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Profit and Punishment

How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

de Tony Messenger ...

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished."Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing" — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water"Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has ... Leer más

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In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished."Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing" — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water"Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has
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The Ferguson Decade

How One City's Uprising Opened America's Old Wounds

de Tony Messenger ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covers a decade in the life of a divided American city reckoning with the challenge of enacting change after tumultuous civil rights protests.On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death by a police officer, kicking off a firestorm of protests across the nation and within the wide community of St. Louis, making the city the epicenter of America ... Leer más

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist covers a decade in the life of a divided American city reckoning with the challenge of enacting change after tumultuous civil rights protests.On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death by a police officer, kicking off a firestorm of protests across the nation and within the wide community of St. Louis, making the city the epicenter of America
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Profit and Punishment

How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

de Tony Messenger ...

Narrado por Karen Chilton ...

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8 hora 18 minutos

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished.“Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing” — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water“Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished.“Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing” — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water“Crucial evidence that the justice system is broken and has
... Leer más

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Not a Crime to Be Poor

The Criminalization of Poverty in America

de Peter Edelman ...

Narrado por Eric G. Dove ...

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7 hora 31 minutos

In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

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In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law
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Closing the Courthouse Door

How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

de Erwin Chemerinsky ...

Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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9 hora 52 minutos

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The ... Leer más

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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The
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Citizenship

Notes on an American Myth

de Daisy Hernández ...

Narrado por Daisy Hernández ...

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8 hora 18 minutos

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Leer más

$22.00 USD

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A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non
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These are the Plunderers

How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

de Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner ...

Narrado por John Bedford Lloyd ...

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11 hora 53 minutos

**A Wall Street Journal BestsellerPulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity and Wall Street corporate takeovers in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher Leonard, bestselling author of Kochland)—revealing how it puts our entire ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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**A Wall Street Journal BestsellerPulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity and Wall Street corporate takeovers in this “masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Christopher Leonard, bestselling author of Kochland)—revealing how it puts our entire
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

de Richard Bell ...

Narrado por Richard Bell ...

Completo

13 hora 36 minutos

**“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife"Accessible and impassioned entry to anyone interested in understanding the nation's founding from a dazzling, kaleidoscopic perspective. " —Ned Blackhawk, National Book Award-winning author of The Rediscovery of AmericaA prize-winning ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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**“American history as if from a barstool, not a lecture podium. Giddy, rollicking, and bold.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master Slave Husband Wife"Accessible and impassioned entry to anyone interested in understanding the nation's founding from a dazzling, kaleidoscopic perspective. " —Ned Blackhawk, National Book Award-winning author of The Rediscovery of AmericaA prize-winning
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Who Owns This Sentence?

A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

de David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu ...

Narrado por David Bellos ...

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11 hora 8 minutos

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed
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Truth Has a Power of Its Own

Conversations About A People’s History

de Howard Zinn ...

Narrado por Jeff Zinn ...

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4 hora 58 minutos

Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people—including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.Viewed through the lens of ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

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Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people—including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.Viewed through the lens of
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A Lynching at Port Jervis

Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

de Philip Dray ...

Narrado por Dion Graham ...

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7 hora 4 minutos

An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racismOn June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American
... Leer más

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Nations Apart

How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America

de Colin Woodard ...

Narrado por Ari Fliakos ...

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9 hora 16 minutos

**"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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**"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in
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