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The Theft of a Decade
By: Joseph C. Sternberg
Narrated by: Corey Gagne
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation-- how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensure themselves a comfortable present
The Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the... Read more
John Brown, Abolitionist
By: David S. Reynolds
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 25 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. This brilliant biography of Brown (1800—1859) by the prize-winning critic and cultural biographer David S. Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who... Read more
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Sacred Duty
By: Tom Cotton
Narrated by: Tom Cotton & Jeremy Arthur
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
THEIR DUTY IS SACRED. THEIR STANDARD IS PERFECTION. An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National Cemetery, Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty offers an intimate and inspiring portrait of “The Old Guard,” the revered U.S. Army unit whose mission is to honor our country’s fallen heroes on the most hallowed ground in America.... Read more
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace.
When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA... Read more
The Nonsense Factory
By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
Narrated by: Matt Kugler
Length: 17 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths.
Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration... Read more
The Making of a Justice
By: Justice John Paul Stevens
Narrated by: Justice John Paul Stevens & Robert Petkoff
Length: 18 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A "timely and hugely important" memoir of Justice John Paul Stevens's life on the Supreme Court (New York Times).
When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history of the Court. During his thirty-four-year tenure, Justice Stevens was a prolific writer,... Read more
A Thousand Small Sanities
By: Adam Gopnik
Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions... Read more
Kissinger on Kissinger
By: Winston Lord & Henry Kissinger
Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In a series of riveting interviews, America's senior statesman discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension.
As National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger transformed America's approach to diplomacy with China, the USSR, Vietnam, and the Middle East, laying the foundations for... Read more
The Shadow War
By: Jim Sciutto
Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries—yet most Americans... Read more
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A Good American Family
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to... Read more
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Become America
By: Eric Liu
Narrated by: Eric Liu
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean to be an engaged American in today's divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of "civic sermons" delivered at gatherings around the nation, popular advocate for active citizenship Eric Liu takes on these thorny questions and provides inspiration and solace in a time of anger, fear,... Read more
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Future Histories
By: Lizzie O'Shea
Narrated by: Cat Gould
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive... Read more
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The New Right
By: Michael Malice
Narrated by: Michael Malice
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.
What do internet trolls, economic populists, white nationalists, techno-anarchists and Alex Jones have in common? Nothing, except for an unremitting hatred of evangelical progressivism and the so-called... Read more
Transformed
By: Remi Adeleke
Narrated by: Remi Adeleke
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
What would it take for one young Black man not only to rise above statistics but also become a Navy SEAL, actor, entrepreneur, writer, and successful husband and father?In Transformed, Remi Adeleke takes you back to stories from his childhood, from living as Nigerian royalty to losing his father early in life and being stripped financially of... Read more
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Doing Time Like A Spy
By: John Kiriakou
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.
Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life... Read more
People, Power, and Profits
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.
We all have the sense that the American economy—and its government—tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate... Read more
Getting to Maybe
By: Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman & Michael Patton
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a... Read more
White House Warriors
By: John Gans
Narrated by: David Marantz
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
When Congress originally created the National Security Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small administrative staff was established to help keep its papers moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to make what became known as the NSC staff... Read more
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Priced Out
By: Uwe E. Reinhardt
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to be.
Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and... Read more
America, Compromised
By: Lawrence Lessig
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong.... Read more
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
By: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all—the fight to survive.
The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits,... Read more
Empires of the Weak
By: J.C. Sharman
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of... Read more
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Social Butterflies
By: Susannah Hume & Michael Sanders
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this essential and timely book, behavioral scientists Sanders and Hume demonstrate the astonishing reach of our social networks, and why we need to reclaim their power to effect positive change in our professional and private lives.
The rise of social media has sent our social instincts into overdrive, and the impact of our networks has... Read more
History of Bitcoin
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The privacy of the users of the web today that is enormously being stolen at exceptional rates is infinitely enhanced through this new online encrypted ecosystem developed by bitcoins. There are no limitations built into the system by age, location, identification and so on. It is flat and open currency systems. Bitcoins level the international... Read more
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