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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53716 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Rare Recording of Aleister CrowleyAuthor: Aleister CrowleyNarrator: Aleister CrowleyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 11 minutesRelease date: April 27, 2023Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Aleister Crowley was a British occultist, writer, philosopher and mystic. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). In this rare voice clip from 1920, made on a wax cylinder in London, Crowley reads excerpts from The Gnostic Mass. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53715 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Rare Recording of Mahatma GandhiAuthor: Mohandas GandhiNarrator: Mohandas GandhiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 6 minutesRelease date: April 27, 2023Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India. His ideas and strategies of nonviolent civil disobedience led to India âs independence. This is a rare actual voice recording of Mahatma Gandhi from 1931 where he speaks on spiritual topics, especially Hinduism. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53713 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Rare Recording of Sigmund FreudAuthor: Sigmund FreudNarrator: Sigmund FreudFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 2 minutesRelease date: April 27, 2023Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of the most influential psychologists of the last century. In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915 to listen full audiobooks.Title: First Man: The Life of Neil A. ArmstrongAuthor: James R. HansenNarrator: Jeremy BobbFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 26 minutesRelease date: May 29, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 34Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture, this is the firstâand onlyâdefinitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose âone small stepâ changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moonâs surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this âmagnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth centuryâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon. In this âcompelling and nuanced portraitâ (Chicago Tribune) filled with revelations, Hansen vividly recreates Armstrongâs career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative trans-atmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrongâs storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the near-fifty years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life. A penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. âFirst Man burrows deep into Armstrongâs past and presentâŠWhat emerges is an earnest and brave manâ (Houston Chronicle) who will forever be known as historyâs most famous space traveler.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92602 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Citizen SoldiersAuthor: Stephen E. AmbroseNarrator: George K. WilsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 46 minutesRelease date: January 4, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60267 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet EmpireAuthor: Victor SebestyenNarrator: Paul HechtFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 44 minutesRelease date: December 11, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By yearâs end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the events, on scores of interviews with witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material. He tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women as well as through the strategic moves of world leaders. He shows how the KGB helped bring down former allies; how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire.âFull of sharp snapshots and crisp narrative ⊠vivid personal glimpses and striking details.ââNew York Review of Books
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60741 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its NameAuthor: Toby LesterNarrator: Peter J. FernandezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 41 minutesRelease date: November 20, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: 'Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507.' So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a 'fourth part of the world,' a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth-until 1507, that is, when Martin WaldseemUller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but WaldseemUller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus's contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, WaldseemUller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci's honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester's telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe's early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the WaldseemUller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity's worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60002 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to BalfourAuthor: Barbara W. TuchmanNarrator: Wanda McCaddonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 33 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Two-time Pulitzer Prizeâwinning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish stateâand to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil in the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political, countless Englishmenâpilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyorsâhave made their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews. With the lucidity and vividness that characterizes her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these twin motivesâthe Bible and the swordâin the consciousness of the British people. They were finally brought together at the end of World War I, when Britain's conquest of Palestine from the Turks and the solemn moment of entering Jerusalem were imminent. Requiring a gesture of matching significance, that event evoked the Balfour Declaration of 1917âestablishing a British-sponsored national home for the modern survivors of the people of the Old Testament. In her account, first published in 1956, Ms. Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of today's troubles in the Middle East were planted long before the first efforts at founding a modern state of Israel.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59944 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5Author: Christopher AndrewNarrator: Robin SachsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 39 hours 38 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed, what its relationship has been with government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction has been placed on the judgments made by the author. Defend the Realm also adds significantly to our knowledge of many celebrated events and notorious individuals and definitively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above all, it shows the place of this previously extremely secretive organization within the United Kingdom. Few books could make such an immediate and extraordinary increase to our understanding of British history over the past century.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59934 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and AuthorsAuthor: Al SilvermanNarrator: Tom WeinerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 33 minutesRelease date: November 2, 2009Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industryâs golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate history of never-before-told stories about how some of the most important books in postwar America came into being. He pays particular homage to the eraâs talented horde of editors, who offer marvelous stories about their authors, including Barney Rosset whose Grove Press freed such banned authors as D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller. Silverman illuminates a period in publishing that formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59707 to listen full audiobooks.Title: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous MountainAuthor: Ed Viesturs, David RobertsNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 39 minutesRelease date: October 13, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2âthe worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe. Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, thought of it as 'the holy grail of mountaineering.' In K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2's most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineeringâquestions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death. Fortunately, Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott' s. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59569 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the PresidentAuthor: Taylor BranchNarrator: Taylor BranchFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 44 minutesRelease date: September 29, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Taylor Branchâs groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public. This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton answered questions and told stories in the White House, usually late at night. His friend Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch recorded seventy-nine of these dialogues to compile a trove of raw information about a presidency as it happened. Clinton drew upon the diary transcripts for his memoir in 2004. Branch recorded his own detailed recollections immediately after each session, covering not only the subjects discussed but also the look and feel of each evening with the president. The text engages Clinton from many angles. Readers hear candid stories, feel buffeting pressures, and weigh vivid descriptions of the White House settings. Branch's firsthand narrative is confessional, unsparing, and personal. The author admits straying at times from his primary role -- to collect raw material for future historians -- because his discussions with Clinton were unpredictable and intense. What should an objective prompter say when the President of the United States seeks advice, argues facts, or lodges complaints against the press? The dynamic relationship that emerges from these interviews is both affectionate and charged, with flashes of anger and humor. President Clinton drives the history, but this story is also about friends. The Clinton Tapes highlights major events of Clinton's two terms, including wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the failure of health care reform, peace initiatives on three continents, the anti-deficit crusade, and titanic political struggles from Whitewater to American history's second presidential impeachment trial. Along the way, Clinton delivers colorful portraits of countless political figures and world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Pope John Paul II. These unprecedented White House dialogues will become a staple of presidential scholarship. Branch's masterly account opens a new window on a controversial era and Bill Clinton's eventual place among our chief executives.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60481 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from ArchaeologistsAuthor: Charles PellegrinoNarrator: Richard M. DavidsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 36 minutesRelease date: September 10, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Often called the real Indiana Jones, Charles Pellegrino-acclaimed author, scientist, and adventurer-takes the listener on an extraordinary tour of Old Testament archeological sites from the Nile to the Jordan and Tigris-Euphrates rivers. Delightfully candid and refreshingly free of religious dogma, this fascinating and revelatory tale brings together archaeologists, scientists, and theologians to view the same archeological evidence and oral histories.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59432 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamAuthor: Barbara W. TuchmanNarrator: Wanda McCaddonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 53 minutesRelease date: August 12, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prizeâwinning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britainâs George III, and the United Statesâ persistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for todayâs reader.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58635 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman BrothersAuthor: Lawrence G. Mcdonald, Patrick RobinsonNarrator: Erik DaviesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 38 minutesRelease date: July 21, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answersâright from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonaldâs Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts âgateway to nowhereâ housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the worldâs toughest trading floors. We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nationâ s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it. The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to Americaâsâand the worldâsâfinancial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58371 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the ConfederacyAuthor: Sally Jenkins, John StaufferNarrator: Don LeslieFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 1 minuteRelease date: June 23, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy. The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil Warâthe real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich manâs war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knightâs life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the Southâand it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union. This riveting investigative account takes us inside the battle of Corinth, where thousands lost their lives over less than a quarter mile of land, and to the dreadful siege of Vicksburg, presenting a gritty picture of a war in which generals sacrificed thousands through their arrogance and ignorance. Off the battlefield, the Newton Knight story is rich in drama as well. He was a man with two loves: his wife, who was forced to flee her home simply to survive, and an ex-slave named Rachel, who, in effect, became his second wife. It was Rachel who cared for Knight during the war when he was hunted by the Confederates, and, later, when members of the Knight clan sought revenge for the disgrace he had brought upon the family name. Working hand in hand with John Stauffer, distinguished chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, Sally Jenkins has made the leap from preeminent sportswriter to a historical writer endowed with the accuracy, drive, and passion of Doris Kearns Goodwin. The result is Civil War history at its finest.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58251 to listen full audiobooks.Title: We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, RivalsAuthor: Gillian GillNarrator: Rosalyn LandorFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 20 minutesRelease date: May 19, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth centuryâand one of historyâ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naĂŻve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already âshowed signs of wanting her own way.â Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. âAlbert is beautiful!â Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the yearsâeach spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albertâs early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbicâand informed by revealing excerpts from the pairâs journals and lettersâWe Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55178 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Red and MeAuthor: Bill RussellNarrator: Peter J. FernandezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 1 minuteRelease date: May 5, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller ''On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book.'' â Bill Bradley, New York Times Book Review In Red and Me, Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach. A poignant remembrance of a life-altering relationship in the tradition of Big Russ and Me and Tuesdays With Morrie, Red and Me tells an unforgettable story of one unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history. Red Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches in sports history. Bill Russell was the star center and five-time MVP for Auerbach's Celtics, and together they won eleven championships in thirteen years. But Auerbach and Russell were far more than just coach and player. A short, brash Jew from Brooklyn and a tall, intense African-American from Louisiana and Oakland, the men formed a friendship that evolved into a rare, telling example of deep male camaraderie even as their feelings remained largely unspoken. Red and Me is an extraordinary book: an homage to a peerless coach, which shows how he produced results unlike any other, and an inspiring story of mutual success, in which each man gave his all and gained back even more. Above all, it may be the most honest and heartfelt depiction of male friendship ever captured in print.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60743 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous IdeaAuthor: H.H. Dalai Lama, Mark KurlanskyNarrator: Richard DreyfussFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 32 minutesRelease date: April 29, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a 'dangerous' idea, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a 'just war'? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how, time and again, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners-Gandhi and Martin Luther King, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is, at best, negligible; and, encouragingly, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. Engaging, scholarly, and brilliantly reasoned, Nonviolence is a work that compels readers to look at history in an entirely new way. This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54857 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist RevolutionAuthor: Amir TaheriNarrator: Robertson DeanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 13 minutesRelease date: March 25, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the Khomeinist regime must pose as Israel's archfoe to claim leadership of the Arabs. In this timely new offering, the celebrated Iranian-born journalistAmir Taheri dissects a regime that has mobilized the resources of a major Muslim country andhijacked a nation of millions for a global 'holy war' against the United States and its allies. Taheri reveals the links between the Islamic Republic and terrorist networks including al-Qaeda and Hezballah, investigates the reality of Iran's nuclear and war-making capabilities, and most importantly, reveals how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated. From Ayatollah Khomeini's 'historic mission' to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's messianic campaign in the name of the 'Hidden Imam,'The Persian Nightdepicts a trajectory that will most likely lead to war. More importantly, it addresses the vital question of how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated, enabling Iran to close the chapter of revolution and return to the mainstream of nation-states.
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