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Title: Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Author: Mike Rothschild

Narrator: Jon Vertullo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Release date: September 19, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The strange tale of how one Jewish family—the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for conspiracy theories over the course of the last two centuries . . . In 2018 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to share her suspicions that the California wildfires were started by 'space solar generators' which were funded by powerful, mysterious backers. Instantly, thousands of people rallied around her, blaming the fires on 'Jewish space lasers' and, ultimately, the Rothschild family. For more than 200 years, the name 'Rothschild' has been synonymous with two things: great wealth, and conspiracy theories about what they're 'really doing' with it. Almost from the moment Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons emerged from the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt to revolutionize the banking world, the Rothschild family has been the target of myths, hoaxes, bizarre accusations, and constant, virulent antisemitism. Over the years, they have been blamed for everything from the sinking of the Titanic, to causing the Great Depression, and even creating the COVID-19 pandemic. Jewish Space Lasers is a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family.

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Title: The Democrat Party Hates America

Author: Mark R. Levin

Narrator: Jeremy Lowell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Release date: September 19, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.58 of Total 36

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 11

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star returns to the page to reveal the radically dangerous Democrat agenda that is upending American life. In American Marxism, Mark Levin explained how Marxist ideology has invaded our society and culture. In doing so, he exposed the institutions, scholars, and activists leading the revolution. Now, he picks up where he left off: to hold responsible the true malefactors steering our country down the wrong path. Insightful and hard-hitting as ever, Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its new revolution. As in a Thomas Paine pamphlet or a clarion call from Paul Revere, Levin alerts his fellow Americans to the destruction this country is facing, and rallies them to defeat the threat in front of us—more looming than ever. He writes, “Every legal, legitimate, and appropriate tool and method must be employed in the short- and long- run to defeat the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party must be resoundingly conquered in the next election and several elections thereafter, or it will become extremely difficult to undo the damage it is unleashing at breakneck pace.”

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Title: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: A Biography of America's Peculiar Creation Through the Eyes of the People Who Shaped It

Author: Thomas E. Weaver

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 19, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A timely look at how the Electoral College has changed US history and why it endures—told through the lenses of specific people who both influenced the process and were impacted by the results. 'Over the years, no feature of the Constitution has attracted more criticism than that strange creature called the Electoral College. Thomas E. Weaver has made that history into a story with an intriguing cast of characters, some familiar, several new to me. If you want to know why it is so hard to do away with this long-standing anachronism, Weaver's story will help you understand.' —JOSEPH J. ELLIS, Professor Emeritus of History, Mount Holyoke College, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 'Those who think that throwing stones at political institutions is the same as reasoned debate should take some lessons from this carefully researched book. With a cast of colorful characters in tow, Weaver examines the long-standing controversies surrounding the EC and sets out numerous proposals for reform, which range from outright abolition to removing the 'plus two' clause. Weaver brings a wealth of historical research to the task, writing with authority and clarity.' —Kirkus

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Title: The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives

Author: Josiah Ober, Brook Manville

Narrator: Christopher Douyard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Release date: September 19, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being 'tested' or is 'under attack.' But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a 'civic bargain' with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity. That bargain also requires them to fulfill the duties of democratic citizenship: governing themselves with no 'boss' except one another, embracing compromise, treating each other as civic friends, and investing in civic education for each rising generation. Manville and Ober trace the long progression toward self-government through four key moments in democracy's history: Classical Athens, Republican Rome, Great Britain's constitutional monarchy, and America's founding. Comparing what worked and what failed in each case, they draw out lessons for how modern democracies can survive and thrive.

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Title: The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women

Author: Leigh Gilmore

Narrator: Leigh Gilmore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What changed? Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. At a time when the cultural conversation was fixated on appeals to legal and bureaucratic systems, narrative activism—storytelling in the service of social change—elevated survivors as authorities. Their testimony fused credibility and accountability into the #MeToo effect: uniting millions of separate accounts into an existential demand for justice and the right to be heard. Gilmore reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism. She analyzes autobiographical storytelling in intersectional and antirape activism and traces how literary representations of sexual violence dating from antiquity intertwine with cultural notions of doubt, obligation, and agency. By focusing on the intersectional prehistory of #MeToo, Gilmore sheds light on how survivors have used narrative to frame sexual violence as an urgent problem requiring structural solutions in diverse contexts.

