19 Top audiobook books like Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

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Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man …

"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has displayed an alarmingly intimate acquaintance with Twitter debates about transgender rights, mockingly sympathizing with people who he says have been “canceled."

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has displayed an alarmingly intimate acquaintance with Twitter debates about transgender rights, mockingly sympathizing with people who he says have been “canceled."

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to power. The campaign for Brexit succeeded by using the metaphor "take back control," and no wonder: everyone wants more control in a world where events on the other side of the planet can affect jobs and prices in our local towns and villages. But did the removal of Britain from the European Union give the British more power to shape the world? Did it prevent foreign money from shaping U.K. politics? Did it stop refugees from moving from the war zones of the Middle East to Britain? It did not."

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to power. The campaign for Brexit succeeded by using the metaphor "take back control," and no wonder: everyone wants more control in a world where events on the other side of the planet can affect jobs and prices in our local towns and villages. But did the removal of Britain from the European Union give the British more power to shape the world? Did it prevent foreign money from shaping U.K. politics? Did it stop refugees from moving from the war zones of the Middle East to Britain? It did not."

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

1. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria

2. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

3. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again by Robert Kagan

4. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • politics
  • political science
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

5. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between by Sulmaan Wasif Khan

6. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan  As ten… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

7. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

8. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta

9. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

By: Renee DiResta

4.17

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

 A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

10. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc.

  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • government
  • china
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

11. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism by Joe Conason

12. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

By: Joe Conason

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

13. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

14. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

15. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House by H.R. McMaster

16. At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

By: H.R. McMaster

4.08

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster’s turbulent and consequential thirte… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy by David Rohde

17. Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy

By: David Rohde

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How Donald Trump subverted the law and Merrick Garland misjudged the need to hold him accountable b… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Freedom by Timothy Snyder

18. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

19. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason F. Stanley

20. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

By: Jason F. Stanley

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of War by Bob Woodward

21. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

19 Best history books like Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Transform Your Habits

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

David E. Sanger

4.37

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Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

Robert Kagan

4.48

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

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Bill Maher

4.27

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