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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703254 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Rightâs 50-Year Plot to Control American ElectionsAuthor: David DaleyNarrator: Kevin StillwellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 45 minutesRelease date: August 6, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: âChilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand American politics in 2024.â âHeather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening A riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to hijack voting rights in America, its profound implications for the 2024 presidential election, and the crucial role that Chief Justice John Roberts has played in determining how we vote. In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administrationâs Department of Justice, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislationâthe Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts. Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote Shelby County vs. Holder, one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Robertsâs decisionâdangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the pastâemboldened right-wing, antidemocratic voting laws around the country immediately. No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby. Now lauded investigative reporter David Daley reveals the urgent story of this fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their partyâs favor. From the bowels of Reaganâs DOJ to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot boxâan effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled fringe conservative theories about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy. Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705857 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth GapAuthor: Louise Story, Ebony ReedNarrator: Tovah OttFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 45 minutesRelease date: June 18, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in Americaâs financial system. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial gaps that remain between white and Black Americans. This deeply investigated book shows the scores of setbacks that have held the Black-white wealth gap in placeâfrom enslavement to redlining to banking discriminationâand, ultimately, the reversals that occurred in the mid-2020s as the push for racial equity became a polarized political debate. Fifteen Cents on the Dollar follows the lives of four Black Millennial professionals and a banking company founded with the stated mission of closing the Black-white wealth gap. That company, known as Greenwood, a reference to the historic Black Wall Street district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, generated immense excitement and hope among people looking for new ways of business that might lead to greater equity. But the twists and turns of Greenwoodâs journey also raise tough questions about what equality really means. Seasoned journalist-academics Louise Story and Ebony Reed present a nuanced portrait of Greenwoodâs foundersâthe entertainment executive Ryan Glover; the Grammy-winning rapper Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike; and the Civil Rights leader and two-term Atlanta mayor, Andrew Youngâalong with new revelations about their lives, careers, and families going back to the Civil War. Equally engaging are the stories of the lesser-known individualsâa female tech employee from rural North Carolina trying to make it in a big city; a rising leader at the NAACP whose father is in prison; an owner of a BBQ stand in Atlanta fighting to keep his home; and a Black man in a biracial marriage grappling with his roots when his father is shot by the police. In chronicling these staggering injustices, Fifteen Cents on the Dollar shows why so little progress has been made on the wealth gap and provides insights Americans should consider if they want lasting change. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707156 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary EditionSeries: Part of The Essential Speeches of Martin Luther KingAuthor: Martin Luther King Jr.Narrator: Bernice A. King, Martin Luther King Jr., Blair UnderwoodFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 0 minutesRelease date: June 4, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jrâs legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. Kingâs archives published exclusively by HarperCollins On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before thousands of Americans who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in the name of civil rights. Including the immortal words, âI have a dream,â Dr. Kingâs keynote speech would energize a movement and change the course of history. With references to the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Shakespeare, and the Bible, Dr. Kingâs March on Washington address has long been hailed as one of the greatest pieces of writing and oration in history. Profound and deeply moving, it is as relevant today as it was sixty years earlier. This edition presents Dr. Kingâs speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938 to listen full audiobooks.Title: WĂźnipĂȘk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous CentreAuthor: Niigaan SinclairNarrator: Niigaan SinclairFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 39 minutesRelease date: June 4, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER âą Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction âą Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press âą One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation. Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls 'ground zero' of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions for a country that has forgotten principles of treaty and inclusivity. It is here, in the place where Canada beganâwhere the land, water, people, and animals meetâ that a path 'from the centre' is happening for all to see. At a crucial and fragile moment in Canada's long history with Indigenous peoples, one of our most essential writers begins at the centre, capturing a web spanning centuries of community, art, and resistance. Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But we also meet the ugliest side of colonialism, the Indian Act, and the communities who suffer most from its atrocities. Sinclair uses the story of Winnipeg to illuminate the reality of Indigenous life all over what is called Canada. This is a book that demands change and celebrates those fighting for it, that reminds us of what must be reconciled and holds accountable those who must do the work. It's a book that reminds us of the power that comes from loving a place, even as that place is violently taken away from you, and the magic of fighting your way back to it.