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The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary exploration of our current cultural climate and an urgent appeal to return to a truly liberal society....
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Excellent and necessary at this moment.
- By Ione Barczak on 25-01-2023
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
- A Very Practical Guide
- By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert....
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Fantastic, very informative. Chapter four really
- By Anonymous User on 22-10-2019
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The Dying Citizen
- How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare — and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries....
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Excellent if sometimes terrifying
- By Anonymous User on 30-03-2022
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Democracy or Else
- How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
- By: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
- Length: Not Yet Known
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From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection....
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21st-Century Virtues
- How They Are Failing Our Democracy (In the National Interest)
- By: Lucinda Holdforth
- Narrated by: Lucinda Holdforth
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytized by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practiced) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn....
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How We Show Up
- Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
- By: Mia Birdsong
- Narrated by: Mia Birdsong
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes....
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Life changing
- By Anonymous User on 16-09-2023
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The New Puritans
- How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans is a deeply necessary exploration of our current cultural climate and an urgent appeal to return to a truly liberal society....
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Excellent and necessary at this moment.
- By Ione Barczak on 25-01-2023
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How to Have Impossible Conversations
- A Very Practical Guide
- By: Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert....
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Fantastic, very informative. Chapter four really
- By Anonymous User on 22-10-2019
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The Dying Citizen
- How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare — and was among America’s most valued ideals for over two centuries....
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Excellent if sometimes terrifying
- By Anonymous User on 30-03-2022
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Democracy or Else
- How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
- By: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection....
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21st-Century Virtues
- How They Are Failing Our Democracy (In the National Interest)
- By: Lucinda Holdforth
- Narrated by: Lucinda Holdforth
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytized by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practiced) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn....
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How We Show Up
- Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
- By: Mia Birdsong
- Narrated by: Mia Birdsong
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes....
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Life changing
- By Anonymous User on 16-09-2023
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The Toolbox
- Strategies for Crafting Social Impact
- By: Jacob Harold
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the twenty-first century....
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Change Your World
- How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
- By: John C. Maxwell, Rob Hoskins
- Narrated by: John C. Maxwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world, and you don’t have to be rich and famous or lead a big organization to do it....
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 13-11-2023
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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
- By: Martin Gurri
- Narrated by: Tony Messano
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Originally published in 2014, this updated edition of The Revolt of the Public includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump's improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit and concludes with a speculative look forward....
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Rules for Radicals
- A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
- By: Saul D. Alinsky
- Narrated by: Scott Lange
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....
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Insight into activism
- By Russell on 15-10-2020
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What Happened
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history....
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Unexpectedly Emotional
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2017
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Battle for the American Mind
- Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
- By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom....
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Important read for parents
- By Anonymous User on 18-08-2022
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The MAGA Doctrine
- The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
- By: Charlie Kirk
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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The movement that brought Donald Trump to the White House has better ideas than the old right or the new left. It's time that the rest of America started listening....
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To Save Everything, Click Here
- The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- By: Evgeny Morozov
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life....
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Citizens
- Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us
- By: Jon Alexander
- Narrated by: Jon Alexander, Brian Eno
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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"Citizens" opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive – as individuals, as...
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Inspiring hopeful and practical
- By Amazon Customer on 27-06-2023
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Quarterly Essay 46: Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
- By: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians....
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The Long Game
- China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
- By: Rush Doshi
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
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In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy....
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Better to read it rather than listened to it
- By Bradley Perrett on 31-12-2022
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For the Love of Community Engagement
- Insights from a Personal Expedition to Inspire Better Public Participation
- By: Becky Hirst, Dr. Wendy Sarkissian
- Narrated by: Linda Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need to learn a new way of doing things....
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The Common Good
- By: Robert B. Reich
- Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation....
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How Powerful We Are
- Behind the Scenes with One of Australia's Leading Activists
- By: Sally Rugg
- Narrated by: Sally Rugg
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are fought with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin....
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Heartfelt Wonder
- By Anonymous User on 19-10-2022
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Love Your Enemies
- How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
- By: Arthur C. Brooks
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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In Love Your Enemies, New York Times best-selling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success....
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I liked it
- By Amazon Customer on 20-05-2020
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The Bitter End
- The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
- By: John Sides, Chris Tusanovitch, Lynn Vavreck
- Narrated by: Alex Knox
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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The year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a razor-thin presidential election outcome. It culminated in an attack on the US Capitol that attempted to deny Joe Biden's victory....
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Activating the Common Good
- Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being
- By: Peter Block
- Narrated by: Alex Christiansen
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are....
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Rules for Revolutionaries
- How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
- By: Zack Exley, Becky Bond
- Narrated by: Tia Rider Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign of Bernie Sanders that helped launch a new political revolution....
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Failed to seperate emotion from campaign mechanic
- By Anonymous User on 15-03-2018
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Getting to Maybe
- How the World Is Changed
- By: Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help....
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The Connected Community
- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
- By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....
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Inspiring and practical guide to connecting
- By Anonymous User on 28-03-2023
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Remaking the Space Between Us
- How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All
- By: Diana McLain Smith
- Narrated by: Diana McLain Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Almost 250 years ago, our Founders thought We the People were the solution. Today, it looks like we have become the problem. What happened, and what can We the People do about it? Every day, the news delivers the same story.
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Tailspin
- The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It
- By: Steven Brill
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
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In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society....
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Should be compulsory reading
- By Anonymous User on 29-06-2018
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Save Your City
- How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
- By: Diane Kalen-Sukra
- Narrated by: Diane Kalen-Sukra
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Toxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our capacity to collaborate and innovate together is also being undermined by the rising incivility and divisiveness....
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The Restless Wave
- Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
- By: John McCain, Mark Salter
- Narrated by: John McCain, Beau Bridges
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present....
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Kindness should never be mistaken for weakness
- By Crystal on 09-11-2020