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Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.

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The People Versus Socialism

by Stephen A. Smoot; foreword by Congressman Alex X. Mooney; read by Mike Chamberlain

A ten-count indictment on how socialism not only ruins countries and their economies, but also destroys civil societies while denying natural rights. Learn More

A People Betrayed

By Paul Preston; read by Peter Noble

Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. Learn More

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

by Jared Yates Sexton; read by P.J. Ochlan

Like the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer—books that have paved the way for important narratives that shape how we perceive not only the politics of our time but also our way of life—The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is an instant, essential classic, an authoritative depiction of a country struggling to make sense of itself. Learn More

Penman of the Founding

by Jane E. Calvert; read by Kitty Hendrix

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available February

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Pearl of the Desert

by Rubina Raja; read by Christopher Hallett

Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive history of Palmyra in English. Learn More

The Pearl Harbor Collection

Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon; read by Tony Roberts

There is no better, more authoritative chronicle of Pearl Harbor and its repercussions than the three Gordon W. Prange titles collected here. Learn More

The Peacemakers

by Bruce W. Jentleson; read by Mike Chamberlain

In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Learn More

Pax Transatlantica

by Jussi M. Hanhimaki; read by Mike Cooper

A bold argument that tackles current trends, such as rising nationalism, arguing that they strengthen rather than undermine transatlantic ties. Learn More

Patsy

by Nicole Dennis-Benn; read by Sharon Gordon

Lambda Literary Award Winner
2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
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Jenna Bush Hagar Book Club Pick
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O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 201

A beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration, and the sacrifices we make in the name of love from award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn. Learn More

Patriot Presidents

by William E. Leuchtenburg; read by Tim Fannon

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January

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Patrick Henry

by Jon Kukla; read by Paul Woodson

This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry—the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"—restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence. Learn More

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

by Richard A. McKay; read by Paul Woodson

The search for a "patient zero"—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? Learn More