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Free Download Timothy Venning, Liam Gerrard (Narrator), "An Alternative History of Britain: Normans and Early Plantagenets"
English | ASIN: B0CV5Y5G12 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps| ~11:04:00 | 314 MB
Continuing his exploration of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. He discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a different turn and analyzes the possible results. While speculative, the scenarios are highly plausible and rooted in a firm understanding of actual events and their context. Venning gives listeners a clearer understanding of the factors at play and why things happened the way they did, as well as a tantalizing view of what might so easily have been different.
Key scenarios include:

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Free Download American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BR8LCBBH | 2024 | 10 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Katie Rogers
Narrator: Katie Rogers, Karen Murray

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Free Download Thomas R. Parker, Mike Chamberlain (Narrator), "American Presidents in Diplomacy and War: Statecraft, Foreign Policy, and Leadership"
English | ASIN: B0CV5YT6FG | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps| ~07:33:00 | 208 MB
American Presidents in Diplomacy and War chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power. In this book, Thomas R. Parker reveals how America's most successful leaders manage events instead of allowing events to control them.
Parker explores how the U.S. presidency, from the days of the early Republic to the present, shaped the world. Ranging from George Washington to George H. W. Bush, Parker shows how successful statecraft requires the understanding of complex situations, the prudent evaluation of various courses of action, the ability to adapt and to anticipate, and personal determination. Parker compares each of these leaders to their contemporaries-reasonable political leaders who nonetheless made serious mistakes, such as Thomas Jefferson and Barack Obama-to examine the dangers of being unable to strike the right balance of aggressiveness and caution and to examine the costs of inexperience and ambivalence toward military power. The book concludes by discussing the increasingly complex international situation of today, particularly the manifold challenges posed by China and Russia to U.S. foreign policy, and the continued necessity of effective statecraft.

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Free Download Ralph Young, Tom Perkins (Narrator), "American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent"
English | ASIN: B0CSLM5T1W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:30:00 | 269 MB
The history of America is a history of dissent. Protests against the British Parliament's taxation policies led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. In the twenty-first century, hundreds of thousands protested the war in Iraq, joined the 2011 Occupy movement, the 2017 Women's March, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. There have been dissenting Americans for as long as there has been an America.
In American Patriots, historian Ralph Young chronicles the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. Some of these protesters are celebrated heroes of American history, while others are ordinary people, frequently overlooked, whose stories show that change is often accomplished through grassroots activism.

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Free Download American Negra: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C92631RR | 2024 | 10 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Natasha S. Alford
Narrator: Natasha S. Alford

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Free Download Jacob Heilbrunn, Kent Klineman (Narrator), "America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators"
English | ASIN: B0CTBCG3R6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:23:00 | 238 MB
In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon.
It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically.

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Free Download Alphabetical Diaries (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3NGBT73 | 2024 | 5 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Sheila Heti
Narrator: Kate Berlant

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Free Download All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C67BZVN6 | 2024 | 13 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 383 MB
Author: Elizabeth Comen
Narrator: Anna Caputo

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Free Download All Rhodes Lead Here: A Novel, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4BYNCBL | 2024 | 17 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 492 MB
Author: Mariana Zapata
Narrator: Amanda Ronconi, Sebastian York

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Free Download Maurice Samuels, Jason Grasl (Narrator), "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives Series)"
English | ASIN: B0CTJ3Y68R | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:07:00 | 142 MB
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death to Judas!" In this book, Maurice Samuels gives listeners new insight into Dreyfus himself-the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of Dreyfus's early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the false accusation leading to his imprisonment on Devil's Island, the fight to prove his innocence that divided the French nation, and his life of quiet obscurity after World War I.

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