Class Politics

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    • Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable....

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    • How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
    • By: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more.

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,575 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
    • By: Brooke Harrington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore.

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    • How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
    • By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers....

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    • By: Thorstein Veblen
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,193 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
    • By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 967 ratings
    • The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

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    • The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
    • By: Hugh Brewster
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers....

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    • How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
    • By: Anthony Abraham Jack
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how - and why - disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive....

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    • How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
    • By: Jeremy Carl
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • While political and media elites hysterically condemn an imaginary epidemic of “white supremacy,” in the real world, white Americans are often openly discriminated against. Indeed, anti-white policies have become so interwoven in the fabric of American life that we often fail to recognize them.

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    • Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
    • By: Ashley Mears
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • A sociologist and former fashion model takes listeners inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
    • By: Oliver Bullough
    • Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats....

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    • The Forging of SEAL Class 228
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,205 ratings
    • With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world....

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    • The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....

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    • Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 299 ratings
    • Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes....

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    • Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
    • By: Ruha Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity....

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