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  • The Constitution of Liberty Audiobook By Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek cover art

    • The Constitution of Liberty

    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings

    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

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  • Nobody Audiobook By Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword cover art

    • Nobody

    • Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations....

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  • Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries Audiobook By Katie S. Martin cover art

    • Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries

    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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  • Colorblind Audiobook By Tim Wise cover art

    • Colorblind

    • The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
    • By: Tim Wise
    • Narrated by: Tim Wise
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Focusing on disparities in employment, housing, education and health care, Wise argues that racism is indeed still an acute problem in the United States today and that colorblind policies actually worsen the problem of racial injustice....

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  • Teeth Audiobook By Mary Otto cover art

    • Teeth

    • The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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  • The Socialist Manifesto Audiobook By Bhaskar Sunkara cover art

    • The Socialist Manifesto

    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings

    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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  • Automating Inequality Audiobook By Virginia Eubanks cover art

    • Automating Inequality

    • How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
    • By: Virginia Eubanks
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings

    • In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. The audiobook is full of heart-wrenching and eye-opening stories....

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  • Hide Your Children Audiobook By Liz Wheeler cover art

    • Hide Your Children

    • Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
    • By: Liz Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....

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  • Disability Pride Audiobook By Ben Mattlin cover art

    • Disability Pride

    • Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
    • By: Ben Mattlin
    • Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....

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  • The Third Pillar Audiobook By Raghuram Rajan cover art

    • The Third Pillar

    • How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
    • By: Raghuram Rajan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp, Raghuram Rajan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings

    • From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization....

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  • Shattered Bonds Audiobook By Dorothy Roberts cover art

    • Shattered Bonds

    • The Color of Child Welfare
    • By: Dorothy Roberts
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Dorothy Roberts
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely Black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children....

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  • The American Health Care Paradox Audiobook By Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg cover art

    • The American Health Care Paradox

    • Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
    • By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....

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  • High-Risers Audiobook By Ben Austen cover art

    • High-Risers

    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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  • Why the New Deal Matters Audiobook By Eric Rauchway cover art

    • Why the New Deal Matters

    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    • The New Deal was instated at a time of mass unemployment and the rise of fascistic government models and functioned as a bulwark of American democracy. This book looks at how this legacy, both for good and ill, informs the current debates around governmental responses to crises....

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  • The Spirit Level Audiobook By Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett cover art

    • The Spirit Level

    • Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett offer groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offer new ways to achieve it....

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  • The War on Alcohol Audiobook By Lisa McGirr cover art

    • The War on Alcohol

    • Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
    • By: Lisa McGirr
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history....

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  • Born on Third Base Audiobook By Chuck Collins cover art

    • Born on Third Base

    • A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
    • By: Chuck Collins
    • Narrated by: Chuck Collins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • The growing wealth inequality continues to dominate headlines. The divide between the haves and have nots in America is increasingly political and tensions are rising. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, keeping the system operating in their favor....

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  • The Conscience of a Liberal Audiobook By Paul Krugman cover art

    • The Conscience of a Liberal

    • By: Paul Krugman
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • In Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform of American politics....

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  • The Rage of Innocence Audiobook By Kristin Henning cover art

    • The Rage of Innocence

    • How America Criminalizes Black Youth
    • By: Kristin Henning
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • Drawing upon 25 years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, DC’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple....

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  • Tell Me How It Ends Audiobook By Valeria Luiselli cover art

    • Tell Me How It Ends

    • An Essay in 40 Questions
    • By: Valeria Luiselli
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US....

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