American Political System

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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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    • 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 235 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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    • How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
    • By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government....

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    • The Flawed Genius Who Challenged the American Political System
    • By: Bevin Alexander
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Douglas MacArthur famously said there is no substitute for victory....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
    • By: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional collapse....

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    • How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    • By: Richard V. Reeves
    • Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 415 ratings
    • As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle....

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    • African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
    • By: Niambi Michele Carter
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kristin Hannah
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Series: Girls of Firefly Lane, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21,534 ratings
    • In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

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    • How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
    • By: Dorothy A. Brown
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....

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    • How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
    • By: Andrew G. McCabe
    • Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,358 ratings
    • Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and of the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution....

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    • The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
    • By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized "justice". Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules....

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    • By: Al Franken
    • Narrated by: Al Franken
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • Al Franken reveals the alarming story of how Bush (barely) beat Kerry with his campaign of "fear, smear, and queers", and then claimed a nonexistent mandate....

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    • A Political Thriller
    • By: Mark Spivak
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • A power-hungry vice president, a bad batch of shady intelligence, and a sinister plot to destroy Western civilization. Just another day in America....

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    • Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump - 2017 Edition
    • By: Al Gore
    • Narrated by: Will Patton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,065 ratings
    • Here is a visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith have combined with the public sphere's degradation to create an environment hostile to reason....

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    • States and the Making of American Constitutional Law
    • By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In this audiobook, US Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional law should account for the role of the state courts and state constitutions, together with the federal courts and the federal Constitution, in protecting individual liberties....

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    • The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness
    • By: David Austin
    • Narrated by: Chimwemwe Miller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-22
    • Language: English
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    • David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the late 1960s....

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    • By: William G. Howell, Terry M. Moe
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government....

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    • How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
    • By: Michael S. Sherry
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies....

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    • The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
    • By: Lawrence Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, political forces were determined to limit that right. As On Account of Race demonstrates, through the better part of American history the court has instead been a protector of white rule....

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