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  "map_content": "The Machiavellians\nDefenders of Freedom\nFailed to add items\nAdd to Cart failed.\nAdd to Wish List failed.\nRemove from wishlist failed.\nAdding to library failed\nFollow podcast failed\nUnfollow podcast failed\nGet 2 free audiobooks during trial.\nBuy for $15.56\nWe are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method\nAbout this listen\nListeners also enjoyed...\n-\nThe Anarchist Handbook\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nAnarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society \u2014 and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself \u2014 anarchism \u2014 is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors.\n-\n-\nAn absolute gem\n- By Tim on 12-16-21\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nDemocracy: The God That Failed\n- The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)\n- By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe\n- Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda\n- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.\n-\n-\nAudiobook Chapter 11 is actually a repeat of Chapter 9\n- By Anonymous User on 08-23-21\n-\nThe White Pill\n- A Tale of Good and Evil\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers\u2019 paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe.\n-\n-\nDo not buy the audio version.\n- By Todd on 02-20-23\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nSuicide of the West\n- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle\n- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThrough studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even \"suicidal\" tendencies - all of which arise from the \u201cLiberal syndrome\u201d and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime.\n-\n-\nWoefully outdated and uncomfortable\n- By G.W. on 11-19-20\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nThe New Right\n- A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 9 hrs\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nFrom the heterodox right wing of the 1940s to the Buchanan/Rothbard alliance of 1992 and all the way through to what he witnessed personally in Charlottesville, The New Right is a thorough firsthand accounting of the concepts, characters and chronology of this widely misunderstood sociopolitical phenomenon. Today\u2019s fringe is tomorrow\u2019s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture.\n-\n-\nGreat political analysis\n- By Turner Houghton on 05-23-19\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nThe Righteous Mind\n- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion\n- By: Jonathan Haidt\n- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt\n- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.\n-\n-\nWhy Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?\n- By K. Cunningham on 09-21-12\nBy: Jonathan Haidt\n-\nThe Anarchist Handbook\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nAnarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society \u2014 and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself \u2014 anarchism \u2014 is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors.\n-\n-\nAn absolute gem\n- By Tim on 12-16-21\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nDemocracy: The God That Failed\n- The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)\n- By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe\n- Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda\n- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.\n-\n-\nAudiobook Chapter 11 is actually a repeat of Chapter 9\n- By Anonymous User on 08-23-21\n-\nThe White Pill\n- A Tale of Good and Evil\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers\u2019 paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison the world had ever seen: a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe.\n-\n-\nDo not buy the audio version.\n- By Todd on 02-20-23\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nSuicide of the West\n- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle\n- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThrough studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even \"suicidal\" tendencies - all of which arise from the \u201cLiberal syndrome\u201d and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime.\n-\n-\nWoefully outdated and uncomfortable\n- By G.W. on 11-19-20\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nThe New Right\n- A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics\n- By: Michael Malice\n- Narrated by: Michael Malice\n- Length: 9 hrs\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nFrom the heterodox right wing of the 1940s to the Buchanan/Rothbard alliance of 1992 and all the way through to what he witnessed personally in Charlottesville, The New Right is a thorough firsthand accounting of the concepts, characters and chronology of this widely misunderstood sociopolitical phenomenon. Today\u2019s fringe is tomorrow\u2019s orthodoxy. As entertaining as it is informative, The New Right is required listening for every American across the spectrum who would like to learn more about the past, present and future of our divided political culture.\n-\n-\nGreat political analysis\n- By Turner Houghton on 05-23-19\nBy: Michael Malice\n-\nThe Righteous Mind\n- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion\n- By: Jonathan Haidt\n- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt\n- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.