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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
Democracy
by Jason Brennan; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
Democracy: A Guided Tour gives listeners a crash course on the evolution of the idea of democracy, how it has been and is currently practiced, and how we might think about it as we head into a new chapter in its story. 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
At the Frontier of God's Empire
by Ji Li; read by Kathleen Li
At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China tells the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1948). Learn More
Confronting Saddam Hussein
by Melvyn P. Leffler; read by Christopher P. Brown
A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003—an outcome that was in no way predetermined. Learn More
Spying on the Reich
by R. T. Howard; read by Julian Elfer
Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and their intelligence services; and the relations and rivalries between Western governments, seen through the prism of the cooperation, or lack of it, between their spy agencies. Learn More
Cold Peace
by Michael W. Doyle; read by Paul Heitsch
An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War. Learn More
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover
by Lerone A. Martin; read by Langston Darby
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. Learn More
How Data Happened
by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones; read by Eric Jason Martin
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. Learn More
KGB Man
by Cecil Kuhne; read by Mike Chamberlain
A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s . . . . until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia. Learn More
The Pursuit of Dominance
by Christopher J. Fettweis; read by Tristan Morris
A sweeping yet concise account of history's empires that managed to maintain dominance for long stretches. Learn More
Over the Wall
by Kevin M. Hallinan; with Rob Travalino; read by Steve Marvel
Lieutenant Kevin M. Hallinan's adventure-packed and insightful journey through the evolution of law enforcement, the rise of counterterrorism, and the birth of modern sports security. Learn More
I Dream with Open Eyes
by George Prochnik; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
A journey of reckoning and renewal, this story of family history and future dreams is an examination of the individual imagination as a catalyst for social change. Learn More
Fighting for Justice
by Mark Shaw; read by Greg D. Barnett
Packed with shocking new evidence, Fighting for Justice exposes the cover-ups of the JFK assassination and the murders of Dorothy Kilgallen and Marilyn Monroe, while revealing for the first time the corrupt inner workings of the Warren Commission based on the firsthand "whistleblower" account of an actual Commission member never identified before. Learn More
The Envoy
by Gordon Sondland; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
This is a behind-the-scenes look at Trump, his cabinet, and an international diplomacy you've never seen before. Learn More
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