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten ExpeditionsAuthor: Amanda BellowsNarrator: Leon Nixon, Kirsten PotterFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 41 minutesRelease date: June 4, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinaryâand often overlookedâadventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. ''Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written.'' âDavid Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ''A considerable undertaking. ⊠[Bellows's] keen sense of story and her appreciation of her individual subjects tell us much that is new, and vividly.'' âWall Street Journal The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Booneâs autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole storyâfar from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown. Many escaped from lives circumscribed by racism, sexism, poverty, and discrimination as they took on great risk in unfamiliar territory. Born into slavery, James Beckwourth found freedom as a mountain man and became one of the great entrepreneurs of Gold Rush California. Matthew Henson, the son of African American sharecroppers, left rural Maryland behind to seek the North Pole. Women like Harriet Chalmers Adams ascended Peruvian mountains to gain geographic knowledge while Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride shattered glass ceilings by pushing the limits of flight. In The Explorers, readers will travel across the vast Great Plains and into the heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains; they will traverse the frozen Arctic Ocean and descend into the jungles of South America; they will journey by canoe and horseback, train and dogsled, airplane and space shuttle. Readers will experience the exhilarating history of American exploration alongside the men and women who shared a deep drive to discover the unknown. Across two centuries and many thousands of miles of terrain, Amanda Bellows offers an ode to our countryâs most intrepid adventurersâand reveals the history of America in the process.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707115 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War IIAuthor: Alex KershawNarrator: Rob ShapiroFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 49 minutesRelease date: May 21, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. Patton seethed, desperate for some change, any change, in the weather. A devout Christian, he telephoned his head chaplain. âDo you have a good prayer for the weather?â he asked. The resulting prayer was soon printed and distributed to the 250,000 men under Pattonâs command. âPray when driving,â the men were told. âPray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle. . . . Pray for victory. . . . Pray for Peace.â Then came the Battle of the Bulge. Amid frigid temperatures and heavy snow, 200,000 German troops overwhelmed the meager American lines in Belgiumâs Ardennes Forest, massacring thousands of soldiers as the attack converged on a vital crossroads town called Bastogne. There, the 101st Airborne was dug in, but the enemy were lurking, hidden in the thick blanket of fog that seemed to never dissipate. A hundred miles of frozen roads to the south, Patton needed an answer to his prayer, fast, before it was too late.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703168 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil WarAuthor: Erik LarsonNarrator: Will Patton, Erik LarsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 18 minutesRelease date: April 30, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 16Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this âriveting reexamination of a nation in tumultâ (Los Angeles Times). âA feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.ââThe Wall Street Journal A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincolnâs election and the Confederacyâs shelling of Sumterâa period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were âso great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.â At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumterâs commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitableâone that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brinkâa dark reminder that we often donât see a cataclysm coming until itâs too late.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702385 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking HistoryAuthor: Karen ValbyNarrator: Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Sheila Rohan, Khadija Tariyan Mckinney G., Marcia Lynn Sells, Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, January LaVoyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 12 minutesRelease date: April 30, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK âą The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from historyâuntil now. âThis is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!â âMisty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy âUtterly absorbing, flawlessly-researchedâŠVibrant, propulsive, and inspiring, The Swans of Harlem is a richly drawn portrait of five courageous women whose contributions have been silenced for too long!â âTia Williams, author of A Love Song for Ricki Wilde At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance companyâthe Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each otherâs chosen family. She was the first Black company ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star; she was cast in The Wiz and in a Bob Fosse production on Broadway. She performed in some of balletâs most iconic works with other trailblazing ballerinas, including the young women who became her closest friendsâfounding Dance Theatre of Harlem members Gayle McKinney-Griffith and Sheila Rohan, as well as first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells. These Swans of Harlem performed for the Queen of England, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder, on the same bill as Josephine Baker, at the White House, and beyond. But decades later there was almost no record of their groundbreaking history to be found. Out of a sisterhood that had grown even deeper with the years, these Swans joined forces againâto share their story with the world. Captivating, rich in vivid detail and character, and steeped in the glamour and grit of professional ballet, The Swans of Harlem is a riveting account of five extraordinarily accomplished women, a celebration of both their historic careers and the sustaining, grounding power of female friendship, and a window into the robust history of Black ballet, hidden for too long.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702383 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town DividedAuthor: Sean Patrick CooperNarrator: Sean Patrick CooperFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 38 minutesRelease date: April 30, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: âGripping . . . A potent account of the crime and its aftermath, placing its story of heartbreaking violence and injustice in a larger portrait of a rural American town.ââThe Wall Street Journal The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriffâs office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didnât commit. In a surprising, dramatic narrative that spans decades, Markâs family turns to Robert Ramsey, an attorney willing to take on a corrupt political machine suppressing the truth. But the communityâs way of life is irrevocably damaged by the parallel tragedies of the farming crisis and Cathyâs unsolved murder, in a gripping story about the fault-lines of a fracturing America that continue to cut across the farm belt today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703295 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of MiamiAuthor: Vince Houghton, Eric DriggsNarrator: Eric Driggs, Vince HoughtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 10 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami. Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703212 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the WorldAuthor: David L. RollNarrator: Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 5 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: **One of Foreign Affairs's Best Books of 2024** From Franklin Rooseveltâs final days through Harry Trumanâs extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history. When Roosevelt, in failing health, decided to run for a fourth term, he gave in to the big city Democratic bosses and reluctantly picked Senator Truman as his vice president, a man he barely knew. Upon FDRâs death in April 1945, Truman, after only 82 days as VP, was thrust into the presidency. Utterly unprepared, he faced the collapse of Germany, a Europe in ruins, the organization of the UN, a summit with Stalin and Churchill, and the question of whether atomic bombs would be ready for use against Japan. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was growing increasingly hostile towards US power. Truman inherited FDRâs hope that peace could be maintained through cooperation with the Soviets, but he would soon learn that imitating his predecessor would lead only to missteps and controversy. Spanning the years of transition, 1944 to 1948, Ascent to Power illuminates Trumanâs struggles to emerge as president in his own right. Yet, from a relatively unknown Missouri senator to the most powerful man on Earth, Trumanâs legacy transcends. With his come-from-behind campaign in the fall of 1948, his courageous civil rights advocacy, and his role in liberating millions from militarist governments and brutal occupations, Trumanâs decisions during these pivotal years changed the course of the world in ways so significant we live with them today.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702370 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About AnimalsAuthor: Monica Murphy, Bill WasikNarrator: Tanis ParenteauFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 46 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nationâs laws and norms, and by the centuryâs end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusettsâs animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nationâs earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movementâs crosshairs were transformational figures in their own right: animal impresarios such as P. T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nationâs rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated. In recounting this remarkable period of moral transitionâwhich, by the turn of the twentieth century, would give birth to the attitudes we hold toward animals todayâWasik and Murphy challenge us to consider the obligations we still have to all our kindred creatures. Cover painting: Peaceable Kingdom, 1834 (detail) by Edward Hicks. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697406 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to PeaceAuthor: Elizabeth NeumannNarrator: Erin BennettFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 38 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitolâand which threatens to destroy the American Church from within. How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of Peace - become a breeding ground for violent extremism? When Elizabeth Neumann began her anti-terrorism career as part of President George W. Bushâs Homeland Security Counsel in the wake of the September 11 attacks, she expected to spend her life protecting her country from the threat of global terrorism. But as her career evolved, she began to perceive that the greatest threat to American security came not from religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan or Iraq but from white nationalists and radicalized religious fundamentalists within the very institution that was closest to her heart â the American evangelical church. And she began to sound the alarm, raising her concerns to anyone in government who would listen, including testifying before Congress in February of 2020. At that time, Neumann warned that anti-Semitic and white supremacist terrorism was a transnational threat that was building to the doorstep of another major attack. Shortly after her testimony, she resigned from her role as Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in protest of what she believed was then-President Trumpâs failure of leadership and his stoking of the hatred, anger, and division from which she had dedicated her life to protecting her country. Her worst fears came true when she witnessed the attack on the capital on January 6, 2021. In Kingdom of Rage, Neumann explores the forces within American society that have encouraged the radicalization of white supremacist, anti-government and other far-right terrorists by co-opting Christian symbols and culture and perverting the faithâs teachings. While Neumann offers decades of insights into the role government policies can play to prevent further bloodshed, she believes real change must come from the within the Christian church. She shines a bright light on the responsibility of ordinary Americans â and particularly American Christians â to work within their families and their communities to counteract the narrative of victimization and marginalization within American evangelicalism. Her goal for this book is not only to sound a warning about one of the greatest threats to our security but to rescue the Church from the forces that will, if left unchecked, destroy it â culturally, morally, and ultimately quite literally. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the unholy marriage of right-wing politics and Christian exceptionalism in America and who wants to be a part of reversing the current path towards division, hatred, violence and the ultimate undermining of both evangelical Christianity and American democracy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704648 to listen full audiobooks.Title: An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960sAuthor: Doris Kearns GoodwinNarrator: Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 17 hours 38 minutesRelease date: April 16, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from âAmericaâs historian-in-chiefâ (New York magazine). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of Americaâs most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedyâs New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnsonâs Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved. The Goodwinsâ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested. Their expedition gave Dickâs last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the timeâJohn F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702932 to listen full audiobooks.Title: New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the WestAuthor: David E. SangerNarrator: David E. Sanger, Robertson DeanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 6 minutesRelease date: April 16, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą The fast-paced inside story of Americaâs plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powersâXi Jinpingâs China and Vladimir Putinâs Russiaâfrom the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon â[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with dangerous developments in the post-Cold War era . . . vividly captures Washington.ââThe New York Times (Editorsâ Choice) ONE OF NPRâS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peaceâso long as they agreed to Washingtonâs terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy. Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides. Yet all three are discovering that they are maneuvering for influence in a far more turbulent world than they imagined. Based on a remarkable array of interviews with top officials from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies, Sanger unfolds a riveting narrative spun around the eraâs critical questions: Will the mistakes Putin made in his invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing and will he reach for his nuclear arsenalâor will the Westâs famously short attention span signal Kyivâs doom? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will both men deepen their partnership to undercut Americaâs dominance? And can a politically dysfunctional America still lead the world? Taking readers from the battlefields of Ukraineâwhere trench warfare and cyberwarfare are interwovenâto the Taiwan headquarters where the worldâs most advanced computer chips are produced and on to tense debates in the White House Situation Room, New Cold Wars is a remarkable first-draft history chronicling Americaâs return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703326 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999Author: Tom MaxwellNarrator: Tom MaxwellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 20 minutesRelease date: April 9, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early â90s brought the state most fully into the public consciousness, while the subsequent post-Grunge free-for-all bestowed its greatest commercial successes. In addition to the creation of legacy label Merge Records and a slate of excellent indie bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo, this was the decade when other North Carolina artists broke Billboardâs Top 200 and sold millions of recordsâseveral million of which were issued by another indie label based in Carrboro, Chapel Hillâs smaller next-door neighbor. Itâs time to take a closer look at exactly what happened. A Really Strange and Wonderful Time features a representative cross-section of what was being created in and around Chapel Hill between 1989 and 1999. In addition to the aforementioned indie bands, it documentsâthrough firsthand accountsâother local notables like Ben Folds Five, Dillon Fence, Flat Duo Jets, Small, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Veldt, and Whiskeytown. At the same time, it describes the nurturing infrastructure which engendered and encouraged this marvelous diversity. In essence, A Really Strange and Wonderful Time is proof of the genius of community.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702373 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaAuthor: Kathleen DuvalNarrator: Carolina HoyosFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 30 minutesRelease date: April 9, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today âA feat of both scholarship and storytelling.ââClaudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understandâthose having developed differently from their ownâand whose power they often underestimated. For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutchâand influenced global marketsâand how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continentâs land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constantâand will continue far into the future. *This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains select photographs, illustrations, and maps from the book.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697328 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second SlaveryAuthor: Earl SwiftNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 22 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: ''Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th centuryâand the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from Americaâs collective memory.'' âDouglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer Prize From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921âa crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the âpeonage system,â a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South. On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another, nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them, a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South, in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War. Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of that mass killing, and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before. By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political expose, Hell Put to Shame also reintroduces readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the murders, at a time when White people rarely faced punishment for violence against their Black neighbors. Georgia Governor Hugh M. Dorsey had earned international infamy while prosecuting the 1913 Leo Frank murder case in Atlanta and consequently won the statehouse as a hero of white supremacistsâthen redeemed himself in spectacular fashion with the âMurder Farmâ affair. The remarkable polymath James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed the first Black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, marshaled the organization into a full-on war against peonage. And Johnsonâs lieutenant, Walter F. White, a light-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Black man, conducted undercover work at the scene of lynchings and other Jim Crow atrocities, helping to throw a light on such violence and to hasten its end. The result is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695277 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart GardnerAuthor: Natalie DykstraNarrator: Maggie-Meg ReedFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 58 minutesRelease date: March 26, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardnerâcreator of one of Americaâs most stunning museumsâan American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardnerâs museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Bostonâs Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabellaâs wishes in the exact placements she initially curated. Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Bostonâs insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old. But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive paceâall these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargentâwhose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandalâcame to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer. From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the worldâa tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692247 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Black Box: Writing the RaceAuthor: Henry Louis GatesNarrator: Dominic HoffmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 7 minutesRelease date: March 19, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book âHenry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.â â Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste âThis is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature.â âThe New York Times A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with one another, over the course of the countryâs history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.âs, legendary Harvard introductory course in African American studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and RichÂard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrisonâthese writers used words to create a livable world, a home, for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a group formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal subhuman bondage transformed itself through the word into a community joined in overcoming one of historyâs most pernicious lies. Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture of people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be Black, and about how best to use the past to create a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours ofâand resisted confinement inâthe black box inside which this nation within a nation has been assigned, willy-nilly, from the nationâs founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people.
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