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  • Savage Inequalities Audiobook By Jonathan Kozol cover art

    • Savage Inequalities

    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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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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  • Development as Freedom Audiobook By Amartya Sen cover art

    • Development as Freedom

    • By: Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

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  • Heat Wave Audiobook By Eric Klinenberg cover art

    • Heat Wave

    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

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  • The Cannabis Manifesto Audiobook By Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword cover art

    • The Cannabis Manifesto

    • A New Paradigm for Wellness
    • By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andy Barnett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings

    • An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....

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  • Viking Economics: Audiobook By George Lakey cover art

    • Viking Economics:

    • How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too
    • By: George Lakey
    • Narrated by: Chris Roman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • George Lakey explores the inner-workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world's happiest, most productive workers....

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  • What We Owe Each Other Audiobook By Minouche Shafik cover art

    • What We Owe Each Other

    • A New Social Contract for a Better Society
    • By: Minouche Shafik
    • Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....

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  • The Sane Society Audiobook By Erich Fromm cover art

    • The Sane Society

    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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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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  • Great Society Audiobook By Amity Shlaes cover art

    • Great Society

    • A New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings

    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

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  • What We've Become Audiobook By Jonathan M. Metzl cover art

    • What We've Become

    • Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Bob Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.

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  • Usual Cruelty Audiobook By Alec Karakatsanis cover art

    • Usual Cruelty

    • The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
    • By: Alec Karakatsanis
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings

    • Usual Cruelty is a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American "injustice system" by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it....

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  • America the Fair Audiobook By Dan Meegan cover art

    • America the Fair

    • Using Brain Science to Create a More Just Nation
    • By: Dan Meegan
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Find out....

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  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime Audiobook By Elizabeth Hinton cover art

    • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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  • Saving Danny Audiobook By Cathy Glass cover art

    • Saving Danny

    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car....

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  • The Purpose of Power Audiobook By Alicia Garza cover art

    • The Purpose of Power

    • How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
    • By: Alicia Garza
    • Narrated by: Alicia Garza
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings

    • An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....

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  • The Rise of the New Puritans Audiobook By Noah Rothman cover art

    • The Rise of the New Puritans

    • Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
    • By: Noah Rothman
    • Narrated by: Noah Rothman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings

    • The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep....

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  • Our Kids Audiobook By Robert D. Putnam cover art

    • Our Kids

    • The American Dream in Crisis
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 450 ratings
    • It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....

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  • Never Silent Audiobook By Peter Staley cover art

    • Never Silent

    • ACT UP and My Life in Activism
    • By: Peter Staley
    • Narrated by: Peter Staley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to follow - years filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence....

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  • Pay Up Audiobook By Reshma Saujani cover art

    • Pay Up

    • The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
    • By: Reshma Saujani
    • Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings

    • We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988....

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