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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413167 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American PoliticsAuthor: Joshua GreenNarrator: Philip HernandezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 33 minutesRelease date: January 9, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: âOne of the best and most readable overviews of the Democratsâ evolution on economic issues over the past half-century.â â The Wall Street Journal âFast-paced, sober, yet hopeful . . . Green is a first-rate journalist.â â The Atlantic One of Politicoâs 10 books weâre looking forward to in 2024 From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devilâs Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In his classic book Devilâs Bargain, Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel. In The Rebels, he gives an epic account of the long struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who have led the charge most prominently. Based on remarkable inside sourcing and razor-sharp analysis, The Rebels uses the grand narrative of a political party undergoing tumult and transformation to tell an even larger story about the fate of America. For many years, as Green recounts, the Democrats made their bed with Wall Street and big tech, relying on corporate money for electioneering and embracing the worldview that technological and financial innovation and globalization were a powerful net good, a rising tide lifting all boats. Yes, there were howls of pain, but they were written off by most of the elites as the moaning of sore losers mired in the past. There were always some Democratic politicians representing the old labor base who resisted the new dispensation, but these figures never made it very far on a national level. For one thing, they didnât have the money. But as income inequality ballooned, widening the gulf between the wealthy elite and everyone else, pressures began to build. With the 2008 crisis, those forces finally erupted into plain sight, turning this bookâs protagonists into national icons. At its heart, The Rebels tells the riveting human story of the rise and fight of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the financial crisis on, as outrage over the unfairness of the American system formed a flood tide of political revolution. That same tide that would sweep Trump into office was blunted on the left, as the Democratic party found itself riven by culture war issues between its centrists and its progressives. But the winds behind economic populism still howl at gale force. Whether the Democrats can bridge their divisions and home in on a vision that unites the party, and perhaps even the country, in the face of the most violently deranged political landscape since the Civil War will be the ultimate test of the legacies of all three characters. A masterful account of one of the defining political stories of our age, The Rebels cements Joshua Greenâs stature at the first rank of American writers explaining how weâve arrived at this pass and what lies ahead.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396856 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex MarriageAuthor: Sasha IssenbergNarrator: Graham HalsteadFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 33 hours 47 minutesRelease date: June 1, 2021Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR âą The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United Statesâthe most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium 'Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.â âJohn Williams, The New York Times On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriageâs unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over Californiaâs Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405133 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy SEALAuthor: Scott McEwenNarrator: Kiff VandenheuvelFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 40 minutesRelease date: May 18, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Follow America's elite warriors through the military's most grueling training and learn how they survive real special operations. â Of the 18 months required to become a Navy SEAL, one week will cause over half of the trainees to quit ("ring the bell"). Only the toughest make it through. In Hell Week and Beyond, Scott McEwen takes the readers to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy SEALs are put through the most grueling training known to mankind. Grit, commitment, heart, and soul are needed to become a SEAL, because these are the elite forces who go into the toughest battles for America. Many of the most well-known SEAL warriors have been interviewed for this book, providing the stories of what got them through and the humor of those that made it. (Those that make it almost always have one thing in common: humor. Find out why!) Part Top Gun, part Bull Durham, this book delivers that goods for those in the know, as well as general readers who admire the elite forces for all they do.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391264 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American WestAuthor: Lauren RednissNarrator: Crystle Lightning, Kimberly Guerrero, Lauren Redniss, Tanis Parenteau, Elizabeth Liang, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, Jon Lindstrom, A. Martinez, Ann Marie Lee, John H. Mayer, Hillary Huber, Various, Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 15 minutesRelease date: November 17, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur âGeniusâ and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning. Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby. A decade later, a law was passed transferring the area to a private company, whose planned copper mine will wipe Oak Flat off the mapâsending its natural springs, petroglyph-covered rocks, and old-growth trees tumbling into a void. Rednissâs deep reporting anchors this mesmerizing human narrative. Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the worldâs largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood. The still-unresolved Oak Flat conflict is ripped from todayâs headlines, but its story resonates with foundational American themes: the saga of westward expansion, the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, and the efforts of profiteers to control the land and unearth treasure beneath it while the lives of individuals hang in the balance. This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains a selection of original illustrations by the author, which appear in the print book. Read by: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kimberly Farr, Kyla Garcia, Kimberly Guerrero, Hillary Huber, Ami Korn, A. Martinez, Ann Marie Lee, Elizabeth Liang, Crystle Lightning, Jon Lindstrom, John H. Mayer, Arthur Morey, and Tanis Parenteau
