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Bestsellers
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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TRANCE Formation of America
- The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
- By: Cathy O'Brien, Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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TRANCE Formation of America is the documented biography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation....
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The most eye opening book I’ve ever read.
- By Lynn Dreiling on 02-05-23
By: Cathy O'Brien, and others
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- By: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- By Theodore on 06-17-24
By: Kevin F. Adler, and others
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The Moment of Lift
- How Empowering Women Changes the World
- By: Melinda French Gates
- Narrated by: Melinda French Gates
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because, when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live....
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Phenomenal Book, Absolute Gem
- By D. Sooley on 04-28-19
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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TRANCE Formation of America
- The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
- By: Cathy O'Brien, Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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TRANCE Formation of America is the documented biography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation....
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The most eye opening book I’ve ever read.
- By Lynn Dreiling on 02-05-23
By: Cathy O'Brien, and others
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-23
By: Siddharth Kara
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- By: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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Comprehensive examination of homelessness
- By Theodore on 06-17-24
By: Kevin F. Adler, and others
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The Moment of Lift
- How Empowering Women Changes the World
- By: Melinda French Gates
- Narrated by: Melinda French Gates
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because, when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. For the last 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live....
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Phenomenal Book, Absolute Gem
- By D. Sooley on 04-28-19
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On Settler Colonialism
- Ideology, Violence, and Justice
- By: Adam Kirsch
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.
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Partial explanation of the genocidal trend in anti-Israelism
- By Berel Dov Lerner on 09-16-24
By: Adam Kirsch
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Half the Sky
- Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. Half the Sky is essential listening for every global citizen....
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Life changing
- By TJH65 on 11-30-19
By: Nicholas D. Kristof, and others
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Fateful Triangle
- The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores....
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Ethical Right to the Point
- By Not-Professor know-it-all on 09-23-15
By: Noam Chomsky
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The Education of an Idealist
- A Memoir
- By: Samantha Power
- Narrated by: Samantha Power
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?" and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives....
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Sam's Power: Privilege in U.S. Politics
- By RelizzScholar27 on 11-09-19
By: Samantha Power
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Seven Fallen Feathers
- By: Tanya Talaga
- Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The shocking true story covered by the Guardian and the New York Times of the seven young indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city....
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Important book…
- By Jo C. on 11-08-21
By: Tanya Talaga
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The Last Girl
- My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
- By: Nadia Murad
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story....
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A Heartbreaking Tale of Survival and Hope
- By Leahmgordon on 11-08-17
By: Nadia Murad
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The Burglary
- The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
- By: Betty Medsger
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Betty Medsger
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists....
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Forget Ocean's 11
- By Susie on 02-06-14
By: Betty Medsger
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The Authoritarian Moment
- How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ben Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism....
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The Daily Weasel
- By Jonathan Bruce Williams on 07-30-21
By: Ben Shapiro
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- By: Suki Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- By Michael on 02-22-15
By: Suki Kim
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Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set
- The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard, Peter Holloran, and others
- Narrated by: Keith David, Jay Gregory, Martin Luther King, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King, Jr....
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From his own mouth
- By Tony E. on 09-07-16
By: Clayborne Carson, and others
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- By: Bob Fu, Nancy French
- Narrated by: Hayden Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them....
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a great book, very informative.
- By Charles on 09-21-15
By: Bob Fu, and others
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- By: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrated by: Stephen Park
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education"....
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Riveting!!
- By Iread on 11-12-20
By: Chol-hwan Kang, and others
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Brainwashed
- Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
- By: Tom Burrell
- Narrated by: Sylvester Brown Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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"Black people are not dark-skinned white people", says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds....
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Guidance against the odds.
- By Henry Lee Faulkner on 01-05-21
By: Tom Burrell
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- By: Dina Nayeri
- Narrated by: Dina Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers....
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- By PAH on 09-06-19
By: Dina Nayeri
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Jews Don’t Count
- By: David Baddiel
- Narrated by: David Baddiel
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Jews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you....
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Powerful and important and…
- By S. Duck on 09-16-23
By: David Baddiel
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This Chair Rocks
- A Manifesto Against Ageism
- By: Ashton Applewhite
- Narrated by: Ashton Applewhite
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age....
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life changing
- By Cassi Sebastian on 03-24-19
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Prey
- Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants—most of them young men—from Muslim-majority countries....
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Feminist Must-Read
- By Annie Raks on 02-26-21
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Individualists
- Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
- By: Matt Zwolinski, John Tomasi
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Leon Nixon traces the history of libertarian thought from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo....
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Fantastic philosophical history of libertarianism
- By Rachel Ferguson on 06-13-23
By: Matt Zwolinski, and others
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Profit Over People
- Neoliberalism & Global Order
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....
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Eye Opener
- By Maxwell Boyle on 12-24-16
By: Noam Chomsky
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The Intersectional Environmentalist
- How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
- By: Leah Thomas
- Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop, Erin Walker
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change....
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Good to cover basics with highschoolers/undergrads
- By Mayra Rodriguez on 03-08-22
By: Leah Thomas
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Free Speech on Campus
- By: Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This book offers clear prescriptions for what colleges can and can't do when dealing with free speech controversies....
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A must read for understanding the 1st Amendment!
- By Kimberly Finnegan on 12-27-18
By: Erwin Chemerinsky, and others
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The Bill of Rights
- A User's Guide
- By: Linda R. Monk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg - foreword
- Narrated by: Susan Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights....
By: Linda R. Monk, and others
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You Must Stand Up
- The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America
- By: Amanda Becker
- Narrated by: Amanda Becker
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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In You Must Stand Up, Nieman Fellow Amanda Becker provides a real-time portrait of the creative resistance that unfolded in America’s first year without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Amidst daily shifts in health care access, Becker follows the leaders rising to meet these challenges.
By: Amanda Becker
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Liberating Abortion
- Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve
- By: Renee Bracey Sherman, Regina Mahone
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of color to put forth a timely argument that we must liberate abortion for all.
By: Renee Bracey Sherman, and others