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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- Written by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a...
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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The Bill of Rights Primer
- A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
- Written by: Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this succinct volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights Primer is an authoritative guide to all American freedoms. Uncluttered and well-organized, this audiobook is perfect for those who want to study up on the Bill of Rights without needing a law degree to do so.
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The Bill of Rights Primer
- A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 01-07-13
- Language: English
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The Embattled Vote in America
- From the Founding to the Present
- Written by: Allan J. Lichtman
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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America's political leaders have considered suffrage not a natural right but a privilege restricted by wealth, sex, race, residence, literacy, criminal conviction, and citizenship. Today, voter identification laws, political gerrymandering, registration requirements, felon disenfranchisement, and voter purges deny many millions of citizens the opportunity to express their views at the ballot box. We cannot blame the founders alone for America's embattled vote. Best-selling author Allan Lichtman notes that subsequent generations have failed to establish suffrage as a universal right.
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The Embattled Vote in America
- From the Founding to the Present
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
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Defending My Enemy
- Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America
- Written by: Aryeh Neier, Eleanor Holmes Norton - foreword, Nadine Strossen - afterword
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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When Nazis wanted to express their right to free speech in 1977 by marching through Skokie, Illinois—a town with a large population of Holocaust survivors—Aryeh Neier, then the national executive director of the ACLU and himself a Holocaust survivor, came to the Nazis' defense. Explaining what many saw as a despicable bridge too far for the First Amendment, Neier spelled out his thoughts about free speech in his 1979 book Defending My Enemy.
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Defending My Enemy
- Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in America
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 17-02-26
- Language: English
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The Straight State
- Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- Written by: Margot Canaday
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.
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The Straight State
- Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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Top Secret America
- The Rise of the New American Security State
- Written by: Dana Priest, William M. Arkin
- Narrated by: Dana Priest
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is...
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Top Secret America
- The Rise of the New American Security State
- Narrated by: Dana Priest
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 09-09-11
- Language: English
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A Nation Under Our Feet
- Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- Written by: Steven Hahn
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people - an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice.
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A Nation Under Our Feet
- Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 08-03-16
- Language: English
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The Accommodation
- The Politics of Race in an American City
- Written by: Jim Schutze, John Wiley Price
- Narrated by: Mike Rhyner, John Wiley Price
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the civil rights movement and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.
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The Accommodation
- The Politics of Race in an American City
- Narrated by: Mike Rhyner, John Wiley Price
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Gospel of Freedom
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
- Written by: Jonathan Rieder
- Narrated by: Joe Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely." King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
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Gospel of Freedom
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
- Narrated by: Joe Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 05-06-23
- Language: English
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Reconstruction After the Civil War
- Written by: John Hope Franklin
- Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious scholarship that had previously dominated the narrative, Franklin combines astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era.
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Reconstruction After the Civil War
- Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 05-01-21
- Language: English
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On Account of Race
- The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
- Written by: Lawrence Goldstone
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, strong political forces were determined to limit that right. The Supreme Court, Alexander Hamilton wrote, would protect the weak against this very sort of tyranny. Still, as On Account of Race forcefully demonstrates, through the better part of American history the Court has instead been a protector of white rule. And complex threats against the right to vote persist even today.
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On Account of Race
- The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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Just Another Southern Town
- Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
- Written by: Joan Quigley
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in 1953.
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Just Another Southern Town
- Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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The Rights of the People
- How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
- Written by: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: David K. Shipler
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to these questions by examining the historical expansion and contraction of our fundamental rights and, most pointedly, the real-life stories of individual men and women who have suffered.
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The Rights of the People
- How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
- Narrated by: David K. Shipler
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 19-04-11
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom
- African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- Written by: Janet Dewart Bell
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women’s all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for justice that resulted in profound social change, stories that remain important and relevant today.
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom
- African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-18
- Language: English
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Home
- Social Essays
- Written by: LeRoi Jones - Amiri Baraka
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Home is, in effect, the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span - a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and Whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams’s Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X...each changed the way Jones/Baraka looked at America. This progressive change is recorded with honesty, anger, and passion in his writings.
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Home
- Social Essays
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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Civil Liberties
- An Audio Guide
- Written by: Tom Head
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Does free speech have limits? Can torture be justified? Who is really in charge of your rights? Every day we are confronted with news of foreign governments who refuse to acknowledge liberties that we in the Western world take for granted. But civil liberties are nearly always under threat, no matter where you live. Tom Head traverses the globe in order to provide a clear introduction to what civil liberties are and why they're worth defending.
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Civil Liberties
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 27-07-12
- Language: English
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Presidents' Secrets
- The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
- Written by: Mary Graham
- Narrated by: David Heath
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting - the Constitutional Convention - presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first 120 years, a culture of open government persisted, but new threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains. Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the open debate Americans expect.
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Presidents' Secrets
- The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
- Narrated by: David Heath
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 20-06-17
- Language: English
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The Other Slavery
- The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Written by: Andrés Reséndez
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of 18th-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos.
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The Other Slavery
- The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 04-11-16
- Language: English
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
- The Militarization of America's Police Forces
- Written by: Radley Balko
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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A comprehensive exploration of how police forces have become militarized—both in equipment and mindset—and what that means for American democracy. “Fascinating and at times wrenching.” ―The New Yorker The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the...
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
- The Militarization of America's Police Forces
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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To Poison a Nation
- The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
- Written by: Andrew Baker
- Narrated by: Victor Love
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city’s history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands.
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To Poison a Nation
- The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
- Narrated by: Victor Love
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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