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  • Bootstrapped Audiobook By Alissa Quart cover art

    • Bootstrapped

    • 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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  • The Poverty Industry Audiobook By Daniel L. Hatcher cover art

    • The Poverty Industry

    • The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
    • By: Daniel L. Hatcher
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....

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  • This Is the Fire Audiobook By Don Lemon cover art

    • This Is the Fire

    • 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 1,189 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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  • Something for Nothing Audiobook By Brian Tracy cover art

    • Something for Nothing

    • The All-Consuming Desire That Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare
    • By: Brian Tracy
    • Narrated by: Brian Tracy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Something for Nothing reveals the social and personal threats inherent in this emerging "grabbing match" culture, juxtaposing free-market virtues against government vices, explaining how the something-for-nothing mentality corrupts....

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  • Deadly Spin Audiobook By Wendell Potter cover art

    • Deadly Spin

    • An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
    • By: Wendell Potter
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare....

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  • We Own the Future Audiobook By Kate Aronoff - editor, Peter Dreier - editor, Michael Kazin - editor cover art

    • We Own the Future

    • Democratic Socialism-American Style
    • By: Kate Aronoff - editor, Peter Dreier - editor, Michael Kazin - editor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kyle Tait
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism-American Style offers a road map to making this alternative a reality....

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  • On the Clock Audiobook By Emily Guendelsberger cover art

    • On the Clock

    • What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
    • By: Emily Guendelsberger
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings

    • On the Clock explores the lengths that half of Americans will go to in order to make a living, offering not only a better understanding of the modern workplace, but also surprising solutions to make work more humane for millions of Americans....

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  • Gradual Audiobook By Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox cover art

    • Gradual

    • 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 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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  • Administrative Burden Audiobook By Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan cover art

    • Administrative Burden

    • Policymaking by Other Means
    • By: Pamela Herd, Donald P. Moynihan
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan document that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with the state are not simply unintended byproducts of governance, but the result of deliberate policy choices....

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  • United Audiobook By Cory Booker cover art

    • United

    • Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
    • By: Cory Booker
    • Narrated by: Cory Booker
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings

    • United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future....

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  • The Hardhat Riot Audiobook By David Paul Kuhn cover art

    • The Hardhat Riot

    • Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
    • By: David Paul Kuhn
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody....

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  • Abandoned Audiobook By Anne Kim cover art

    • Abandoned

    • America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
    • By: Anne Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • A deeply affecting exposé of America’s hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc....

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  • Building the Great Society Audiobook By Joshua Zeitz cover art

    • Building the Great Society

    • 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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  • Charity Detox Audiobook By Robert D. Lupton cover art

    • Charity Detox

    • What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving....

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  • Extra Time Audiobook By Camilla Cavendish cover art

    • Extra Time

    • 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
    • By: Camilla Cavendish
    • Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....

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  • Defund Fear Audiobook By Zach Norris cover art

    • Defund Fear

    • Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
    • By: Zach Norris
    • Narrated by: Van Jones, Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment....

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  • Don't Go to College Audiobook By Michael Robillard MA MA PhD, Timothy Gordon MA PhL JD cover art

    • Don't Go to College

    • A Case for Revolution
    • By: Michael Robillard MA MA PhD, Timothy Gordon MA PhL JD
    • Narrated by: Axel Bosley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • An examination of how America’s colleges have become an intellectual hell on Earth for anyone who wishes to think rationally and seek truth and wisdom, as well as a plan for how young citizens can claim and safeguard the learning and heritage to which they are entitled....

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  • The Nurture Effect Audiobook By Anthony Biglan cover art

    • The Nurture Effect

    • 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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  • Bleeding Out Audiobook By Thomas Abt cover art

    • Bleeding Out

    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings

    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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