Audio book descriptionEx-CIA officer Kirk McGarvey is called back in action as the new Russia faces its most insidious threat: the return of Communism. Yevgenni Anatolevich Tarankov, "the Tarantula", is determined to turn back the clock to a time when one man ruled with an iron hand. If Russia is to survive in the family of nations, and continue on the path to an open and free society, the Tarantula must die. All that is needed is an assassin - and McGarvey soon finds that any chance for Russian democracy rests on a bullet with the Tarantula's name on it.
Audio book descriptionSince the death of Mao Tse-tung and the downfall of the Gang of Four in 1976, China has undergone momentous changes. Professor Halpern's lecture provides a clear portrait of the balance sheet between the accomplishments of the economic reform program and the terrible costs of repressing what Chinese leaders considered to be unacceptable political and cultural consequences of that reform.
Audio book descriptionAt the dawn of the 20th century there emerged a man with a burning zeal to sow chaos, and out of that chaos build a new conception of human existence. Lenin, the back-room plotter, revolutionary, lawyer, writer, and anti-God prophet of a new world order called communism, flourished in a world shattered and disillusioned by war. In the Soviet Union, his writings and sayings were sacred, and a Lenin quotation once brooked no argument. Yet his spell of power was brief and his end enfeebled. The part of Nikolai Lenin is played by Gary Hope. Other parts are played by John Green, Robin Scobey, and Mary Duddy.
Audio book descriptionSenator Joe McCarthy rose and fell in just 4 years, yet he gave a name, lastingly, to an era. In 1952, he was the most lionized and the most hated man in America. But little was known about the man or his background. McCarthy's personal charm and single-minded determination took him from Wisconsin and his indigent life as a chicken farmer to Washington, D.C., as the youngest United States senator. But it wasn't until February 9, 1950 in Wheeling, West Virginia, that McCarthy bewitched the nation with his claim that Communists had infiltrated the United States government - and unleashed a crusade. In The Redhunter, America's most celebrated conservative writer, William F. Buckley, Jr., brings us an engrossing and unexpected historical novel about one of the most controversial figures in American political history.
