Bestsellers
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Original Sin
- President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
- By: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Narrated by: Jake Tapper
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.
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The media finally gets honest..
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-25
By: Jake Tapper, and others
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Abundance
- By: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
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Advice to the Democratic Party from Klein & Thompson
- By Betsy Fowler on 03-31-25
By: Ezra Klein, and others
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.
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Disturbing and Equally Important
- By Old Man River on 05-20-25
By: Patrick McGee
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....
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Don't fall for the negative reviews...
- By Visualverbs on 08-04-19
By: Tom O'Neill, and others
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A People's History of the United States
- By: Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
- Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....
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Amateur hour in the production booth
- By Thomas on 11-09-10
By: Howard Zinn
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Original Sin
- President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
- By: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Narrated by: Jake Tapper
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.
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The media finally gets honest..
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-25
By: Jake Tapper, and others
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Abundance
- By: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Narrated by: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
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Advice to the Democratic Party from Klein & Thompson
- By Betsy Fowler on 03-31-25
By: Ezra Klein, and others
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.
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Disturbing and Equally Important
- By Old Man River on 05-20-25
By: Patrick McGee
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....
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Don't fall for the negative reviews...
- By Visualverbs on 08-04-19
By: Tom O'Neill, and others
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A People's History of the United States
- By: Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
- Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....
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Amateur hour in the production booth
- By Thomas on 11-09-10
By: Howard Zinn
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- By: Karen Hao
- Narrated by: Karen Hao
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.
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Well-researched. Timely. Informative. Karen is brilliant and kind!
- By Kahlil Andrews on 05-25-25
By: Karen Hao
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On Democracies and Death Cults
- Israel and the Future of Civilization
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author of The War on the West explains how no less than the future of the Western World is at stake in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Powerful. Inspiring.
- By Randall Levine on 04-16-25
By: Douglas Murray
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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Fight
- Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
- By: Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness.
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Comprehensive overview of Democrat failures in '24
- By Robert Tapia on 04-07-25
By: Jonathan Allen, and others
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 - a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma....
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This should be required listening
- By LManc on 09-13-19
By: Garrett M. Graff
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Who Is Government?
- The Untold Story of Public Service
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis, Sarah Vowell, John Lanchester, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.
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Imagine what we could achieve if we actually understood
- By Anonymous User on 03-24-25
By: Michael Lewis
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
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Apocalyptic
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-24
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Government Gangsters
- The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
- By: Kash Pramod Patel
- Narrated by: Richard Cefalos
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president....
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A Book Whose Time Has Come
- By 20eagle16 on 09-30-23
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Lawless
- How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
- By: Leah Litman
- Narrated by: Leah Litman
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.
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Such a good book, such bad vibes
- By Meagan on 05-25-25
By: Leah Litman
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When the Stones Speak
- The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know
- By: Doron Spielman
- Narrated by: Doron Spielman
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people’s historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land.
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An amazing book you won’t regret every minute you listen!!!
- By Lindsay on 05-25-25
By: Doron Spielman
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Prequel
- An American Fight Against Fascism
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century....
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The fight to keep democracy alive
- By Rex on 10-19-23
By: Rachel Maddow
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The World for Sale
- Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- By: Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source....
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Explains a lot!
- By jaga on 03-24-21
By: Javier Blas, and others
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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Outstanding - Should be required reading
- By Steve Siegmund on 03-19-25
By: Omar El Akkad
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On Tyranny
- Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century....
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History does not repeat, but it does instruct.
- By Darwin8u on 11-19-18
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Message
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.
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Bias
- By Dana on 10-13-24
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Basic Economics, Fifth Edition
- A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on commonsense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the fundamental economic principles and how they explain our lives....
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Great book
- By Eve on 07-28-24
By: Thomas Sowell
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Founding Brothers
- The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington....
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Great!
- By Gotta Tellya on 08-10-16
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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Targeted: Beirut
- The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
- By: Jack Carr, James M. Scott
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott examine the 1983 barracks terrorist attack that changed the course of history.
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Neglected History Brought to Life
- By P. Heard on 10-03-24
By: Jack Carr, and others
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Confronting the Presidents
- No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents.
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Great until the end
- By Terry Hansen on 09-27-24
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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On a par with I'll Be Gone in the Dark, plus...
