United States System

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty....

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    • From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
    • By: Nick Ragone
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....

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    • A 2,160-Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail
    • By: Jeff Alt
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-12
    • Language: English
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    • Jeff Alt takes you along every step of his 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail adventure. This entertaining journey includes bears, bugs, blisters, captivating characters, skunk bedmates, and hilarious food cravings....

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    • By: Adam B. Cox, Cristina M. Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
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    • Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodriguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief, and provide a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays....

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    • THE JAMES ROSEBAUM STORY
    • By: TIMOTHY THOMPSON
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • For the average/ordinary person, being abandoned by your parents at birth, separated from your one and only sibling as a child, and hurled into the...

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    • A History of Hunting Fugitives in America
    • By: Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In On the Lam, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella trace the history of fugitives in the United States by looking at the characters - real and fictional - who have played the roles of the hunter and the hunted. They also examine the origins of the bail system and other legal tools....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Linda Greenhouse
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show listeners how the Supreme Court really works....

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    • The Darkness Saga
    • By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • Luke's Justice is the fourth book in the Darkness: A Slave's Story saga. The Knox family soon discovers that living on the former Andrews' Farm, ...

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    • 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
    • By: Ted Stewart
    • Narrated by: Art Allen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Best-selling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions....

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    • How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
    • By: James Ledbetter
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries....

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    • The History of the Legal Systems and Cases That Enabled Slavery in the United States
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One of the great ironies of the Enlightenment was that various societies produced the notion of the inalienable rights of man, bequeathed by God, alongside the long-established and deeply entrenched institution of slavery.

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    • How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution
    • By: Tom Shachtman
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman reveals the ways in which a dozen notable revolutionaries deeply affected the finances and birth of the new country while making and losing their fortunes....

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    • How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System
    • By: Elliott Young
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States....

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    • The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
    • By: John S. Milloy, Mary Jane Logan McCallum - foreword
    • Narrated by: Wesley French
    • Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children....

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    • Brain Science in the Early Cold War
    • By: Andreas Killen
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ....

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    • The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court
    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America....

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