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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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So many words, so little insight
- By Trebla on 03-22-20
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- By: Jessica Pryce
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....
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A Great Book with Compelling Insights
- By Pbc fun on 03-21-24
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....
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Slaying Goliath
- The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
- By: Diane Ravitch
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....
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Informative but very preachy
- By jwj on 02-03-20
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Slaying Goliath
- The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-21-20
- Language: English
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Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools....
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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
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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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Depiction of the second shift- spot on. Everything else fell flat more political rhetoric
- By HeidiRay on 06-03-22
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Pay Up
- The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-15-22
- Language: English
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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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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
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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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Great, fast summer read
- By Joseph Spiegel on 07-18-22
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- Narrated by: Noah Rothman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-05-22
- Language: English
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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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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- By: Chris Arnade
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Widely acclaimed writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten - both urban and rural, blue state and red state - and indicts the elitists who've left them behind....
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Sobering & Eye Opening
- By James Ventura on 07-17-19
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Dignity
- Seeking Respect in Back Row America
- Narrated by: Donte Bonner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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Widely acclaimed writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten - both urban and rural, blue state and red state - and indicts the elitists who've left them behind....
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Generation Gap
- Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
- By: Kevin Munger
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history—and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate....
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Generation Gap
- Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-14-22
- Language: English
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The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history—and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate....
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The H-Spot
- The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
- By: Jill Filipovic
- Narrated by: Jill Filipovic
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it....
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How to think like an intelligent woman
- By Jacob Dean Sims on 03-17-24
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The H-Spot
- The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
- Narrated by: Jill Filipovic
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
- What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it....
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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
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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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great book and points
- By Sean Chady on 09-15-23
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The American Health Care Paradox
- Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-01-18
- Language: English
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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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Saving Danny
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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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 most hands on: how to become a better parent, book by Kathy class I have ever read
- By Maria on 06-09-17
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Saving Danny
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-12-15
- Language: English
- 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 Coming Insurrection
- Intervention, Book 1
- By: The Invisible Committee
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe....
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Wake up and pay attention. America
- By Wayne on 12-20-11
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The Coming Insurrection
- Intervention, Book 1
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-14-10
- Language: English
- The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe....
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- By: Katie S. Martin
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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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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A go to book for nutrition security work
- By Amy on 09-19-22
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Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries
- New Tools to End Hunger
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-11-21
- Language: English
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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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Why the New Deal Matters
- By: Eric Rauchway
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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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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Great book, horrible narration
- By Lucas Dolan on 05-06-22
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Why the New Deal Matters
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-06-21
- Language: English
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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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What Truth Sounds Like
- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
- By: Michael Eric Dyson
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....
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Riffing on a meeting with RFK and James Baldwin
- By Adam Shields on 06-08-18
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What Truth Sounds Like
- Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-05-18
- Language: English
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What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....
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State of Emergency
- The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day....
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Excellent
- By Steven on 09-07-06
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State of Emergency
- The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America
- Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-25-06
- Language: English
- Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day....
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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
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This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....
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Not the Good Place Book but worth listening to:
- By Thomas Gimbel on 04-11-22
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What We Owe Each Other
- A New Social Contract for a Better Society
- Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-27-21
- Language: English
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This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- By: Owen Jones
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....
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Essential Listening
- By Anonymous User on 11-20-21
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-30-17
- Language: English
- In this investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the caricature....
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First They Came for the Gun Owners
- The Campaign to Disarm You and Take Your Freedoms
- By: Mark W. Smith
- Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Best-selling author and attorney Mark W. Smith exposes the all-encompassing nature of the anti-gun lobby’s attack on the right to keep and bear arms—and how it serves as a proxy to empower government to control other important aspects of our lives....
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good read but inflammatory.
- By the DIYer on 05-30-24
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First They Came for the Gun Owners
- The Campaign to Disarm You and Take Your Freedoms
- Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-31-23
- Language: English
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Best-selling author and attorney Mark W. Smith exposes the all-encompassing nature of the anti-gun lobby’s attack on the right to keep and bear arms—and how it serves as a proxy to empower government to control other important aspects of our lives....
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Make America Healthy Again
- How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
- By: Nicole Saphier
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed America's health care system....
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Engaging and Comprehensive
- By JES on 07-26-21
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Make America Healthy Again
- How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-21-20
- Language: English
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In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed America's health care system....
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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
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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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Well Done
- By Zahrac29 on 05-15-17
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Nobody
- Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
- 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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