Lynda Dickson
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,965
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,769
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,768
Why is Miami… Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of gripping stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering
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1 out of 5 stars
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Lame
- By Kindle Customer on 10-09-24
- Revenge of the Tipping Point
- Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Sociology at its best!
Reviewed: 01-02-25
This book serves as an excellent reminder of the power of a sociological perspective! It broadens our lens to see what broader forces were at play to bring about often undesirable outcomes. I loved the book!
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting conversations
- By Mark on 03-15-25
- Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Excellent!
Reviewed: 11-20-24
Creative, thoughtful discussion of the “stayers” in rural Kentucky, but more importantly a compe explanation
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James
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11,536
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,958
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10,958
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can we ever be free
- By J. Stirling on 04-04-24
- James
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
(Not quite) Believable Fantasy
Reviewed: 09-16-24
Such a creative revision of a classic! I really enjoyed the book! Perhaps it says something about the power of culture, but I just couldn’t even fantasize that Huck and Jim had that different a relationship OR that there would be such a difference between slave jargon and reality. Still, an enjoyable read!
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Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- By: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrated by: Ruth J. Simmons
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story5 out of 5 stars 109
Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words, because of it—Simmons would become the first Black president of an Ivy League university. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By A. Wingfield on 02-04-25
- Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- By: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrated by: Ruth J. Simmons
Wonderful Connections!
Reviewed: 04-15-24
I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir, primarily because the author made consistent connections between her answer to the question “what happened to me” from birth through elementary years and her later successes in life . I would love to know how she was able to recall specifics!
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Erasure
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 565
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 514
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 514
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days."
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rollercoaster That Never Descends
- By Amazon Customer on 01-07-24
- Erasure
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Excellent!
Reviewed: 04-11-24
Even the novel within the novel was good! A truly well written book that beautifully describes the Black middle class dilemma among other things. I will say though, the the ending was less satisfying than the ending in the film American Fiction.
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Making It in America
- The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
- By: Rachel Slade
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. • From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea
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5 out of 5 stars
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spread the word!
- By Laurra Winters on 03-16-25
- Making It in America
- The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
- By: Rachel Slade
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke
A Tragic Tale
Reviewed: 01-31-24
An excellent, in-depth examination of a specific company’s attempt to make something in America at a time when political and global trends worked against it. A bit too much detail for my taste—The main idea could have been made without them.
Still, an important contribution to our understanding of what happened to get us to this point where almost nothing is made in America.
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The Patriarchs
- The Origins of Inequality
- By: Angela Saini
- Narrated by: Sohm Kapila
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Patriarchys over time and space
- By Lynda Dickson on 12-22-23
- The Patriarchs
- The Origins of Inequality
- By: Angela Saini
- Narrated by: Sohm Kapila
Patriarchys over time and space
Reviewed: 12-22-23
Clearly a great deal of work in describing the global and geopolitical variations in patriarchy. But there didn’t seem to be a connecting theme. I found myself thinking when I finished
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Generations
- The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
- By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 195
Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean Twenge analyzes data on 39 million people from robust national surveys—some going back nearly a century—to show that changes in technology are the underlying driver of each generation’s unique makeup. In this revelatory work, Twenge outlines key shifts in attitudes and lifestyle choices that define each generation regarding gender, income, politics, race, sexuality, marriage, mental health, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superbly organized and written!
- By Wayne on 04-30-23
- Generations
- The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
- By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Great read/Listen!
Reviewed: 09-24-23
A wonderful sociological glimpse of the age cohort differences and their causes . All ages will benefit from their own chapters and those of their children!
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Dying of Whiteness
- How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
- By: Jonathan M. Metzl
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Racist and pompous
- By proangler47 on 06-01-19
- Dying of Whiteness
- How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
- By: Jonathan M. Metzl
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Important contribution
Reviewed: 05-07-23
This book is part of the growing evidence of the need to dismantle white privilege.
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Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 972
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 861
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 860
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- By Alonzo Nightjar on 03-27-23
- Poverty, by America
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
Excellent!
Reviewed: 04-29-23
Desmond has again given us a sharp, frank discussion of what has been assumed to be a permanent problem in society: poverty. This is one of the growing number of works that remind us it doesn’t have to be this way.
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