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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603625 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine MaxwellAuthor: Lucia Osborne-CrowleyNarrator: Madeleine LeslayFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 30 minutesRelease date: July 4, 2024Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: 'Powerful, vivid and affecting' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Urgent, necessary and courageous' ELIZABETH DAY 'Brilliantly unsettling' GUARDIAN 'Will make you think about trauma in a new light' EVENING STANDARD 'I understand â and sympathise with â the feeling you might have that you already know the Jeffrey Epstein story. But I am not here to tell you a story about Jeffrey Epstein, or even Ghislaine Maxwell. I am here to tell you the stories of ten women, many of whom have never spoken at length before, about the real impact of sexual trauma on their lives' In November 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors, and now faces twenty years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epsteinâs abuse of four girls. The trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of the only reporters allowed into the courtroom every day. The Lasting Harm is her account of that trial, a gripping true crime drama and a blistering critique of a criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors, no matter the outcome. Giving voice to four women and their testimonies, and supplemented by exclusive interviews, The Lasting Harm brings this incendiary trial to life, questions our age-old appetite for crime and punishment and offers a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605388 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Intervention Earth: Life-Saving Ideas from the World's Climate EngineersAuthor: Gwynne DyerNarrator: Braden WrightFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 43 minutesRelease date: May 7, 2024Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Historian, journalist, and author Gwynne Dyer interviews the worldâs top 100 climate scientists to discuss the extraordinary measures we must contemplate to counter the irreversible effects of climate change. The global climate emergency is now an alarming fact of life. Much as we still need to get emissions under control, many are thinking that it's all too little, too late. As scientists, politicians and concerned citizens scramble for solutions to the catastrophic effects of a warming world, is it time to be exploring the controversial topic of geoengineering? For decades, discerning readers have turned to journalist and historian Gwynne Dyer for his unparalleled acumen in serving up hard geopolitical truths. Intervention Earth is built around Dyerâs interviews with one hundred climate scientists from around the globe, including the leading figures in the geoengineering field. One of the most interesting topics: the pros and cons of Solar Radiation Management, a possible planetary Hail Mary that is rife with political risks. But Intervention Earth is about more than technological mega-projects. Dyer devotes ample space to the many innovative ideas on offer, but there is no get-out-of-jail-free card. We will need a whole portfolio of techniques and technologiesâand a lot of hard, thankless workâto keep the planet hospitable for humanity. Whatâs more, many of the technologies that can help us avoid the worst outcomes require years of investment and development before they can be successfully deployed. Global cooperation will be key in implementing the life-saving strategies outlined in the book. With up-to-the-minute, breaking-news reporting Intervention Earth offers a probing, eye-opening look at the problems we face, and the innovations that just might keep us ahead of encroaching disaster and carry us to a safe harbour.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603159 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The AntichristAuthor: Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheNarrator: Drake JohnsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 23 hours 35 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Enjoy this Friedrich Nietzsche collection combining three of Nietzsche's most noteworthy pieces, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Antichrist into one audiobook!