\n-\n-\nWhy Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?\n- By K. Cunningham on 09-21-12\nBy: Jonathan Haidt\n-\nThe Ancient City\n- A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome\n- By: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges\n- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin\n- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOne of the most remarkable historical works of the 19th century came from the pen of French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a native of Paris. This amazing analysis of family and religious life among the ancient Greeks and Romans is the key to understanding ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The story begins in the misty period of the Bronze Age as the Indo-Europeans began to filter down into the Italian and Greek peninsulas. They brought with them a patriarchy that was based on ancestor worship and the veneration of hearth gods.\n-\n-\nWow! Shifted my whole perspective on Roman History\n- By Michael on 08-25-24\n-\nThe Prince\n- By: Niccolo Machiavelli\n- Narrated by: Grover Gardner\n- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nFrom 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 realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, or a president.\n-\n-\nYou have to know what you get with The Prince\n- By Cody Brown on 02-10-15\n-\nThe Anatomy of the State (LvMI)\n- By: Murray N. Rothbard\n- Narrated by: John Riddle\n- Length: 57 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nMurray Rothbard was known as the state's greatest living enemy, and this audiobook is his most powerful statement on the topic. He explains what a state is and what it is not. He shows how it is an institution that violates all that we hold as honest and moral, and how it operates under a false cover.\n-\n-\nGood material\n- By Tom on 12-14-19\n-\nBronze Age Mindset\n- By: Bronze Age Pervert\n- Narrated by: Adam Smith\n- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nSome say that this work, found in a safe-box in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated because Bronze Age Pervert refuses to learn what he calls \"the low and plebeian art of writing\". It isn't known how this work was transcribed. The contents are pure dynamite. He explains that you live in ant farm. That you are observed by the lords of lies, ritually probed. Ancient man had something you have lost: confidence in his instincts and strength, knowledge in his blood. BAP shows how the Bronze Age mind-set can set you free from this iron prison and help you embark on the path of power.\n-\n-\nMandatory Reading For All Men\n- By Anonymous User on 11-20-18\n-\nHuman Action\n- A Treatise on Economics\n- By: Ludwig von Mises\n- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach\n- Length: 47 hrs and 44 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHuman Action is the most important book on political economy you will ever own. It was (and remains) the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. This is the Scholar's Edition: accept no substitute. You will treasure this volume. The Scholar's Edition is the original, unaltered treatise (originally published in 1949) that shaped a generation of Austrians and made possible the intellectual movement that is leading the global charge for free markets.\n-\n-\nBetter be prepared to bookmark\n- By Zephyr on 07-15-14\nBy: Ludwig von Mises\n-\nHuman Smoke\n- The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization\n- By: Nicholson Baker\n- Narrated by: Norman Dietz\n- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHuman Smoke delivers an indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources---including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries---the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust.\n-\n-\nNot a \"History Book\" per se\n- By Roy on 02-20-09\nBy: Nicholson Baker\n-\nA Conflict of Visions\n- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles\n- By: Thomas Sowell\n- Narrated by: Michael Edwards\n- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn this book, which the author calls a \"culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas\", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions.\n-\n-\nCritical read for 2008 change election\n- By Elaine C Grimes on 06-05-08\nBy: Thomas Sowell\n-\nRevolt Against the Modern World\n- Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga\n- By: Julius Evola\n- Narrated by: Michael Moynihan\n- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWith unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, Revolt Against the Modern World outlines a profound metaphysics of history and demonstrates how and why we have lost contact with the transcendent dimension of being.\n-\n-\nMore true now than ever\n- By Jonathan Prince on 07-14-23\nBy: Julius Evola\n-\nThe Origins of Totalitarianism\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Nadia May\n- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an \"ideological weapon for imperialism\", beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 19th century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.\n-\n-\nVast and intricate analysis of horror\n- By Roger on 08-04-08\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nThe Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy\n- By: Christopher Lasch\n- Narrated by: David de Vries\n- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.