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A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Timothy Egan
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,377
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,231
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,230
The Roaring Twenties—the Jazz Age—has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a must read!
- De V. Richmond en 04-14-23
- A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Timothy Egan
1920s Indiana seems to be upon us
Revisado: 04-28-23
I wrote about D.C, Stephenson while in undergraduate school, but this book is absolutely mindblowing. It seems we are heading this way again. Republicans across the country are changing voting laws, attacking books (attempting to ban them), abortion...etc. When you give absolute power, that power will absolutely corrupt. Take this book as a warning of the past repeating itself.
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Chris McGreal
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 123
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important read
- De Macmom4 en 02-18-19
- American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Chris McGreal
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
The same story
Revisado: 12-18-21
As someone who was aware long ago the story and people are the same. the issue is the same. However, the response is different. This is a story that shows how racism works, and this is the only time it (racism) worked for Black people.
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Just Harvest
- The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government
- De: Greg A. Francis
- Narrado por: Wintley Phipps
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
When a class-action lawsuit against the US government results in a billion-dollar settlement for the aggrieved parties, you’d expect the story to be headline news...to be posted on social media everywhere...to be adapted to film or even to a popular legal procedural series on TV....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why was this not in the news?
- De Greg en 03-07-24
- Just Harvest
- The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government
- De: Greg A. Francis
- Narrado por: Wintley Phipps
One of the greatest stories never told.
Revisado: 09-16-21
People think that discrimination in America is some ancient phenomena, but this book proves that not to be the case.
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Midnight in Vehicle City
- General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
- De: Edward McClelland
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
The tumultuous Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 was the birth of the United Auto Workers, which set the standard for wages in every industry. Midnight in Vehicle City tells the gripping story of how workers defeated General Motors, the largest industrial corporation in the world. Their victory ushered in the golden age of the American middle class and created a new kind of America, one in which every worker had a right to a share of the company’s wealth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Most Important Book of 2021!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-30-21
- Midnight in Vehicle City
- General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
- De: Edward McClelland
- Narrado por: Jeff Zinn
The Most Important Book of 2021!
Revisado: 03-30-21
Every worker in America needs to read this book! The working class can win if we stand together. Abraham Lincoln said "Labor is prior and superior to capital."
Low wages divide this country more than anything else. They give you immigration, race, gender, and what have you to fight over so that you don't stand together.
SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
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We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 701
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 608
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 600
Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hard to Follow
- De Dmez en 05-17-21
- We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
It's a shame
Revisado: 03-12-21
It has been said by Black People for as long as police came to be that these things happen, but since it happens in throwaway neighborhoods people don't care. Not even the so called justice system.
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Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- De: Gary Webb
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 20 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,058
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,067
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. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bigger than You Thought
- De Susie en 04-28-14
- Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- De: Gary Webb
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
Courage
Revisado: 07-08-20
Gary Webb put his life on the line to expose corruption. Mr. Reagan should have been impeached behind Iran Contra.
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- De: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book Should Be A Required Read For All
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-19
- Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- De: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
sometimes we don't think!
Revisado: 01-03-20
When reading about crime and punishment one never thinks about the misdemeanor system.
This work certainly brings that to life.
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Dying of Whiteness
- How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
- De: Jonathan M. Metzl
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Racist and pompous
- De proangler47 en 06-01-19
- Dying of Whiteness
- How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
- De: Jonathan M. Metzl
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
I've asked this question.
Revisado: 06-05-19
It's a question I've asked myself many times.
Why do poor/working class white people vote against their own interests? Turns out (at least from Metzl's perspective) they're not only voting against their own interests, but their very lives.
I implore all to read this book in some form to get a better understanding.
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 407
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
Fantastic!
Revisado: 06-03-19
I do not think people understand how closely linked we really are.
This is a must read!
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Nobody
- Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
- De: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations; they unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access to full freedom and prosperity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Done
- De Zahrac29 en 05-15-17
- Nobody
- Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
- De: Marc Lamont Hill, Todd Brewster - foreword
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
Important read
Revisado: 11-20-18
Marc Lamont Hill is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.
A fresh perspective from a new generation. I recommend this to any/everyone I can.
I've already listened 3x.
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