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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331329 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in IntelligenceAuthor: Trey Brown, James R. ClapperNarrator: Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 43 minutesRelease date: May 22, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.46 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 14Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation during the 2016 U.S. election campaign. In Facts and Fears, Clapper traces his career through the growing threat of cyberattacks, his relationships with presidents and Congress, and the truth about Russia's role in the presidential election. He describes, in the wake of Snowden and WikiLeaks, his efforts to make intelligence more transparent and to push back against the suspicion that Americans' private lives are subject to surveillance. Finally, it was living through Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and seeing how the foundations of American democracy were--and continue to be--undermined by a foreign power that led him to break with his instincts honed through more than five decades in the intelligence profession to share his inside experience. Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting themselves into policy decisions? Facts and Fears offers a privileged look inside the U.S. intelligence community and, with the frankness and professionalism for which James Clapper is known, addresses some of the most difficult challenges in our nation's history.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329755 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America's Astonishing Gilded Age DisasterAuthor: Al RokerNarrator: Mirron WillisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 28 minutesRelease date: May 22, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Floodâthe deadliest flood in US historyâfrom New York Times bestselling author, NBC Host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker. May 1889: After a deluge of rainfallânearly a foot in less than twenty-four hoursâswelled the Little Conemaugh River, panicked engineers watched helplessly as swiftly rising waters threatened to breach the South Fork Dam in central Pennsylvania. Though they telegraphed neighboring towns on this last morning in May, warning of the impending danger, residents, used to false alarms, remained in their homes. At 3:10 P.M., the dam gave way, releasing twenty million tons of water. Gathering speed as it flowed southwest, the deluge wiped out entire towns in its path and picked up debrisâtrees, houses, animalsâbefore reaching Johnstown, fourteen miles downstream. Traveling forty miles an hour, with swells as high as sixty feet, the deadly floodwaters razed the mill townâhome to 20,000 peopleâin minutes. The Great Flood, as it would come to be called, remains the deadliest in US history, killing more than 2,200 people and causing seventeen million dollars in damage. Al Roker tells the riveting story of this tragedy, which remains one of the worst weather-related disasters in American history. Ruthless Tide follows a compelling cast of characters whose fates converged because of that tragic day, including John Parke, the engineer whose heroic efforts failed to save the dam; Henry Clay Frick, the robber baron whose fancy sport fishing resort was responsible for modifications that weakened the structure; and Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, who spent five months in Johnstown leading one of the first organized disaster relief efforts. Weaving together their stories and those of many ordinary citizens whose lives were forever altered by the event, Roker creates a classic account of our natural world at its most terrifying.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329969 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet EmpireSeries: Part of Three Days SeriesAuthor: Catherine Whitney, Bret BaierNarrator: Bret BaierFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 37 minutesRelease date: May 15, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. 'An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.â â Jay Winik Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for freedom and confronted the Soviet empire. In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new history, Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of Americaâs long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reaganâs central role in shaping the world we live in today. On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkableâyet now largely forgottenâspeech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as âa grand historical momentâ: an opportunity to light a path for the Soviet peopleâtoward freedom, human rights, and a future he told them they could embrace if they chose. It was the first time an American president had given an address about human rights on Russian soil. Reagan had once called the Soviet Union an âevil empire.â Now, saying that depiction was from âanother time,â he beckoned the Soviets to join him in a new vision of the future. The importance of Reaganâs Moscow speech was largely overlooked at the time, but the new world he spoke of was fast approaching; the following year, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, leaving the United States the sole superpower on the world stage. Today, the end of the Cold War is perhaps the defining historical moment of the past half century, and must be understood if we are to make sense of Americaâs current place in the world, amid the re-emergence of US-Russian tensions during Vladimir Putinâs tenure. Using Reaganâs three days in Moscow to tell the larger story of the presidentâs critical and often misunderstood role in orchestrating a successful, peaceful ending to the Cold War, Baier illuminates the character of one of our nationâs most venerated leadersâand reveals the unique qualities that allowed him to succeed in forming an alliance for peace with the Soviet Union, when his predecessors had fallen short.