Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795 Author: Linda Myrsiades Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges' bench notes, and defense notes for the trials, to develop a portrait of the hegemony of official interpretations of the law. At the same time, the book illuminates popular attitudes about the courts and the law and explores the nature of extralegal courts operated by the people. Myrsiades captures the agitation-propaganda efforts mounted by rebel communities and groups together with petitions and speeches in the rebel assemblies in demonstrating that popular culture offered a clear politico-legal justification within the rebel movement on the unofficial side of legal culture. Myrsiades thus presents a holistic picture of the legal culture of the rebellion. Her examination denies the common perception that the rebel movement was incoherent and chaotic and presents an alternative view that its perceptions are a necessary correlative to understanding how treason law functioned and what its critical elements were in the late-eighteenth century, serving as a lesson for democracy in the present era.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation - and Created a Legend Author: Joe Pappalardo Narrator: Jim Seybert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself 'The Only Law West of the Pecos'. He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels, and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them. The Beans chase their American dreams as the nation reinvents itself as a coast-to-coast powerhouse, only to be tested by the Civil War. During their saga, the brothers become soldiers, judges, husbands, guerillas, lawmen, entrepreneurs, refugees, fathers, politicians, pioneers, and—in Judge Roy Bean's case—one of the Old West's best known but least understood scoundrels. Using new information gleaned from exhaustive research, Joe Pappalardo's Four Against the West is an unprecedented and vivid telling of the intertwined stories of all four Bean brothers, exploring for the first time how their relentless ambitions helped create a new America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our Republic Author: John B. Boles Narrator: Brandon Pollock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. Most accounts of the founding generation focus only on the activities of the 'big three'—Washington, Jefferson, and Madison—but Boles incorporates the key contributions of these other four important figures to the political and legal structures that govern the United States to this day. At the same time, Boles is clear-eyed about the Revolutionary generation's problems and their fading from the scene, inaugurating the beginnings of Virginia's political decline in the early nineteenth century. In so doing, Boles provides the crucial Virginian piece to the ongoing reevaluation of the United States's founding moment

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti–Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/790636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reconciling History: A Story of Canada Author: Jody Wilson-Raybould, Roshan Danesh Narrator: Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski, Kaitlyn Yott, Joshua Odjick, Marion Newman, Chris Mejaki, Asivak Koostachin, Glen Gould, Dillan Chiblow, Reneltta Arluk, Roshan Danesh, Sarah Kelley, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Tai Amy Grauman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of the Toronto Star’s 25 books to read this season • One of Kobo CA's Best Nonfiction Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From the #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, a truly unique history of our land—powerful, devastating, remarkable—as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The totem pole forms the foundation for this unique and important oral history of Canada. Its goal is both toweringly ambitious and beautifully direct: To tell the story of this country in a way that prompts readers to look from different angles, to see its dimensions, its curves, and its cuts.  To see that history has an arc, just as the totem pole rises, but to realize that it is also in the details along the way that important meanings are to be found.  To recognize that the story of the past is always there to be retold and recast, and must be conveyed to generations to come. That in the act of re-telling, meaning is found, and strength is built. When it comes to telling the history of Canada, and in particular the history of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, we need to accept that the way in which our history has traditionally been told has not been a common or shared enterprise. In many ways, it has been an exclusive and siloed one. Among the countless peoples and groups that make up this vast country, the voices and experiences of a few have too often dominated those of many others. Reconciling History shares voices that have seldom been heard, and in this ground-breaking book they are telling and re-telling history from their perspectives. Born out of the oral history in True Reconciliation, and complemented throughout with stunning photography and art, Reconciling History takes this approach to telling our collective story to an entirely different level.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/815550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia Author: Karen Auman Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Georgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model. But looking at the Salzburgers, who emigrated from Europe as part of the original plan, provides a very different story. The Good Forest reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy, where they achieved self-sufficiency in the Ebenezer settlement while following the Trustees' plans. Because their settlement comprised a significant portion of Georgia's early population, their experiences provide a corrective to our understanding of early Georgia and help reveal the possibilities in Atlantic colonization as they built a cohesive community. The relative success of the Ebenezer settlement, furthermore, challenges the inherent environmental, cultural, and economic determinism that has dominated Georgia history. That well-worn narrative often implies (or even explicitly states) that only a slave-based plantation economy could succeed. With this history, Auman illuminates the interwoven themes of Atlantic migrations, colonization, charity, and transatlantic religious networks.