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Can It Happen Here?
By: Cass R. Sunstein
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates “Can It Happen Here? . . . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that... Read more
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Tell Me How It Ends
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young... Read more
Putinomics
By: Chris Miller
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s... Read more
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Capital
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Derek Le Page
Length: 43 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes... Read more
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Rechts gewinnt, weil Links versagt
By: Roberto J. De Lapuente
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Eine Linke Alternative ist möglich Die gesellschaftliche Linke steckt seit Jahren in der Krise und schafft es nicht, sich als Alternative für Deutschland zu etablieren. Daran hat natürlich auch die neoliberale Kampagne gegen linke Politik einen Anteil, aber Roberto De Lapuente zeigt in seiner kritischen Analyse auch, dass viele Probleme der... Read more
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Armed in America
By: Patrick J. Charles
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment.This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its... Read more
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Straight Talk on Trade
By: Dani Rodrik
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites' and technocrats' obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at... Read more
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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"
By: Annelise Orleck
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.
Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food... Read more
Movie Nights with the Reagans
By: Mark Weinberg
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.
Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as... Read more
There Are No Dead Here
By: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Narrated by: Sylvia Gonzalez
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.
Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just... Read more
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
By: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge
Narrated by: John Chancer
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger,... Read more
Skin in the Game
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more
Call Sign Dracula
By: Joe Fair
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen... Read more
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A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance
By: Emma Gray
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"If not you, then who? If not now, then when? We need more women to speak up and make their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives. We need you in this fight.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, from a Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance So—the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched.... Read more
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Against the Tide
By: Rear Adm. Dave Oliver, USN (Ret.)
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm. Hyman Rickover made a unique impact on American and Navy culture. Dave Oliver is the first former nuclear submarine commander who sailed for the venerable admiral to write about Rickover's management techniques. Oliver draws upon a wealth of untold stories to show how one man... Read more
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The Reactionary Mind
By: Corey Robin
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Reactionary Mind, Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market; others oppose it. Some criticize the state; others celebrate it. Underlying... Read more
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The Counterrevolution
By: Bernard E. Harcourt
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States—one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial... Read more
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Make Oz Great Again
By: Gregory Inkelaar
Narrated by: Stephanie Barton-Farcas
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Correctly Political Tales series takes a satrical look at the L. Frank Baum classic 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' Read the story of how Dorothy deals with three nuts while trying to get back home for reasons no one understands. Read more
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
By: Marc Morano
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change... Read more
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Unterwegs in Nordkorea
By: Rüdiger Frank
Narrated by: Mark Bremer
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Entfernung zu uns ist nicht nur in Kilometern zu messen. Nordkorea ist ein diktatorisches System, das vor markigen Drohungen an den Rest der Welt und auch vor der Verhaftung von Touristen nicht zurückschreckt. Wenn überhaupt, dann sollte man keineswegs ohne gründliche Vorbereitung dorthin fahren. Doch wenn man sich dafür entscheidet, dann... Read more
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The Common Good
By: Robert B. Reich
Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that... Read more
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It's Better Than It Looks
By: Gregg Easterbrook
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?
Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more.
... Read more
The Watergate
By: Joseph Rodota
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington’s chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both political parties and the epicenter of a scandal that brought down a president. In The Watergate, writer and political consultant Joseph Rodota paints a vivid portrait of this landmark and the movers and shakers who... Read more
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Fair Shot
By: Chris Hughes
Narrated by: Chris Hughes
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating audiobook, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that the best way to fight income inequality is with a radically simple idea: a guaranteed income for working people, paid for by the one percent.
The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in... Read more