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    • Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
    • By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,060 ratings
    • Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom.

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

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    • What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
    • By: Heather McGhee
    • Narrated by: Heather McGhee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,745 ratings
    • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color....

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    • How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
    • By: Christopher F. Rufo
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.”....

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    • Close Encounters with Addiction
    • By: Gabor Maté MD
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,404 ratings
    • In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours....

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    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Jordan Bridges
    • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,557 ratings
    • Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

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    • By: David Pelzer
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Series: Child Called "It", Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,123 ratings
    • On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court....

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    • Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
    • By: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Pahlka
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama’s former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America....

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 992 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,713 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
    • By: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors....

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    • How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
    • By: Jonathan M. Metzl
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,256 ratings
    • A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

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    • By: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,003 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 30 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years....

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    • Work, Family, and Our Future
    • By: Indra Nooyi
    • Narrated by: Indra Nooyi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,206 ratings
    • For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of Nooyi’s legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded....

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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    • How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania
    • By: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Narrated by: Thomas E Woods Jr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • You remember the story: some locations did better than others on Covid because some locations followed the rules, and others foolishly ignored them. Covid spread was your fault, you science hater....

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