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Intellectuals and Race
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall261
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Performance223
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Story220
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.
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Perfect Measured Analysis
- By English Teacher on 21-08-21
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Intellectuals and Race
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-05-13
- Language: English
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The Book of Trespass
- Crossing the Lines That Divide Us
- By: Nick Hayes
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall581
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Performance508
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Story501
The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access.
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80% political commentary
- By Dubster on 31-03-21
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The Book of Trespass
- Crossing the Lines That Divide Us
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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How the Irish Became White
- Routledge Classics
- By: Noel Ignatiev
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country–a land of opportunity–they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book–the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians–tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors.
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How the Irish Became White
- Routledge Classics
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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English Pastoral
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall948
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Performance866
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Story862
The author of the beloved number one best seller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm. James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, that landscape had profoundly changed.
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One of the most important books I’ve ever read
- By hannah kenway on 20-09-20
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English Pastoral
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-09-20
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- By: Luke Kemp
- Narrated by: Luke Kemp
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance45
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Story45
Brought to you by Penguin. A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. ‘A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably...
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Enlightening but poor narration
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-25
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Goliath’s Curse
- The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- Narrated by: Luke Kemp
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-07-25
- Language: English
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Doing Time
- 25 Years of Prison Writing
- By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance2
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Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.
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Very good stories
- By jakeyglen on 23-01-23
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Doing Time
- 25 Years of Prison Writing
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-02-13
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Menopause
- Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change
- By: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Dr. Christiane Northrup’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Wisdom of Menopause has inspired more than a million women with a dramatically new vision of midlife—and will continue to do so for generations to come. As Dr. Northrup has championed, the "change" is not simply a collection of...
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very informative
- By nic on 09-01-23
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The Wisdom of Menopause
- Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change
- Narrated by: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Slavery
- By: Eric Williams
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story12
Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams' landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism and has influenced generations of historians ever since. Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the 18th and 19th centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision.
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Classic
- By T S on 21-01-23
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-04-22
- Language: English
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The Transgender Issue
- An Argument for Justice
- By: Shon Faye
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall671
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Performance563
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Story557
Brought to you by Penguin. Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk...
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A timely and much needed work
- By Laura Leigh on 19-09-21
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The Transgender Issue
- An Argument for Justice
- Narrated by: Shon Faye
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village
- By: Ronald Blythe
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Only a man who had lived all his life in Suffolk could produce such a vivid and accurate portrayal of Akenfield and its inhabitants. Ronald Blythe recounts the personal recollections of, among others, the local school keeper, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate as they discussed farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death. Originally published in 1969, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared.
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A Window on the Past
- By veyza on 19-12-25
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Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Natives
- Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
- By: Akala
- Narrated by: Akala
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,633
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Performance7,437
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Story7,376
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.
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A Very Interesting and Challenging Listen
- By Ross Clark on 10-07-18
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- By: Clare Carlisle
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage.
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Engaging and informative
- By Lady Macbeth on 21-08-23
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Inheritocracy
- It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad: The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Eliza Filby
- Narrated by: Eliza Filby
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Sunday Times Bestseller! Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and...
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Brilliant!
- By S.J.P on 08-08-25
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Inheritocracy
- It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad: The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Eliza Filby
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- By: Rebecca Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 ‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN *Winner of The Lakeland Book of the Year 2024* Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the...
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Thoroughly interesting, enjoyable and absorbing.
- By Anonymous on 15-06-23
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- By: Aleks Krotoski
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Brought to you by Penguin. What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the “science” of eternal life? From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal quest for immortality – and its rejuvenation...
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The Immortalists
- The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
- Narrated by: Aleks Krotoski
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance105
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Story104
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...
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Sobering and Necessary
- By Luke S on 29-08-18
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America: The Farewell Tour
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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The Racial Contract
- By: Charles Wade Mills
- Narrated by: Jeff Wilburn
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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Story20
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last 500 years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed.
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A profound and important book.
- By Ifayomi on 27-12-25
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The Racial Contract
- Narrated by: Jeff Wilburn
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-05-16
- Language: English
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
- Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- By: Brook Noel, Pamela D. Blair Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance1
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Tapping their personal histories and drawing on numerous interviews, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D., explore unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye provides survivors with a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
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Must listen!
- By Linds on 28-01-19
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
- Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-05-12
- Language: English
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- By: Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance54
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Story52
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past 30 years.
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Impossible to hear this boring robotic narration
- By Anonymous on 21-09-21
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
- How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- By: Joel Kotkin
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance241
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Story242
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times.
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Catchy title but intellectually lazy thesis
- By Oisín on 09-08-21
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
- A Warning to the Global Middle Class
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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