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386489 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It AgainAuthor: Robert D. PutnamNarrator: Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 54 minutesRelease date: October 13, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a âsweeping yet remarkably accessibleâ (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that âoffers superb, often counterintuitive insightsâ (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic âIâ society to a more communitarian âWeâ society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger more unified nation. Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissismâAmericans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But weâve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America becameâslowly, unevenly, but steadilyâmore egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in todayâs disarray. In a âmagnificent and visionary bookâ (The New Republic) drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an âIâ society to a âWeâ society and then back again. He draws on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. This is Putnamâs most âremarkableâ (Science) work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393950 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker IIIAuthor: Susan Glasser, Peter BakerNarrator: Michael QuinlanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 26 hours 35 minutesRelease date: September 29, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 8Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations. A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford's campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W. Bush in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan's White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. He negotiated with Democrats at home and Soviets abroad, rewrote the tax code, assembled the coalition that won the Gulf War, brokered the reunification of Germany and helped bring a decades-long nuclear superpower standoff to an end. Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. This masterly biography by two brilliant observers of the American political scene is destined to become a classic. Jacket photograph: James Addison Baker, III by Michael Arthur Worden Evans, c. 1984. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Portrait Project, Inc.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408968 to listen full audiobooks.Title: White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a BusinessAuthor: Dan AlexanderNarrator: Noah Michael LevineFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 32 minutesRelease date: September 22, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: An in-depth investigation into Donald Trumpâs businessâand how he used Americaâs top job to service it. White House, Inc. is a newsmaking exposĂ© that details President Trumpâs efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions. Alexander tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign. Just because you turn the presidency into a business doesnât necessarily mean you turn it into a good business. After Trump won the White House, profits plunged at certain properties, like the Doral golf resort in Miami. But the presidency also opened up new opportunities. Trumpâs commercial and residential property portfolio morphed into a one-of-a-kind marketplace, through which anyone, anywhere, could pay the president of the United States. Hundreds of customersâincluding foreign governments, big businesses, and individual investorsâobliged. The president's disregard for norms sparked a trickle-down ethics crisis with no precedent in modern American history. Trump appointed an inner circle of centimillionaires and billionairesâincluding Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Wilbur Ross, and Carl Icahnâwho came with their own conflict-ridden portfolios. Following the presidentâs lead, they trampled barriers meant to separate their financial holdings from their government roles. White House, Inc. is a page-turning, hair-raising investigation into Trump and his team, who corrupted the U.S. presidency and managed to avoid accountability. Until now. *This audiobook contains a PDF with additional financial data.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413182 to listen full audiobooks.Title: JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956Author: Fredrik LogevallNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 29 hours 27 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR âą A Pulitzer Prizeâwinning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. âAn utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.ââJill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE âą NAMED BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR BY The Times (London) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Sunday Times (London), New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, Kirkus Reviews By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Bostonâs wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history. And while hagiographic portrayals of his dazzling charisma, reports of his extramarital affairs, and disagreements over his political legacy have come and gone in the decades since his untimely death, these accounts all fail to capture the full person. Beckoned by this gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent much of the last decade searching for the ârealâ JFK. The result of this prodigious effort is a sweeping two-volume biography that properly contextualizes Kennedy amidst the roiling American Century. This volume spans the first thirty-nine years of JFKâs lifeâfrom birth through his decision to run for presidentâto reveal his early relationships, his formative experiences during World War II, his ideas, his writings, his political aspirations. In examining these preâWhite House years, Logevall shows us a more serious, independently minded Kennedy than weâve previously known, whose distinct international sensibility would prepare him to enter national politics at a critical moment in modern U.S. history. Along the way, Logevall tells the parallel story of Americaâs midcentury rise. As Kennedy comes of age, we see the charged debate between isolationists and interventionists in the years before Pearl Harbor; the tumult of the Second World War, through which the United States emerged as a global colossus; the outbreak and spread of the Cold War; the domestic politics of anti-Communism and the attendant scourge of McCarthyism; the growth of televisionâs influence on politics; and more. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917â1956 is a sweeping history of the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century, as well as the clearest portrait we have of this enigmatic American icon.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410844 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in AmericaSeries: Part of Bill O'Reilly's Killing SeriesAuthor: Bill O'Reilly, Martin DugardNarrator: Robert Petkoff, Bill O'ReillyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 27 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.99 of Total 256 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 30Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: This program includes a prologue read by Bill O'Reilly The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. Itâs 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumsehâs alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. In Killing Crazy Horse bestselling authors Bill OâReilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our countryâs founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jacksonâs brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroeâs epic âsea to shining seaâ policy, to President Martin Van Burenâs cruel enforcement of a âtreatyâ that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the Trail of Tears. OâReilly and Dugard take listeners behind the legends to reveal never-before-told historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America. This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock listeners and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398383 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World WarAuthor: Tim CookNarrator: J.D. NicholsenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 26 minutesRelease date: September 8, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in societyâmore so than in the previous warâas well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance. By the end of the 20th century, Canada's experiences in the war were largely framed as a series of disasters. Canadians seemed to want to talk only of the defeats at Hong Kong and Dieppe or the racially driven policy of the forced relocation of Japanese-Canadians. In the history books and media, there was little discussion of Canada's crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the success of its armies in Italy and other parts of Europe, or the massive contribution of war materials made on the home front. No other victorious nation underwent this bizarre reframing of the war, remaking victories into defeats. The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/411685 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand AmericaAuthor: David GiffelsNarrator: David GiffelsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 29 minutesRelease date: August 25, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, in light of its national significance as the state that has aligned with presidential election winners more than any other -- from an award-winning author and essayist dubbed 'the Bard of Akron' (New York Times). The question of America's identity has rarely been more urgent than now, and no American place has ever been more reflective of that identity than Ohio. David Giffels, a lifelong resident of the 'bellwether' state, has spent a quarter century writing and thinking about what it means to live in what he calls 'an all-American buffet, an uncannily complete everyplace.' With Cleveland as the end of the North, Cincinnati as the beginning of the South, Youngstown as the end of the East, and Hicksville (yes, Hicksville) as the beginning of the Midwest, Ohio offers important insight into the state of the nation. As a historic 2020 presidential election approaches, Barnstorming Ohio is Giffels' account of a year on Ohio's roads, visiting people and places that offer valuable reflections of the national questions and concerns, as well as astounding electoral clairvoyance -- since 1896, Ohio has accurately chosen the winner in twenty-nine of thirty-one presidential elections, more than any other state. With lyricism and a native's keen eye, Barnstorming Ohio takes readers into the living room of a man whose life was upended just shy of retirement by General Motors' shutdown of its Lordstown assembly plant. It offers an exclusive view into the presidential campaign of Ohio Democratic hopeful Tim Ryan. It takes us into the sodden soybean fields of farmers struggling to outlast the dual punch of a protracted trade war and historic rainfall, and to an indie rock music festival in Dayton a week after a mass shooting there. We enter the otherworld of long-dormant shopping malls as Amazon transforms them into vast new fulfillment centers. On the lighter side, Giffels makes a 'beer run' into Ohio's booming craft brewing industry and revisits the legend (and the bird-nest toupee) of Jim Traficant, a larger-than-life Ohio politician whom many have called the 'proto-Trump.' In a year when Americans are seeking answers, Barnstorming Ohio offers rare and carefully nuanced access to the people who have always held them.