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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

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    • The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Stephen Lang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods...

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    • By: Al Franken
    • Narrated by: Al Franken
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,852 ratings
    • Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history....

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    • The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century
    • By: Glenn Beck, Pat Gray
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck’s Common Sense....

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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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    • Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
    • By: Akhil Reed Amar
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly....

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    • How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America
    • By: Ira Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Shapiro documents the pivotal challenges facing the Senate during the Trump administration, arguing that the body's failure to provide leadership represents the most catastrophic failure of government in American history....

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    • His Words for Our Times
    • By: C. Richard Allen, Edwin O. Guthman, Robert F. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: James Lurie, Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In honor of the 50th anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy’s death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures....

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    • Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People
    • By: Randy E. Barnett
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • The Constitution of the United States begins with the words "we the people". But from the earliest days of the American republic, there have been two competing notions of "the people"....

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    • The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
    • By: Adam Jentleson
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy....

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    • The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
    • By: Edward B. Foley
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this authoritative history of the American Electoral College system, Edward Foley analyzes the consequences of the unparalleled departure from the Jeffersonians' original intent - and delineates what we can do about it....

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    • A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
    • By: Nick Seabrook
    • Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This book tells the history of how we got to this moment—from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts—and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote....

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    • The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
    • By: Jesse Wegman
    • Narrated by: Jesse Wegman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Twice in the last five elections, the Electoral College has overridden the popular vote, calling the integrity of the entire system into question - and creating a false picture of a country divided into bright red and blue blocks when in fact we are purple from coast to coast....

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    • How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics
    • By: David Faris
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • The American electoral system is clearly falling apart. Author David Faris offers accessible, actionable strategies for American institutional reform which don't require a constitutional amendment, and would have a lasting impact on our future....

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    • The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
    • By: Jeffrey Toobin
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration....

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    • The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America
    • By: Adam Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last 50 years....

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    • How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
    • By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    • Narrated by: Paul Mantell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor....

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    • Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
    • By: Jeff Shesol
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins....

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