Political Reform

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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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 1,618 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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    • How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
    • By: Ben Shapiro, David Limbaugh - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,471 ratings
    • When parents send their children off to college, Mom and Dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute....

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    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 868 ratings
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

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    • By: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Reform or Revolution is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties, and the expansion of social democracy could not create a socialist society....

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    • Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Richard L. Hasen
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years - most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections - Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined....

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    • Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Michael Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620 ratings
    • In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....

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    • Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
    • By: Carissa Byrne Hessick
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides....

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    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Period in American History Filled with Political Reforms and Social Activism (U.S. History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Progressive Era, a time of social, political, and economic reform in the United States, spanned the years 1877 to 1929—the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression....

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    • The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
    • By: Lee Drutman
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other....

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    • By: Alex S. Vitale
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • This audiobook attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice - even public safety....

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    • A Post-Left, Post-Right Manifesto for Autonomy, Justice, and Digital Freedom
    • By: American Citizen Publishing
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • The America Party is a scathing, unflinching manifesto for those who’ve outgrown the binary politics of fear and nostalgia. In a political ...

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    • By: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrated by: Peter Coates
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg is a seminal work in political theory that explores the fundamental question of whether social change is...

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    • How—and Why—the American Dream Became a Nightmare
    • By: Joseph Cotto
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • How did America become so screwed up? The answer is probably not what you expect. To find the truth, journey through the tumultuous history of a ...

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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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