Author: Various
Narrator: Various
Format: CD
Unabridged
Approx. 32 hours
Nonfiction
History
Feb 2009
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Summary: Government and politics have a daily influence on our lives. The authority and responsibilities given to government affect not only our social customs but our prosperity and our freedom. The Giants of Political Thought series introduces you to the most influential thinkers on this subject through a series of dramatic presentations that explain their major works. You will gain a clear and relevant overview of their most important ideas and how they have helped to shape political history. Francis Bacon said that knowledge is power. But we often don't have time to read and gain all the knowledge we would like. These audiobooks are an easy and entertaining way to broaden your mind and your awareness of great ideas. So listen, for the power of your mind. Authors include: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Niccolò Machiavelli, Étienne de la Boétie, Edmund Burke, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Alexis de Tocqueville, with additional materials by Ralph Raico, George H. Smith, David Gordon, and Wendy McElroy Read by Craig Deitschmann with voice characterizations by Bill Middleton, Ruth Sweet, Dan Church, Travis Hardison, Joe Keenan, Paul Meier, Pat Childs, Jonathan Lutz, Don Jones, Dara Modglin, E. R. Davies, Robert Wynne, Michael Montgomery, Michael Edwards, Sam Mercurio, and Jean le Blanc.