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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306910 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern WorldAuthor: Niall FergusonNarrator: Niall Ferguson, Jonathan KeebleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 14 minutesRelease date: October 5, 2017Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of 'pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts' in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249561 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)Author: David RemnickNarrator: Michael PrichardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 29 hours 6 minutesRelease date: December 1, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Leninâs Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule leading up to the collapse and gives us the voices of those who lived through it, from democratic activists to Party members, from anti-Semites to Holocaust survivors, from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Sakharov. An extraordinary history of an empire undone, Leninâs Tomb stands as essential reading for our times.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249682 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 1: 1933â1968Author: SpeechworksNarrator: SpeechworksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 11 minutesRelease date: November 17, 2015Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: A day that will live in infamy ⊠Nothing to fear but fear itself ⊠Ask not what your country can do for you ⊠Ich bin ein Berliner ⊠Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this collection features original speeches by the presidents of the United States. *These are actual historic recordings, the sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247760 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic PartyAuthor: Dinesh D'SouzaNarrator: Dinesh D'Souza, Andrew KlavanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 3 minutesRelease date: November 17, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: WHY HILLARY, OBAMA, AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE NO BETTER THAN A GANG OF THIEVES In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh DâSouza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friendâs Senate campaign. DâSouza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center. There he lived among hardened criminalsâdrug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but fundamentally transformed his view of his adopted country. Previously, DâSouza had seen America through the eyes of a grateful immigrant who became successful by applying and defending conservative principles. Again and again, DâSouza made the case that America is an exceptional nation, fundamentally fair and just. In book after book, he argued against liberalism as though it were a genuine movement of ideas capable of being engaged and refuted. But his prolonged exposure to the criminal underclass provided an eye-opening education in American realities. In the view of hardened criminals, DâSouza learned, America is anything but fair and just. Instead, it is a jungle in which various armed gangs face off against one another, with the biggest and most powerful gangs inhabiting the federal government. As for American liberalism, it is not a movement of ideas at all but a series of scams and cons aimed at nothing less than stealing the entire wealth of the nation, built up over more than two centuries: the total value of the homes, the lifelong savings of the people, the assets of every industry, and all the funds allocated to health and education and every other service, both public and private. âThe thieves I am speaking about want all of it.â And who are the leading figures in this historically ambitious scam that has turned the federal government into a vast and unprecedented shakedown scheme? Why, none other than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton â the current leaders of the Democratic Party. This pair of smooth-talking con artists, trained in the methods of radical activist Saul Alinsky, have taken his crude but effective political shakedown techniques to a level even he never dreamed of. As the nation approaches a crucial election in 2016, Stealing America is an urgent wakeup call for all Americans who want to prevent this theft from being completed by eight more years of Democratic rule.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248192 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a WarAuthor: James HarkinNarrator: Paul FoxFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 44 minutesRelease date: November 10, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as 'Jihadi John' (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America,' the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248184 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest WorkersAuthor: Michelle Malkin, John MianoNarrator: Juliet St. JohnFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 21 minutesRelease date: November 10, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our borders and selling out Americaâs best and brightest workers. In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor. Malkin and Miano will explode some of the most commonly told myths spread in the media like these: Lie #1: America is suffering from an apocalyptic âshortageâ of science, technology, engineering, and math workers. Lie #2: US companies cannot function without an unlimited injection of the âhighly skilledâ and âhighly educatedâ foreign workers, who offer capital and energy that American workers canât match. Lie #3: Americaâs best and brightest talents are protected because employers are required to demonstrate that theyâve made every effort to hire American citizens before resorting to foreign labor. For too long, open-borders tech billionaires and their political enablers have escaped tough public scrutiny of their means and motives. Itâs time to trade the whitewash for solvent. American workers deserve better and the public deserves the unvarnished truth.