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA Author: Jim Hougan Narrator: Al Kessel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was 'the sixth man, the one who got away' when his boss, veteran CIA officer Jim McCord, led a break-in team into a trap at the Watergate. Using the Freedom of Information Act to win the release of the FBI's Watergate investigation—some thirty-thousand pages of documents that neither the Washington Post nor the Senate had seen—Hougan refuted the orthodox narrative of the affair. Armed with evidence hidden from the public for more than a decade, Hougan proves that McCord deliberately sabotaged the June 17, 1972, burglary. None of the Democrats' phones had been bugged, and the spy-team's ostensible leader, Gordon Liddy, was himself a pawn—at once, guilty and oblivious. The power struggle that unfolded saw E. Howard Hunt and Jim McCord using the White House as a cover for an illicit domestic intelligence operation involving call-girls at the nearby Columbia Plaza Apartments.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slaveroad: An Autobiography Author: John Edgar Wideman Narrator: David Sadzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the 2024 NBCC Award in Nonfiction Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational perspective to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” a daunting, haunting reality that runs throughout American history. John Edgar Wideman’s “slaveroad” is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists. In a section of “Slaveroad,” called “Sheppard”, William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, William’s wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husband’s adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In “Penn Station,” Wideman’s brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, “How will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.” An impassioned, searching work, Slaveroad is one man’s reckoning with a uniquely American lineage and the ways that the past haunts the present: “It’s here. Now. Where we are. What we are. A story compounded of stories told, retold, untold, not told.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever Author: Chris Wallace Narrator: Chris Wallace, Dylan Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024 It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions—where JFK chose Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate over the impassioned objections of his brother Bobby—this is a nonfiction political thriller filled with intrigue, cinematic action, and fresh reporting. Like with many popular histories, readers will be familiar with the story, but few will know the behind-the-scenes details, told here with gripping effect.    Featuring some of history’s most remarkable characters, page-turning action, and vivid details, Countdown 1960 follows a group of extraordinary politicians, civil rights leaders, Hollywood stars, labor bosses, and mobsters during a pivotal year in American history. The election of 1960 ushered in the modern era of presidential politics, with televised debates, private planes, and slick advertising. In fact, television played a massive role. It allowed voters to see the candidates’ appearances. More than 70 million Americans watched one or all four debates. The public turned to television to watch campaign rallies. And on the night of the election, the contest between Kennedy and Nixon was so close that Americans were glued to their televisions long after dawn to see who won. The year 1960 was a deeply contentious, perilous time for America. It also was a moment our nation survived due to courage, leadership, and patriotism. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains selected photos from the book.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/782990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White Author: Andrew Sillen Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: THE TRUE STORY OF DAVID HENRY WHITE, A FREE BLACK TEENAGE SAILOR ENSLAVED ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR, WHOSE LIFE STORY WAS FALSELY AND INTENTIONALLY APPROPRIATED TO ADVANCE THE LOST CAUSE TROPE OF A CONTENTED SLAVE, HAPPY AND SAFE IN SERVILITY.David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the Philadelphia-based packet ship Tonawanda. White remained captive on the Alabama for over 600 days, until he drowned during the Battle of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864.In a best-selling postwar memoir, Semmes falsely described White as a contented slave who remained loyal to the Confederacy. In Kidnapped at Sea, archaeologist Andrew Sillen uses a forensic approach to describe White’s enslavement and demise and illustrates how White’s actual life belies the Lost Cause narrative his captors sought to construct.Kidnapped at Sea is the first book to focus on White’s actual life, rather than relying on Semmes and other secondary sources. Until now, Semmes’s appropriation of White’s life has escaped scrutiny, thereby demonstrating the challenges faced by disempowered, illiterate people—and how well-crafted, racist fabrications have become part of Civil War memory.“In this fast-paced narrative, Andrew Sillen uncovers the astounding story of David Henry White, a free Black teenager kidnapped from a US ship and forced to accompany the Confederate raider Alabama. Through a haunting account, Sillen restores White’s humanity and, in doing so, provides a timely examination of the necessity for addressing historical crimes.”—Caroline E. Janney, author of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights Author: Charles Wilkinson Narrator: Jason Grasl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States and beyond. The case also brought about far-reaching societal changes, reinforcing tribal sovereignty and remedying decades of injustice. Eminent legal historian and tribal advocate Charles Wilkinson tells the story of the Boldt Decision against the backdrop of salmon's central place in the cultures and economies of the Pacific Northwest. In the 1960s, Native people reasserted their fishing rights as delineated in nineteenth-century treaties. In response, state officials worked with non-Indian commercial and sport fishing interests to forcefully oppose Native actions. These 'fish wars' spurred twenty tribes and the United States government to file suit in federal court. Boldt pointedly waited until Lincoln's birthday to hand down a decision recognizing the tribes' right to half of the state's fish. The case's aftermath led from the Supreme Court's affirmation of Boldt's opinion to collaborative management of the harvest of salmon. Treaty Justice weaves personalities and local detail into the definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most important civil rights cases.