\n-\n-\nThe last twenty years proves the author right\n- By Del Lewis-Chia on 08-08-20\n-\nOn Anarchism\n- By: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction\n- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin\n- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOn Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.\n-\n-\nHit and Miss\n- By Jacob King on 06-18-14\nBy: Noam Chomsky, and others\n-\nUnderstanding Power\n- The Indispensable Chomsky\n- By: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor\n- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth\n- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nA major new collection from \"arguably the most important intellectual alive\" ( The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.\n-\n-\nCurrent times demand you get this into your head.\n- By Comatoso on 08-12-15\nBy: Noam Chomsky, and others\nCritic reviews\nRelated to this topic\n-\nOn Revolution\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert\n- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the 18th-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the 20th century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future.\n-\n-\nInsightful Analysis of Differing Revolutions\n- By Roger on 01-10-18\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nOn Anarchism\n- By: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction\n- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin\n- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOn Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.\n-\n-\nHit and Miss\n- By Jacob King on 06-18-14\nBy: Noam Chomsky, and others\n-\nThe Demon in Democracy\n- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies\n- By: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson\n- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard\n- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.\n-\n-\nImportant book on political philosophy\n- By Wayne on 08-02-19\nBy: Ryszard Legutko, and others\n-\nTheory and History\n- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)\n- By: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard\n- Narrated by: John Pruden\n- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nLike F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, \"remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises\". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.\n-\n-\nWithout This Book, You Are Uneducated\n- By Michael D. Rubin on 10-03-18\nBy: Ludwig von Mises, and others\n-\nThe Origins of Totalitarianism\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Nadia May\n- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an \"ideological weapon for imperialism\", beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 19th century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.\n-\n-\nVast and intricate analysis of horror\n- By Roger on 08-04-08\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nThe Idea of America\n- Reflections on the Birth of the United States\n- By: Gordon S Wood\n- Narrated by: Robert Fass\n- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history\n-\n-\nSophisticated analyses\n- By Roger on 01-25-12\nBy: Gordon S Wood\n-\nOn Revolution\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert\n- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the 18th-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the 20th century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future.\n-\n-\nInsightful Analysis of Differing Revolutions\n- By Roger on 01-10-18\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nOn Anarchism\n- By: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction\n- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin\n- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOn Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.\n-\n-\nHit and Miss\n- By Jacob King on 06-18-14\nBy: Noam Chomsky, and others\n-\nThe Demon in Democracy\n- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies\n- By: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson\n- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard\n- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.\n-\n-\nImportant book on political philosophy\n- By Wayne on 08-02-19\nBy: Ryszard Legutko, and others\n-\nTheory and History\n- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)\n- By: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard\n- Narrated by: John Pruden\n- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nLike F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, \"remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises\". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.\n-\n-\nWithout This Book, You Are Uneducated\n- By Michael D. Rubin on 10-03-18\nBy: Ludwig von Mises, and others\n-\nThe Origins of Totalitarianism\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Nadia May\n- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an \"ideological weapon for imperialism\", beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 19th century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.\n-\n-\nVast and intricate analysis of horror\n- By Roger on 08-04-08\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nThe Idea of America\n- Reflections on the Birth of the United States\n- By: Gordon S Wood\n- Narrated by: Robert Fass\n- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history\n-\n-\nSophisticated analyses\n- By Roger on 01-25-12\nBy: Gordon S Wood\n-\nAnarchy\n- By: Errico Malatesta\n- Narrated by: Caroline Collins\n- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n\"Anarchy\" (1907) is a political classic written by famous anarchist Errico Malatesta. \"Anarchy is a word which comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a party (which party has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare).\"\n-\n-\nMalatesta is a Fantastic writer.\n- By Elly on 08-28-21\nBy: Errico Malatesta\n-\nThe End of History and the Last Man\n- By: Francis Fukuyama\n- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser\n- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nEver since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.\n-\n-\nAn important discussion expertly narrated\n- By Kevin Teeple on 06-27-19\nBy: Francis Fukuyama\n-\nThe Constitution of Liberty\n- The Definitive Edition\n- By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek\n- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain\n- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe Constitution of Liberty is considered Hayek's classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty, ideals that he believes have guided - and must continue to guide - the growth of Western civilization. Here, Hayek defends the principles of a free society, casting a skeptical eye on the growth of the welfare state and examining the challenges to freedom posed by an ever-expanding government.\n-\n-\nvery detailed and important\n- By Big Kyle 570 on 06-17-20\nBy: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, and others\n-\nThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787\n- By: Gordon S. Wood\n- Narrated by: Joel Richards\n- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.\n-\n-\nThis Audible book is NOT for a popular audience!\n- By BigWally on 11-22-18\nBy: Gordon S. Wood\n-\nOn Liberty\n- By: John Stuart Mill\n- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron\n- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOn Liberty is a book by John Stuart Mill, one of the most celebrated philosophers on the subject of leadership and governing ideals. The book focuses on Mill's philosophy on utilitarianism which is one of his defining principles. The principles of the book are focused on developing a relationship between the ruling authority and liberty.\n-\n-\nMust read\n- By Trevor M. on 08-04-21\nBy: John Stuart Mill\n-\nAmerica's Revolutionary Mind\n- A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It\n- By: C. Bradley Thompson\n- Narrated by: Tom Parks\n- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the \"real American Revolution\"; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the 15 years before 1776.\n-\n-\nExcellent study of Revolutionary Thinking\n- By Amazon Customer on 03-24-21\n-\nThe Declaration of Independence (Revolutions Series)\n- Michael Hardt Presents Thomas Jefferson\n- By: Thomas Jefferson, Michael Hardt\n- Narrated by: Eric Myers\n- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn 1776 Thomas Jefferson, a future president, authored the most explosive document in the history of America: \"The Declaration of Independence\", formally severing the link between America and the British state. Michael Hardt, co-author of the groundbreaking \"Empire and Multitude\", examines this and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy is, seen through contemporary eyes, a biting critique of the current American administration's tyranny.\nBy: Thomas Jefferson, and others\n-\nThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution\n- By: Bernard Bailyn\n- Narrated by: Tom Perkins\n- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nTo the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, \"Fulfillment\", as a postscript. Here he discusses the intense nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.\n-\n-\nBernard Bailyn is a genius!\n- By John M. Crean on 04-21-19\nBy: Bernard Bailyn\n-\nFools, Frauds and Firebrands\n- Thinkers of the New Left\n- By: Roger Scruton\n- Narrated by: Rory Barnett\n- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nFrom one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, Ralph Milliband, and Eric Hobsbawm. Scruton delivers a critique of modern left-wing thinking.\n-\n-\nDeconstructing the New Left\n- By Wayne on 01-17-20\nBy: Roger Scruton\n-\nPhilosophy\n- Who Needs It\n- By: Ayn Rand\n- Narrated by: Lloyd James\n- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWho needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: a rational, conscious, and therefore practical one, or a contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal one.\n-\n-\nDeep and provocative\n- By Sierra Bravo on 05-21-09\nBy: Ayn Rand\n-\nChurchill's Trial\n- Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government\n- By: Dr. Larry Arnn\n- Narrated by: Wayne Campbell\n- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nA penetrating look at the necessity of constitutional limits upon government and exceptional men to lead those governments, uniquely taken by overlaying the life and writings of Winston Churchill with the American experiment.\n-\n-\nA Masterpiece of Political Philosophy\n- By Jean on 01-25-16\nBy: Dr. Larry Arnn\n-\nCapitalism\n- The Unknown Ideal\n- By: Ayn Rand\n- Narrated by: Anna Fields\n- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThe foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This was the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constituted a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presented her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.\n-\n-\nAshame this is not taught in our\n- By Karen on 08-18-07\nBy: Ayn Rand\nPeople who viewed this also viewed...