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247571 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Business for Punks: Break All the Rules â the BrewDog WayAuthor: James WattNarrator: James WattFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 0 minutesRelease date: November 5, 2015Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Business for Punks written and read by James Watt. START A REVOLUTION NOT A BUSINESS Don't waste your time on bullsh*t business plans. Forget sales. Put everything on the line for what you believe in. These are some of the mantras that have turned BrewDog into one of the world's fastest-growing drinks brands, famous for beers, bars and crowdfunding. In Business for Punks, BrewDog co-founder James Watt bottles the essence of this success. From finances ('chase down every cent, pimp every pound') to marketing ('lead with the crusade, not the product') this is an anarchic, indispensable guide to thriving on your own terms. 'Indispensable tips for a fledgeling entrepreneur with a bright idea' The Times
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249566 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Crippled America: How to Make America Great AgainAuthor: Donald J. TrumpNarrator: Jeremy LowellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 30 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.78 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 9Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: In this book (previously published as Crippled America), weâre going to look at the state of the world right now. Itâs a terrible mess, and thatâs putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them? Itâs time to bring America back to its rightful ownersâthe American people. Iâm not going to play the same game politicians have been playing for decadesâall talk, no action, while special interests and lobbyists dictate our laws. I am shaking up the establishment on both sides of the political aisle because I canât be bought. I want to bring America back, to make it great and prosperous again, and to be sure we are respected by our allies and feared by our adversaries. Itâs time for action. Americans are fed up with politics as usual. And they should be! In this book, I outline my vision to make America great again, including: how to fix our failing economy; how to reform health care so it is more efficient, cost-effective, and doesnât alienate both doctors and patients; how to rebuild our military and start winning warsâinstead of watching our enemies take overâwhile keeping our promises to our great veterans; how to ensure that our education system offers the resources that allow our students to compete internationally, so tomorrowâs jobseekers have the tools they need to succeed; and how to immediately bring jobs back to America by closing our doors to illegal immigrants, and pressuring businesses to produce their goods at home. This book is my blueprint for how to Make America Great Again. Itâs not hard. We just need someone with the courage to say what needs to be said.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248497 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the EnemyAuthor: Micah ZenkoNarrator: Christopher LaneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 3 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devilâs Advocate, the eleventh-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teamsâcomprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitorsâare used widely in both the public and private sector. Red teaming, including simulations, vulnerability probes, and alternative analyses, helps institutions in competitive environments to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses, challenge assumptions, and anticipate potential threats ahead of the next special operations raid, malicious cyberattack, or corporate merger. But not all red teams are created equal; indeed, some cause more damage than they prevent. In Red Team, national security expert Micah Zenko provides an in-depth investigation into the work of red teams, revealing the best practices, most common pitfalls, and most effective applications of these modern-day Devilâs Advocates. The best practices of red teaming can be applied to the CIA, NYPD, or a pharmaceutical company, and executed correctly they can yield impressive results: red teams give businesses an edge over their competition, poke holes in vital intelligence estimates, and troubleshoot dangerous military missions long before boots are on the ground. But red teams are only as good as leaders allow them to be, and Zenko shows not only how to create and empower red teams, but also what to do with the information they produce. Essential reading for business leaders and policymakers alike, Red Team will revolutionize the way organizations think about, exploit, compensate for, and correct their institutional strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on little-known case studies and unprecedented access to elite red teamers in the United States and abroad, Zenko shows how any groupâfrom military units to friendly hackersâcan win by thinking like the enemy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248196 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 PresidencyAuthor: Charlie SavageNarrator: Dan WorenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's 'global war on terror' but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247955 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Time of Our Lives: Collected WritingsAuthor: Peggy NoonanNarrator: Rena-Marie Villano, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Peggy NoonanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 0 minutesRelease date: November 3, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns about the 2016 Election. New York Times bestseller The Time of Our Lives travels the path of Peggy Noonan's remarkable and influential career, beginning with a revealing essay about her motivations as a writer and thinker. It's followed by an address to students at Harvard University on the drafting of President Reagan's speech the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded. Then comes one surprising chapter after the next including: 'People I Miss' -- memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert, Joan Rivers, Margaret Thatcher, and others. 'Making Trouble' -- Peggy's sharpest, funniest and most critical columns about Democrats and Republicans, the idiocracy of government, and Beltway disconnect. 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' -- Peggy's most poignant writing capturing the country's grief and recovery in the wake of 9-11, and clear-eyed foresight on what lay ahead in terms of war and sacrifice. 'The Loneliest President Since Nixon' -- tracking hope and change as it became disillusionment and disappointment with President Obama. And other sections where Peggy discerns the mood of the country ('State of the Union'), the melodrama of the historic 2008 election ('My Beautiful Election'), her battles with the Catholic Church ('What I Told the Bishops') and lighter meditations on baseball, a snowy afternoon in Brooklyn, and motherhood ('Having Fun'). Annotated throughout, The Time of Our Lives articulates Peggy's conservative vision, demonstrating why she has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247564 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityAuthor: Joseph E. StiglitzNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 53 minutesRelease date: November 2, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Inequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different storyâthe U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of inequality and economic mobility. For decades, wages have stagnated for the majority of workers while economic gains have disproportionately gone to the top one percent. Education, housing, and health careâessential ingredients for individual successâare growing ever more expensive. Deeply rooted structural discrimination continues to hold down women and people of color, and more than one-fifth of all American children now live in poverty. These trends are on track to become even worse in the future. Some economists claim that todayâs bleak conditions are inevitable consequences of market outcomes, globalization, and technological progress. If we want greater equality, they argue, we have to sacrifice growth. This is simply not true. American inequality is the result of misguided structural rules that actually constrict economic growth. We have stripped away worker protections and family support systems, created a tax system that rewards short-term gains over long-term investment, offered a de facto public safety net to too-big-to-fail financial institutions, and chosen monetary and fiscal policies that promote wealth over full employment.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245952 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture SpotlightAuthor: The Investigative Staff of the Boston GlobeNarrator: Paul BoehmerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 0 minutesRelease date: October 27, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245095 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the AftermathAuthor: Ted KoppelNarrator: Ted KoppelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 10 minutesRelease date: October 27, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 10Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on Americaâs power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. âFascinating, frightening, and beyond timely.ââAnderson Cooper Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. It isnât just a scenario. A well-designed attack on just one of the nationâs three electric power grids could cripple much of our infrastructureâand in the age of cyberwarfare, a laptop has become the only necessary weapon. Several nations hostile to the United States could launch such an assault at any time. In fact, as a former chief scientist of the NSA reveals, China and Russia have already penetrated the grid. And a cybersecurity advisor to President Obama believes that independent actorsâfrom âhacktivistsâ to terroristsâhave the capability as well. âItâs not a question of if,â says Centcom Commander General Lloyd Austin, âitâs a question of when.â And yet, as Koppel makes clear, the federal government, while well prepared for natural disasters, has no plan for the aftermath of an attack on the power grid. The current Secretary of Homeland Security suggests keeping a battery-powered radio. In the absence of a government plan, some individuals and communities have taken matters into their own hands. Among the nationâs estimated three million âpreppers,â we meet one whose doomsday retreat includes a newly excavated three-acre lake, stocked with fish, and a Wyoming homesteader so self-sufficient that he crafted the thousands of adobe bricks in his house by hand. We also see the unrivaled disaster preparedness of the Mormon church, with its enormous storehouses, high-tech dairies, orchards, and proprietary trucking companyâthe fruits of a long tradition of anticipating the worst. But how, Koppel asks, will ordinary civilians survive? With urgency and authority, one of our most renowned journalists examines a threat unique to our time and evaluates potential ways to prepare for a catastrophe that is all but inevitable.