- By Grace O'Malley on 03-01-19
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units....
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Lots of facts, offset by too much fiction
- By Steve M on 05-24-19
By: Annie Jacobsen
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How Countries Go Broke
- The Big Cycle
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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With the US debt issue coming to a head, Dalio’s How Countries Go Broke provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the Big Debt Cycle, explaining its implications and offering a surprisingly straightforward solution to getting debt problems like the ones the US faces under control.
By: Ray Dalio
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War
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.
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Draws Connections
- By Kyle on 10-18-24
By: Bob Woodward
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Do Less
- A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms
- By: Kate Northrup
- Narrated by: Kate Northrup
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book for working women and mothers who are ready to release the culturally inherited belief that their worth is equal to their productivity, and instead create a personal and professional life that's based on presence, meaning, and joy....
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Wanted to like it more
- By Laurel on 05-09-19
By: Kate Northrup
New releases
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Original Sin
- President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
- By: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Narrated by: Jake Tapper
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.
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The media finally gets honest..
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-25
By: Jake Tapper, and others
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Lawless
- How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
- By: Leah Litman
- Narrated by: Leah Litman
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman brings her signature wit to the question of what’s gone wrong at One First Street. In Lawless, she argues that the Supreme Court is no longer practicing law; it’s running on vibes. By “vibes,” Litman means legal-ish claims that repackage the politics of conservative grievance and dress them up in robes. Major decisions adopt the language and posture of the law, while in fact displaying a commitment to protecting a single minority: the religious conservatives and Republican officials.
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Such a good book, such bad vibes
- By Meagan on 05-25-25
By: Leah Litman
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.
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Disturbing and Equally Important
- By Old Man River on 05-20-25
By: Patrick McGee
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The Greatest Comeback Ever
- Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign
- By: Joe Concha
- Narrated by: Joe Concha
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Greatest Comeback Ever, Concha roasts the wildest anti-Trump flops from the prediction race. Walz and Biden swore they were the happy-go-lucky crew, but Trump was the one dancing his way to the YMCA while Kamala screeched about the end of days. She stumbled over unburdening her past while Trump nailed it on groceries and borders—stuff folks actually care about.
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Excellent Telling of an Amazing Comeback!!
- By Susan Shea Portanova on 05-05-25
By: Joe Concha
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- By: Karen Hao
- Narrated by: Karen Hao
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?
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Well-researched. Timely. Informative. Karen is brilliant and kind!
- By Kahlil Andrews on 05-25-25
By: Karen Hao
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When the Stones Speak
- The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know
- By: Doron Spielman
- Narrated by: Doron Spielman
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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As former vice president of the City of David Foundation, Doron Spielman has guided numerous visitors—including donors, diplomats, professors, celebrities, and American politicians—on a journey into the City of David’s tunnels. While often holding vastly different political views, these visitors agree on one thing: the story of the City of David must be told.
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An amazing book you won’t regret every minute you listen!!!
- By Lindsay on 05-25-25
By: Doron Spielman
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Original Sin
- President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
- By: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Narrated by: Jake Tapper
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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From two of America’s most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.
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The media finally gets honest..
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-25
By: Jake Tapper, and others
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Lawless
- How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
- By: Leah Litman
- Narrated by: Leah Litman
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman brings her signature wit to the question of what’s gone wrong at One First Street. In Lawless, she argues that the Supreme Court is no longer practicing law; it’s running on vibes. By “vibes,” Litman means legal-ish claims that repackage the politics of conservative grievance and dress them up in robes. Major decisions adopt the language and posture of the law, while in fact displaying a commitment to protecting a single minority: the religious conservatives and Republican officials.
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Such a good book, such bad vibes
- By Meagan on 05-25-25
By: Leah Litman
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Apple in China
- The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
- By: Patrick McGee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.
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Disturbing and Equally Important
- By Old Man River on 05-20-25
By: Patrick McGee
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The Greatest Comeback Ever
- Inside Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign
- By: Joe Concha
- Narrated by: Joe Concha
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Greatest Comeback Ever, Concha roasts the wildest anti-Trump flops from the prediction race. Walz and Biden swore they were the happy-go-lucky crew, but Trump was the one dancing his way to the YMCA while Kamala screeched about the end of days. She stumbled over unburdening her past while Trump nailed it on groceries and borders—stuff folks actually care about.