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Title: Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

Author: Mark Harrison

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction costs, incentivized indecision, compromised the effectiveness of government officials, eroded citizens' trust in institutions and in each other, and led to a secretive society and an uninformed elite. The result is what this book calls the secrecy/capacity tradeoff: a bargain in which the Soviet state accepted the reduction of state capacity as the cost of ensuring its own survival. This book is the first comprehensive history of Soviet secrecy in the English language. Harrison combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate the impact of secrecy on Soviet state capacity from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Based on multiple years of research in once-secret Soviet-era archives, this book addresses two gaps in history and social science: the core role of secrecy in building and stabilizing the communist states of the twentieth century; and the corrosive effects of secrecy on the capabilities of authoritarian states.

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Title: Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty

Narrator: Sanya Simmons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told. In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-listen for anyone interested in the history of New England.

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Title: The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe

Author: Marek Kohn

Narrator: Philip Battley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe's ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.

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Title: Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Author: Erik R. Scott

Narrator: David De Vries

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were given sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. Upon reaching the West, they were entitled to special benefits, including financial assistance and permanent residency. In contrast to other migrants, defectors were pursued by the states they left even as they were eagerly sought by the United States and its allies. Taking part in a risky game that played out across the globe, defectors sought to transcend the limitations of the Cold War world. Defectors follows their treacherous journeys and looks at how their unauthorized flight via land, sea, and air gave shape to a globalized world. It charts a global struggle over defectors that unfolded among rival intelligence agencies operating in the shadows of an occupied Europe, in the forbidden border zones of the USSR, in the disputed straits of the South China Sea, on a hijacked plane 10,000 feet in the air, and around the walls of Soviet embassies. Although defection all but disappeared after the Cold War, this innovative work shows how it shaped the governance of global borders and helped forge an international refugee system whose legacy and limitations remain with us to this day.

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Title: [German] - Sätze, die die Welt verändern - Eine Gedankenreise von Sokrates bis Nietzsche (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Bruno Preisendörfer

Narrator: Julian Mehne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Release date: September 7, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Es gibt diese Sätze, die jeder kennt. Kein Wunder, dass sie unser Weltbild bis heute beeinflussen. Nur: Kaum jemand weiß, woher sie stammen, wie sie ursprünglich gemeint waren - und was ihnen im Laufe der Zeit zugestoßen ist. Bruno Preisendörfer begibt sich auf eine erstaunliche und spannende Spurensuche. Berühmten Zitaten geht es oft wie literarischen Figuren: So wie diese ihren Herkunftsbüchern entlaufen, verlassen jene ihre Entstehungskontexte und beginnen bei ihrer jahrhundertelangen Wanderung durch die Köpfe der Menschen ein Eigenleben. Manche werden dabei fett vor Bedeutungen, die sie ursprünglich gar nicht hatten, andere magern bis zur Bedeutungslosigkeit ab. Manchmal richtet das kaum Schaden an, wie bei der Behauptung, über Geschmack ließe sich nicht streiten; die Konsequenzen können jedoch auch äußerst unheilvoll sein, wie bei Darwins 'Überleben des Stärksten'; mitunter wird ein Satz auch einem Autor untergeschoben, obwohl der ihn nie geschrieben hat. Von wem stammt noch gleich 'Zurück zur Natur' ...? Immer wieder schlägt Preisendörfer elegante Haken zu Kuriosem und Unerwartetem. So wird sein Hörbuch zu einem ebenso lehrreichen wie unterhaltsamen Wunderding irgendwo zwischen philosophischem Handbuch, historischem Panoptikum und zeitdiagnostischem Essay.