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331770 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of AmericaAuthor: Deborah Fallows, James FallowsNarrator: James Fallows, Deborah FallowsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 42 minutesRelease date: May 8, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: ***NATIONAL BEST SELLER*** A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign. The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problemsâfrom economic dislocation to the opioid scourgeâbut itis also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journeyâand an account of a country busy remaking itself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329957 to listen full audiobooks.Title: West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony ExpressAuthor: Jim DeFeliceNarrator: John PrudenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 49 minutesRelease date: May 8, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The thrilling narrative history of one of the most enduring icons of the American West, the Pony Express, from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniperâan exciting tale of daring young men pushing limits to the extremes across the vast, rugged, and unsettled American West. In the spring of 1860 on the eve of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, two Americans conceived of an audacious plan for linking the nationâs two coasts, thereby joining its present with its future. All that stood in the way was a 1,900 miles of uninhabited desert, ice-capped mountains, oceanic plains roamed by hostile Indian tribes, whitewater-choked rivers, and rugged, unsettled frontier wilderness where civilized'' men where outnumbered a million to one by grizzlies, mountain lions, wolves, bison, rattlesnakes, and more. Many deemed their revolutionary scheme impossible. Run by the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, the Pony Express as it came to be known, would use a relay system of daring horseback riders to ferry mail and small packages halfway across a continent in just ten days. The challenges they faced were enormous, yet the Pony Express succeeded, delivering tens of thousands of letters at record speed. The service would quickly become the most direct means of communication between the Eastern United States and its Western territories, helping to firmly connect them to the Union. West Like Lightning traces the development of the Pony Express and follows it from its start in St. Joseph, Missouriâthe edge of the civilized world in the mid-nineteenth centuryâ1,500 miles west to Sacramento. Jim DeFeliceâwho traveled the Expressâs route in his researchâplumbs the legends, myths, and true facts of the service, viewing it within the context of the American story and exploring its lasting relevance today. Though the Pony Express was eclipsed by the telegraph in less than two years, it remains today an enduring symbol of American values: rugged individualism, perseverance, and speed.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329743 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest LevelAuthor: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. MnookinNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 57 minutesRelease date: May 8, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Foreword by Henry Kissinger In this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords for which he won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. Political leaders, diplomats, and business executives around the worldâincluding every President from John F. Kennedy to Donald J. Trumpâhave sought the counsel of Henry Kissinger, a brilliant diplomat and political scientist whose unprecedented achievements as a negotiator have been universally acknowledged. Now, Kissinger the Negotiator provides a groundbreaking analysis of Kissingerâs overall approach to making deals and his skill in resolving conflictsâexpertise that holds powerful and enduring lessons. Based on in-depth interviews with Kissinger himself about some of his most difficult negotiations and an extensive study of his writings, James K. Sebenius of Harvard Business School, R. Nicholas Burns of the Kennedy School of Government, and Robert H. Mnookin of Harvard Law School crystallize the key elements of the former Secretary of Stateâs approach. Taut and instructive, Kissinger the Negotiator mines the long and fruitful career of this elder statesman and shows how his strategies not only apply to contemporary diplomatic challenges but also to other realms of negotiation, including business, public policy, and law. Essential reading for current and future leaders, Kissinger the Negotiator is an invaluable guide to reaching agreements.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331785 to listen full audiobooks.Title: An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and SlaveryAuthor: Rachel MayNarrator: Carrington MacDuffieFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 41 minutesRelease date: May 1, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: When we think of slavery, most of us think of the American South. We think of back-breaking fieldwork on plantations. We donât think of slavery in the North, nor do we think of the grueling labor of urban and domestic slaves. Rachel Mayâs rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum eraâall through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830s-era fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words âshuger,â ârum,â âcasks,â and âWest Indies,â repeated over and over, along with âfriendship,â âkindness,â âgovernment,â and âincident.