American Industry

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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • By: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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    • A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
    • By: Peter Kolchinsky
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive, but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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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 1,003 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • By: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • What Happens to People When Work Disappears
    • By: Farah Stockman
    • Narrated by: Farah Stockman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
    • By: John Fabian Witt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,126 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • Henry J. Kaiser
    • By: John Cousins
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Henry J. Kaiser's significance in American industry cannot be overstated. As a visionary entrepreneur, he transformed sectors that are integral to ...

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,869 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,269 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • By: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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