American Industry

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
    • By: Jane Marie
    • Narrated by: Jane Marie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

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    • How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
    • By: Dan Sinykin
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

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    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America’s Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story and business exposé, Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the trigger for a national tragedy....

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    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • By: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
    • By: Peter J. Whitehouse, Daniel R. George
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe....

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    • A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
    • By: Peter Kolchinsky
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive, but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate....

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

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    • The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
    • By: Jeff Benedict
    • Narrated by: Jackie Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • By: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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