â The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Jubaâthe enslaved women behind the quiltâand their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329944 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding FatherAuthor: Peter StarkNarrator: Malcolm HillgartnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 32 minutesRelease date: May 1, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naive and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian Warâa conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution. With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader. Enduring terrifying summer storms and subzero winters imparted resilience and self-reliance, helping prepare him for what he would one day face at Valley Forge. Leading the Virginia troops into battle taught him to set aside his own relentless ambitions and stand in solidarity with those who looked to him for leadership. Negotiating military strategy with British and colonial allies honed his diplomatic skills. And thwarted in his obsessive, youthful love for one woman, he grew to cultivate deeper, enduring relationships. By weaving together Washingtonâs harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331088 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He MadeAuthor: Patricia O'TooleNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 23 hours 12 minutesRelease date: April 24, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Patricia OâTooleâs âsuperbâ (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A âgrippingâ (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is âan essential contribution to presidential historyâ (Booklist, starred review). âIn graceful prose and deep scholarship, Patricia OâToole casts new light on the presidency of Woodrow Wilsonâ (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). The Moralist shows how Wilson was a progressive who enjoyed unprecedented success in leveling the economic playing field, but he was behind the times on racial equality and womenâs suffrage. As a Southern boy during the Civil War, he knew the ravages of war, and as president he refused to lead the country into World War I until he was convinced that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States. Once committed, he was an admirable commander-in-chief, yet he also presided over the harshest suppression of political dissent in American history. After the war Wilson became the worldâs most ardent champion of liberal internationalismâa democratic new world order committed to peace, collective security, and free trade. With Wilsonâs leadership, the governments at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 founded the League of Nations, a federation of the worldâs democracies. The creation of the League, Wilsonâs last great triumph, was quickly followed by two crushing blows: a paralyzing stroke and the rejection of the treaty that would have allowed the United States to join the League. Ultimately, Wilsonâs liberal internationalism was revived by Franklin D. Roosevelt and it has shaped American foreign relationsâfor better and worseâever since. A cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American overreach in foreign affairs, The Moralist âdoes full justice to Wilsonâs complexitiesâ (The Wall Street Journal).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330723 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and FoundAuthor: Gilbert KingNarrator: Kimberly FarrFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 48 minutesRelease date: April 24, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST 'Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read.' --Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home while her husband is away. She claims a 'husky Negro' did it, and the sheriff, the infamous racist Willis McCall, does not hesitate to round up a herd of suspects. But within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a gentle, mentally impaired white nineteen-year-old. Soon Jesse is railroaded up to the state hospital for the insane, and locked away without trial. But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies. Bit by bit, the unspeakable truths behind a conspiracy that shocked a community into silence begin to surface. Beneath a Ruthless Sun tells a powerful, page-turning story rooted in the fears that rippled through the South as integration began to take hold, sparking a surge of virulent racism that savaged the vulnerable, debased the powerful, and roils our own times still.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330218 to listen full audiobooks.Title: God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star StateAuthor: Lawrence WrightNarrator: Lawrence WrightFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 1 minuteRelease date: April 17, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST âą The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Towerâand a Texas nativeâtakes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. âą âBeautifully writtenâŠ. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.â âNPR The inspiration for the HBO Original documentary trilogy God Save Texas streaming on Max Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may becomeâand shows how the battle for Texasâs soul encompasses us all.