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605357 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End DemocracyAuthor: Isaac ArnsdorfNarrator: Will DamronFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 52 minutesRelease date: April 9, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing fringe dedicated to dismantling democracy itself. Inspired by Donald Trumpâs election lies, a growing movement of grassroots activists mobilized around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Trump had failed to keep himself in power. But their own success in taking over and purging the Republican Party became their undoing as it drove away moderates and supplied the Democrats with a winning message in the 2022 midterms. Still, the MAGA Republicans proved uninterested in learning from that defeat, only becoming more extreme, divisive, and dead set on returning Trump to power. Washington Post national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf has spent years at the forefront of reporting on this growing movement. Drawing on extensive, exclusive on-the-ground reporting around the country, and deepened by historical context, Arnsdorf has produced the defining journalistic account of the origins, evolution and future of the MAGA movement. Combining critical and rigorous reporting with the intimacy and complexity of a novel, this book is unlike any other in the decade since Donald Trump convulsed and transformed American politics. Finish What We Started tells the story of the ordinary Americans driving this change, who they are and where they came from, what motivates them, and what their movement means for the survival of American democracy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600956 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save CivilizationAuthor: Brad WilcoxNarrator: Mark DeakinsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 15 minutesRelease date: February 13, 2024Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox explains how our ruling class publicly disparages marriage â the institution most likely to deliver prosperity and happiness to ordinary Americans â while privately embracing it. America is in crisis. Happiness is falling, loneliness and despair are rising, too many schools are riddled by fights and failure, crime is unacceptably high, and the American Dream is out of reach for millions. The problems are visible to us all, but virtually no one is talking about the solution that matters most: Marriage. New research by University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox shows that Americans who get married and have children today are leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless. In fact, nothing predicts happiness in life better than a good marriageânot even a hefty bank account or a great career. And kids and communitiesânot to mention our civilization as a wholeâare much more likely to flourish when the state of our unions is strong, according to Wilcox, who directs the National Marriage Project at U.Va. But our country is in crisis because record numbers of Americans are not succeeding at getting or staying married. In this hard-hitting book, Wilcox reveals the anti-family messages and policies that have weakened marriage coming out of Hollywood, Washington, the media, academia, and corporate America. The good news, however, is that millions of Americans are succeeding at marriage. Dr. Wilcox spotlights four groupsâAsian, conservative, religious, and college-educated Americansâwho are building strong and stable marriages by defying the me-first messages of our elites in favor of a family-first way of life. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand why, even as fewer men and women tie the knot, Americaâs most fundamental institution matters more than ever for our civilization. And for men and women looking to forge strong, stable, and happy unions for themselves and their children, Get Married reveals the road forward. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603318 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and TortureAuthor: Angela Y. DavisNarrator: Andrew Joseph Perez, Angela Y. DavisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 30 minutesRelease date: October 24, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics, and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as 'enemy of the state,' and about having been put on the FBI's 'most wanted' list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners. Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed 'chain of command,' and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in GuantĂĄnamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600968 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the WorldAuthor: Bethany AllenNarrator: Emily Woo ZellerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 14 minutesRelease date: August 1, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracyâcapitalismâto expand its illiberal influence worldwide. Bethany Allen, the award-winning China reporter for Axios, shows that by tying profits to political acquiescence the Chinese Communist Party is forcing companies and governments around the world to accept its rules. The coronavirus pandemic marked the first time that the Party deployed its tool kit of economic coercion on an issue directly related to the health and well-being of quite literally every person in the world. But Western democracies arenât helpless victims in Beijingâs game. The West created the conditions for the rise of authoritarian capitalism by divorcing political values from market structures. Written by one of the first American journalists to expose China's covert influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of Western institutions bowing to Beijingâs pressureâa glimpse of what Americaâs future may look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604050 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Abortion Rights: For and AgainstAuthor: Christopher Kaczor, Kate GreasleyNarrator: Chris Abell, Esther WaneFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 19 minutesRelease date: June 20, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: This audiobook features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each otherâs arguments, and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. Their conversational argument explores such fundamental questions as: What gives a person the right to life? Is abortion bad for women? What is the difference between abortion and infanticide? Underpinned by philosophical reasoning and methodology, this audiobook provides opposing and clearly structured perspectives on a highly emotive and controversial issue. The result gives listeners a window into how moral philosophers argue about the contentious issue of abortion rights, and an in-depth analysis of the compelling arguments on both sides.