Organized Government

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin T. Smith
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent....

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    • The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
    • By: Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana, Tim Newark - foreword, Bettina Giancana - contributor
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 572 ratings
    • One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana, clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer....

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    • The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
    • By: Paul L. Williams
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....

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    • The Two Families of Michael Palermo; Saints Only Live in Heaven
    • By: Richard Stanley Cagan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 328 ratings
    • Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York’s crime family organizations....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall....

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    • The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945....

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    • Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
    • By: Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

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    • Taking Down Corrupt Judges, Dirty Politicians, Killers, and Body Snatchers
    • By: Jerry Schmetterer, Michael Vecchione
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • From 2001 to 2013, Michael Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office....

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    • How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
    • By: Douglas Valentine
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials....

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    • The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman
    • By: Michael Cain
    • Narrated by: Clinton Wade
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael.....

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    • 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel
    • By: Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels....

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    • How the Mafia and US Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
    • By: Matthew Black
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it....

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    • How and Why the U.S. Government Smuggled Guns into Mexico: The Inside Story
    • By: Mike Detty
    • Narrated by: Thomas Stephen Jr.
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • The true and shocking story of an undercover smuggling operation....

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    • Organizing for Democratic Renewal
    • By: Marshall Ganz
    • Narrated by: Marshall Ganz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • At a moment in which our everyday practice of democracy has atrophied, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened our capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change.

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    • The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty
    • By: Melissa del Bosque
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño....

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    • How to Run a Drug Cartel
    • By: Tom Wainwright
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,759 ratings
    • What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? Find out....

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    • Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Jane McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Jane McAlevey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class....

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    • Look at Cocaine and All You See is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World
    • By: Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • From the author of the number one international best seller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy. In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market....

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    • In and out of Japan's Underworld
    • By: Jake Adelstein
    • Narrated by: Jake Adelstein, Shoko Plambeck
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world, has been banished.

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