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The Religion of Whiteness
By: Glenn E. Bracey II & Michael O. Emerson
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites—for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the... Read more
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The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more
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We Were Once a Family
By: Roxanna Asgarian
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2023
"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar gives an impassioned performance that enhances the touching, terrifying tale of social injustice and systemic failure. Her delivery is compelling and clear, evoking a captivating listening experience from this true-crime tragedy."- Library Journal
The shocking, deeply... Read more
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
Administrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
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The Shadow Docket
By: Stephen Vladeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By: Jane Sherron de Hart
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her... Read more
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The Originalism Trap
By: Madiba K. Dennie
Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it
“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more
The Supermajority
By: Michael Waldman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction.
In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the... Read more
Insane
By: Alisa Roth
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police... Read more
Abolitionist Intimacies
By: El Jones
Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral... Read more
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Making the Supreme Court
By: Charles M. Cameron & Jonathan P. Kastellec
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the... Read more
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Dobbs v. Jackson
By: The Supreme Court of the United States
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Faye Wattleton & Imani Jade Powers
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"This timely audiobook provides context and perspective for the decades-long fight to protect a woman's right to choose." - AudioFile Magazine
After decades of activism, legal battles, and debate, listen to the landmark decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Hear the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion and dissents in their entirety, as well as the original... Read more
The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade
By: Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the revolutionary Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling.
The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a front-row seat to the inner workings of the Supreme Court that led to the monumental Roe v. Wade decision. Spanning from 1969 to 1972, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bob Woodward and coauthor Scott Armstrong report... Read more
Dopesick
By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.
Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the... Read more
Ghettoside
By: Jill Leovy
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE• A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more
The Other Dr. Gilmer
By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time
“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more
Deep Delta Justice
By: Matthew Van Meter
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography
The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou
2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist
The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).
In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more
The Black and the Blue
By: Matthew Horace & Ron Harris
Narrated by: Matthew Horace
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his... Read more
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read more
The Indispensable Right
By: Jonathan Turley
Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.
Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment to the... Read more
Lawfare
By: Orde F. Kittrie
Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In this book, author Orde Kittrie draws on his experiences as a lawfare practitioner, US State Department attorney, and international law scholar in analyzing the theory and practice of lawfare. Kittrie explains how factors including the increased reach of international laws and tribunals and the rise of economic globalization and information... Read more
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American Covenant
By: Yuval Levin
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fractious America
Common ground is hard to find in today’s politics. In a society teeming with irreconcilable political perspectives, many people have grown frustrated under a system of... Read more
Cocaine Cowboys
By: Nicola Tallant
Narrated by: Nicola Tallant
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Cocaine Cowboys tells the story of Ireland's love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast to the billion-euro trade it has become. From Ireland's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami to Dublin, to the modern-day violence that led to the brutal dismemberment of teenager Keane... Read more
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