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    • How to Make a Difference in Local Government
    • By: Alicia McKay
    • Narrated by: Alicia McKay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The essential guide to local government leadership.

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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • By: Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president....

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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
    • By: Kyle Longley
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales. In the US, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President LBJ. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

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    • How Local Parties Shape Elections
    • By: David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, Michael G. Miller
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Although scholars have long recognized that local American parties play an important role in elections, surprisingly little is known about the individuals who lead these typically small, volunteer-based organizations....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
    • By: Neil Miller
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-2012
    • Language: English
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    • A lively history of the Watch and Ward Society - New England's notorious literary censor for over eighty years....

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    • An Oral History
    • By: Russell L. Riley
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Inside the Clinton White House offers an intimate perspective on these questions and many more, granting listeners unprecedented access to the sensitive Oval Office banter that changed the course of history....

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    • How Taxes and Government Spending Work | 4th Grade Children's Government Books
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • How do taxes work? How do governments collect and spend them? Lean the ways of the government through this informative audiobook for kids....

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    • A Citizen’s Guide to Making a Difference
    • By: Richard Meagher PhD
    • Narrated by: Doug Cooper
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In a time where people are seeing how important their state and local governments are on matters of policing, public health, and housing, Local Politics Matters is a book for listeners who want to make a difference....

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    • Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    • By: Chalmers Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2007
    • Language: English
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    • Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....

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    • The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
    • By: Miriam Pawel
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley - told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century....

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    • How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In
    • By: Bill Nussey
    • Narrated by: David Gann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade....

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    • Unanswered Questions About the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing
    • By: Michele R. McPhee
    • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Mayhem goes a long way toward answering questions that still linger about the notorious Boston Marathon bombing....

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    • Preparing Local Government Leaders Before the Impact
    • By: Shane Silsby
    • Narrated by: Mark Lancaster
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 29-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Managing for Meteors provides a conduit for passing on direct experiences, raising questions, and providing tools for new leaders to consider for enhancing the functions of local governments and getting prepared in advance of major disruptors.

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    • Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
    • By: Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

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    • Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
    • By: Katherine J. Cramer
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....

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