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Selling the Dream
- The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
- By: Jane Marie
- Narrated by: Jane Marie
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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. We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but...
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more independent than the podcast
- By Claudia on 09-02-25
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Selling the Dream
- The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
- Narrated by: Jane Marie
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- By: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are...
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Essential reading on both sides of The Pond.
- By Kindle Customer on 22-05-16
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Our Kids
- The American Dream in Crisis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-03-15
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- By: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults.
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Required reading for the privileged class
- By jburnmurdoch on 30-09-18
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Dream Hoarders
- How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of the American Dream
- The Demise of the Middle Class—and How to Rescue Our Future
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The widening wealth gap is all too familiar to many Millennials and GenZers, especially when home ownership and the lack of debt seem like faraway fantasies. And it's no surprise when they only hold about 4.6% of the country's wealth while Boomers held 22% at around the same age. So what happened to the promise of the American Dream? In this entry of his celebrated Hidden History series, Thom Hartmann uncovers the rise of the American middle class through the progressive policies of FDR, through to its downfall with the increasing privatization and economic deregulations of the Reagan era.
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The Hidden History of the American Dream
- The Demise of the Middle Class—and How to Rescue Our Future
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 31-12-24
- Language: English
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- By: David Leonhardt
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"? Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Leonhardt examines the past century of American history, from the Great Depression to today's Great Stagnation, in search of an answer.
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- By: Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson - Editor, Kelly Nyks - Editor, and others
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. Requiem for the American Dream is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words, based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible and at the same time gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness.
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Do you want to know what’s wrong with nowadays world and society - answers are in this book
- By Ramazon customer on 24-11-18
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Requiem for the American Dream
- The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-03-17
- Language: English
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Let Us Dream
- The Path to a Better Future
- By: Pope Francis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now. In the COVID crisis, the beloved shepherd of over one...
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Let Us Dream
- The Path to a Better Future
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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The Complacent Class
- The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- By: Tyler Cowen
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs. The problem, according to legendary blogger, economist, and best-selling author Tyler Cowen, is that Americans today have broken from this tradition - we're working harder than ever to avoid change.
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The Complacent Class
- The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-03-17
- Language: English
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For a Dollar and a Dream
- State Lotteries in Modern America
- By: Jonathan D. Cohen
- Narrated by: Tom Lennon
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating revenue without cutting services or raising taxes. Alongside stories of winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked.
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For a Dollar and a Dream
- State Lotteries in Modern America
- Narrated by: Tom Lennon
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Monopolies
- How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
- By: Thom Hartmann
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the same way as cancer does in a body, and like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economics. American monopolies have also seized massive political power and use it to maintain their obscene profits and CEO salaries while crushing small competitors.
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The Hidden History of Monopolies
- How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Dreams of the Overworked
- Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
- By: Christine M. Beckman, Melissa Mazmanian
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. Moreover, we witness the constant planning that goes into a "good" day, often with the aid of phones and apps.
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Dreams of the Overworked
- Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-06-20
- Language: English
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The Betrayal of the American Dream
- 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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What We Mean by the American Dream
- Stories We Tell About Meritocracy
- By: Doron Taussig
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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What We Mean by the American Dream investigates how we think about whether an individual deserves an opportunity, job, termination, paycheck, or fortune. Taussig looks into the fabric of American life to explore how various people, including dairy farmers, police officers, dancers, teachers, computer technicians, students, store clerks, the unemployed, homemakers, and even drug dealers got to where they are today and whether they earned it or not.
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What We Mean by the American Dream
- Stories We Tell About Meritocracy
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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War on the Middle Class
- How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War onthe American Dream and How to Fight Back
- By: Lou Dobbs
- Narrated by: Lou Dobbs
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Abridged
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Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream. Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6...
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War on the Middle Class
- How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War onthe American Dream and How to Fight Back
- Narrated by: Lou Dobbs
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-10-06
- Language: English
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It Was All a Dream
- A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
- By: Reniqua Allen
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on their own terms. In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells...
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It Was All a Dream
- A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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Third Wave Capitalism
- How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream
- By: John Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Just as the industrial capitalism of the 19th century gave way to corporate capitalism in the 20th, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism." Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the one percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, and much more.
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Third Wave Capitalism
- How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-07-16
- Language: English
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