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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 631 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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    • 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 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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    • By: Jonathan Peterson
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Social Security for Dummies is the one guide you need to navigate the often-complex world of Social Security retirement benefits. This updated edition offers clear guidance on when to claim benefits....

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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 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 336 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 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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    • Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
    • By: Jessica Pryce
    • Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families....

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    • Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Bob Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces—social, ideological, historical, racial, and political—that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America.

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    • Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations....

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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 43 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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    • Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
    • By: Charles Koch, Brian Hooks
    • Narrated by: Charles Koch, Steve Carlson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education....

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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 1,304 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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    • Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice
    • By: Robert Pondiscio
    • Narrated by: Robert Pondiscio
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America....

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    • Exposing Marxists Behind the Attack on America's Kids
    • By: Liz Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change....

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    • Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
    • By: John Hope Bryant
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America....

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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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