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The Handover
- How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
- By: Elaine Dewar
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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Until recently, McClelland and Stewart had been known as 'The Canadian Publisher', the country's longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader, Jack McClelland, worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and '70s which ensured that Canadian stories would, for the first time in the nation's history, be told and published by Canadians. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation's literature.
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The Handover
- How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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Supreme Power
- 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
- By: Ted Stewart
- Narrated by: Art Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Best-selling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions. Today's Court affects every major area of American life, from health care to civil rights, from abortion to marriage. This fascinating book reveals the complex history of the Court as told through seven pivotal decisions.
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Supreme Power
- 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
- Narrated by: Art Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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Mississippi River Tragedies
- A Century of Unnatural Disaster
- By: Christine A. Klein, Sandra B. Zellmer
- Narrated by: Troy McElfresh
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi River Tragedies
- A Century of Unnatural Disaster
- Narrated by: Troy McElfresh
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-09-17
- Language: English
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Closing the Courthouse Door
- How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
- By: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights.
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Closing the Courthouse Door
- How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-01-17
- Language: English
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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
- By: R. Kent Newmyer
- Narrated by: Castle Vozz
- Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins
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John Marshall (1755 - 1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to 1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions in cases like Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland are still part of the working discourse of constitutional law in America.
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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
- Narrated by: Castle Vozz
- Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 29-09-16
- Language: English
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The Wilmington Ten
- Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
- By: Kenneth Robert Janken
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, 10 young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison.
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The Wilmington Ten
- Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-01-16
- Language: English
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Then Comes Marriage
- United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
- By: Roberta Kaplan, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In this landmark work, Kaplan describes her strategy in the lower courts and her preparation and rehearsals before moot courts, and she shares insights into the dramatic oral argument before the Supreme Court justices. Then Comes Marriage is the story of the relationship behind the watershed case, Kaplan's own difficult coming-out journey, and the fascinating unfolding of United States v. Windsor.
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Then Comes Marriage
- United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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Making Sense of the Constitution
- A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law
- By: Walter M Frank
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Walter Frank tackles, in a comprehensive but lively manner, subjects rarely treated in one volume. Aiming at both the general listener and students of political science, law, or history, Frank begins with a brief discussion of the nature of constitutional law and why the Court divides so closely on many issues. He then proceeds to an analysis of the Constitution and subsequent amendments, placing them in their historical context.
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Making Sense of the Constitution
- A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-02-15
- Language: English
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The Conscience of the Constitution
- The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
- By: Timothy Sandefur
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Timothy Sandefur's insightful book provides a dramatic new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law and argues a vital truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. Yet the overemphasis on democracy by today's legal community - rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence - has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights.
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The Conscience of the Constitution
- The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-01-15
- Language: English
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Madison's Music
- On Reading the First Amendment
- By: Burt Neuborne
- Narrated by: David Rapkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights - such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.
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Madison's Music
- On Reading the First Amendment
- Narrated by: David Rapkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-02-15
- Language: English
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Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform
- By: Robert E. Mutch
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Buying the Vote analyzes the rise and decline of campaign finance reform by tracking the evolution of both the ways in which presidential campaigns have been funded since the late nineteenth century. Through close examinations of major Supreme Court decisions, Mutch shows how the Court has fashioned a new and profoundly inegalitarian definition of American democracy.
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Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform
- Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-08-14
- Language: English
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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
- Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
- By: Brenda Stevenson
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot.
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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
- Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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American Inquisition
- The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
- By: Eric L. Muller
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs.
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Could have been great.
- By Julian Trettenes on 16-09-18
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American Inquisition
- The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: English
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A History of Gun Control
- By: N. T. Gore
- Narrated by: Donny Baarns
- Length: 55 mins
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This audiobook attempts to chronicle the history of those in power attempting to limit the access of firearms. We travel from the origins of gun control in pre-modern times from the Old West through the Depression Era and the three wars, to the 20th century and the issues gun control faces today. Further, we look at the development of gun control and its path of evolution into today's laws in the United States and globally.
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A History of Gun Control
- Narrated by: Donny Baarns
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 04-11-13
- Language: English
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In the Balance
- Law and Politics in the Roberts Court
- By: Mark Tushnet
- Narrated by: Brian Zelis
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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An examination of the initial years of the Roberts Court and the intellectual battle between Roberts and Kagan for leadership. When John Roberts was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, he said he would act as an umpire. Instead, his Court is reshaping legal precedent through decisions unmistakably - though not always predictably - determined by politics as much as by law, on a Court almost perfectly politically divided.
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In the Balance
- Law and Politics in the Roberts Court
- Narrated by: Brian Zelis
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-10-13
- Language: English
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Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz
- By: Barbara Babcock
- Narrated by: Barbara Babcock
- Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
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Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman lawyer in the West. Famous as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition as she tried cases in front of all-male juries, raised five children as a single mother, stumped for political candidates, and urged the creation of a public defender to balance the public prosecutor.
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Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz
- Narrated by: Barbara Babcock
- Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-07-13
- Language: English
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The Great Decision
- Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court
- By: Cliff Sloan, David McKean
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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The Great Decision tells the riveting story of Marshall and of the landmark court case, Marbury v. Madison, through which he empowered the Supreme Court and transformed the idea of the separation of powers into a working blueprint for our modern state.
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The Great Decision
- Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-09-09
- Language: English
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Grands procès [Great Trials]
- 38 affaires judiciaires qui ont secoué le Québec: de 1965 à aujourd'hui [38 Court Cases That Shook Quebec: From 1965 to Today]
- By: Daniel Proulx
- Narrated by: Winston McQuade
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Les 38 causes notoires racontées dans ce livre avec talent par le journaliste Daniel Proulx nous instruisent sur notre pensée et notre morale. Elles forcent la réflexion sur l’état de notre société et de notre justice, ce pilier de notre démocratie.
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Grands procès [Great Trials]
- 38 affaires judiciaires qui ont secoué le Québec: de 1965 à aujourd'hui [38 Court Cases That Shook Quebec: From 1965 to Today]
- Narrated by: Winston McQuade
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: French
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Florence Kinrade
- Lizzie Borden of the North
- By: Frank Jones
- Narrated by: Lorene Shyba
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Florence Kinrade, dutiful daughter of a wealthy, upper-crust Canadian family in 1909, lives a secret double life as a vaudeville showgirl in Richmond, Virginia. Then sister Ethel shows up dead, with Florence being, apparently, the only one at the scene at the time. Next up, a coroner’s inquest, a mental diagnosis, more vaudeville show business, and a good hard investigative look by investigative journalist, Frank Jones.
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Florence Kinrade
- Lizzie Borden of the North
- Narrated by: Lorene Shyba
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-05-19
- Language: English
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- By: Steve Luxenberg
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal", created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the 19th century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the 21st. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours - race and equality.
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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