Rural Politics

Product List
    • The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America
    • By: Nicholas Jacobs, Daniel M. Shea
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns....

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,303 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • The Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62,301 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
    • By: Katherine J. Cramer
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....

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    • How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It
    • By: Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward
    • Narrated by: Brianna Fernandez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right—and why long-term progressive political power depends on it....

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    • The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
    • By: Beth Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle....

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    • Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
    • By: Cassie Chambers
    • Narrated by: Cassie Chambers
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 741 ratings
    • After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill women" who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region....

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    • By: Beth Macy
    • Narrated by: Beth Macy
    • Series: Dopesick
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,586 ratings
    • In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows that one thing uniting Americans across geographic, partisan, and class lines is opioid drug abuse....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • By: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 977 ratings
    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

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    • The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
    • By: Amy Gamerman
    • Narrated by: Anna Sale
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

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    • The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
    • By: Justin Farrell
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face....

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    • By: Robert Wuthnow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order underpinning this critical segment of the nation....

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    • A Novel of Suspense
    • By: William G. Tapply
    • Narrated by: David Bryson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics....

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    • The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
    • By: Matt Dellinger
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas....

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    • Memories of a Rural Boyhood
    • By: Jimmy Carter
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • The former president and best selling author of Sources of Strength and The Virtues of Aging writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community...

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    • Race, Class, and Food in the America South
    • By: Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Getting Something to Eat in Jackson, a people-driven ethnography, portrays how race, particularly Blackness, is experienced and performed in different socioeconomic contexts in the contemporary urban American South....

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    • By: Laura Bell
    • Narrated by: Laurie Birmingham
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Laura Bell’s Claiming Ground recounts Bell’s time living mostly alone in the hills of Wyoming, where she herded sheep and cattle and battled isolation....

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    • Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
    • By: Monica Hesse
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames....

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