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    • By: Jane Addams
    • Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In 1889, Jane Addams co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first settlement house in the United States. In this book, she discusses democracy and government....

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    • The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
    • By: Parker J. Palmer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • At a critical time in American life, Parker J. Palmer looks with realism and hope at how to deal with our political tensions for the sake of the common good - without the shouting, blaming, or defaming so common in our politics today....

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    • The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
    • By: John R. Hale
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come....

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    • The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
    • By: Tom Nichols
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,516 ratings
    • People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
    • By: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Batya Ungar-Sargon reveals how American journalism underwent a status revolution over the twentieth century - from a blue-collar trade to an elite profession....

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    • By: Frederic Bastiat
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • The Law was originally published as a pamphlet in French in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat....

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    • Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
    • By: Jason Hannan
    • Narrated by: Ray Greenley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. Jason Hannan builds on this thesis....

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    • How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
    • By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging....

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    • How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
    • Narrated by: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage....

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    • Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
    • By: Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
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    • A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump that new technologies and their manipulation played a decisive role. Network Propaganda challenges that through the most comprehensive study yet published on media coverage of American presidential politics....

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    • How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party
    • By: David Horowitz, Richard Poe
    • Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party....

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    • Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
    • By: Bob Garfield
    • Narrated by: Bob Garfield
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
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    • In American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves, Bob Garfield examines the tragic confluence of the American preoccupation with identity and the catastrophic disintegration of the mass media....

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    • Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
    • By: Heidi Boghosian
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-16
    • Language: English
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    • In Spying on Democracy, National Lawyers Guild executive director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy....

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • By: David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

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    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-19
    • Language: English
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    • Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature....

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    • The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy
    • By: Eric Beecher
    • Narrated by: Eric Beecher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

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