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    • A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
    • By: Thomas C. Foster
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media....

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    • A Strange and Terrible Saga
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,468 ratings
    • First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared....

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    • How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
    • By: Sharyl Attkisson
    • Narrated by: Sharyl Attkisson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry for decades.

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,167 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
    • By: Elle Reeve
    • Narrated by: Elle Reeve
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences.

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    • The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
    • By: Gary Webb
    • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172 ratings
    • In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it....

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    • America, 1927
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,583 ratings
    • One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country....

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    • (This Is Not a Joke)
    • By: Keith Olbermann
    • Narrated by: Keith Olbermann
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 529 ratings
    • Since Donald Trump's presidential nomination, Keith Olbermann has emerged as one of the web's most popular anti-Trump screedists....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 36 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,333 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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    • Picador Modern Classics
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Maya Hawke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil.

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    • My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil
    • By: Glenn Greenwald
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • New reporting by Greenwald and his team of Brazilian journalists brought to light stunning information about grave corruption, deceit, and wrongdoing by the most powerful political actors in Brazil, his home since 2005....

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    • By: Ioan Grillo
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps 500 body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down 41 police officers....

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    • Thirty Years in American Journalism
    • By: Tucker Carlson
    • Narrated by: Tucker Carlson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,740 ratings
    • From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools comes a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America’s long slide from innocence to orthodoxy....

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    • Off-Gridders at America's Edge
    • By: Ted Conover
    • Narrated by: Ted Conover
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • A passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 499 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • Essays (FSG Classics)
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Susan Varon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.

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    • Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
    • By: Ian Urbina
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 493 ratings
    • There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation....

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    • Essays
    • By: Jonathan Franzen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel....

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