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Bestsellers
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....
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Incredibly disappointing...
- By Jordan Burton on 12-21-18
By: David Graeber
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Affirmative Action Around the World
- An Empirical Study
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important issue.
By: Thomas Sowell
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Valley So Low
- One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
- By: Jared Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Jared Sullivan
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Jared Sullivan presents a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought.
By: Jared Sullivan
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....
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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
By: Kate Northrup
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....
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A Great Book
- By David B. on 10-16-20
By: David R. Roediger, and others
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- By: Kate Moore
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- By B. C. French on 06-07-17
By: Kate Moore
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....
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Incredibly disappointing...
- By Jordan Burton on 12-21-18
By: David Graeber
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Affirmative Action Around the World
- An Empirical Study
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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An eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action in a provocative book that will stir fresh debate about this vitally important issue.
By: Thomas Sowell
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Valley So Low
- One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
- By: Jared Sullivan
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Jared Sullivan
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Jared Sullivan presents a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought.
By: Jared Sullivan
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....
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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
By: Kate Northrup
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The Wages of Whiteness
- Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
- By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....
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A Great Book
- By David B. on 10-16-20
By: David R. Roediger, and others
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Jane McAlevey
- Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....
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Disappointing
- By Ellen on 01-26-20
By: Jane McAlevey
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- By: Peter Robison
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings....
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(Revised). Missing some, but informative.
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
By: Peter Robison
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The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- By: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....
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Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- By Cynthia on 07-28-12
By: David K. Shipler
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills
- West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
- By: James Green
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia....
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Phenomenal labor history, riveting narrative
- By Chris Brooks on 03-11-18
By: James Green
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Holding the Line
- Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event....
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Didn’t finish - not interested
- By Amazon Friend on 07-23-24
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Beaten Down, Worked Up
- The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
- By: Steven Greenhouse
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered....
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Must read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-21-20
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....
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Disgusting
- By Frank on 09-23-18
By: Shane Bauer
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
- By: Erik Loomis
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....
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great read
- By Perscors on 03-17-19
By: Erik Loomis
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The Meritocracy Trap
- How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
- By: Daniel Markovits
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....
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A well-argued theory
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-20-19
By: Daniel Markovits
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Human + Machine
- Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
- By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time....
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A golf course book
- By C. Surdak on 07-30-18
By: Paul R. Daugherty, and others
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Work Won't Love You Back
- How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
- By: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives....
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Book is fully disinterested in male laborers
- By Jeremy Kean on 06-05-21
By: Sarah Jaffe
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Factory Girls
- From Village to City in a Changing China
- By: Leslie T. Chang
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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i>Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society....
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Living in Shenzhen - and What A Disappointment
- By Abstraction on 03-01-10
By: Leslie T. Chang
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Rules to Win By
- Power and Participation in Union Negotiations
- By: Jane F. McAlevey, Abby Lawlor
- Narrated by: Jane F. McAlevey
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy.
By: Jane F. McAlevey, and others
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Ruined by Design
- How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
- By: Mike Monteiro
- Narrated by: Mike Monteiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence....
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A bunch of woke garbage with a dash of truth
- By T. Berman on 04-07-21
By: Mike Monteiro
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A World Without Work
- Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
- By: Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: Daniel Susskind
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it....
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Technology deflation through the econ lens
- By Pimpernel Sandybanks on 04-15-20
By: Daniel Susskind
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Blood Runs Coal
- The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- By: Mark A. Bradley
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....
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Really well told and we’ll performed
- By Bob Gardner on 12-01-22
By: Mark A. Bradley
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The Chinese Question
- The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
- By: Mae M. Ngai
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations....
By: Mae M. Ngai
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Power Failure
- The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
- By: MiMi Swartz, Sherron Watkins
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From inside the walls of Enron, a lone whistleblower attempted to avert the course of events leading to the largest bankruptcy in American history....
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Absolutely Spellbinding.
- By Claire on 03-09-09
By: MiMi Swartz, and others
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The War on Normal People
- By: Andrew Yang
- Narrated by: Andrew Yang
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes - and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy....
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I Would Vote For Him
- By Tommie Sexton on 07-09-18
By: Andrew Yang
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- By: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.
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Informative and humbling
- By KB on 09-08-24
By: Jacqueline Jones
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Brotopia
- Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasy land of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules....
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Insightful, Infuriating, and Important
- By Lavina K. on 02-11-18
By: Emily Chang
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology (Annotated)
- The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
- By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....
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Worth the Listen.
- By daniel d. on 11-30-20
By: Peter Kropotkin, and others
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Rust Belt Union Blues
- Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party
- By: Lainey Newman, Theda Skocpol
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In the heyday of American labor, the influence of local unions extended far beyond the workplace. Unions were embedded in tight-knit communities, touching nearly every aspect of the lives of members and their families and neighbors.
By: Lainey Newman, and others
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The Making of the English Working Class
- By: E.P. Thompson
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....
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terrible terrible narrator
- By Theresa Barr on 08-28-24
By: E.P. Thompson