American Depression

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the United States of America, American Revolution, Civil War, Chicago, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and Gulf War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jamie Peters, Randy Whitlow, Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then pay attention....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 498 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
    • By: Terrie M. Williams
    • Narrated by: Madeline McCray
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Terrie had made it: She had launched her own public relations company with such clients as Eddie Murphy and Johnnie Cochran. Yet she was in constant pain, waking up in terror, overeating in search of relief....

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    • The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
    • By: Sebastian Edwards
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold....

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    • By: Angeline Boulley
    • Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,830 ratings
    • Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....

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    • The Triumph of the American Imagination
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 33 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,375 ratings
    • Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination, and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi.

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    • FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
    • By: Sally Denton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An anarchist assassin, demagogues, and a plotted coup d’état—the forgotten history of the forces that lashed out against FDR as he took the ...

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    • By: David Von Drehle
    • Narrated by: David Von Drehle
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • One of our nation’s most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door.

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    • Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: James Rickards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,233 ratings
    • The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it....

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    • By: William Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,852 ratings
    • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin....

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    • The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism
    • By: Diana B. Henriques
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression....

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    • A Novel (Vintage International)
    • By: James Baldwin, Kevin Young - introduction
    • Narrated by: Matt Bomer, Kevin Young
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction, Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality.

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    • Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different.

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    • How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
    • By: Joshua Wolf Shenk
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies....

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Narrated by: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Flipping Boxcars is an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II....

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    • By: Patrick Flores-Scott
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro "T" Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with PTSD....

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