Politics

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

A Fabulous Failure

by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein; read by Tom Campbell

This book reveals why Bill Clinton's expansive agenda was a fabulous failure, and why its demise still haunts us today. Learn More

How Do We Get Out of Here

by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.; read by Frank Block

How Do We Get Out of Here? is R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s intimate memoir, detailing his leadership in the conservative movement and his relationships with its major personalities from 1968 to the present. Learn More

Germany, 1923

by Volker Ullrich; translated by Jefferson Chase; read by Christopher Douyard

From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic. Learn More

Thanks for Your Service

by Peter D. Feaver; read by Lee Goettl

A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations. Learn More

Alexandra Petri's US History

by Alexandra Petri; read by Alexandra Petri

A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed. Learn More

Into the Bright Sunshine

by Samuel G. Freedman; read by Mike Lenz

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the twentieth century. Learn More

The Making of Black Lives Matter

by Christopher J. Lebron; read by Diontae Black

A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Learn More

Against the World

by Tara Zahra; read by Natasha Soudek

A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today's battles over international trade, immigration, public health, and global inequality. 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

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

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