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Title: A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy

Author: Lis Wiehl

Narrator: Lis Wiehl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades. As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience and the ingrained lessons of her upraising to bear on her remarkable exploration of the case, interviewing numerous FBI and CIA agents both past and present as well as the individuals closest to Hanssen. She speaks with his brother-in-law, his oldest and best friend, and even his psychiatrist. In all her conversations, Wiehl is trying to figure out how he did it—and at what cost. But she also pursues questions urgently relevant to our national security today. Could there be another spy in the system? Could the presence of a spy be an even greater threat now than ever before, with the greater prominence cyber security has taken in recent years? Wiehl explores the mechanisms and politics of our national security apparatus and how they make us vulnerable to precisely this kind of threat.

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Title: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Author: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smth

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends “Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom. But the “identity politics” so compulsively referenced bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference, “identity politics” is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. But the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò deftly argues, is not with “identity politics” itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and become the victim of elite capture—deployed by political, social, and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of “class” vs. “race.” By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.

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Title: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Author: Sally Hayden

Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling in a scrimmage between warring factions, and they remained stuck, defenseless, with only one remaining hope: contacting her. Hayden had inadvertently stumbled onto a human rights disaster of epic proportions. From this single message begins a staggering account of the migrant crisis across North Africa, in a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism. With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden’s book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the European Union started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned shines a light on the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance in order to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.

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Title: [Portuguese] - A LEI

Author: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrator: Miguel Dias

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2018

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Porque é que a instituição que faz cumprir a lei não obedece a lei? Porque é que a lei permite que o estado pratique atividades que são consideradas ilegais para os indivíduos? Estas são algumas das mais intrigantes questões em filosofia político-econômica. Particularmente, a questão da lei que viola a moral é central para a compreensão da filosofia estatista. Bastiat, nesta obra de 1850, discute a crucial questão de como determinar se alguma lei é injusta. Também define as situações em que o estado passa a comportar-se como contraventor. Bastiat discute profundamente, e com grande capacidade de síntese, estas e outras questões neste texto que parece ter sido escrito nos dias de hoje. O ensaio é eterno pois aplica-se sempre que o estado decide obedecer leis diferentes daquelas que os indivíduos devem obedecer.

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Title: Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream

Author: Dinesh D'Souza

Narrator: David Cochran Heath

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2012

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In his controversial New York Times bestseller The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza answered the question on everyone’s mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D’Souza explained, is Obama’s fervent anticolonial ideology. Here, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama’s America, D’Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anticolonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our founders would hardly recognize. Obama came into office with an eight-year plan for America, argues D’Souza. If he’s reelected in 2012, he will be able to finish the job—and destroy America’s future. Making the case that Obama must be a one-term president, Obama’s America reveals what unchecked power will do to this great nation and is a must-read for anyone who cares about America and her future.

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Title: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: In the Classical Tradition

Author: Ludwig Von Mises

Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Release date: August 6, 2012

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In 1927, classical liberalism—based on a belief in individualism, reason, capitalism, and free trade—was dying, when one of the twentieth century's greatest social thinkers wrote this combative and convincing restatement. Nowhere are the key principles of Mises' philosophy better represented than in this timeless work. Mises was a careful and logical theoretician who believed that ideas rule the world, and this especially comes to light in Liberalism. 'The ultimate outcome of the struggle' between liberalism and totalitarianism, say Mises, 'will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.'

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Title: The Common Law

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Narrator: Robert Morris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Release date: August 2, 2012

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite. In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute in Boston, he systematized his early legal doctrines, creating an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted today. Beginning with historical forms of liability, it goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law. This is a lucid, accessible, and continually relevant sourcebook for students and laymen alike.

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Title: The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality

Author: Chris Mooney

Narrator: William Hughes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Release date: April 10, 2012

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it’s just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more. Why won’t Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts? Science writer Chris Mooney explores brain scans, polls, and psychology experiments to explain why conservatives today believe more wrong things, appear more likely than Democrats to oppose new ideas and less likely to change their beliefs in the face of new facts, and sometimes respond to compelling evidence by doubling down on their current beliefs. Certain to spark discussion and debate, The Republican Brain also promises to add to the lengthy list of persuasive scientific findings that Republicans reject and deny.

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Title: Treatise on Law

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Narrator: Robin Lawson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2012

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism. This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.

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Title: Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again

Author: Donald J. Trump

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: December 5, 2011

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In his blockbuster new book, businessman and entrepreneur Donald J. Trump argues that America is in serious trouble, and that our days as a superpower are numbered. “Our nation has become a whipping post for the rest of the world. It’s time to get tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States,” says Trump. “We need to get serious about the debt, we need to get serious about oil, we need to get serious about job creation, and we need to get serious about our country’s future.” With his trademark candor and charisma, Trump reveals his hard-line, commonsense solutions to the problems plaguing us today and shows how we can put our country back on the path to greatness. Nobody is better at achieving spectacular success than Donald Trump. Here, Trump shows how America can do the same.