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405371 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect UnionAuthor: Richard KreitnerNarrator: Adam VernerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 42 minutesRelease date: August 18, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a 'powerful revisionist account'of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the nineteenth century. With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town's petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil. From the 'cold civil war' that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403843 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated SouthAuthor: Chip JonesNarrator: Jd JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 41 minutesRelease date: August 18, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this âstartlingâŠpowerfulâ (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginiaâs top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prizeânominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tuckerâs death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his familyâs permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, âthis powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injusticeâ (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386393 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980Author: Rick PerlsteinNarrator: Samantha Desz, Jacques Roy, Jonathan Todd Ross, Gabra ZackmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 45 hours 19 minutesRelease date: August 18, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the sagaâs final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Fordâs defeat, too old to make another run. His comeback was fueled by an extraordinary confluence: fundamentalist preachers and former segregationists reinventing themselves as militant crusaders against gay rights and feminism; business executives uniting against regulation in an era of economic decline; a cadre of secretive âNew Rightâ organizers deploying state-of-the-art technology, bending political norms to the breaking pointâand Reaganâs own unbending optimism, his ability to convey unshakable confidence in America as the worldâs âshining city on a hill.â Meanwhile, a civil war broke out in the Democratic party. When President Jimmy Carter called Americans to a new ethic of austerity, Senator Ted Kennedy reacted with horror, challenging him for reelection. Carterâs Oval Office tenure was further imperiled by the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, near-catastrophe at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant, aviation accidents, serial killers on the loose, and endless gas lines. Backed by a reenergized conservative Republican base, Reagan ran on the campaign slogan âMake America Great Againââand prevailed. Reaganland is the story of how that happened, tracing conservativesâ cutthroat strategies to gain power and explaining why they endure four decades later.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408884 to listen full audiobooks.Title: How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest DecisionsAuthor: Susan EisenhowerNarrator: Susan Eisenhower, Bernadette DunneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 40 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: 'The work is clear-eyed but naturally imbued with a granddaughter's affection. Narrator Bernadette Dunne's amiable manner is a good match for the author's tone, objective but tinged with warmth...Dunne manages to go beyond the plain sense of the text to give us the author as an intelligent, sensible, well-spoken person who is examining an important life in a way that informs, pleases, and serves as a lesson for the present day.' -- AudioFile Magazine This program includes an audiobook exclusive introduction written and read by Susan Eisenhower and a newly remastered version of President Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address. How Dwight D. Eisenhower led America through a transformational timeâby a DC policy strategist, security expert and his granddaughter. Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, he was able to give our country eight years of peace and prosperity by relying on a core set of principles. These were informed by his heritage and upbringing, his strong character and his personal discipline, but he also avoided making himself the center of things. He tried to be the calmest man in the room, not the loudest. So instead of seeking to fulfill his personal desires and political needs, he pursued a course he called the 'Middle Way' that tried to make winners on both sides of a situation. In addition, Ike maintained a big picture view on any situation; he was a strategic, not an operational leader. He also ensured that he had all the information he needed to make a decision. His talent for envisioning a whole, especially in the context of the long game, and his ability to see causes and various consequences, explains his success as Allied Commander President. Then, after making a decision, he made himself accountable for it, prizing responsibility most of all his principles. Susan Eisenhower's How Ike Led shows us not just what a great American did, but whyâand what we can learn from him today. A Macmillan Audio production from Thomas Dunne Books '[Susan Eisenhower] lays bare the essence of her grandfatherâs leadership in war and peaceâhis singular devotion to the unity and security of the American people and the nationâs allies.â -- Wall Street Journal
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405434 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is WorseAuthor: Eric AltermanNarrator: Sean Patrick HopkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 29 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and why Trump's lies are especially dangerous. If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief, showing that, from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on the basis of presidential lies. He also reveals the cumulative effect of this deception-each lie a president tells makes it more acceptable for subsequent presidents to lie-and the media's complicity in spreading misinformation. Donald Trump, then, represents not an aberration but the culmination of an age-old trend. Full of vivid historical examples and trenchant analysis, Lying in State is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived in this age of alternative facts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/394081 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern CriminologyAuthor: A. Brad Schwartz, Max Allan CollinsNarrator: Malcolm HillgartnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 49 minutesRelease date: August 4, 2020Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final caseâhis years-long hunt for ''The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,'' a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression, and tormented Ness to his dying breath. ''A careening read thatâs full of surprises. ... Collins and Schwartz deliver a nimble, taut tale. More importantly, they offer a portrait of a complex crime fighter who believed in science and reason at a time when most officers smacked suspects around with a blackjack, a portrait set against a backdrop of ethnic and class collisions, labor unrest, and political intrigue. Catnip for true-crime buffs.'' âKirkus Reviews In 1934, the nationâs most legendary crime-fighterâfresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American historyâarrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world's fair. It was to be his coronation, as well as the city's. Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies started turning up. The young detective, already battling the mob and crooked cops, found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace largely unknown to law enforcement: a serial murderer. Eliot Ness's greatest case had begun. Now, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartzâthe acclaimed writing team behind Scarface and the Untouchableâuncover this lost crime epic, delivering a gripping and unforgettable nonfiction account based on decades of groundbreaking research. Ness had risen to fame in 1931 for leading the âUntouchables,â which helped put Chicagoâs Al Capone behind bars. As Cleveland's public safety director, in charge of the police and fire departments, Ness offered a radical new vision for better law enforcement. Crime-ridden and devastated by the Depression, Cleveland was preparing for a star-turn itself: in 1936, it would host the ''Great Lakes Exposition,'' which would be visited by seven million people. Late in the summer of 1934, however, pieces of a womanâs body began washing up on the Lake Erie shoreâfirst her ribs, then part of her backbone, then the lower half of her torso. The body count soon grew to five, then ten, then more, all dismembered in gruesome ways. As Ness zeroed in on a suspectâa doctor tied to a prominent political family?powerful forces thwarted his quest for justice. In this battle between a flawed hero and a twisted monsterâby turns horror story, political drama, and detective thriller?Collins and Schwartz find an American tragedy, classic in structure, epic in scope.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393491 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her RootsAuthor: Morgan JerkinsNarrator: Morgan JerkinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 3 minutesRelease date: August 4, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldnât Put Down âOne of the smartest young writers of her generation.ââBook Riot From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoingâa writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as âa force to be reckoned withââcomes this powerful story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America. Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from their roots, their land, and their sense of identity, argues Morgan Jerkins. In this fascinating and deeply personal exploration, she recreates her ancestorsâ journeys across America, following the migratory routes they took from Georgia and South Carolina to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California. Following in their footsteps, Jerkins seeks to understand not only her own past, but the lineage of an entire group of people who have been displaced, disenfranchised, and disrespected throughout our history. Through interviews and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her familyâs oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the wayâthe tissue of black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history. Incisive and illuminating, Wandering in Strange Lands is a timely and enthralling look at Americaâs past and present, one familyâs legacy, and a young black womanâs life, filtered through her sharp and curious eyes.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/406951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American ChristianityAuthor: Robert P. JonesNarrator: Holter GrahamFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 4 minutesRelease date: July 28, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: âAn indispensible studyâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience that presents a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation. As the nation grapples with demographic changes and the legacy of racism in America, Christianityâs role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked. But white Christiansâfrom evangelicals in the South to mainline Protestants in the Midwest and Catholics in the Northeastâhave not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the dominant cultural power, they have constructed and sustained a project of protecting white supremacy and opposing black equality that has framed the entire American story. With his familyâs 1815 Bible in one hand and contemporary public opinion surveys by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in the other, Robert P. Jones delivers âa refreshing blend of historical accounting, soul searching reflection, and analysisâ (Publishers Weekly) of the repressed relationship between Christianity and white supremacy. White Too Long is âa marvelâ (Booklist, starred review) that demonstrates how deeply racist attitudes have become embedded in the DNA of white Christian identity over time and calls for an honest reckoning with a complicated, painful, and even shameful past. Jones challenges white Christians to acknowledge that public apologies are not enoughâaccepting responsibility for the past requires work toward repair in the present. White Too Long is not an appeal to altruism. It is âa powerful and much-needed bookâ (Eddie S. Glaude Jr, professor at Princeton University and author of Begin Again) drawing on lessons gleaned from case studies of communities beginning to face these challenges. Jones argues that contemporary white Christians must confront these unsettling truths because this is the only way to salvage the integrity of their faith and their own identities. More broadly, it is no exaggeration to say that not just the future of white Christianity, but the outcome of the American experiment is at stake.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405128 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the SouthAuthor: Matthew Van MeterNarrator: Brad SandersFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 36 minutesRelease date: July 28, 2020Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou 2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver). In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge." In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it.
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