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Penman of the Founding
by Jane E. Calvert; read by Kitty Hendrix
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available February
Despite the key part he played in the country's founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Early chroniclers and historians cast him as a coward and Loyalist for not signing the Declaration. Many later historians have simply accepted and echoed this distorted and dismissive view. Jane Calvert's fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson's life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation's formative years. Learn More
A People Betrayed
By Paul Preston; read by Peter Noble
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. Learn More
The People Versus Socialism
by Stephen A. Smoot; foreword by Congressman Alex X. Mooney; read by Mike Chamberlain
A ten-count indictment on how socialism not only ruins countries and their economies, but also destroys civil societies while denying natural rights. Learn More
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King
by Jerom Charyn; read by Danny Campbell
Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Learn More
The Physics of Superheroes
by James Kakalios; Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss; read by Kevin T. Collins
A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Learn More
Pity the Reader
by Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut; read by Karen White
The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Learn More
A Plausible Man
by Susanna Ashton; read by Leon Nixon
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The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. Learn More
The Point of No Return
by Thomas Byrne Edsall; read by Mike Chamberlain
After Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. Learn More
Political Realignment
by Russell J. Dalton; read by Sean Runnette
Political Realignment tracks the evolution of citizen and elite opinions on economic and cultural issues from the 1970s to the 2010s—and the impact of these changes on electoral politics and public policy Learn More
The Politics Industry
by Katherine M. Gehl & Michael E. Porter; read by Stephen R. Thorne
One of 16 New Business Books You Need to Read in 2020 by Inc. magazine
The Politics Industry is an original and completely nonpartisan guide that will open your eyes to the true dynamics and profound challenges of the American political system and provide real solutions for reshaping the system for the benefit of all. Learn More
Post-Liberalism
by Fred Dallmayr; read by Sean Runnette
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary political, religious, and secular thought, Fred Dallmayr charts a possible path to a liberal socialism that is devoid of egalitarian imperatives and a private sphere free from acquisitiveness. Learn More
The Poverty Paradox
by Mark Robert Rank; read by Barry Abrams
The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. Based on decades of scholarship and research, it provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead. Learn More
The Power of Black Excellence
by Deondra Rose; read by L. Malaika Cooper
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A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US. Learn More
Practical Equality
by Robert Tsai; read by David Shih
A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice—and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Learn More
Prairie Fever
Michael Parker; read by Gabra Zackman
Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. Learn More
The President and Immigration Law
by Adam Cox & Cristina M. Rodriguez; read by Gary Tiedemann
In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became the United States' immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy, they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Learn More
Presumed Guilty
by Erwin Chemerinsky; read by Perry Daniels
Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Learn More
Psychologically Sound
by Sheldon Roth, MD; read by John McLain
A highly respected psychiatrist challenges the media narrative that President Trump is mentally unstable. Learn More
Rating America's Presidents
by Robert Spencer; read by Rick Adamson
This book offers what should be the only criteria for rating the occupants of the White House: were they good for America? Learn More
Reaching for the Moon
by Roger D. Launius; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers. Learn More
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