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245094 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How to Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively CorrectAuthor: Greg GutfeldNarrator: Steve KramerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 48 minutesRelease date: October 27, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: It's not enough to be right, these daysâespecially when you're not left. To survive, the right must learn how to express nonliberal principles as effectively as possible, and persuade others of their point of view. It is an art that demands patience, research, humor, understanding, creative thinking, learning from your opponent and even mimicking their tactics. In How to Be Right: the Art of Being Persuasively Correct, Gutfeld reveals the strategies that have helped him keep a steady job for almost three decades. From âDiscard Your Outrageâ and âOutcompassion Themâ To âFind the Rightâs Obamaâ and âUse your Mom,â Gutfeld gives readers the tools theyâll need to argue, influence, and convince their friends, family and foes throughout the 2016 election cycle.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245076 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No CultureAuthor: Michael SavageNarrator: Barry BaerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 0 minutesRelease date: October 27, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: From bestselling author of Stop the Coming Civil War, Michael Savage reveals the massive dangers currently leading to the demise of our government. Michael Savage has been warning Americans for decades and now it's here. In GOVERNMENT ZERO: No Borders, No Language, No Culture, Savage sounds the alarm about how progressives and radical Islamists are each unwittingly working towards similar ends: to destroy Western Civilization and remake it in their own respective images. These two dark forces are transforming our once-free republic into a socialist, Third World dictatorship ruled by Government Zero: absolute government and zero representation. Combining in-depth analysis with biting commentary, Savage cuts through mainstream media propaganda to reveal an all-out attack on our borders, language and culture by progressive travelers who have hijacked public policy from national defense to immigration to public education. Find out everything you need to know about this terrifying agenda to weaken the U.S. military, cripple the American economy, subvert basic American liberties such as freedom of speech, and destroy the international world order. There is no time to lose. The Progressive-Islamist agenda has advanced into every public space, from the White House to the military to your local public school. If America is to survive, it has to be stopped. Michael Savage has a plan. Get the inside story before it's too late.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/245264 to listen full audiobooks.Title: American Will: The Forgotten Choices That Changed Our RepublicAuthor: Bobby JindalNarrator: Kirby HeyborneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 29 minutesRelease date: October 20, 2015Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a much-talked-about 2016 presidential candidate, offers fourteen lessons from our nationâs past and discusses how they can be used to restore American courage, faith, and wisdom. Nearly forty-five years ago, Bobby Jindalâs parents left their home in rural Indiaâa place with no electricity or running waterâto build a new life in the United States. Every day, Jindalâs father told him, âYou should be grateful that you were blessed to be born in the greatest country in the history of the worldââa country where the son of poor immigrants could grow up to become the governor of Louisiana. For Jindal, this defining experience bolsters a profound belief in American exceptionalism: Freedom is not just the American way, itâs the American will. As we approach the next great turning point in this extraordinary nationâs remarkable history, Jindal brings to life inspiring stories from our countryâs past that have influenced his beliefs and the indispensable lessons each can teach us about our future. Stories such as the stalwart senator who galvanized the public against Hillary Clintonâs costly and oppressive socialist health-care proposal in the early 1990s; the entrepreneur whose dogged determination ushered in a worldwide energy revolution, and with it technological innovation and economic growth; and the Founding Father who refused to âlead from behindâ and instead used his vision for the nascent nationâs vast potential and the best interests of its people to outwit a greedy dictator. In the next election, we can continue down the current destructive path of big government, emboldened enemies, diminished liberties, and hostility to religious faith. Or we can embrace the values that have always propelled America to the top: limited government; free people and free markets; strength and exceptionalism; and the essential role of religious faith in effecting change. American power is precious, and our vital interests and those of our allies depend on strong leadership. Whom will we choose: a cynic or a statesman, a politician or a problem solver? The dramatic tales in American Will illuminate the courage, faith, and