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The Grandees
- America's Sephardic Elite
- Written by: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1654, 23 Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington's army during the American Revolution.
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The Grandees
- America's Sephardic Elite
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-19
- Language: English
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Dishing the Dirt
- The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners
- Written by: Nick Duerden
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Dishing the Dirt tells the real-life story of house cleaners for the first time. Journalist Nick Duerden spoke to joyful cleaners, slave labourers, women who dust nude for men, gay cleaners, and butlers running the homes of multi-millionaires for this insightful, surprising and gripping non-fiction book.
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Dishing the Dirt
- The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Abandoned
- America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
- Written by: Anne Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But nearly five million young people experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams.
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Abandoned
- America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 11-02-20
- Language: English
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Privilege Lost
- Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall
- Written by: Jessi Streib
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class. Following them for over 10 years as they transition from teens to young adults, Streib examines who falls from the upper-middle-class, how, and why don't they see it coming. In doing so, she reveals the patterned ways that individuals' resources and identities push them onto mobility paths - and the complicated choices youth make between staying true to themselves and staying in their class position.
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Privilege Lost
- Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Dark Days, Bright Nights
- Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains
- Written by: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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A vivid and enlightening oral history of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of reentering mainstream society. Dark Days, Bright Nights is the follow-up to the best-selling Beneath the Neon and shares the harrowing stories of Sin City's most marginalized people, from bottoming out in homelessness to mending relationships with family and adjusting to jobs, housing, and sobriety.
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Dark Days, Bright Nights
- Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Written by: Jessica Trounstine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early 20th century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them.
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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On the Job
- The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
- Written by: Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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For over 60 million people, work in America has been a story of declining wages, insecurity, and unsafe conditions, especially amid the coronavirus epidemic. This new and troubling reality has galvanized media and policymakers, but all the while a different and little-known story of rebirth and struggle has percolated just below the surface. On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable - but essential - workers.
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On the Job
- The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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Teetering
- Why So Many Live On A Financial Tightrope And What To Do About It
- Written by: Ken Rees
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Economic instability is the new normal across all income levels. Teetering: Why So Many Live on a Financial Tightrope and What to Do About It addresses the critical question, what's wrong with American policies and the financial institutions that are failing so many hard-working people today? It merges original research with stories from real-life "tightropers"...
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Teetering
- Why So Many Live On A Financial Tightrope And What To Do About It
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 02-03-21
- Language: English
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The Voucher Promise
- "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
- Written by: Eva Rosen
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "Section 8", and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners, voucher holders, renters who receive no housing assistance, and the landlords who provide housing.
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The Voucher Promise
- "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Written by: Timothy Noah
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes.
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Moving Up without Losing Your Way
- The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
- Written by: Jennifer Morton
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.
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Moving Up without Losing Your Way
- The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- Written by: Thomas M. Shapiro
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a 10th that of White Americans, and over recent decades, White families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of Black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities - a dangerous combination he terms "toxic inequality".
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Toxic Inequality
- How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 20-08-19
- Language: English
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
- Written by: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the 20th century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream: that if you worked hard and followed the rules you would prosper in America, and your children would enjoy a better life than yours. Incredibly, however, for more than 30 years, government and big business in America have conspired to roll back the American dream....
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Wes Talbot
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 12-09-12
- Language: English
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Why Crime Does Not Pay
- Written by: Sophie Lyons
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Sophie Lyons was a “thief from the cradle”, as one Chief of Police said; at the early age of six years she had already been trained by her stepmother to be a pickpocket and a shoplifter. A beautiful child with engaging manners, she was sent out every day into the stores and among the crowds of shoppers, and was soundly whipped if she came out of a shop with less than three pocketbooks. “I did not know it was wrong to steal; nobody ever taught me that,” Sophie Lyons writes.
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Why Crime Does Not Pay
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- Written by: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work. Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised.
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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One of Them
- An Eton College Memoir
- Written by: Musa Okwonga
- Narrated by: Musa Okwonga
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Musa Okwonga - a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town - was not your typical Eton College student. The experience moulded him, challenged him...but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems to contribute to the harm being done to the UK. The more he searched, the more evident the connection became between one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions and the genesis of Brexit, and between his home town in the suburbs of Greater London and the rise of the far right.
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One of Them
- An Eton College Memoir
- Narrated by: Musa Okwonga
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Don't Knock the Hustle
- Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy
- Written by: S. Craig Watkins
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want. Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright...
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Don't Knock the Hustle
- Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation Economy
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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All the Money in the World
- How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes
- Written by: Peter W. Bernstein
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.
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All the Money in the World
- How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 04-09-07
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness
- The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
- Written by: Justin Farrell
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, oil magnates, and other prominent figures in business and politics.
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Billionaire Wilderness
- The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Indebted
- How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
- Written by: Caitlin Zaloom
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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The struggle to pay for college is one of the defining features of middle-class life in America today. At kitchen tables all across the country, parents agonize over whether to burden their children with loans or to sacrifice their own financial security by taking out a second mortgage or draining their retirement savings. Indebted takes listeners into the homes of middle-class families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life.
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Indebted
- How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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