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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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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 374 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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    • By: Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Freedom, Amartya Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population....

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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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    • Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 789 ratings
    • What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's best seller Tears We Cannot Stop....

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    • By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest to help make our society into the kind of "village" that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults....

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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

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    • Reckoning with Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a White cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history....

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    • The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
    • By: Alec Karakatsanis
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Usual Cruelty is a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American "injustice system" by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it....

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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

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    • How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
    • By: Jason L. Riley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125 ratings
    • Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the Black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries....

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    • By: Erich Fromm
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society....

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    • Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
    • By: Noah Rothman
    • Narrated by: Noah Rothman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep....

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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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    • My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America
    • By: Ryan Busse
    • Narrated by: Ryan Busse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point....

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    • 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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