Showing results by publisher "Basic Books" in Politics & Government
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Becoming Hitler
- The Making of a Nazi
- By: Thomas Weber
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning historian charts Hitler's radical transformation after World War I from a directionless loner into a powerful National Socialist leader In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler...
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Becoming Hitler
- The Making of a Nazi
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
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The Third Reconstruction
- America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- By: Alexandra Natapoff
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...
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Punishment Without Crime
- How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-12-18
- Language: English
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A Nation Forged by Crisis
- A New American History
- By: Jay Sexton
- Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but...
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A Nation Forged by Crisis
- A New American History
- Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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The Price of Greatness
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
- By: Jay Cost
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal...
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The Price of Greatness
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-06-18
- Language: English
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A Girl Stands at the Door
- The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
- By: Rachel Devlin
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with...
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A Girl Stands at the Door
- The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-05-18
- Language: English
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Separate and Unequal
- The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
- By: Steven M Gillon
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From a New York Times bestselling author, the definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the...
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Separate and Unequal
- The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-04-18
- Language: English
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The Heavens Might Crack
- The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
- By: Jason Sokol
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassination On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing...
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The Heavens Might Crack
- The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- By: Andrew Whitby
- Narrated by: David Piggott
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- Narrated by: David Piggott
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-04-20
- Language: English
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- By: Matthew Avery Sutton
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They...
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Double Crossed
- The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-09-19
- Language: English
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Worked Over
- How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
- By: Jamie K McCallum
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality. Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they've increased...
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Worked Over
- How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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