unique perspective
- By Robin on 04-09-12
By: Mark Booth
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The End of History and the Last Man
- By: Francis Fukuyama
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall391
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Performance320
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Story314
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....
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An important discussion expertly narrated
- By Kevin Teeple on 06-27-19
By: Francis Fukuyama
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The History of White People
- By: Nell Irvin Painter
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall912
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Performance790
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Story788
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively....
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Destroys the myth that race is about skin color
- By Emily L. on 08-25-14
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- A People's History of Ancient Rome
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance95
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Story94
"A provocative history" of intrigue and class struggle in ancient Rome - "an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire" (Publishers Weekly)....
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another side to Roman history
- By Darksnovia on 04-16-22
By: Michael Parenti
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How the World Made the West
- A 4,000 Year History
- By: Josephine Quinn
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance57
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Story57
An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global. “Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues...
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Middling
- By Amazon Customer on 11-14-24
By: Josephine Quinn
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The Case for Colonialism
- By: Bruce Gilley
- Narrated by: Warren du Plooy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story18
“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article, “The Case for Colonialism,” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor.
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Hell is the Impossibility of Reason
- By Jonathan Baron on 09-10-25
By: Bruce Gilley
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- By: James W. Loewen
- Narrated by: Brian Keeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,048
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Performance2,305
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Story2,311
This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....
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Of course he has an agenda. He wrote a book!
- By Timothy on 09-02-04
By: James W. Loewen
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The American Story
- Conversations with Master Historians
- By: David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden - introduction
- Narrated by: David M. Rubenstein, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall864
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Performance739
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Story732
In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story. These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American history...
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Stories missing
- By Judith Princz on 01-02-20
By: David M. Rubenstein, and others
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The Cheese and the Worms
- The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
- By: Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi - Translator, John Tedeschi - Translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance91
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Story91
The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the 16th century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death....
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Great book, robotic narrator
- By Andrea Bellevue on 07-22-21
By: Carlo Ginzburg, and others
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In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
- Quantum Physics and Reality
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Nicholas Masters-Waage
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance52
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Story52
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In...
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Classic Quantum intro/now w. Jude Law!(not really)
- By Fatdexter on 09-25-21
By: John Gribbin
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall482
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Performance416
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Story413
Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each one telling itself a story...
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Relaxed but packed with insight
- By Tad Davis on 02-14-20
By: Tamim Ansary
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Reclaiming Israel’s History
- Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace
- By: David Brog
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall279
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Performance257
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Story257
The myth of the perfect Israel has been supplanted by a far more deleterious myth: the myth of the evil Israel....
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Excellent summary of Israeli point if view
- By Mendy on 08-12-18
By: David Brog
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On Politics
- A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
- By: Alan Ryan
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 46 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance32
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Story32
Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II....
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Simply no book quite like this
- By Jack Raineri on 12-21-22
By: Alan Ryan
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Why Don't We Learn from History
- By: B. H. Liddell Hart
- Narrated by: Will Staff
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance24
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Story24
Much has been written on the theory of history by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and understandable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History, the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider....
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Thought provoking.
- By watcher on 09-13-22
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The American Patriot's Almanac
- Daily Readings on America
- By: William J. Bennett, John T.E. Cribb
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover 365 reasons to love America as you read the storied history of the United States. The fife and drum of history mark the time of each passing day. And within their cadence, personalities, conflicts, discoveries, ideas, and nations peal and fade. American history...
By: William J. Bennett, and others
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Silencing the Past
- Power and the Production of History
- By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Narrated by: Shaun Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history...
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The Influence of Seapower Upon History
- By: Alfred T. Mahan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance82
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Story79
First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have "devoured" this book, and it was avidly read by presidents (including both Roosevelts), kings...
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Great book, poor quality recording
- By Michael on 05-19-10
By: Alfred T. Mahan
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48 Liberal Lies About American History
- (That You Probably Learned in School)
- By: Larry Schweikart
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance139
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Story140
A conservative historian defends Americaâ€s past by debunking four dozen common liberal myths In this follow-up to the best-selling A Patriotâ€s History of the United States, Professor Larry Schweikart once again challenges liberal historians and their shameful attempts to distort...
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amazingly accurate...
- By Anthony on 01-23-16
By: Larry Schweikart
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
- An American Controversy
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance64
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Story64
When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....
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Just people
- By Ben on 06-28-20
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Before the Birds Sang Words
- By: Ken Bruce
- Narrated by: Ken Bruce, Bill Rogers, Camille Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
The result of of more than a decade of meticulous research, Before the Birds Sang Words is a scholarly, fascinating and playful deep dive into the creation of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, the timeless Audio-Animatronic musical revue that’s been delighting Disneyland audiences for 60+ years.
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I love this book !
- By Mark L. Goldberg on 11-26-25
By: Ken Bruce
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- By: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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Story31
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- By Rich S. on 12-14-21
By: Isaiah Berlin, and others
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A People’s History of the American Revolution
- How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
- By: Ray Raphael
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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Story16
A sweeping narrative of the wartime experience, A People's History of the American Revolution is the first book to view the Revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of America's founding....
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A treasure trove of information
- By DM on 04-30-21
By: Ray Raphael
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The Idea of History
- 1946 Edition
- By: R.G. Collingwood
- Narrated by: Dennis Rowley
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The Idea of History (1946) is a book of philosophy that explores the nature of history and the historian's interpretation of it. Written by English historian R.G. Collingwood, the work encourages students of history to go beyond events into the motivations of the actors themselves....
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Really awful awful awful narration
- By Anonymous on 09-30-24
By: R.G. Collingwood
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The World
- A Family History of Humanity
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Full Cast
- Length: 68 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance68
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Story68
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian “Succession meets Game of Thrones.”...
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Had To Stop
- By Eugenia on 06-15-23
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What Is Ancient History?
- By: Walter Scheidel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The time has come, Scheidel argues, to put the ancient world back together—by moving beyond the limitations of Greco-Roman "classics," by systematically comparing ancient societies, and by exploring early exchanges and connections between them.
By: Walter Scheidel
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance59
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Story60
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust....
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Excellent Historiography not intended as a history
- By Timothy on 02-17-19
By: Ian Kershaw
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To America
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall299
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Performance264
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Story262
Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers...
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Wow!
- By Coach Nathan L. on 02-10-16
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World War II Pacific
- Battles and Campaigns from Guadalcanal to Okinawa 1942-1945 (WW2 Pacific Military History Series)
- By: Daniel Wrinn
- Narrated by: Gary Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance41
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Story41
An enlightening glimpse into nine battles and campaigns during the Pacific War Allied offensive. Each of these momentous operations were fascinating feats of strategy, planning, and bravery, handing the Allies what would eventually become a victory over the Pacific Theater....
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Horribly bad Narration!
- By Donald F Miller on 05-21-25
By: Daniel Wrinn
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Discover the little known facts about some of the world’s greatest historical icons. We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we’ve heard a hundred times—but often our understanding of these events and people is narrow. Have you ever wondered about the...
By: Tim Rayborn
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The Hunt for History
- On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures—from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air
- By: Nathan Raab, Luke Barr
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance40
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Story39
Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, delivers a “diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane” (The Wall Street Journal) that recounts his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity. A...
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I wished it was longer
- By NANAS on 04-15-20
By: Nathan Raab, and others