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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • Power and Participation in Union Negotiations
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey, Abby Lawlor
    • Narrated by: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy.

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    • The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism....

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    • A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
    • By: Roberto Saviano
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 316 ratings
    • A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra....

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    • Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
    • By: Philip Carlo
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,384 ratings
    • Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history....

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    • Russia's Super Mafia
    • By: Mark Galeotti
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, or vory as the Russian mafia is also known....

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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 397 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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    • The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman
    • By: Michael Cain
    • Narrated by: Clinton Wade
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael.....

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    • The True Story of Pablo Acosta: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
    • By: Terrence E. Poppa
    • Narrated by: Armando Duran
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to 20 tons of cocaine each year into the US before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death....

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    • The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
    • By: John Buntin
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 17 hrs
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars....

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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 622 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
    • By: Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana, Tim Newark - foreword, Bettina Giancana - contributor
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 590 ratings
    • One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana, clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer....

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    • How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
    • By: Douglas Valentine
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials....

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    • The Two Families of Michael Palermo; Saints Only Live in Heaven
    • By: Richard Stanley Cagan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 334 ratings
    • Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York’s crime family organizations....

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    • The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    • By: Benjamin T. Smith
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent....

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    • A True Story of the Hippie Mafia
    • By: Richard Stratton
    • Narrated by: Richard Stratton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • A true-crime story that sounds like fiction, Smuggler's Blues is a psychedelic road trip through international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed....

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    • The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
    • By: Nicholas Schou
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Dubbed the "Hippie Mafia", the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they took to Timothy Leary's mantra of "Turn on, tune in, and drop out"....

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    • By: J. Campbell Bruce
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • This gripping true crime classic tells the story of life on The Rock and of 14 ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners....

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    • Taking Down Corrupt Judges, Dirty Politicians, Killers, and Body Snatchers
    • By: Jerry Schmetterer, Michael Vecchione
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • From 2001 to 2013, Michael Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office....

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    • The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
    • By: J. North Conway
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime....

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