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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151677 to listen full audiobooks.Title: TrumanAuthor: David McCulloughNarrator: Nelson RungerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 54 hours 19 minutesRelease date: March 8, 2011Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.46 of Total 224 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 20Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by Americaâs beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid charactersâRoosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Achesonâand dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the manâa more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imaginedâbut also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Trumanâs story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Trumanâs own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary âman from Missouriâ who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/88430 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White HouseAuthor: Richard WolffeNarrator: Richard WolffeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 56 minutesRelease date: November 16, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for survival that stands as the measure of who they are and how they govern. Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe draws on unrivaled access to the West Wing to write a natural sequel to his critically acclaimed book about the president and his campaign. He traces an arc from near death to resurrection that is a repeated pattern for Obama, first as a candidate and now as president. Starting at the first anniversary of the inauguration, Wolffe paints a portrait of a White House at work under exceptional strain across a sweeping set of challenges: from health care reform to a struggling economy, from two wars to terrorism. Revival is a road map to understanding the dynamics, characters, and disputes that shape the Obama White House. It reveals for the first time the fault lines at the heart of the West Wing between two groups competing for control of the presidentâs agenda. On one side are the Revivalists, who want to return to the high-minded spirit of the presidential campaign. On the other side are the Survivalists, who believe that government demands a low-minded set of compromises and combat. At the center of this compelling story is a man who remains opaque to supporters, staff, and critics alike. What motivates him to risk his presidency on health care? What frustrations does he feel at this incredible time of testing? Written by the author who knows Obama best, Revival is a frank and intimate account of a president struggling to adapt, enduring failure, and outfoxing his foes. It is a must-read volume, full of exclusive insights into the untold and unfinished story of a new force in world politics.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/89118 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantAuthor: Ulysses S. GrantNarrator: Robin FieldFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 29 hours 34 minutesRelease date: November 10, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.59 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 3.14 of Total 7Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage as he reflects on the fortunes that shaped his life and his character. Written under excruciating circumstancesâGrant was dying of throat cancerâand encouraged and edited from its very inception by Mark Twain, it is a triumph of the art of autobiography. Grant was sick and broke when he began work on his memoirs. Driven by financial worries and a desire to provide for his wife, he wrote diligently during a year of deteriorating health. He vowed he would finish the work before he died, and one week after its completion, he lay dead at the age of sixty-three. Publication of the memoirs came at a time when the public was being treated to a spate of wartime reminiscences, many of them defensive in nature, seeking to refight battles or attack old enemies. Grant's penetrating and stately work reveals a nobility of spirit and an innate grasp of the important facts, which he rarely displayed in private life. He writes in his preface that he took up the task 'with a sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to anyone, whether on the National or the Confederate side.'
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83646 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison LibrarianAuthor: Avi SteinbergNarrator: Dustin RubinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 2 minutesRelease date: October 19, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isnât cutting it. Seeking directionâand dental insuranceâSteinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison. The prison library counter, his new post, attracts con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Thereâs an anxious pimp who solicits Steinbergâs help in writing a memoir. A passionate gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle. A disgruntled officer who instigates a major feud over a Post-it note. A doomed ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son, himself an inmate. Over time, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of outcasts that has formed among his bookshelves â a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor. But when the struggles of the prison library â between life and death, love and loyalty â become personal, Steinberg is forced to take sides. Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young manâs earnest attempt to find his place in the world while trying not to get fired in the process.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83257 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Black BirdAuthor: James KeeneNarrator: Robertson DeanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 26 minutesRelease date: September 7, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Jimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago and was destined for greatness on the football field. By the time he reached his twenties, he was rubbing shoulders with famous actors, porn stars, and the children of powerful politicians. He had it all: cars, girls, and houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade was the man who paid for it all: a money-obsessed drug dealer desperate to make the big score that will get him out of the business. Soon a few costly mistakes left Keene with a ten-year prison term and no chance of parole. At that point it seemed the only lessons he would learn would be about navigating convict society as deftly as he had the world of drugs. Instead, less than a year into his sentence, Keene was offered a chance to regain his freedom in return for going undercover in the nation's highest security prison for the criminally insane. His task was to get friendly with Larry Hall, a suspected serial rapist and murderer, obtain his confession, and find out where the body of one of his victim's was buried. If he succeeded, Keene would get an unconditional release. If he failed, he'd have no choice but to ride out his term. If he was found out, he could also be killed. For nearly a year, Keene walked the line between the part he played and the self he hoped to redeem, all the while dodging punches from deranged inmates, currying favor with imprisoned Mafia dons, and staying beneath the radar of Larry's oddly protective psychiatrist.