\n-\nThe Managerial Revolution\n- What Is Happening in the World\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Keith Hahn\n- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWritten in 1941, this is the book that theorized how the world was moving into the hands of the \"managers\". Burnham explains how capitalism had virtually lost its control, and would be displaced not by labour, nor by socialism, but by the rule of administrators in business and in government.\n-\n-\nHorrendous narrator\n- By Trick009 on 04-30-22\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nSuicide of the West\n- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle\n- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThrough studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even \"suicidal\" tendencies - all of which arise from the \u201cLiberal syndrome\u201d and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime.\n-\n-\nWoefully outdated and uncomfortable\n- By G.W. on 11-19-20\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nThe Prophets of Doom\n- By: Neema Parvini\n- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri\n- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nLinear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalization and GDP growth at any cost. However, the end of the Cold War failed to produce the end of history as hoped, a fact brought home to many by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\nBy: Neema Parvini\n-\nThe Demon in Democracy\n- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies\n- By: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson\n- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard\n- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.\n-\n-\nImportant book on political philosophy\n- By Wayne on 08-02-19\nBy: Ryszard Legutko, and others\n-\nThe Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy\n- By: Christopher Lasch\n- Narrated by: David de Vries\n- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.\n-\n-\nThe last twenty years proves the author right\n- By Del Lewis-Chia on 08-08-20\n-\nDemocracy: The God That Failed\n- The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)\n- By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe\n- Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda\n- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.\n-\n-\nAudiobook Chapter 11 is actually a repeat of Chapter 9\n- By Anonymous User on 08-23-21\n-\nThe Managerial Revolution\n- What Is Happening in the World\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Keith Hahn\n- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWritten in 1941, this is the book that theorized how the world was moving into the hands of the \"managers\". Burnham explains how capitalism had virtually lost its control, and would be displaced not by labour, nor by socialism, but by the rule of administrators in business and in government.\n-\n-\nHorrendous narrator\n- By Trick009 on 04-30-22\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nSuicide of the West\n- An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism\n- By: James Burnham\n- Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle\n- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThrough studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even \"suicidal\" tendencies - all of which arise from the \u201cLiberal syndrome\u201d and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime.\n-\n-\nWoefully outdated and uncomfortable\n- By G.W. on 11-19-20\nBy: James Burnham\n-\nThe Prophets of Doom\n- By: Neema Parvini\n- Narrated by: Sebastian Abineri\n- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nLinear and progressive views of history have dominated the popular imagination for the past seventy years in a worldview wedded to the inexorable rise of globalization and GDP growth at any cost. However, the end of the Cold War failed to produce the end of history as hoped, a fact brought home to many by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\nBy: Neema Parvini\n-\nThe Demon in Democracy\n- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies\n- By: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson\n- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard\n- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nRyszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.\n-\n-\nImportant book on political philosophy\n- By Wayne on 08-02-19\nBy: Ryszard Legutko, and others\n-\nThe Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy\n- By: Christopher Lasch\n- Narrated by: David de Vries\n- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as Jose Ortega y Gasset ( The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These elites - mobile and increasingly global in outlook - refuse to accept limits or ties to nation and place.\n-\n-\nThe last twenty years proves the author right\n- By Del Lewis-Chia on 08-08-20\n-\nDemocracy: The God That Failed\n- The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)\n- By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe\n- Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda\n- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty.\n-\n-\nAudiobook Chapter 11 is actually a repeat of Chapter 9\n- By Anonymous User on 08-23-21\n-\nThe Art of War\n- By: Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli\n- Narrated by: David McCallion\n- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nMany of the world's leaders have turned to Niccolo Machiavelli's The Art of War as a guide to the fundamentals of war, including Frederick the Great, Napoleon, as well as countless other military leaders. Limited warfare is one of the philosophies promoted in this work. Machiavelli believed that military conflict should be a last resort and should only be considered when diplomacy fails. He was also of the belief that society could only remain stable and secure with a strong state military.