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Excellent Telling of an Amazing Comeback!!
- By Susan Shea Portanova on 05-05-25
By: Joe Concha
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- By: Karen Hao
- Narrated by: Karen Hao
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?
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Well-researched. Timely. Informative. Karen is brilliant and kind!
- By Kahlil Andrews on 05-25-25
By: Karen Hao
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When the Stones Speak
- The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You to Know
- By: Doron Spielman
- Narrated by: Doron Spielman
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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As former vice president of the City of David Foundation, Doron Spielman has guided numerous visitors—including donors, diplomats, professors, celebrities, and American politicians—on a journey into the City of David’s tunnels. While often holding vastly different political views, these visitors agree on one thing: the story of the City of David must be told.
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An amazing book you won’t regret every minute you listen!!!
- By Lindsay on 05-25-25
By: Doron Spielman
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The Nazi Mind
- Twelve Warnings from History
- By: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust.
By: Laurence Rees
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Zbig
- The Life and Times of Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
- By: Edward Luce
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
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An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.
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The writing was impeccable
- By Nathan King on 05-22-25
By: Edward Luce
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Perfect Victims
- And the Politics of Appeal
- By: Mohammed El-Kurd
- Narrated by: Mohammed El-Kurd
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.
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Heart wrenching
- By Rania Habal on 05-18-25
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
- By: John Cassidy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestly
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
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At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company to Apple. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics.
By: John Cassidy
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Inflation
- A Guide for Users and Losers
- By: Nicolò Fraccaroli, Mark Blyth
- Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stuck in the past. Since the 1970s, there has only really been one playbook for fighting inflation: raise interest rates, thereby creating unemployment and a recession, which will lower prices. But this simple story hides a multitude of beliefs about why prices go up and how policymakers can wrestle them back down, beliefs that are often wrong, damaging, and have little empirical basis.
By: Nicolò Fraccaroli, and others
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The Purposeful Warrior
- Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High
- By: Jocelyn Benson
- Narrated by: Amanda Seyfried, Jocelyn Benson, Maria Shriver
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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As Michigan’s Secretary of State and chief election official, Jocelyn Benson has overseen several of the highest turnout, most secure elections in the state’s history. But her life changed one snowy evening in December 2020 when armed protesters descended onto her doorstep, threatening her family. Her only crime: certifying a fair and accurate Presidential election in which the protesters’ preferred candidate–Donald Trump–did not win. Benson refused to back down. She stood her ground, spoke out louder, and helped expose and defeat a coordinated national effort to overturn the election.
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Michiganders are lucky to have her
- By Dave T. on 05-11-25
By: Jocelyn Benson
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The Affirmative Action Myth
- Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
- By: Jason L Riley
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many predicted that the black middle class was doomed. One byproduct of a half century of affirmative action is that it has given people the impression that blacks can’t advance without special treatment. In The Affirmative Action Myth, Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Well-researched and reasoned arguments against AA, if a bit one-sided
- By D. M. Farmbrough on 05-21-25
By: Jason L Riley
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Personhood
- The New Civil War over Reproduction
- By: Mary Ziegler
- Narrated by: Jesse Abeel
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Personhood chronicles the internal struggles and changing ideas about race, sex, religion, war, corporate rights, and poverty that shaped the personhood struggle over half a century. The book explores how Americans came to take for granted that fetal personhood requires criminalization and suggests that other ways of valuing both fetal life and women's equality might be possible.
By: Mary Ziegler
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X
- An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
- By: Mark Whitaker
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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With impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X’s far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond.
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- By SciFi-Nerd on 05-18-25
By: Mark Whitaker
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An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing
- Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come
- By: Wendy Elisheva Somerson PhD
- Narrated by: Wendy Elisheva Somerson PhD
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Dr. Wendy Elisheva Somerson, PhD, shows how Jewish history lives in Jewish bodies—and how antisemitism and oppression disrupt our access to safety, dignity, and belonging. This unmetabolized trauma can lock us into a survival state that brings historical grief into the present moment…and keep us from exploring critical questions that help us tend our legacies and live into a better world.