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83231 to listen full audiobooks.Title: More Davids Than Goliaths: A Political EducationAuthor: Harold FordNarrator: Harold FordFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 53 minutesRelease date: August 10, 2010Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his fatherâs Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and in 2006 his reputation was further shaped during the closest Senate race in Tennesseeâs history, which he lost. Ford feels passionately that our countryâs best days are ahead, and in More Davids Than Goliaths, he presents his mission statement for America. Reflecting on what heâs learned from his extended political family, the slings and arrows of the campaign trail, and those across our nation who inspire him, More Davids Than Goliaths explains Fordâs conviction, âAt its best, leadership in government can solve, inspire, and heal.â Along the way, Ford reminds us that in America, there are more Davids than Goliaths, more solutions than problems, more that unites us than divides us.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61948 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Promise: President Obama, Year OneAuthor: Jonathan AlterNarrator: Jonathan AlterFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 21 hours 0 minutesRelease date: May 18, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Barack Obamaâs inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of âChange We Can Believe Inâ was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obamaâs historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery. In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the countryâs most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obamaâs difficult debut. What happened in 2009 inside the Oval Office? What worked and what failed? What is the president really like on the job and off-hours, using what his best friend called âa Rubikâs Cube in his brain?' These questions are answered here for the first time. We see how a surprisingly cunning Obama took effective charge in Washington several weeks before his election, made trillion-dollar decisions on the stimulus and budget before he was inaugurated, engineered colossally unpopular bailouts of the banking and auto sectors, and escalated a treacherous war not long after settling into office. The Promise is a fast-paced and incisive narrative of a young risk-taking president carving his own path amid sky-high expectations and surging joblessness. Alter reveals that it was Obama aloneââfeeling luckyââwho insisted on pushing major health care reform over the objections of his vice president and top advisors, including his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who admitted that âI begged him not to do this.â Alter takes the reader inside the room as Obama prevents a fistfight involving a congressman, coldly reprimands the military brass for insubordination, crashes the key meeting at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, and bounces back after a disastrous Massachusetts election to redeem a promise that had eluded presidents since FDR. In Alterâs telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader. He adapted to the presidency with ease and put more âpoints on the boardâ than he is given credit for, but neglected to use his leverage over the banks and failed to connect well with an angry public. We see the famously calm president cursing leaks, playfully trash-talking his advisors, and joking about even the most taboo subjects, still intent on redeeming more of his promise as the problems mount. This brilliant blend of journalism and history offers the freshest reporting and most acute perspective on the biggest story of our time. It will shape impressions of the Obama presidency and of the man himself for years to come.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61947 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of CivilizationsAuthor: Ayaan Hirsi AliNarrator: Ayaan Hirsi AliFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 44 minutesRelease date: May 18, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Internationally bestselling author Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America, recounting dramatic stories of her family and the challenges they faced adapting to Western society as Muslim immigrants. Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the worldâs attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedomâher transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts womenâs every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values. In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe. Nomad is a portrait of a family torn apart by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a touching, uplifting, and often funny account of one womanâs discovery of todayâs America. While Hirsi Ali loves much of what she encounters, she fears we are repeating the European mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She conveys an urgent message and missionâto inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. A celebration of free speech and democracy, Nomad is an important contribution to the history of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61877 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Woodrow Wilson: A BiographyAuthor: John Milton Cooper Jr.Narrator: John McDonoughFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 49 minutesRelease date: April 2, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The first major biography of Americaâs twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of Americaâs foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative presidentâhe helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDRâs New Deal and would prove central to governance through the early twenty-first century, including the Federal Reserve system and the Clayton Antitrust Act; he guided the nation through World War I; and, although his advocacy in