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    • By: Friedrich List
    • Narrated by: Christopher Kendrick
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • "The National System of Political Economy" by Friedrich List, first published in 1841, is a seminal work that advocates for economic nationalism and the strategic use of protectionist policies to foster a country's economic development.

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    • Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
    • By: Alexandra Stein
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brainwashing explains how almost anyone, given the right set of circumstances, can be radically manipulated to engage in otherwise incomprehensible and often dangerous acts....

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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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    • The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
    • By: Andrew Ross Sorkin
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,868 ratings
    • A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter....

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    • How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about....

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    • How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
    • By: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Following his book Captured on corporate capture of regulatory and government agencies, and his years of experience as a prosecutor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse here turns his attention to the right-wing scheme to capture the courts....

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    • How the Feds Target the Innocent
    • By: Harvey Silverglate, Alan M. Dershowitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior....

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    • How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
    • By: Cynthia Rayner, Francois Bonnici
    • Narrated by: Zoleka Vundla
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping....

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    • By: Astra Taylor
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
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    • There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise....

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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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    • 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 123 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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    • Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
    • By: Robert B. Reich
    • Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,071 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

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    • How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Nancy Fraser
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world....

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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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    • Deborah Jones Crime Thriller Series, Book 1
    • By: J. B. Turner
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Series: Deborah Jones, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has agitated for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on death row, convicted of killing a senator's only son....

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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
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    • 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 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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    • Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers....

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