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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • By: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
    • By: Matt MacNabb
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumors and urban legends and paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands, like Coca-Cola, Hugo Boss, Adidas, Ford, Bayer, Chanel, and BMW among others....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,429 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World
    • By: Chris Poggiali, Grady Hendrix
    • Narrated by: Grady Hendrix
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • When a major Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian American audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw....

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • By: Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

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    • The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood
    • By: Michael Walker
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 851 ratings
    • This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties....

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    • The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
    • By: Susannah Gora
    • Narrated by: Kelli Tager
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialized is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out like an '80s movie. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
    • By: Jeff Chang
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the '60s into the new millennium....

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    • Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
    • By: Mark Harris
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • Here is the epic drama behind the making of five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967, and through them, the story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever....

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    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

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    • Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
    • By: Alicia Drake
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
    • By: Barney Hoskyns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country"....

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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 371 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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