\n-\n-\nStrategy at its Best!\n- By Michael Marcero on 09-20-23\n-\nThe Ancient City\n- A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome\n- By: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges\n- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin\n- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nOne of the most remarkable historical works of the 19th century came from the pen of French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a native of Paris. This amazing analysis of family and religious life among the ancient Greeks and Romans is the key to understanding ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The story begins in the misty period of the Bronze Age as the Indo-Europeans began to filter down into the Italian and Greek peninsulas. They brought with them a patriarchy that was based on ancestor worship and the veneration of hearth gods.\n-\n-\nWow! Shifted my whole perspective on Roman History\n- By Michael on 08-25-24\n-\nMachiavelli, 2nd Edition\n- A Very Short Introduction\n- By: Quentin Skinner\n- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills\n- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn the second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Skinner includes new material on The Prince, showing how Machiavelli developed his neo-classical political theory, through engaging in continual dialogue with the ancient Roman moralists and historians, especially Cicero and Livy. The aim of political leaders, Machiavelli argues, should be to act virtuously so far as possible, but to stand ready \"to be not good\" when this course of action is dictated by necessity.\nBy: Quentin Skinner\n-\nHuman Smoke\n- The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization\n- By: Nicholson Baker\n- Narrated by: Norman Dietz\n- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHuman Smoke delivers an indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources---including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries---the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust.\n-\n-\nNot a \"History Book\" per se\n- By Roy on 02-20-09\nBy: Nicholson Baker\n-\nOn Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History\n- By: Thomas Carlyle\n- Narrated by: James Gillies\n- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThough uncompromising, polemical and argumentative, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) made a lasting impact on 19th-century culture as a multi-talented man of letters. And though his lengthy history of the French Revolution proved his major scholarly legacy, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History remains perhaps his most popular and accessible work. It presented his deep-seated belief that \u2018Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here\u2019.\n-\n-\nNarrator brings the 1840s to life.\n- By James on 07-28-24\nBy: Thomas Carlyle\n-\nReflections on the Revolution in France\n- By: Edmund Burke\n- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes\n- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nThis famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke\u2019s opinion on whether France\u2019s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries were actually subverting the true \"social order\". Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world.\n-\n-\nA good historical perspective\n- By CMC on 08-30-14\nBy: Edmund Burke\n-\nA Conflict of Visions\n- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles\n- By: Thomas Sowell\n- Narrated by: Michael Edwards\n- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nIn this book, which the author calls a \"culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas\", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions.\n-\n-\nCritical read for 2008 change election\n- By Elaine C Grimes on 06-05-08\nBy: Thomas Sowell\n-\nOn Revolution\n- By: Hannah Arendt\n- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert\n- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the 18th-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the 20th century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future.\n-\n-\nInsightful Analysis of Differing Revolutions\n- By Roger on 01-10-18\nBy: Hannah Arendt\n-\nThe Prince\n- By: Niccolo Machiavelli\n- Narrated by: Grover Gardner\n- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nFrom 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 realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king, or a president.\n-\n-\nYou have to know what you get with The Prince\n- By Cody Brown on 02-10-15\n-\nHitler\n- A Global Biography\n- By: Brendan Simms\n- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh\n- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nHitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary.\n-\n-\nA good biography with a different viewpoint\n- By Timothy on 10-10-19\nBy: Brendan Simms\n-\nSeeing Like a State\n- By: James C. Scott\n- Narrated by: Michael Kramer\n- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWhy do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.