Audiobooks by Brian Alexander

The Mayor: One Poor City’s Fight to Bring Back Government and Save the Nation’s Soul

"The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation’s future? Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary reputation. After more than a century of mismanagement, people have lost all faith in government. Stefan Roots, a wastewater plant operator, wants to do something to clean it up. So he runs for mayor with an unlikely cast of political aides: a former kid drug dealer, a one-time hip-hop impresario, a white evangelical graduate student, and a wealthy white business man. Can these neophytes save the soul of the city, restore faith, and set an example for the nation? Brian Alexander argues that the problems Chester faces have germinated over a century of political malfeasance, and the deification of market capitalism. Now, these forces are doing to the rest of the country what they did to Chester long ago as inequality, privatization, and unrestrained profit-seeking spread, wrecking communities and delivering Trump. Alexander also tracks a quixotic former state legislator in Maine, West Virginia’s only elected transgender office holder, and a young Black Democratic Socialist in a well-to-do and mostly white Philadelphia suburb as they struggle to, and sometimes succeed in, reversing the tide. At times ripping, tragic, and hopeful, The Mayor is extraordinarily timed to illuminate our current crises while offering a way forward."

Brian Alexander (Author), William DeMeritt (Narrator)

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The God Matrix: A Spiritual Thriller With Cosmic Consequences

"The God Matrix is a spiritual thriller that blends mystery, suspense, military intrigue and maybe even Alien abductions, with spiritual principles and quantum physics. It will captivate you and keep you on the edge of your seat as you are swept up in an adventure that leaves you wondering at the truth of you own existence, and even more so, wondering whether the story is indeed fact or fiction."

Brian Alexander (Author), Frank Gerard (Narrator)

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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises. “With his signature gut-punching prose, Alexander breaks our hearts as he opens our eyes to America’s deep-rooted sickness and despair by immersing us in the lives of a small town hospital and the people it serves. “ —Beth Macy, bestselling author of Dopesick By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes listeners into the world of the American medical industry in a way no audiobook has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America’s health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed. Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As local leaders struggle to address the town’s problems, and the hospital fights for its life amid a rapidly consolidating medical and hospital industry, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the emergency room. With these and other stories, Alexander strips away the wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans’ struggle for health against a powerful system that’s stacked against them, but yet so fragile it blows apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, this audiobook offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis we're in. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'A brilliantly imaginative and creative way of telling the story of today's America and the roots of what ails it, through the travails of a small-town hospital. In The Hospital, Brian Alexander does again so well what he did in Glass House—telling the big story from the small place.' —Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic"

Brian Alexander (Author), Nick Landrum (Narrator)

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