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Teacher by Teacher
- The People Who Change Our Lives
- By: John B. King Jr.
- Narrated by: Joshua Quinn, John B. King Jr.
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The story of John B. King Jr.’s inspiring path to President Obama’s Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted on going to school that day, knowing he would find comfort in his classroom. As he navigated living alone with a father dying from undiagnosed Alzheimer’s, it was public school teachers who saved his life. King’s teachers believed in him and saw his potential. They made school a safe, supportive, and engaging place where King could be a kid despite the challenges at home.
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An inspiring memoir
- By Aman on 05-05-25
By: John B. King Jr.
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Climate Justice
- What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Byron Wagner
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you’ve caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live.
By: Cass R. Sunstein
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Hard Neighbors
- The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity
- By: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
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Hard Neighbors follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish and traces their relations with Native Americans, examines their experiences as marginalized people, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the edge of colonialism. The Scotch-Irish fought Indian wars and shaped the frontier, and their experiences living near and fighting against Indians shaped their identity and their attitudes towards government. They influenced national attitudes and policies, and they transformed Indian people into racial others as they transformed themselves into Americans.
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Dangerous Learning
- The South's Long War on Black Literacy
- By: Derek W. Black
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power to keep a person enslaved in mind and body, power to resist oppression. In the decades before the Civil War, Southern governments drove Black literacy underground, but it was too precious to be entirely stamped out.
By: Derek W. Black
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We All Want to Change the World
- My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
- By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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For many, it can feel like change takes too long, and it might seem that we have not moved very far. But political activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar believes that public protest is a vital part of affecting change, even if that change doesn’t come “right now.” In We All Want to Change the World, he examines the activism of people of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds that helped change America, documenting events from the Free Speech Movement through the movement for civil rights, the fight for women’s and LGBTQ rights, and, of course, the protests against the Vietnam War.
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and others
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Tides of Fortune
- The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries
- By: Zack Cooper
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world's most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders' perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context.
By: Zack Cooper
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The Third Reich of Dreams
- The Nightmares of a Nation
- By: Charlotte Beradt, Damion Searls - translator, Dunya Mikhail - foreword
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbors, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these "diaries of the night" in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.
By: Charlotte Beradt, and others
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The Battle for the Black Mind
- By: Karida L. Brown Ph.D
- Narrated by: Heni Zoutomou
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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In The Battle for the Black Mind, Dr. Karida Brown explores the struggle to define and control the education of African Americans amid shifting societal attitudes and forms of systemic exclusion. From the perspective of freed slaves seeking empowerment and liberation through education, to the white elites aiming to shape the future of the workforce and consolidate power, The Battle for the Black Mind explores the formation of segregated education systems and the influence of philanthropic organizations, religious institutions, and Black educators themselves.
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- By CHARLIE LEE PALMER on 05-16-25
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Outclassed
- How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
- By: Joan C. Williams
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In Outclassed, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the “diploma divide”, while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege.
By: Joan C. Williams
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Strangers and Intimates
- The Rise and Fall of Private Life
- By: Tiffany Jenkins
- Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Tiffany Jenkins’s groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent – and hard-won – achievement. Strangers and Intimates is animated by dramatic human confrontations: from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke’s rallying cry that ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and more.
By: Tiffany Jenkins
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Putin's Sledgehammer
- The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos
- By: Candace Rondeaux
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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In June 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow. The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler. Wagner’s power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion, until it was so great it exposed the weakness of Russia’s conventional military and became a threat to the Russian state, one that was not demonstrably eliminated until a private jet containing Wagner’s core commanders was blown up in midair.
By: Candace Rondeaux
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Project Mind Control
- Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
- By: John Lisle
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
By: John Lisle
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Humans
- A Monstrous History
- By: Surekha Davies
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal.
By: Surekha Davies
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Trust Your Mind
- Embracing Nuance in a World of Self-Silencing
- By: Jenara Nerenberg
- Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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An urgent examination of self-silencing culture and the toxic impact of groupthink, by the author of Divergent Mind and founder of The Neurodiversity Project. Nerenberg empowers listeners with tools to understand the mind and navigate an increasingly polarized world, from campuses and workplaces, to the media and beyond.
By: Jenara Nerenberg