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    • 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 448 ratings
    • It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....

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    • 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 108 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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    • What I Say to My Friends About Racism
    • By: Don Lemon
    • Narrated by: Don Lemon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,188 ratings
    • The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders....

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    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
    • By: Mike Konczal
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom....

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    • How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
    • By: Heather MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own....

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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    • The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
    • By: Robin Warshaw
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens, Gloria Steinem, Wheatley Tanner Letters LLC
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term "acquaintance rape" and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today....

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    • 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 129 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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    • The Criminalization of Poverty in America
    • By: Peter Edelman
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today....

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    • By: Spencer Bishins
    • Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an attorney advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions....

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    • Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
    • By: Ai-jen Poo
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Age of Dignity maps an integrated set of solutions to address America's new demographic and economic realities....

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    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....

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    • 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 43 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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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party
    • By: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Narrated by: Dinesh D'Souza
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,595 ratings
    • Death of a Nation's bracing alternative vision of American history explains the Democratic Party's dark past and exposes the hidden truth that racism comes not from Trump or the conservative right but rather from Democrats and progressives on the left....

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    • By: Bill O'Reilly
    • Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior, and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command....

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