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602116 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political PartyAuthor: Samuel EarleNarrator: Jamie ParkerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 9 minutesRelease date: May 4, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: 'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE âShould be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centreâ David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Why do British politics so often play out on the Toriesâ terms? What does this say about our democracy? In his revelatory book, Samuel Earle explores the roots of the current crisis and the real reasons for the Conservativesâ unsettling success, from their ruling-class origins in the eighteenth century and their disproportionate influence of the British press to their stranglehold over national identity. He sheds light on the Conservativesâ historic appeal among the working classes and why the Labour Party so often disappoints. Tory Nation describes the making of Britain through one partyâs astonishing power over us. Itâs only by reaching into our history, Earle argues, that we can understand how we got here â and how we can find a way out. 'Written with historical depth and literary flair' NEW STATESMAN âEarle has set out clearly and eloquently why our democracy is incapable of solving our political problemsâ ROBERT VERKAIK, author of Posh Boys âGripping and indispensableâ NESRINE MALIK, author of We Need New Stories
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603636 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a MarriageAuthor: Jonny SteinbergNarrator: Puleng Lange-StewartFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 19 hours 48 minutesRelease date: May 2, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: *Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* âGripping and profoundly movingâ DAMON GALGUT âDeft and operaticâ OBSERVER Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and groundbreaking union, a very modern political marriage that played out on the world stage. One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband â s politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war. From one of South Africaâs foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandelaâs relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a volatile and groundbreaking union, a very modern political marriage that played out on the world stage. One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband â s politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war. Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage â its longings, its obsessions, its deceits â turning the course of South African history into a page-turning political biography. Winnie & Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesnât just affect the couple at its centre, but an entire nation. It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. Told with power and tender emotional insight, Steinberg reveals how far these forever entwined leaders would go for one another, and also, where they drew the line. For in the end both knew theirs was not simply a marriage, but a contest to decide how apartheid should be fought.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596436 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?Author: Daniel ChandlerNarrator: Daniel ChandlerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 19 minutesRelease date: April 20, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Despite the enormous problems we face and widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo, it's surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better, fairer society would look like. Free and Equal provides that vision. In this hugely ambitious and exhilarating debut, philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas we need are hiding in plain sight, in the work of the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. Although they have transformed philosophy, his ideas have had little impact on politics - until now. In Free and Equal, Chandler shows us how they offer an intuitive yet powerful framework for addressing the urgent challenges we face, and an unparalleled resource for developing a transformative progressive politics. Taking Rawls's humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, and drawing on evidence from the social sciences and on inspiring examples from around the world, Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for fundamentally re-designing our basic institutions - from how we can protect basic freedoms of speech, religion and sexuality whilst transcending the culture wars, to a completely new way of funding political parties and the media, to an economic agenda that would give everyone a fair share not just of income and wealth, but of power and control, dignity and self-respect. This is a book brimming with hope and possibility - a much-needed alternative to the cynicism that pervades our politics, setting out a 'realistic utopia' that can galvanise people from all walks of life. Free and Equal has the potential not only to transform contemporary debate, but to offer a touchstone for a modern, egalitarian liberalism for many years to come, cementing Rawls's place in political discourse, and firmly establishing Chandler as a vital new voice for our time. ©2023 Daniel Chandler (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612788 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko HaramAuthor: Mellissa FungNarrator: Janina EdwardsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 51 minutesRelease date: April 18, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER âThis work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.