vision that we need in 2016âand the government folly, corruption, and myopia that jeopardize our future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/246143 to listen full audiobooks.Title: CRACK99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software PirateAuthor: David Locke HallNarrator: Mark PeckhamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 44 minutesRelease date: October 19, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the US Department of Justice A former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase satellite tracking software? No problem. Aerospace and aviation simulations? No problem. Communications systems designs? No problem. Software for Marine One, the presidential helicopter? No problem. With delivery times and customer service to rival the worldâs most successful online retailers, anybody, anywhereâincluding rogue regimes, terrorists, and countries forbidden from doing business with the United Statesâhad access to these goods for any purpose whatsoever. But who was behind CRACK99, and where were they? The Justice Department discouraged potentially costly, risky cases like this, preferring the low-hanging fruit that scored points from politicians and the public. But Hall and his colleagues were determined to find the culprit. They bought CRACK99âs products for delivery in the United States, buying more and more to appeal to the budding entrepreneur in the man they identified as Xiang Li. After winning his confidence, they lured him to Saipanâa US commonwealth territory where Hallâs own father had stormed the beaches with the marines during World War II. There they set up an audacious sting that culminated in Xiang Liâs capture and imprisonment. The value of the goods offered by CRACK99? A cool $100 million. An eye-opening look at cybercrime and its chilling consequences for national security, CRACK99 reads like a caper that resonates with every amazing detail.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247556 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Last of the President's MenAuthor: Bob WoodwardNarrator: Campbell ScottFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 30 minutesRelease date: October 13, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in this âintimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Officeâ (The Washington Post). âFour decades after Watergate shook America, journalist Bob Woodward returns to the scandal to profile Alexander Butterfield, the Richard Nixon aide who revealed the existence of the Oval Office tapes and effectively toppled the presidencyâŠWoodward re-creates detailed scenes, which reveal the petty power plays of Americaâs most powerful menâŠa close-up view of the Oval Office in its darkest hourâ (Kirkus Reviews). In The Last of the Presidentâs Men, Woodward reveals the untold story based on forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documentsâmany of them original and not in the presidential archives and librariesâand uncovered new dimensions of Nixonâs secrets, obsessions, and deceptions. âThis volumeâŠamplifies (rather than revises) the familiar, almost Miltonian portrait of the thirty-seventh presidentâŠas a brooding, duplicitous despot, obsessed with enemies and score-settling and not the least bit hesitant about lying to the public and breaking the lawâ (The New York Times). Today, The Last of the Presidentâs Men could not be more timely and relevant as voters question how much do we know about those who are now seeking the presidency in 2016âwhat really drives them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround themselves with, and what are their true political and personal values? This is âyet another fascinating gift to history by DCâs most relentless reporterâ (Politico).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/246320 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Truth: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of PowerAuthor: Mary MapesNarrator: Mary MapesFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 0 minutesRelease date: October 13, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Mary Mapes's Truth (previously published as Truth & Duty) was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss. A riveting play-by-play of a reporter getting and defending a story that recalls All the President's Men, Truth puts readers in the center of the '60 Minutes II' story on George W. Bush's shirking of his National Guard duty. The firestorm that followed that broadcast--a conflagration that was carefully sparked by the right and fanned by bloggers--trashed Mapes' well-respected twenty-five year producing career, caused newsman Dan Rather to resign from his anchor chair early and led to an unprecedented 'internal inquiry' into the story...chaired by former Reagan attorney general Richard Thornburgh. Truth examines Bush's political roots as governor of Texas, delves into what is known about his National Guard duty-or lack of service-and sheds light on the solidity of the documents that backed up the National Guard story, even including images of the actual documents in an appendix to the book. It is peopled with a colorful cast of characters-from Karl Rove to Sumner Redstone-and moves from small-town Texas to Black Rock-CBS corporate headquarters-in New York City. Truth connects the dots between a corporation under fire from the federal government and the decision about what kinds of stories a news network may cover. It draws a line from reporting in the trenches to the gutting of the great American tradition of a independent media and asks whether it's possible to break important stories on a powerful sitting president.
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