\n-\n-\nBeats a dead horse and then beats it again\n- By Nathan Parker on 10-29-20\nBy: James C. Scott\n-\nFascism: The Career of a Concept\n- By: Paul Gottfried\n- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty\n- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins\n- Unabridged\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\nWhat does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual historian Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the term's meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried examines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the word's polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles.\n-\n-\nRefreshing scholarly treatment of a widely misused concept\n- By Minister of the Posterior on 01-15-24\nBy: Paul Gottfried\nWhat listeners say about The MachiavelliansAverage customer ratings\nReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Yanomami\n- 06-27-21\nEveryone interested in Liberty and society should read this\nExcellent Book on the Machiavellians by James Burnham on a number of different political thinkers from the last several centuries or so and their discussions on the body politic, society and its leaders and elites. Should be mandatory reading for anybody studying political science or sociology.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Sam R.\n- 09-11-21\nintroduction is a big miss\nEither skip the introduction, or listen to it with the understanding that Sidney's own biases distort his understanding of Machiavelli and Burnham\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Cleve\n- 11-04-21\nBest short description of how politics actually works\n\u201c[Gaetano] Mosca argues that majority rule, without which democracy cannot exist, is literally impossible. In every society, regardless of its political form, an organized minority constitutes the actual ruling class. It rules by myths that unify society and facilitate the acquisition of the habits that keep the ruled in their accustomed grooves of behavior. In times of stress when the ruled see through the myths and become restive, the rulers fall back on fraud to retain their power. If the fraud is no longer accepted and resistance begins, the rulers resort to naked force. [Vilfredo] Pareto argues that if the ruled revolt and succeed in overthrowing their rulers, it is not the people who come to power but the leaders of the people, a new elite replacing an old elite. Revolutions in effect are a circulation of elites into and out of power. Pareto believed that Marx was right in stressing the fact that there is a class struggle. He was wrong in believing it would ever end. As soon as the workers overthrow the capitalists, a new class, a new minority, whether of bureaucrats, intellectuals, commissars, or what not, come to power and enjoy the privileges of power. In this sense, the class struggle is sure to endure forever.\u201d\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Dan\n- 10-27-21\nI'd listen again\nI don't necessarily agree, but this has good detail and its worth listening to again.\nthe book is from before the computer and internet age\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- steve\n- 09-28-21\nExcellent book\nThe narration was excellent!\nThis book was written in 1943. The perspective of that is very interesting to listen. The people he talks about I had never heard of and the author explains them well.\nWorth your time that\u2019s for sure\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Thomas B.\n- 01-17-20\nIncredibly insightful\nThis book attempts to lay the foundations for a scientific theory of politics and society. The theories presented mostly come from the Italian school of elitism. The author additionally applies his framework to modern times (1940s for him) to briefly describe the revolution that the world had experienced over the previous 70 years.\nThis book is unusual in that it attempts to apply a materialist scientific lens to class structure and elite rule but it does so from a center right (somewhat libertarian) perspective. Historically attempts at a scientific analysis of class struggle have come from the left.\nThis book is definitely worth reading for anyone looking for a unique perspective on politics and freedom.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- nicky\n- 09-09-22\nMachiavelli explained\nA brilliant first exposure for me to Machiavellian thought and political science, with fascinating insights that still have relevance today despite being written 80 years ago.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Bob Jenkins\n- 01-22-23\nWhen a monarchist and anarchist agree on this book recommendation\nMoldbug and Malice both highly recommend this as an introduction to politics. It is mostly concise. Just stick with it past the initial Dante portion. It has extremely secular reasoning but religious folks will still get a lot out of it. I highly recommend it to any and all.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- John DeHope\n- 07-25-22\nVery Thought Provoking\nI'm about the least scheming person I know. My lack of sneaky planning is almost a problem I need help with. A book like this can go a long way to at least opening your mind to a different way of thinking. Get your head out of the sand, figure out what you want, and think of actual ways to actually get it.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!\n-\nOverall\n-\nPerformance\n-\nStory\n- Carlos\n- 12-21-23\nEye opening! Great book\nIt is a must ready to understand what is going on in the world! I couldn\u2019t understand many judicial decisions in Brazil nor USA, but now is pretty clear.\nYou voted on this review!\nYou reported this review!",
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