favor of joining the League of Nations proved unsuccessful, he nonetheless established a new way of thinking about international relations that would carry America into the United Nations era. Yet Wilson also steadfastly resisted progress for civil rights, while his attorney general launched an aggressive attack on civil liberties.Even as he reminds us of the foundational scope of Wilsonâs domestic policy achievements, John Milton Cooper, Jr., reshapes our understanding of the man himself: his Wilson is warm and graciousânot at all the dour puritan of popular imagination. As the president of Princeton, his encounters with the often rancorous battles of academe prepared him for state and national politics. Just two years after he was elected governor of New Jersey, Wilson, now a leader in the progressive movement, won the Democratic presidential nomination and went on to defeat Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in one of the twentieth centuryâs most memorable presidential elections. Ever the professor, Wilson relied on the strength of his intellectual convictions and the power of reason to win over the American people.John Milton Cooper, Jr., gives us a vigorous, lasting record of Wilsonâs life and achievements. This is a long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our most important presidentsâparticularly resonant now, as another president seeks to change the way government relates to the people and regulates the economy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61356 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the FightAuthor: Karl RoveNarrator: Karl RoveFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 0 minutesRelease date: March 9, 2010Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Americaâs most brilliant political mastermind recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into George W. Bushâs White House. Known as âthe Architectâ of George W. Bushâs presidency, Karl Roveâs access to Bush and view of his presidency is unparalleled. In this memoir, Rove takes the listener into the heart of Bushâs rise to the Texas governorship and behind closed doors in the White House. Rove describes what it takes to win electionsâfrom his first race in a high school gymnasium to those on the national stageâand what you need to do once youâve won. Rove learned about the cost of his Republican affiliation at a young age, when a JFK supporter down the street pushed him off his bicycle and beat him up for supporting Nixon. Since then, Rove has devoted his life to conservative politicsâand he has been accused of everything from campaign chicanery to being a war criminal. Here, he sets the record straight, responds frankly to his critics, and passionately articulates the reasoning behind the choices he made during campaigns and in the White House. With never-before-told details about his own controversial career, the legacy of the Bush presidency, and America during its most trying moments, Rove intimately relates the joys and pains of a life in service of conservative conviction.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60065 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow JournalismAuthor: James McGrath MorrisNarrator: John H. MayerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 38 minutesRelease date: December 29, 2009Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic, Chapin set the pace for the evening press, the CNN of the pre-electronic world of journalism. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapinas world collapsed. Facing financial ruin, sunk in depression, he decided to kill himself and his beloved wife Nellie. On a quiet September morning, he took not his own life, but Nellieas, shooting her as she slept. After his trialaand one hell of a story for the Worldas competitorsahe was sentenced to life in the infamous Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. In this story of an extraordinary life set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, James McGrath Morris tracks Chapinas rise from legendary Chicago street reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York. His was a human tragedy played out in the sensational stories of tabloids and broadsheets. But itas also an epic of redemption: in prison, Chapin started a newspaper to fight for prisoner rights, wrote a best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and tapped his prodigious talents to transform barren prison plots into world-famous rose gardens before dying peacefully in his cell in 1930. The first portrait of one of the founding figures of modern American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate.James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, and a historian. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and teaches at West Springfield High School.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59841 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Speech-less: Tales of a White House SurvivorAuthor: Matthew LatimerNarrator: Lincoln HoppeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 49 minutesRelease date: September 22, 2009Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most candid memoir ever written about official Washingtonâa laugh-out-loud cri de coeur that shows what can happen to idealism in a town driven by self-interest. Matt chronicles his descent into Washington, D.C., hell, as he snares a series of unsatisfying jobs with powerful figures on Capitol Hill. One boss canât remember basic facts. Another appears to hide from his own staff. When Fate offers Matt a job as chief speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Matt finds he actually admires the man, his passion is renewed. But Rummy soon becomes a piñata for the press, and the Department of Defense is revealed as alarmingly dysfunctional. Eventually, Matt lands at the White House, his heart aflutter with the hope that he can fulfill his dream of penning words that will become part of history. But reality intrudes once again. More like The Office than The West Wing, the nationâs most storied office building is a place where the staffers who run the country are in way over their heads, and almost everything the public has been told about the major playersâBush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Roveâis wrong. Both a rare behind-the-scenes account that boldly names the fools and scoundrels, and a poignant lament for the principled conservatism that disappeared during the Bush presidency, Speech-less will forever change the publicâs view of our nationâs capital and the people who joust daily for its power.