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    • 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
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Alison Kafer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....

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    • The War to Destroy Christian America
    • By: David Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,478 ratings
    • Dark Agenda shows how progressives are prepared to use any means necessary to stifle their opponents who support the concepts of religious liberty that America was founded on and how the battle to destroy Christianity is really the battle to destroy America....

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    • Reports from a Divided Nation
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Here they are, the 2000s, and Barbara Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career....

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    • 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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    • Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
    • By: Alissa Quart
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Mitch McConnell
    • Narrated by: Mitch McConnell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • The Long Game is the candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of a man famous for his discretion....

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    • The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
    • By: Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change....

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    • The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • Reckoning with Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....

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    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • By: Anthony Biglan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

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    • The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child
    • By: Betsy DeVos
    • Narrated by: Betsy DeVos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • From coronavirus lockdowns to critical race theory in the classroom, it has become crystal clear that America’s schools aren’t working for America’s students and parents. No one knows this better than Betsy DeVos....

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    • Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
    • By: Joshua Zeitz
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice....

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    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the Western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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