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After the Ivory Tower Falls
By: Will Bunch
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American lifeWinner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ""This book is simply terrific."" —Heather Cox Richardson | ""Ambitious and... Read more
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Plunder
By: Brendan Ballou
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it
Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how... Read more
The Future Earth
By: Eric Holthaus
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change... Read more
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Politics is for Power
By: Eitan Hersh
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking analysis of political hobbyism—treating politics like a spectator sport—and an urgent and timely call to arms for the many well-meaning, well-informed citizens who follow political news, but do not take political action.
Do you consider yourself politically engaged? Probably, yes! But are you, really? The uncomfortable truth is... Read more
Border and Rule
By: Harsha Walia
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border... Read more
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This Chair Rocks
By: Ashton Applewhite
Narrated by: Ashton Applewhite
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.”
—Anne Lamott, New York Times... Read more
Post Corona
By: Scott Galloway
Narrated by: Scott Galloway
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller!
"Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the... Read more
Revolutionary Spring
By: Christopher Clark
Narrated by: Christopher Clark
Length: 33 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today.
As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions... Read more
The Half Has Never Been Told
By: Edward E Baptist
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman PrizeA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleAmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but... Read more
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.
Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of... Read more
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 19 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory.
Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what... Read more
The Phoenix Economy
By: Felix Salmon
Narrated by: Felix Salmon
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for Investing and Personal FinanceAn award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy.We are living in a... Read more
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Team of Rivals - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.
Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more
Central Asia
By: Adeeb Khalid
Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This engaging audiobook narrated by Aaqil Ahmed explores how Central Asia has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the... Read more
A People's Guide to Capitalism
By: Hadas Thier
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%.
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the... Read more
Home Before Morning
By: Lynda Van Devanter
Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam.... Read more
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President Garfield
By: CW Goodyear
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.
In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to... Read more
Agent Zigzag
By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.
In 1941, after... Read more
Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of... Read more
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
By: Nicole Perlroth
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 18 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)
“Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding.” The New Yorker
"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times),... Read more
The Future is Degrowth
By: Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan & Andrea V...
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with... Read more
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Too Much and Never Enough
By: Mary L. Trump
Narrated by: Mary L. Trump
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social... Read more
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Charged
By: Emily Bazelon
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.
“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan... Read more
An Inconvenient Cop
By: Edwin Raymond & Jon Sternfeld
Narrated by: Edwin Raymond
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023
“With illuminating, vivid, and meticulous prose, Edwin Raymond delivers an extraordinary exposé on policing in America . . . An essential, exceptional work.”
—Toluse Olorunnipa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of His Name Is George Floyd
From the highest-ranking... Read more