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331341 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The China Mission: George Marshallâs Unfinished War, 1945â1947Author: Daniel Kurtz-PhelanNarrator: Malcolm HillgartnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 0 minutesRelease date: April 10, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politicsâand a rich portrait of the towering, complex figure who carried it out. As World War II came to an end, General George Marshall was renowned as the architect of Allied victory. Set to retire, he instead accepted what he thought was a final missionâthis time not to win a war, but to stop one. Across the Pacific, conflict between Chinese Nationalists and Communists threatened to suck in the United States and escalate into revolution. His assignment was to broker a peace, build a Chinese democracy, and prevent a Communist takeover, all while staving off World War III. In his thirteen months in China, Marshall journeyed across battle-scarred landscapes, grappled with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and plotted and argued with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his brilliant wife, often over card games or cocktails. The results at first seemed miraculous. But as they started to come apart, Marshall was faced with a wrenching choice. Its consequences would define the rest of his career, as the secretary of state who launched the Marshall Plan and set the standard for American leadership, and the shape of the Cold War and the US-China relationship for decades to come. It would also help spark one of the darkest turns in American civic life, as Marshall and the mission became a first prominent target of McCarthyism, and the question of âwho lost Chinaâ roiled American politics. The China Mission traces this neglected turning point and forgotten interlude in a heroic careerâa story of not just diplomatic wrangling and guerrilla warfare, but also intricate spycraft and charismatic personalities. Drawing on eyewitness accounts both personal and official, it offers a richly detailed, gripping, close-up, and often surprising view of the central figures of the timeâfrom Marshall, Mao, and Chiang to Eisenhower, Truman, and MacArthurâas they stood face-to-face and struggled to make history, with consequences and lessons that echo today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331114 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of EuropeAuthor: Rebecca ErbeldingNarrator: Hillary HuberFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 48 minutesRelease date: April 10, 2018Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Featured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS âą WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD âą In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding pieces together years of research and newly uncovered archival materials to tell the dramatic story of Americaâs little-known efforts to save the Jews of Europe. âAn invaluable addition to the literature of the Holocaust.â âAndrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters and Hitlerland âBrilliantly brings to life the gripping, little-known story of [a] transformative moment in American history and the crusading young government lawyers who made it happen.â âLynne Olson, New York Times bestselling author of Last Hope Island For more than a decade, a harsh Congressional immigration policy kept most Jewish refugees out of America, even as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. In 1944, the United States finally acted. That year, Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board, and put a young Treasury lawyer named John Pehle in charge. Over the next twenty months, Pehle pulled together a team of D.C. pencil pushers, international relief workers, smugglers, diplomats, millionaires, and rabble-rousers to run operations across four continents and a dozen countries. Together, they tricked the Nazis, forged identity papers, maneuvered food and medicine into concentration camps, recruited spies, leaked news stories, laundered money, negotiated ransoms, and funneled millions of dollars into Europe. They bought weapons for the French Resistance and sliced red tape to allow Jewish refugees to escape to Palestine. âA landmark achievement, Rescue Board is the first history of the War Refugee Board. Meticulously researched and poignantly narrated, Rescue Board analyzes policies and practices while never losing sight of the human beings involved: the officials who sought to help and the victims in desperate need. Top-notch history: original and riveting.â âDebĂłrah Dwork, founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, and coauthor of Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933â1946
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330911 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Bill of Rights: A User's GuideAuthor: Linda R. MonkNarrator: Susan LarkinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 30 minutesRelease date: April 10, 2018Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam War established free speech rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for privacy after police entered his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who opposed the city's takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-year trademark battle for his band 'The Slants' ended in a unanimous Supreme Court victory. Such people prove that, in the words of Judge Learned Hand, 'Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it.' Exploring the history, scope, and meaning of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide is a powerful examination of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330220 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee NationAuthor: John SedgwickNarrator: Fred SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 19 minutesRelease date: April 10, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth centuryâa ârivetingâŠengrossingâŠâAmerican Epicââ (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. âA vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men without oversimplifyingâ (Kirkus Reviews), Blood Moon is the story of the feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. Their enmity would lead to war, forced removal from their homeland, and the devastation of a once-proud nation. One of the men, known as The Ridgeâshort for He Who Walks on Mountaintopsâis a fearsome warrior who speaks no English, but whose exploits on the battlefield are legendary. The other, John Ross, is descended from Scottish traders and looks like one: a pale, unimposing half-pint who wears modern clothes and speaks not a word of Cherokee. At first, the two men are friends and allies who negotiate with almost every American president from George Washington through Abraham Lincoln. But as the threat to their land and their people grows more dire, they break with each other on the subject of removal. In Blood Moon, John Sedgwick restores the Cherokee to their rightful place in American history in a dramatic saga that informs much of the countryâs mythic past today. Fueled by meticulous research in contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accountsâand Sedgwickâs own extensive travels within Cherokee lands from the Southeast to Oklahomaâit is âa wild ride of a bookâfascinating, chilling, and enlighteningâthat explains the removal of the Cherokee as one of the central dramas of our countryâ (Ian Frazier). Populated with heroes and scoundrels of all varieties, this is a richly evocative portrait of the Cherokee that is destined to become the defining book on this extraordinary people.