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For a Dollar and a Dream
by Jonathan D. Cohen; read by Tom Lennon
This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Learn More
Forever Prisoners
by Elliot Young; read by Paul Brion
Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Learn More
The Forgotten Creed
by Stephen J. Patterson; read by Ramon De Ocampo
This is the story of that first, forgotten creed, and the world of its begetting, a world in which foreigners were feared, slaves were human chattel, and men questioned whether women were really human after all. Learn More
Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre; read by Steve Marvel
Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. Learn More
Four Lost Cities
by Annalee Newitz; read by Chloe Cannon
Amazon Editor’s Pick, Best History
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Learn More
The Fragile Middle Class
by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, & Jay Lawrence Westbrook; read by Suzie Althens
In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. Learn More
France
by Graham Robb; read by Tom Lawrence
Kirkus 20 Best Books to Read in July
A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion―by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Learn More
Franchise
by Marcia Chatelain; read by Machelle Williams
From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Learn More
Frank Ramsey
by Cheryl Misak; read by Liam Gerrard
When he died in 1930 aged twenty-six, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life. Learn More
Freedom on Trial
by Scott Farris; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. Learn More
From Cold War to Hot Peace
by Michael McFaul; read by LJ Ganser
From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present Learn More
From Silk to Silicon
Jeffrey E. Garten; read by Jonathan Yen
The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments. Learn More
Frontier Rebels
by Patrick Spero; read by Joe Barrett
Frontier Rebels is the untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Learn More
Frontline Bodies
by Nicolas Martin-Breteau; translated by Lucy Garnier; foreword by Damion L. Thomas; read by Amir Abdullah
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A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. Learn More
The Fruit of All My Grief
by J. Malcolm Garcia; read by Danny Campbell
Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media. Learn More
Funny Weather
by Olivia Laing; read by Sophie Aldred
"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. Learn More
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin; read by Bob Souer
Kirkus Best 100 Nonfiction Books of 2020
With A Furious Sky, bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Learn More
The Future of War
by Lawrence Freedman; read by Michael Page
In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink civilian merchant shipps. The future of war more often than not surprises us less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension but because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined wanting to cross. Learn More
The Gamesmaster
by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer
Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More
Gandhi
by Ramachandra Guha; Derek Perkins
New York Times Notable Books 2018 Kirkus Best of 2018 Nonfiction
The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in world history. Learn More
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