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September 26, 2025 350 mins
The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook. Genre: history In 'The Crooked Cross,' Charles J. Dutton delivers a gripping, unflinching exploration of how ideology, opportunism, and ordinary choices can bend the arc of a nation toward darkness. Told with the meticulous eye of a historian and the urgency of a storyteller, Dutton weaves archival research, eyewitness accounts, and sharp analysis into a narrative that follows the people, institutions, and propaganda that paved the way for an authoritarian movement. As characters—from power-hungry politicians and calculating propagandists to frightened citizens and courageous resisters—move through the unfolding crisis, listeners confront the human decisions behind headlines and symbols. The audiobook edition heightens that immediacy, bringing voices and documents to life so you can feel the tension, the moral compromises, and the small acts of defiance that ripple into history. Essential listening for anyone interested in the mechanics of political change, the corrosion of civil society, and the lessons history urgently offers to our own moment. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:49) Chapter 02 (00:31:38) Chapter 03 (00:48:12) Chapter 04 (01:07:12) Chapter 05 (01:26:14) Chapter 06 (01:49:24) Chapter 07 (02:08:53) Chapter 08 (02:28:49) Chapter 09 (02:45:11) Chapter 10 (03:06:48) Chapter 11 (03:24:32) Chapter 12 (03:47:55) Chapter 13 (04:04:04) Chapter 14 (04:23:34) Chapter 15 (04:47:04) Chapter 16 (05:16:13) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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