The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them

Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Christopher Hayes
• Narrated By Christopher Hayes
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another - from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball - imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer.

Hopes and Prospects

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Brian Jones

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky examines the dangers and prospects of our early 21st century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future. Chomsky surveys the democratic wave in Latin America and the growing global solidarity movements.

Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Charles H. Ferguson
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro
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Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators' path to conquest. Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history.

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Lawrence Lessig
• Narrated By Lawrence Lessig

In an era of ballooning corporate campaign expenditures, unleashed by the Supreme Court in Citizens United, trust in our government is at an all time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress - and that our Republic has been lost.Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, Republic, Lost not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats the will of the people, but offers cogent strategies to correct our course....

Cracking the Code

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Thom Hartmann
• Narrated By Lloyd James

According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communication. It's not an escalation in Iraq, it's a surge; it's not the inheritance tax, it's the death tax; it's not drilling for oil, it's exploring for energy.

Conservatives didn't intuit the path to persuasive messaging; they learned these techniques.