Politics

Taming the Octopus

by Kyle Edward Williams; read by Jon Vertullo

The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism. Learn More

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Learn More

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung; read by Rebecca Lam

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"—now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party—that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Learn More

The Picnic

by Matthew Longo; read by Tom Parks

The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. Learn More

Getting Russia Right

by Thomas Graham; read by Daniel Henning

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? Learn More

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic

by Kevin Kenny; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction. Learn More

Making the Supreme Court

by Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec; read by Lee Goettl

Based on rich data and qualitative evidence, Making the Supreme Court provides a sharp lens on the social and political transformations that created a new American politics. Learn More

The New Crusades

by Khaled A. Beydoun; foreword by Kimberlé Crenshaw; read by Neil Shah

The first book to examine global Islamophobia from a legal and ground-up perspective, from renowned public intellectual Khaled A. Beydoun. Learn More

The Isolated Presidency

by Jordan T. Cash; read by Joshua Saxon

To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Jordan T. Cash examines the "isolated presidents"—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Learn More

Underserved

by Ja'Ron Smith and Chris Pilkerton; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

This book provides a roadmap for modern-day conservatives to advance President Lincoln’s vision to help underserved communities across our country. Learn More

Buried Treasures

by Jack Zipes; read by Stephen Bowlby

Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales. Learn More

To Walk the Earth Again

by Christopher Trigg; read by Mike Cooper

The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Learn More

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre; read by Steve Marvel

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An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. Learn More

The Point of No Return

by Thomas Byrne Edsall; read by Mike Chamberlain

After Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. Learn More

A Legacy of Discrimination

by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective. Learn More

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