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331431 to listen full audiobooks.Title: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los AngelesAuthor: Mike DavisNarrator: Tim CampbellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 41 minutesRelease date: April 3, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, 'Los Angeles brings it all together.' To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where 'you can rot without feeling it.' To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westâa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330197 to listen full audiobooks.Title: John F. Kennedy PresidencySeries: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech SeriesAuthor: The Speech Resource CompanyNarrator: The Speech Resource CompanyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 22 minutesRelease date: April 3, 2018Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: JFK was the youngest man to ever become president of the United States. He took office during mounting Cold War tensions and escalating military activity in Vietnam. Included are speeches on the growing civil rights unrest, the Cuban missile crisis, his attempts to renew a drive for public service, and more. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom Announcing candidacy for president, 1/2/60Nomination acceptance speech, 7/15/60Campaign speech to Houston Ministerial Association, 9/12/60First television debate with Richard Nixon, 9/26/60Remarks at Al Smith Dinner, 10/19/60Campaign speech in Libertyville, IL, 10/25/60Election Eve, 11/7/60Inauguration speech, 1/20/61State of the Union address, 1/30/61Alliance for Progress speech, 3/13/61Speech to newspaper editors on âBay of Pigs,â 4/20/61Address to Newspaper Publishers Association âSecret Society,â 4/27/61Crisis in Berlin, 7/25/61Speech to the United Nations, 9/25/61Health Care legislation, âMedicare,â 5/20/62Graduation ceremony at West Point, 6/6/62Rice University, âSpace Race,â 9/12/62Cuban missile crisis, 10/22/62Economic Club of New York, âTax Cuts,â 12/14/62American University, âNuclear Arms Reduction,â 6/10/63Sending National Guard troops to Alabama, 6/11/63Speech to West Berliners âIch Bin Ein Berliner,â 6/26/63Test Ban Treaty, 7/26/63Speech to UN General Assembly, 9/20/63Political rally address in Ft. Worth, TX, 11/22/63Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce âLast Speech,â 11/22/63JFK eulogy given by US Chief Justice Earl Warren, 11/24/63
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328671 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy ReaganAuthor: Sheila TateNarrator: Kimberly FarrFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 15 minutesRelease date: April 3, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories of one of the most influential First Ladies in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the audiobook provides a rare and much-anticipated look into the personal life of the president's wife, from her daily routines and travels as First Lady to her friendships and deep influence in the Reagan White House. Lady in Red depicts a nuanced portrait of this graceful yet strong woman who felt it was her mission to restore a sense of grandeur, mystique, and excitement to the presidency, showcasing the various roles that Mrs. Reagan played during her years in the White House, that of Wife, Mother, Protector, Host, Diplomat, and Advisor, among others. To complete the portrait, Lady in Red includes interviews with the friends and politicians who knew Mrs. Reagan best: President George H. W. Bush, Chris Wallace, James Baker, Ed Meese, Maureen Dowd, and Marlin Fitzwater share their most cherished memories of the First Lady.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328869 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey MantleAuthor: Johnny Smith, Randy RobertsNarrator: Pete LarkinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 30 minutesRelease date: March 27, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland. In A Season in the Sun, acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith recount the defining moment of Mantle's legendary career: 1956, when he overcame a host of injuries and critics to become the most celebrated athlete of his time. Taking us from the action on the diamond to Mantle's off-the-field exploits, Roberts and Smith depict Mantle not as an ideal role model or a bitter alcoholic, but a complex man whose faults were smoothed over by sportswriters eager to keep the truth about sports heroes at bay. An incisive portrait of an American icon, A Season in the Sun is an essential work for baseball fans and anyone interested in the 1950s.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330129 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The TexansAuthor: T. R. FehrenbachNarrator: John McLainFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 39 hours 22 minutesRelease date: March 20, 2018Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans 'have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds.'
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