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58982 to listen full audiobooks.Title: My Journey with FarrahAuthor: Alana StewartNarrator: Deanna HurstFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 3 minutesRelease date: August 11, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: âA beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle.â âWichita Falls Times Record News In My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcettâs longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three years by Farrahâs side, during the former Charlieâs Angels actressâs tragic struggle to defeat cancer. A celebration of an incredible bond, the power of Farrahâs indomitable spirit, and poignant memories from their thirty years together, My Journey with Farrah is a tribute to an amazing woman and an amazing friendship.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58677 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874â1945Author: Carlo DâesteNarrator: Tom WeinerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 30 hours 4 minutesRelease date: July 2, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Warlordis the definitive chronicle of Winston Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the North-West Frontier of colonial India and the Boer War through his extraordinary service in both World Wars. Carlo D'Este's brilliant biography examines Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a descendant of Marlborough who, despite never having risen above the rank of lieutenant colonel, came eventually at age sixty-five to direct Britain's military campaigns as prime minister and defeated Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito for the democracies. Even though Churchill became one of the towering political leaders of the twentieth century, his childhood ambition was to be a soldier. Using extensive, untapped archival materials, D'Este reveals important and untold observations from Churchill's personal physician, as well as other colleagues and family members, in order to illuminate his character as never before. Warlord explores Churchill's strategies behind the major military campaigns of World War I and World War IIâboth his dazzling successes and disastrous failuresâwhile also revealing his tumultuous relationships with his generals and other commanders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower. As riveting as the man it portrays,Warlordis a masterful, unsparing portrait of one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders during what was arguably the most crucial event in human history.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58298 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Renegade: The Making of a PresidentAuthor: Richard WolffeNarrator: Arthur MoreyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 51 minutesRelease date: June 2, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Before the White House and Air Force One, before the TV ads and the enormous rallies, there was the real Barack Obama: a man wrestling with the momentous decision to run for the presidency, feeling torn about leaving behind a young family, and figuring out how to win the biggest prize in politics. This book is the previously untold and epic story of how a political newcomer with no money and an alien name grew into the worldâs most powerful leader. But it is also a uniquely intimate portrait of the person behind the iconic posters and the Secret Service code name Renegade. Drawing on a dozen unplugged interviews with the candidate and president, as well as twenty-one months covering his campaign as it traveled from coast to coast, Richard Wolffe answers the simple yet enduring question about Barack Obama: Who is he? Based on Wolffeâs unprecedented access to Obama, Renegade reveals the making of a president, both on the campaign trail and before he ran for high office. It explains how the politician who emerged in an extraordinary election learned the personal and political skills to succeed during his youth and early career. With cool self-discipline, calculated risk taking, and simple storytelling, Obama developed the strategies he would need to survive the onslaught of the Clintons and John McCain, and build a multimillion-dollar machine to win a historic contest. In Renegade, Richard Wolffe shares with us his front-row seat at Obamaâs announcement to run for president on a frigid day in Springfield, and his victory speech on a warm night in Chicago. We fly on the candidateâs plane and ride in his bus on an odyssey across a country in crisis; stand next to him at a bar on the night he secures the nomination; and are backstage as he delivers his convention speech to a stadium crowd and a transfixed national audience. From a teacherâs office in Iowa to the Oval Office in Washington, we see and hear Barack Obama with an immediacy and honesty never witnessed before. Renegade provides not only an account of Obamaâs triumphs, but also examines his many personal and political trials. We see Obama wrestling with race and politics, as well as his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. We see him struggling with life as a presidential candidate, a campaign that falters for most of its first year, and his reaction to a surprise defeat in the New Hampshire primary. And we see him relying on his personal experience, as well as meticulous polling, to pass the presidential test in foreign and economic affairs. Renegade is an essential guide to understanding President Barack Obama and his trusted inner circle of aides and friends. It is also a riveting and enlightening first draft of history and political psychology.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58151 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's AdversitiesAuthor: Elizabeth EdwardsNarrator: Elizabeth EdwardsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 10 minutesRelease date: May 8, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Elizabeth Edwards is one of the most beloved political figures in the country and, on the surface, she seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendships. But sheâs no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she showed after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husbandâs infidelity became public fodder. And when her own life was on the line. Days before the 2004 presidential electionâwhen her husband, John, was running for vice presidentâshe was diagnosed with breast cancer. After rounds of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, the cancer went awayâonly to recur in 2007. In Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards crafts an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on dealing with lifeâs biggest challenges. This powerful and inspirational book makes an ideal gift for anyone dealing with difficulties in their lives, to draw strength from the kind of attitude that Elizabeth has developed, and find peace in knowing that they are not alone.