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If We Burn

The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

by Vincent Bevins ...

The fascinating history of a decade aflame—and what we can learn from its embers.**"Disturbing and exhilarating." —**New YorkerFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a ... Read more

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The fascinating history of a decade aflame—and what we can learn from its embers.**"Disturbing and exhilarating." —**New YorkerFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a
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The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
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The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Tim Paige ...

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
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If We Burn

The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

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12 hours 54 min

The fascinating history of a decade aflame—and what we can learn from its embers.**"Disturbing and exhilarating." —**New YorkerFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a ... Read more

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The fascinating history of a decade aflame—and what we can learn from its embers.**"Disturbing and exhilarating." —**New YorkerFrom 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. Acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins carried out hundreds of interviews around the world, guided by a
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We May Dominate the World

Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

by Sean A Mirski ...

Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

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15 hours 32 min

What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own ... Read more

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What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for todayThe cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own
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We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

by Kellie Carter Jackson ...

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9 hours 11 min

Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.The dismissal ... Read more

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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.The dismissal
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Capitalism

A Global History

by Sven Beckert ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani, Courtney Patterson, Robert Petkoff, Mack Sanderson ...

Unabridged

42 hours 29 min

**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, The New York Times“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you ... Read more

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**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, The New York Times“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you
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The Jazzmen

How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

by Larry Tye ...

Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

16 hours 44 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro
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The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy

And the Path to a Shared American Future

by Robert P. Jones ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

11 hours 23 min

A New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of White Too Long comes the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493 “full of urgency and insight” (The New York Times), examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair and charting a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.Beginning with contemporary effects to reckon ... Read more

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A New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of White Too Long comes the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493 “full of urgency and insight” (The New York Times), examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair and charting a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.Beginning with contemporary effects to reckon
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Stories are Weapons

Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz ...

Narrated by Alexandra Cohler ...

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7 hours 2 min

In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War–era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on ... Read more

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In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War–era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on
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Transgender History, Third Edition

A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's

by Susan Stryker ...

Narrated by Arden Hughes ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era**.**Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution.Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how ... Read more

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The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era**.**Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today’s gender revolution.Susan Stryker’s sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how
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The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E Baptist ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

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19 hours 47 min

The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

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The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in
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