American Social History

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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 114 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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    • 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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    • Inside Trump’s Trial—and My Own
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Alter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A vivid eyewitness account of the historic first criminal trial of a president and a cri de coeur for democracy from a New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian.

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    • Third Edition
    • By: John R. Thelin
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Colleges and universities are among the most cherished - and controversial - institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector....

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    • By: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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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 69 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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    • By: Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country....

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    • A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
    • By: James Higdon
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times....

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,496 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • Jefferson to Lincoln
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

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    • A History of Its Rise to Power
    • By: Thomas Reppetto
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street....

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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 460 ratings
    • This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning....

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    • The History of a People
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power....

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    • Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they’re nearly there, thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentially bought....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
    • By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,107 ratings
    • Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, builds his case point by point, comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy....

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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 146 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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