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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,575 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

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    • Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal
    • By: Carissa Byrne Hessick
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Nearly every aspect of our criminal justice system encourages defendants-whether innocent or guilty-to take a plea deal. Punishment Without Trial showcases how plea bargaining has undermined justice at every turn and across socioeconomic and racial divides....

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    • On the Principles of Democracy
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, and lowering the voting age to 16....

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    • By: Rosa Luxemburg
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Reform or Revolution is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties, and the expansion of social democracy could not create a socialist society....

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    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 825 ratings
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

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    • Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Michael Edwards
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611 ratings
    • In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives....

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    • Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Richard L. Hasen
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years - most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections - Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined....

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    • The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
    • By: Lee Drutman
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other....

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    • How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
    • By: Daniel Markovits
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy....

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    • Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
    • By: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system....

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    • A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
    • By: Shane Bauer
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • After working as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison, Shane Bauer wrote an exposé about his experiences. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America....

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    • Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
    • By: Laura Meckler
    • Narrated by: Debi Tinsley, Laura Meckler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Nearly every community in America has confronted questions of race, integration, and equity. Few have made a name for themselves like Shaker Heights, Ohio....

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    • By: Alex S. Vitale
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 743 ratings
    • This audiobook attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice - even public safety....

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    • Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
    • By: Robert M. Gates
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale....

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Period in American History Filled with Political Reforms and Social Activism (U.S. History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Progressive Era, a time of social, political, and economic reform in the United States, spanned the years 1877 to 1929—the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression....

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    • The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform
    • By: John F. Pfaff
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • Locked In is a revelatory investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of the most exciting scholars in the country....

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    • Prophet, Reformer, and Martyr
    • By: Emory Hollowell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 10-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • Girolamo Savonarola—his name evokes images of fiery sermons, relentless reform, and a city gripped by revolution. If you’ve ever wondered how ...

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