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Rage and the Republic

The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution

by Jonathan Turley ...

Narrated by Jonathan Turley ...

Unabridged

15 hours 50 min

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in ... Read more

$29.99 USD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in
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All the Wrong Moves

How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump

by Anthony Scaramucci ...

Narrated by Anthony Scaramucci ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author.In All the Wrong Moves, Anthony Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over ... Read more

$26.99 USD

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author.In All the Wrong Moves, Anthony Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over
... Read more
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American Caesar

How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy

by Bradley B. Onishi ...

Narrated by Bradley B. Onishi ...

Unabridged

7 hours 45 min

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracyThis program is read by the author.From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence is underway. Reactionary Catholics dream of a new Christendom. Protestant pastors invoke divine right over ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A chilling and urgently needed exposé on the forces pushing American politics and religion toward a post-constitutional autocracyThis program is read by the author.From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural pulpits, from Catholic monasteries to Beltway think tanks and Project 2025, a convergence is underway. Reactionary Catholics dream of a new Christendom. Protestant pastors invoke divine right over
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On Courage

How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear

by Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer ...

Narrated by Rachel Maddow ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

READ BY RACHEL MADDOWFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political ... Read more

$23.99 USD

READ BY RACHEL MADDOWFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political
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Profiles in Cowardice

A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era

by Jacob Weisberg ...

Narrated by Jacob Weisberg, Samantha Desz, Oliver Wyman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

**“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump enablers with a few key things in ... Read more

$22.00 USD

**“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump enablers with a few key things in
... Read more
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The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

4 hours 47 min

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly ... Read more

$6.99 USD

From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should be. This is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly
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Gilded Rage

Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman ...

Narrated by Jacob Silverman ...

Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob SilvermanA searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires eternal youth and those who
... Read more
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad ...

Narrated by Omar El Akkad ...

Unabridged

5 hours 21 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now ... Read more

$17.50 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now
... Read more
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy

by Skye Perryman ...

Narrated by Skye Perryman ...

Unabridged

4 hours 41 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A manual for people who are tired of wringing their hands and are ready to roll up their sleeves.”—HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONSkye Perryman—TIME 100 honoree and CEO of Democracy Forward—offers an urgent, inspiring blueprint for how ordinary people can fight for freedom in extraordinary times.“A clarion call for everyone ready to meet this national and global crisis—and win. ... Read more

$18.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A manual for people who are tired of wringing their hands and are ready to roll up their sleeves.”—HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONSkye Perryman—TIME 100 honoree and CEO of Democracy Forward—offers an urgent, inspiring blueprint for how ordinary people can fight for freedom in extraordinary times.“A clarion call for everyone ready to meet this national and global crisis—and win.
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Against Tech Oligarchy

Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry

by JS Tan, Clarissa Redwine ...

Narrated by Clarissa Redwine ...

Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president’s anti ... Read more

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As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.After Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president’s anti
... Read more
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Breaking the Law

Exposing the Weaponization of America's Legal System Against Donald Trump

by Alex Marlow ...

Narrated by Alex Marlow ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and two-time New York Times bestselling author of the “must-read” (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Breaking the News and Breaking Biden, returns with his third book: an intensely-researched examination into the legal cases against President Trump that threaten not only the conservative movement ... Read more

$25.99 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News and two-time New York Times bestselling author of the “must-read” (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Breaking the News and Breaking Biden, returns with his third book: an intensely-researched examination into the legal cases against President Trump that threaten not only the conservative movement
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Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

by Clay Risen ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” .. ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” ..
... Read more
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The Conservative Mind

From Burke to Eliot

by Russell Kirk ...

Narrated by Phillip Davidson ...

Unabridged

19 hours 50 min

First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.Kirk ... Read more

$31.99 USD

First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.Kirk
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Just Pills

The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care

by Rebecca Kelliher ...

Narrated by Stina Nielsen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min

As women's rights are increasingly under attack, journalist Rebecca Kelliher dives into the gripping history of abortion pills, weaving together the many people who, across decades and continents, have sought to ensure access to these medicationsSpanning more than a century and several continents, with a tenacious cast of feminist activists, scientists, politicians, doctors, and abortion seekers, ... Read more

$28.00 USD

As women's rights are increasingly under attack, journalist Rebecca Kelliher dives into the gripping history of abortion pills, weaving together the many people who, across decades and continents, have sought to ensure access to these medicationsSpanning more than a century and several continents, with a tenacious cast of feminist activists, scientists, politicians, doctors, and abortion seekers,
... Read more
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Better than Sex

Confessions of a Political Junkie

by Hunter S. Thompson ...

Narrated by Scott Sowers ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete
... Read more
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The Steal

Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts

by Alex Wagner ...

Narrated by Suehyla El-Attar ...

Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

From celebrated news anchor, journalist, and host of Crooked Media's "Runaway Country," Alex Wagner, the wild and true story of how a group of right-wing raiders changed the American judiciary forever.The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was a sharp right turn for American governance. After decades on the fringes, the conservative right had risen to power, finally poised to fashion some of the ... Read more

$26.99 USD

From celebrated news anchor, journalist, and host of Crooked Media's "Runaway Country," Alex Wagner, the wild and true story of how a group of right-wing raiders changed the American judiciary forever.The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was a sharp right turn for American governance. After decades on the fringes, the conservative right had risen to power, finally poised to fashion some of the
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Supremacy

How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

by Daphna Renan, Nikolas Bowie ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields.The Supreme Court claims the extraordinary power to strike down laws passed by Congress―and for more than a century now, it has used this power to undermine democracy. But does the Constitution force us to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields.The Supreme Court claims the extraordinary power to strike down laws passed by Congress―and for more than a century now, it has used this power to undermine democracy. But does the Constitution force us to
... Read more
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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

by Yang Jisheng ...

Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a
... Read more
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Regime Change

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

17 hours 7 min

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre...the book is packed with news that will stay news...This is reporting of consequence.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker“A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.” —Tina Brown“Riveting and richly textured...What the authors add is the vivid detail that make... ... Read more

$32.99 USD

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre...the book is packed with news that will stay news...This is reporting of consequence.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker“A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.” —Tina Brown“Riveting and richly textured...What the authors add is the vivid detail that make...
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How the World Really Works

The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going

by Vaclav Smil ...

Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.”—The Washington PostAn essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not,
... Read more
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Why We're Polarized

by Ezra Klein ...

Narrated by Ezra Klein ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and ... Read more

$24.99 USD

**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and
... Read more
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How to Test Negative for Stupid

And Why Washington Never Will

by John Kennedy ...

Narrated by John Kennedy ...

Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the Senator’s tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by his thoughts on various issues and humorous ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Narrated by John Kennedy himself, this audiobook of “America’s most quotable Senator” offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.How to Test Negative for Stupid offers the Senator’s tongue-in-cheek guidebook through Washington, punctuated by his thoughts on various issues and humorous
... Read more
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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever

by Lloyd Alter ...

Narrated by Cherlandra Estrada ...

Unabridged

5 hours 19 min

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiencyLiving the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiencyLiving the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert
... Read more
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Without Precedent

How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights

by Lisa Graves ...

Narrated by Lisa Graves, Teri Schnaubelt ...

Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark MoneyIn the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control one’s ... Read more

$24.99 USD

“A devastating, passionate takedown of Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court by a Washington insider.” —Jane Mayer, author of Dark MoneyIn the last twenty years the US Supreme Court has radically curtailed voting rights, undermined anti-corruption measures, encouraged extreme political gerrymandering, restricted the regulation of guns, and obliterated the constitutional right to control one’s
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