â âLouise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram In April 2014, the world awoke to the shocking news that the terrorist group Boko Haram had kidnapped nearly 300 school-aged girls and taken them deep into the forests of Nigeria. When veteran journalist Mellissa Fung travelled to Nigeria, she discovered that the scope of the kidnappings had been vastly under-reported. Hundredsâpossibly thousandsâmore girls had been taken against their will and forced to become child brides to soldiers and leaders of Boko Haram. Some of the captives escaped and returned to their villages, many with children in tow. Most of these girls, still children themselves, were shunned by their former friends and family. Other girls have never been seen again. A former captive herself, Mellissa Fung has great empathy for the kidnapped girls. Taken by Taliban sympathizers in Afghanistan, Fung shared her experience in her number-one-bestselling book, Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity. During several visits to Nigeria over four years, she sat down with the girls and their families and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews, listening to horrific stories of capture, rape and torture, as well as escapes and excommunications. Fung tells the stories of Gambo, Asmaâu, Zara and other girls taken by Boko Haram. She also portrays strong women fighting against the terrorist group in their own powerful ways: Aisha the Hunter, who moves stealthily into the forest, taking out Boko Haram with her faithful followers, and Mama Boko Haram, an Igbo woman who knows the fighters and those haunted by their experiences and fights to empty the forests of fighters and captives alike. This is raw, honest and heartbreaking storytelling at its best.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604336 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight PlaguesAuthor: Jonathan KennedyNarrator: Jonathan KennedyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 23 minutesRelease date: April 18, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER âą A âgrippingâ (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in historyâfrom the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalismâhave been shaped not by humans but by germs âSuperbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman.ââThe Times (U.K.) According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the worldâs major religions. By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective pastâand urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612322 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central EuropeAuthor: Milan KunderaNarrator: Charles ConstantFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 25 minutesRelease date: April 11, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: âWe should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations feels pressing.ââClaire Messud, Harper's Magazine âKundera focuses on the relationship of Europeâs central âsmall nationsâ like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine to Western culture and argues that their cultural identities were increasingly threatened.ââNew York Book Review A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for Milan Kunderaâs subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russiaâs current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to the rest of Europe. Milan Kunderaâs early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the âsmall nationsâ of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction. He is sounding the alarm, which chimes loud and clear in our own twenty-first century. The 1983 essay translated by Edmund White (âThe Tragedy of Central Europeâ), and the 1967 lecture delivered to the Czech Writersâ Union in the middle of the Prague Spring by the young Milan Kundera (âLiterature and the Small Nationsâ), translated for the first time by Linda Asher, are both written in a voice that is at once personal, vehement, and anguished. Here, Kundera appears already as one of our great European writers and truly our contemporary. Each piece is prefaced by a short presentation by French historian Pierre Nora and Czech-born French political scientist Jacques Rupnik.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611687 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle EastAuthor: Steven SimonNarrator: Steven Simon, Robert PetkoffFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 46 minutesRelease date: April 11, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: âA comprehensive, even magisterial review . . . This is strong stuff, but Simon does not flinch.â âForeign Affairs A longtime American foreign policy insiderâs penetrating and definitive reckoning with this countryâs involvement in the Middle East The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simonâs tour de force, offering a comprehensive and deeply informed account of U.S. engagement in the Middle East. Simon begins with the Reagan administration, when American perception of the region shifted from a cluster of faraway and frequently skirmishing nations to a shining, urgent opportunity for America to (in Reaganâs words) âserve the cause of world peace and the future of mankind.â Reagan fired the starting gun on decades of deepening American involvement, but as the global economy grew, bringing an increasing reliance on oil, U.S. diplomatic and military energies were ever more fatefully absorbed by the Middle East. Grand Delusion explores the motivations, strategies, and shortcomings of each presidential administration from Reagan to today, exposing a web of intertwined eventsâfrom the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict amid Israeli domestic politics, Cold War rivalries, and Saudi Arabiaâs quest for security, to 9/11 and the war on terrorâmanaged by a Washington policy process frequently ruled by wishful thinking and partisan politics. Simonâs sharp sense of irony and incisive writing brings complex history to life. He illuminates the motives behind America's commitment to Israel; explodes the popular narrative of Desert Storm as a âgood warâ; and calls out the devastating consequences of our mistakes, particularly for people of the region trapped by the onslaught of American military action and pitiless economic sanctions. Grand Delusion reveals that this story, while episodically impressive, has too often been tragic and at times dishonorable. As we enter a new era in foreign policy, this is an essential book, a cautionary history that illuminates American's propensity for self-deception and misadventure at a moment when the nation is redefining its engagement with a world in crisis.