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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts
By: Rachel Bitecofer & Aaron Murphy
Narrated by: Rachel Bitecofer
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy
“Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections.”—Michael Steele, former RNC... Read more
Rules for Radicals
By: Saul D. Alinsky
Narrated by: Scott Lange
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question,... Read more
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Hiding in Plain Sight
By: Sarah Kendzior
Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.
This program is read by the author.
The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because... Read more
The Color of Money
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.
The... Read more
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.
Roxanne... Read more
The Lumumba Plot
By: Stuart A. Reid
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times
“This is one of the best books I have read in... Read more
Strong Towns
By: Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Narrated by: Matthew Boston
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle... Read more
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Pathogenesis
By: Jonathan Kennedy
Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs
“Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure... Read more
Lady Justice
By: Dahlia Lithwick
Narrated by: Dahlia Lithwick
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest
An instant New York Times Bestseller!
“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review
“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story... Read more
Adults in the Room
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 20 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Leighton Pugh narrates this work as if it were an unsolved mystery...In a voice of nuanced emotion, Pugh creates muted characters to paint a vivid picture of what the author was up against as he tried to save his country." — AudioFile Magazine
A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller transformed into an illuminating, dynamic audiobook.
What happens... Read more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Abridged
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Length: 21 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one... Read more
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Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 35 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust... Read more
Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
The Sisterhood
By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Liza Mundy
Length: 17 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden, from the bestselling author of Code Girls
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’... Read more
The Power Broker
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 66 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
By: Donald Shoup
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 21 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the... Read more
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Nixonland
By: Rick Perlstein
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 36 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory... Read more
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The Cruelty Is the Point
By: Adam Serwer
Narrated by: Adam Serwer
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No... Read more
Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K Rosa
Narrated by: Lily Lefkow
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heteronormative, we must have babies and buy a... Read more
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The Cuckoo's Egg
By: Cliff Stoll
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic... Read more
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The Teachers
By: Alexandra Robbins
Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
***A National Bestseller***
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always... Read more
After the Ivory Tower Falls
By: Will Bunch
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American lifeWinner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ""This book is simply terrific."" —Heather Cox Richardson | ""Ambitious and... Read more
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Not Funny
By: Jena Friedman
Narrated by: Jena Friedman
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“In fact very funny.” —Cosmopolitan
“[A] hilarious and much-needed book.” —Samantha Bee, Emmy Award–winning comedian, author, and host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman... Read more
Healing Resistance
By: Kazu Haga
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.
Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been... Read more