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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- By: Kathleen Belew
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out - with military precision - an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
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Cogent, worrying analysis of an issue for our time.
- By hp on 13-06-24
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Bring the War Home
- The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-06-18
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
- Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- By: Carol F. Karlsen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession.
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Insightful, Enraging and thorough.
- By Iputaspellonyou on 02-03-20
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
- Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- By: Elizabeth Catte
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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The Unquiet Grave
- The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
- By: Steve Hendricks
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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In 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota—or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up.
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The Unquiet Grave
- The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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You Talkin' to Me?
- The Unruly History of New York English
- By: E.J. White
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialect all its own. Often imitated and just as often ridiculed, New York English has its own identity, imbued with the rich cultural history of (as New Yorkers tell it) the greatest city in the world. In You Talkin' to Me?, E. J. White explores the hidden history of English in New York City - a history that encompasses social class, immigration, culture, economics, and, of course, real estate.
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You Talkin' to Me?
- The Unruly History of New York English
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-05-20
- Language: English
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Ladies of the Canyons
- A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
- By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....
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Before you go, read this!!
- By Mrs S. on 22-09-20
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Ladies of the Canyons
- A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-02-18
- Language: English
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Corruption in America
- From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
- By: Zephyr Teachout
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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For two centuries, the Framers' ideas about political corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected officials. In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court began to narrow the definition of corruption, and the meaning has since changed dramatically. No case makes that clearer than Citizens United.
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Corruption in America
- From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-12-14
- Language: English
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The Hill to Die On
- The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
- By: Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer
- Narrated by: Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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Taking listeners into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the gamesmanship and the impulsiveness, the dealmaking and the backstabbing, in a blow-by-blow account of the power struggle that roiled Congress.
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Enjoyable, detailed and informative
- By melanie clare on 16-04-19
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The Hill to Die On
- The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
- Narrated by: Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Finding Jackie
- A Life Reinvented
- By: Oline Eaton
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours. Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. But the story of Jackie’s reinvention has been culturally erased. In Finding Jackie, author Oline Eaton pieces it back together.
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Jackie
- By Linda T on 21-01-24
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Finding Jackie
- A Life Reinvented
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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Sniper
- American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
- By: Gina Cavallaro, Matt Larsen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin, Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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From Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks and sunbaked Helmand Valley to Baghdad, Mosul and Ramadi in Iraq, American snipers have braved heart-pounding situations to hit their human targets dead-on. Few military feats stir the imagination like the image of a pair of riflemen waiting quietly in a building, a bomb crater, or a mountain pass for a Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter to walk into their crosshairs. Sniper presents real-life tales from the military's frontline snipers---their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill.
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Everything you wanted to know about being a sniper
- By S(ean) on 29-05-12
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Sniper
- American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin, Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-06-11
- Language: English
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Anna in the Tropics
- By: Nilo Cruz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and The American Dream prove a volatile combination.
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Anna in the Tropics
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-01-06
- Language: English
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Nixon in Winter
- His Final Revelations About Diplomacy, Watergate, and Life Out of the Arena
- By: Monica Crowley
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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This is the remarkable story of the final public and private years of the 37th president, based on full reconstructions of the conversations he had with Monica Crowley, his foreign-policy assistant and personal confidante.
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Nixon The Elder Statesman
- By Mrs. T. L. Brown on 11-02-13
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Nixon in Winter
- His Final Revelations About Diplomacy, Watergate, and Life Out of the Arena
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-11-00
- Language: English
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- By: Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-03-16
- Language: English
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The Bagel
- The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
- By: Maria Balinksa
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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This charming book recounts the remarkable journey of the bagel from the tables of 17th-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today. The story is one of surprising connections between an unassuming ring-shaped roll and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history.
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The Bagel
- The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-03-10
- Language: English
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A Voice from the South (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Anna Julia Cooper
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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At a time when most of the public discourse was dominated by men, Anna Julia Cooper’s writings offered a blistering rebuke to that status quo. The essays and speeches collected here anticipated the debates about racism, sexism, and intersectionality that we are still having today. Cooper argues in particular for the importance of Black women’s participation in identifying and combating the structures of oppression that surrounded them - and that made life so much more difficult for many other groups as well.
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A Voice from the South (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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The Civil War
- In Their Own Words
- By: Anna Lyse Erikson, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Moira Quirk, Matthew Wolf, and others
- Length: 5 hrs
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In this star-studded audiobook commissioned specially for audio, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s narration is woven together with powerfully acted scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the speeches and writing of Lincoln, Emerson, and others, bringing the Civil War to dazzling, authentic new life. Riveting dialogue, personal letters, and the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates reverberate with powerful relevance today.
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The Civil War
- In Their Own Words
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Moira Quirk, Matthew Wolf, P.J. Ochlan, Karen Malina White, Michael Crouch, Nick Nerangis, Alison Larkin
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 19-11-23
- Language: English
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Santa Anna
- The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mexican President and General
- By: Charles River Editors, Gustavo Vazquez Lozano
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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The butcher of the Alamo and Goliad. The traitor who sold half of Mexico. The Napoleon of the West. Mr. Fifteen Nails. The Mother Country's seducer. Almost 150 years after his death, a lot of name-calling is still being directed towards Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico 11 times in the 19th century, and today, the vast majority of his compatriots consider him the greatest traitor in history.
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Santa Anna
- The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mexican President and General
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-01-17
- Language: English
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
- By: Shirley Moody-Turner - editor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. - editor
- Narrated by: Karen Murray, Dominic Hoffman, Shirley Moody-Turner
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism, and selected correspondences, including more than 30 previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. This volume will introduce a new generation to an educator, intellectual, and activist whose prescient insights underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American activism.
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
- Narrated by: Karen Murray, Dominic Hoffman, Shirley Moody-Turner
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-08-22
- Language: English
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Educated for Freedom
- The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
- By: Anna Mae Duane
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country.
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Educated for Freedom
- The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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Our Little Monitor
- The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Civil War in the North)
- By: Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads—the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although the battle ended in a draw, this engagement would change the nature of naval warfare by informing both vessel design and battle tactics.
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Our Little Monitor
- The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Civil War in the North)
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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