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54880 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Mother for All SeasonsAuthor: Debbie PhelpsNarrator: Anne TwomeyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 49 minutesRelease date: April 7, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: A Mother for All Seasons is the heartfelt, intimate memoir of an everywomanâa single mom and an educator who raised three exceptional children, including the greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps. During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, when Michael achieved the impossible with his record-shattering eight gold-medal wins, Debbie Phelps nearly stole the show. For the millions who were riveted to the most watched Olympics in history, few could forget the homage that Michael consistently paid to the one person on Team Phelps most responsible for making it all possible: his mom. Nor can we forget how after each medal ceremony, Michael walked proudly to the stands to reach up to his mother and his sisters, Hilary and Whitney, to deliver his winning bouquets to them. While those highlights will forever be remembered the world over, very few know the behind-the-scenes stories as lived by the members of Team Phelpsâa roller-coaster ride full of dramatic ups and downs, heartbreaks, and disappointments, yet one guided to triumph by vision, courage, and tenacity. Now at last, in A Mother for All Seasons, we're given the untold story as lived by the mom on the team. An educator in home economics, motivational spokeswoman, visionary middle-school principal, mother of three, and grandmother of two, Debbie Phelps is also the eternal cheerleader who was raised in a small, blue-collar, working-class town. An avid believer that achievement is limitless for each and every child, no matter the odds, Debbie reveals the universal themes of her story, which is rich with struggle, humor, hope, advice, and passion. Infused with the indomitable spirit of âAmerica's mom,â as she has been called, A Mother for All Seasons rallies us to cheer for all of our children at every stage of their growth and in every endeavor. Candid, lively, and charming, it offers timely, commonsense wisdom, lessons, and insights, and provides a much-needed reminder that life doesn't always turn out how you plan it, but in fact it can sometimes turn out even better.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54839 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian JungleAuthor: Keith Stansell, Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves, Gary BrozekNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 8 minutesRelease date: March 10, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: â[A] remarkable storyâŠ.An honest and harrowing memoir of a life-changing ordeal.â âArizona Republic The spellbinding New York Times bestseller, Out of Captivity is the amazing true story of Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell, three American civilian contractors who were held hostage by the FARC rebel group in Colombia for five and a half years. Written with Gary Brozek, this book is an astonishing tale of unbelievable hardship and indomitable willâan âaction-packedâ (Time magazine) real-life adventure that stands with Alive by Piers Paul Read, Norman Ollestadâs Crazy for the Storm, and other classic true stories of survival. This historical and political autobiography sheds light on the volatile conflict in Colombia that has stretched over the last half century, revealing the details of the horrific treatment and experiences of three American captives at the hands of the FARC.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54541 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted KennedyAuthor: Peter S. CanellosNarrator: Skipp SudduthFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 13 minutesRelease date: February 17, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The comprehensive New York Times bestselling biography of Senator Ted Kennedy dives deeply into his political career, his shocking downfall, and his redemption from disappointing member of a grand dynasty to respected sage in the Senate. No figure in American public life had such great expectations thrust upon him and fallen short of them so quickly. But Ted Kennedy, the gregarious, pudgy, and least academically successful of the Kennedy boys, became the most powerful senator for over forty years and the nationâs keeper of traditional liberalism. As Peter S. Canellos and his team of reporters from The Boston Globe show in this intimate biography, Ted witnessed greater tragedy and suffered greater pressure than his siblings. He inherited a generationâs dreams and was expected to help confront his nationâs problems in order to build a fairer society. But political rivals turned his all-too-human failings into a condemnation of his liberal politics. As the presidency eluded his grasp, Kennedy was finally free to become his own man. He transformed himself into a symbol of wisdom and perseverance. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing from candid interviews with the Kennedy family, Last Lion captures magnificently the life, historic achievements, and personal redemption of Ted Kennedy, and offers a fresh assessment of his enduring legacy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54409 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected SpeechesAuthor: George H.W. BushNarrator: George H.W. BushFormat: Abridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 6 minutesRelease date: January 13, 2009Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Law & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of his inauguration and the commission of the USS George H.W. Bush, a collection of the forty-first presidentâs speeches. Here, in his own words, is the record of George H.W. Bushâs presidency. Chosen and annotated by former President Bush, these forty-two speeches reflect his concerns, his political philosophy, and the triumphs and challenges of his years in office. Whether accepting the nomination, speaking to the Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf, presenting Presidential Citations to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, or marking the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, these speeches, great and small, defined the first Bush years. Marking significant events in world history, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, and U.S. military action against Iraq, this collection documents a transformative period in world history and the voice and politics of one of our great leaders.
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