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610790 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without DemocracyAuthor: Quinn SlobodianNarrator: Keith Sellon-WrightFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 0 minutesRelease date: April 4, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perfect home for their free market fantasy. The hunt leads from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the medieval City of London, and finally into the world's oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where capitalism and democracy can be finally uncoupled. Crack-Up Capitalism is a propulsive history of the recent past, and an alarming view of our near future. ©2023 Quinn Slobodian (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608892 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New NationAuthor: Justice MalalaNarrator: Justice Malala, Nick BoraineFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 35 minutesRelease date: April 4, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: âSuperbly reported, compelling . . . wonderfully captures the spirit of that timeâ Financial Times 'Gripping and important' Observer Nine days that set the course of a nation... Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandelaâs popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? Or can Mandela and de Klerk overcome their differences and mutual suspicion and calm their followers, plotting a way forward? In The Plot to Save South Africa, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story of the next nine days â never before told in full â revealing rarely seen sides of both Mandela and de Klerk, the fascinating behind-the-scenes debates within each of their parties over whether to pursue peace or war, and their increasingly desperate attempts to restrain their supporters despite mounting popular frustrations. Flitting between the points of view of over a dozen characters on all sides of the conflict, Justice Malala offers an illuminating look at successful leadership in action⊠and a terrifying reminder of just how close a country we think of today as a model for racial reconciliation came to civil war. âA dramatic work of history, prodigiously reported and beautifully crafted. Justice Malala is a first-rate storyteller, deftly weaving history with a narrative that reads like a novel. I couldnât put it downâ Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life âMagnificent, furious and unputdownableâ Andrew Harding, BBC Africa correspondent and author of These Are Not Gentle People
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611850 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It AllAuthor: Craig ShirleyNarrator: Tom ParksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 49 minutesRelease date: March 21, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that Reagan's revolution did not begin when he took office in 1980, but in his failed presidential challenge to Gerald Ford in 1975-1976. This is the remarkable story of that historic campaign-one that, as Reagan put it, turned a party of 'pale pastels' into a national party of 'bold colors.' Featuring interviews with a myriad of politicos, journalists, insiders, and observers, Craig Shirley relays intriguing, never-before-told anecdotes about Reagan, his staff, the campaign, the media, and the national parties and shows how Reagan, instead of following the lead of the ever-weakening Republican party, brought the party to him and almost single-handedly revived it. Photos are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605380 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Parents of the World, Unite!: How to Save Our Schools from the Left's Radical AgendaAuthor: Ian PriorNarrator: Chris AbellFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 56 minutesRelease date: March 21, 2023Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: This essential playbook reveals the winning strategies for successfully fighting a radical woke agenda in your kidsâ schools. Ian Prior is one of the most articulate and successful parent-activists in the United States. Armed with 12 inspiring battle-tested rules and revealing stories about sparring with self-righteous Woke neighbors (the âChardonnay Antifaâ), Ian shares secrets about what fellow parents can do in their own school districts to stop the Left's dark vision from taking root. Get ready to laugh. This is not a boring education book. With real world lessons and funny anecdotes readers can connect with, Ian explains how families can win the battle to stop divisive and dangerous concepts rooted in critical race theory and other dangerous left-wing ideologies from spreading to their schools. He convincingly makes the case that the Left envisions a public education system in America where children are no longer the responsibility of their parents but rather mere wards of the state. Youâll be shocked and amused by the outrageous stories in Ianâs suburban county that unexpectedly became ground zero for the parentsâ rights movement. This sign-of-the times book helpfully explains the confusing and infuriating cultural moment we find ourselves in. Parents of the World, Unite! is an indispensable book for American families who believe they should be able to raise their children without government interference in their moral, religious, and ethical choices -- and are ready to join a revolution of parents.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605378 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American RightAuthor: Matthew DallekNarrator: Donald CorrenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 38 minutesRelease date: March 21, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsPublisher's Summary: How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Societyâs activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, âBirchersâ believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Societyâs extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend American life. Conservative leaders recognized that these affluent voters were needed to win elections, and for decades the GOP courted Birchers and their extremist successors. The far right steadily gained power, finally toppling the Republican establishment and electing Donald Trump. Birchers is a deeply researched and indispensable new account of the rise of extremism in the United States.
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