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New Democracy
- The Creation of the Modern American State
- By: William J. Novak
- Narrated by: A.W. Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....
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New Democracy
- The Creation of the Modern American State
- Narrated by: A.W. Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....
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The Contagion Next Time
- By: Sandro Galea
- Narrated by: Roman Howell
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic....
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Amazing book about public health everyone should read
- By Emily McLaughlin on 01-20-22
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The Contagion Next Time
- Narrated by: Roman Howell
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-28-21
- Language: English
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The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic....
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Freedom from the Market
- 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
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The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom....
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Excellent explainer on restoring prosperity
- By marwalk on 02-04-21
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Freedom from the Market
- America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: English
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The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom....
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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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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The Roots of Change are in Education
- By T. C. Pile on 06-05-20
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-19-10
- Language: English
- 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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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- By: Mei Fong
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature....
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Best Book Club Discussion Ever!!
- By Rachael W. Schettenhelm on 05-01-17
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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-09-16
- Language: English
- When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature....
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The Second Chance Club
- Hardship and Hope After Prison
- By: Jason Hardy
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic audiobook....
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Important Perspective for Criminal Justice Reform
- By Wayne on 07-07-22
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The Second Chance Club
- Hardship and Hope After Prison
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-18-20
- Language: English
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A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic audiobook....
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
- How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
- By: Heather MacDonald
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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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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Shining the cold light of truth . . .
- By Mike on 05-03-05
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
- How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-01-05
- Language: English
- 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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Bootstrapped
- Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
- By: Alissa Quart
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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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 great look at an American myth
- By Daniel Alexander on 04-07-23
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Bootstrapped
- Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-14-23
- Language: English
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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
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- By: Daniel L. Hatcher
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....
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Good information, terrible audio.
- By Carolyn on 03-17-20
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-22-17
- Language: English
- Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....
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Never Silent
- ACT UP and My Life in Activism
- By: Peter Staley
- Narrated by: Peter Staley
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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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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A story needed.
- By CJ on 02-03-23
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Never Silent
- ACT UP and My Life in Activism
- Narrated by: Peter Staley
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-09-21
- Language: English
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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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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
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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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What We've Become
- Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-27-24
- Language: English
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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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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....
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Regulating the Poor
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-21
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years....
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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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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
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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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Great reminder of how the US got to into its current leftist mess
- By Polymathish on 07-02-24
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Something for Nothing
- The All-Consuming Desire That Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare
- Narrated by: Brian Tracy
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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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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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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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
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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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We Own the Future
- Democratic Socialism-American Style
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Kyle Tait
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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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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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
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Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare....
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Must Read
- By Randy on 01-11-11
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Deadly Spin
- An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-16-10
- Language: English
- Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare....
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The Stolen Year
- How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
- By: Anya Kamenetz
- Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....
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Excellent review of the pandemic for all parts or the community
- By CK on 12-15-22
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The Stolen Year
- How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
- Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-23-22
- Language: English
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An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net—the public school system—was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first....
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Helping the Good Do Better
- How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change
- By: Thomas F. Sheridan
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Helping the Good Do Better pulls back the curtain on the corridors of power in Washington to reveal how social change really happens....
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Helping the Good Do Better
- How a White Hat Lobbyist Advocates for Social Change
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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Helping the Good Do Better pulls back the curtain on the corridors of power in Washington to reveal how social change really happens....
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For Discrimination
- Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
- By: Randall Kennedy
- Narrated by: Amani Starnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it championed by some and denounced by others? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations....
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For Discrimination
- Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
- Narrated by: Amani Starnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-15-21
- Language: English
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What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it championed by some and denounced by others? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations....
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