Town Politics

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States....

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    • Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
    • By: Barney Hoskyns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country"....

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    • Arliss Cutter, Book 3
    • By: Marc Cameron
    • Narrated by: David Chandler
    • Series: Arliss Cutter, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 847 ratings
    • In the icy heart of Alaska, a series of gruesome murders leads Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter into a firestorm of searing corruption, clashing cultures, and bone-chilling fear....

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    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,940 ratings
    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

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    • Blood Libel in an American Town
    • By: Edward Berenson
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, aged four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her....

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    • JonBenet and the City of Boulder
    • By: Lawrence Schiller
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Nothing written about the death of JonBenet Ramsey can possibly prepare the listener for the revelations in this audio....

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    • A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
    • By: James Loewen
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design....

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    • Reckoning with What Remains
    • By: Kerri Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years, the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family....

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    • By: John Le Carré
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing—and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him.

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    • Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America’s Gilded Capital
    • By: Mark Leibovich
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 913 ratings
    • The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....

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    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • By: Sam Anderson
    • Narrated by: Sam Anderson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 995 ratings
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

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    • Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
    • By: Mohamed A. El-Erian
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road....

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    • Deputy Pennington Mystery, Book 1
    • By: Steve Thayer
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Series: Pliny Pennington, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Meet Deputy P. A. Pennington of the Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin, Sheriff's Department, in a gripping novel of sex, politics, and betrayal - where the lust for power leads a war-wounded young man through the explosive secrets of a small town in the presidential election year of 1960....

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    • By: David M. Buerge
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times - the story of a half century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community....

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    • The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

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    • A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
    • By: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts....

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    • Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
    • By: Lamorna Ash
    • Narrated by: Lamorna Ash
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Land’s End....

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