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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty-year struggle for justice in Chicago.
Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor.
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win is a compelling, insightful, must-listen for all those struggling for a better world today.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Ellen en 01-26-20
De: Jane McAlevey
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The South Side
- A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
- De: Natalie Y. Moore
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation on the South Side of Chicago through reported essays, showing the lives of these communities through the stories of people who live in them. The South Side shows the important impact of Chicago's historic segregation and the ongoing policies that keep it that way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eyeopening!
- De Ladybug en 09-07-16
De: Natalie Y. Moore
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All Things Possible
- Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
- De: Andrew M. Cuomo
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In this full and frank memoir - a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Love This Book AND the Guvnor (Governor, I Know)
- De Igi M. en 09-02-20
De: Andrew M. Cuomo
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Set the Night on Fire
- L.A. in the Sixties
- De: Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 25 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Los Angeles in the '60s was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power - where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazingly comprehensive story of a critical decade.
- De Manifesta en 11-29-20
De: Mike Davis, y otros
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- De: Andre M. Perry
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More about Black lives than property
- De J. Craig en 04-13-22
De: Andre M. Perry
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- De: Lennard Davis
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this book is so informative
- De Anonymous User en 01-10-23
De: Lennard Davis
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The Black Cabinet
- The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- De: Jill Watts
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
- De Barry en 06-21-20
De: Jill Watts
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 319
In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by "the Best and the Brightest" made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- De: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a legacy!!!
- De Paul en 03-08-21
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For
- How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
- De: Charlotte Alter
- Narrado por: Charlotte Alter
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
A new generation is stepping up. There are now 26 millennials in Congress - a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. In The Ones We've Been Waiting For, Time correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation - how grappling with 9/11 as teens, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupying Wall Street and protesting with Black Lives Matter, and shouldering their way into a financially rigged political system has shaped the people who will govern the future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Born before the lint roller invented
- De ML Sadler en 03-05-20
De: Charlotte Alter
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White Flight
- Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
- De: Kevin M. Kruse
- Narrado por: Aaron Williamson
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Local history is important
- De Adam Shields en 10-02-19
De: Kevin M. Kruse
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America on Fire
- The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 60's
- De: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire the events of 2020 had clear precursors - and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Black rebellion, America on Fire powerfully illustrates, was born in response to poverty and exclusion, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s strife, America on Fire is also a warning: Rebellions will surely continue until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Giant leaps of logic
- De Aaron Rudroff en 08-10-21
De: Elizabeth Hinton
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The Prize
- Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
- De: Dale Russakoff
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools - and to solve the education crisis in every city in America - it looked like a huge win for then-mayor Cory Booker and governor Chris Christie. But their plans soon ran into a constituency not so easily moved - Newark's key education players, fiercely protective of their billion-dollar-per-annum system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched - Provides Good Answers
- De Denyse en 01-11-16
De: Dale Russakoff
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Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- De: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 76
When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thanks for writing this book!!
- De G. A. Rivera en 08-14-21
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
- The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965
- De: Jia Lynn Yang
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good overview
- De steve thomas en 10-21-20
De: Jia Lynn Yang
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Conditional Citizens
- On Belonging in America
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Laila Lalami
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to US citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blew my mind!
- De Leila Jaafari en 10-20-20
De: Laila Lalami