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    • How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture
    • By: Heather Mac Donald
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward, Heather Mac Donald - intro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303 ratings
    • By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learning....

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: Denica Fairman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option?....

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    • A New Social Contract for a Better Society
    • By: Minouche Shafik
    • Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
    • By: Alisa Roth
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....

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    • Seeking Respect in Back Row America
    • By: Chris Arnade
    • Narrated by: Donte Bonner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Widely acclaimed writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten - both urban and rural, blue state and red state - and indicts the elitists who've left them behind....

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    • A New History
    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....

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    • Children in America's Schools
    • By: Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrated by: Mark Winston
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio....

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    • A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....

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    • Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
    • By: Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts - and, in repressing it, burned the very huts they intended to tax....

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    • A New Paradigm for Wellness
    • By: Steve DeAngelo, Willie L. Brown - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andy Barnett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 335 ratings
    • An authoritative, persuasive, and riveting call for the legalization and responsible use of medical marijuana, The Cannabis Manifesto is a book whose time has come....

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    • The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    • By: Bhaskar Sunkara
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism in the United States today....

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    • How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
    • By: Caitlyn Collins
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant....

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    • Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
    • By: M. Watkins, H. Shulman
    • Narrated by: Claire Simon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology....

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    • How a Great City Lost Its Soul
    • By: Jeremiah Moss
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....

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    • 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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    • How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom
    • By: David Kupelian
    • Narrated by: David Kupelian
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift wrapped, and sold to them as though it had great value....

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    • 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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    • The American Dream in Crisis
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success....

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