American Philosophy

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    • A Love Story
    • By: John Kaag
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life....

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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 147 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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    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning....

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,058 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
    • By: Bill Plotkin PhD
    • Narrated by: Rob Grgach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • There's a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities....

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    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • Is time an illusion? Is time travel possible? Could time end? In this audiobook, A Question of Time, we take an interdisciplinary look at the fourth dimension, exploring the latest thinking on the nature of time and the ways it dominates our physical and mental worlds....

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    • College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
    • By: Sara Goldrick-Rab
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab....

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    • By: Samuel Smiles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

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    • The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony....

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,993 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 869 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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    • Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
    • By: Jarvis R. Givens
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today....

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    • A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
    • By: Peter W. Wood
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project....

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    • How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
    • By: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Find out....

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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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    • By: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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    • David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
    • By: Victoria Johnson
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences....

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    • The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
    • By: William Deresiewicz
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically....

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