Current American Politics

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,624 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064 ratings
    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • By: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
    • By: Brandy Colbert
    • Narrated by: Brandy Colbert, Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • Award-winning author Brandy Colbert presents a searing new work of nonfiction about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre....

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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
    • By: David French
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • An engaging mix of cutting edge research and fair-minded analysis, Divided We Fall is an unblinking look at the true dimensions and dangers of the widening ideological gap, and what could happen if we don't take steps toward bridging it....

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    • Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
    • By: Tim Madigan, Hilary Beard - adaptation
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One of the worst acts of racial violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma....

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    • The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
    • By: Chris Crowe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Addams Award-winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the civil rights movement....

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    • America's Role in a World Transformed
    • By: Andrew Bacevich
    • Narrated by: Peter Coyote
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the 21st century, from Andrew J. Bacevich, the New York Times best-selling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book. For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses....

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    • American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap....

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    • Understanding Our Racial Divide
    • By: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best-seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience....

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    • A Story of America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Renowned, best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America....

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