American Heritage

Storming the Heavens

by Gerald Horne; read by Bill Quinn

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. Learn More

Strong Towns

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.; read by Matthew Boston

Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Learn More

The Sum of Our Dreams

by Louis P. Masur, read by Jonathan Yen

In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. Learn More

summertime

by Richard Crawford; read by David Colacci

Acclaimed music historian Richard Crawford traces the arc of Gershwin's remarkable life, seamlessly blending colorful anecdotes with a discussion of Gershwin's unforgettable oeuvre.
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Super 8

by Danny Plotnick; read by Eric Jason Martin

Danny Plotnick showcases the history of Super 8 filmmaking in this must-listen book. Super 8 offers a detailed history of the beloved medium—one not only embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but by the art world, punk rockers, and ultimately popular culture. Learn More

Suspended Education

by Aaron Kupchik; read by Jonathan Sleep

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How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students today. Learn More

Tackling The Everyday

by Tracie Canada; read by L. Malaika Cooper

A Black feminist takes on exploitation and care in America's favorite game. Learn More

Taking Aim at Attack Advertising

by Kim Fridkin & Patrick Kenney; read by Teri Schnaubelt

Negative campaigning is a central component of politics in the United States. Yet, until now, demonstrating the impact of combative advertising on voters has been elusive. How can we reconcile the findings of a plethora of studies with the methods of politicians? Learn More

Talking Back, Talking Black

by John McWhorter; read by John McWhorter

Talking Back, Talking Black takes us on a fascinating tour of a nuanced and complex language that has moved beyond America's borders to become a dynamic force for today's youth culture around the world. Learn More

Taxes Have Consequences

by Arthur B. Laffer, PhD, Brian Domitrovic, PhD, and Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield, PhD; read by Rick Adamson

The definitive history of the effect of the income tax on the economy. Learn More

Thanks for Your Service

by Peter D. Feaver; read by Lee Goettl

A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations. Learn More

The Fight for Free Speech

by Ian Rosenberg; read by Chloe Cannon

A user's guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States. Learn More

The JDC at 100

edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel; read by Elizabeth Wiley

The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism traces the history of the JDC—an organization founded to aid victims of World War I that has played a significant role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life across the globe. Learn More

Theodore Roosevelt

by Benjamin J. Wetzel; read by Bob Souer

Theodore Roosevelt: Preaching from the Bully Pulpit traces Roosevelt's personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith. Based in large part on personal correspondence and unpublished archival materials, this book offers a new interpretation of an extremely significant historical figure. Learn More

Thomas Jefferson

by Henry Moscow; read by Pete Simonelli

Here, from award-winning journalist Henry Moscow, is the story of one of America's greatest presidents. Learn More

A Thousand May Fall

by Brian Jordan; read by Christopher Douyard

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Learn More

To Walk the Earth Again

by Christopher Trigg; read by Mike Cooper

The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Learn More

The Transpacific Experiment

by Matt Sheehan; read by PJ Ochlan

In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan lays bare the new reality of twenty-first-century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. Learn More

The Triumph of Injustice

by Gabriel Zucman & Emmanuel Saez; read by Steve Menasche

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Learn More

Trump and Churchill

by Nick Adams; foreword by Newt Gingrich; read by Liam Gerrard

In his new book, complete with never-before-told anecdotes, bestselling author Nick Adams explores how Donald Trump and Winston Churchill both turned their day's prevailing politics on its head. Learn More

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