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  • New Democracy Audiobook By William J. Novak cover art

    • New Democracy

    • The Creation of the Modern American State
    • By: William J. Novak
    • Narrated by: A.W. Miller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Sandro Galea cover art

    • The Contagion Next Time

    • By: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Roman Howell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Mike Konczal cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • Amazing Grace Audiobook By Jonathan Kozol cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • One Child Audiobook By Mei Fong cover art

    • One Child

    • The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
    • By: Mei Fong
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • 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 Audiobook By Jason Hardy cover art

    • The Second Chance Club

    • Hardship and Hope After Prison
    • By: Jason Hardy
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Heather MacDonald cover art

    • The Burden of Bad Ideas

    • 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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  • 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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  • Never Silent Audiobook By Peter Staley cover art

    • Never Silent

    • ACT UP and My Life in Activism
    • By: Peter Staley
    • Narrated by: Peter Staley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Jonathan M. Metzl cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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 Audiobook By Cloward Fox Piven cover art

    • Regulating the Poor

    • The Functions of Public Welfare
    • By: Cloward Fox Piven
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Diane Ravitch cover art

    • 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
    • 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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  • 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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  • Make America Healthy Again Audiobook By Nicole Saphier cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

    • 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 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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  • 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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  • The Stolen Year Audiobook By Anya Kamenetz cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Thomas F. Sheridan cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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 Audiobook By Randall Kennedy cover art

    • For Discrimination

    • Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
    • By: Randall Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Amani Starnes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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