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World Author: Carol Gardner Narrator: Susan Hanfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In the winter of 1650–51, 150 ragged Scottish prisoners of war arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for twenty to thirty pounds each. Among them was Thomas Doughty, a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle of Dunbar. Doughty was among some 420 Scottish soldiers who were captured during the War of the Three Kingdoms, transported to America, and sold between 1650 and 1651. Their experiences offer a fresh perspective on seventeenth-­century life. The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World describes Doughty's life as a soldier, prisoner of war, exile, servant, lumberman, miller, and ultimately free landowner. It follows him and his peers through critical events: the apex of the Little Ice Age, the War of the Three Kingdoms, the colonization of New England, the burgeoning transatlantic trade in servants and slaves, King Philip's and King William's wars, and the Salem witch crisis. The Involuntary American demonstrates how even indi­viduals of humble circumstances were swept into the mael­strom of the First Global Age. It expands our understanding of immigration to the colonies, colonial servitude, the link­ages and tensions between Europe, Massachusetts Bay, and America's northeastern frontier, and of New England socie­ty in the early colonial period.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/786364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona Author: Richard Grant Narrator: Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona. When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. Undocumented immigration was surging, and the state was also on the front lines of climate change, breaking heat and drought records, and running out of long-term water supplies. Under these circumstances, Grant wondered how he might raise a happy, well-adjusted child who believes in the future. Yet these concerns weren’t keeping people away: Arizona was simultaneously experiencing some of the nation’s highest population growth. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world’s largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in breathtaking mountain ranges that rise out of the desert like islands in the sky. Interspersed with these adventures are recollections of his previous stint in the state, including his friendship with cult writer Charles Bowden and years living off the grid with smugglers, dope farmers, and outlaws on the Mexican border. Ultimately, Grant arrives at the conclusion that Arizona has always been a scattershot improvisation, with bizarre and extreme behavior in its DNA. This book is an entertaining, illuminating, and essential guide to understanding modern America at its most overheated.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/807803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's 'Pieta' to Queens in 1964 Author: Ruth D. Nelson Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: September 15, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. As Ruth D. Nelson gracefully showcases, Moses believed this blockbuster would guarantee the fair's financial success. At the same time, Spellman, Archbishop of New York and the spiritual leader of Cold War America's Catholic community, hoped that at a time of domestic strife and global conflict, the Pietà's presence would have a positive spiritual impact on the nation. Although the fair did not turn out to be the financial bonanza that Moses expected, the Pietà drew record crowds of the faithful, art lovers, and the curious. Nelson's fascinating uncovering of the intensive planning that went into designing the pavilion, transporting the art piece across the Atlantic, and coordinating Pope Paul VI's visit to New York in 1965—the first papal visit to the Western Hemisphere—demonstrates the sheer scale and opportunity of the two men's endeavors. Our Lady of the World's Fair depicts the skepticism and fierce criticism that faced the two New York power brokers. Rather than letting the negative weigh them down, they united and called on every resource at their disposal to make this unlikely cultural coup possible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818179 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Breve historia de la Argentina - Nueva edición aumentada y actualizada 2013 Author: José Luis Romero Narrator: Daniel Núñez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 15, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Pensada como una obra destinada a 'suscitar la reflexión sobre el presente y el futuro del país', se ha convertido en un libro clásico. Obra de síntesis, pero a la vez de ideas, en sus páginas no sólo se encuentran hechos sino también interpretaciones que generan polémicas y opiniones encontradas. Fue actualizada por el autor poco antes de su muerte en 1977. Debido a la notable difusión que tuvo el libro y a su extendido uso en la enseñanza, Luis Alberto Romero, su hijo historiador, agregó los dos capítulos finales que contiene esta edición, referidos a los acontecimientos de las últimas décadas, ciertamente decisivos para la comprensión del presente argentino. José Luis Romero, considerado con justicia uno de los mayores intelectuales que ha dado el país, no sólo renovó los estudios históricos, sino que transmitió sus ideas de un modo claro y atractivo. Un ejemplo mayor de ello es esta Breve historia de la Argentina, cuyo estilo sencillo y refinado hace que la lectura de la historia sea a la vez aprendizaje y placer.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History Author: Dana Bash Narrator: Dana Bash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: “Let chaos come.” The violent election of 1872 that serves as a warning for today's divided politics. From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana—and changed the course of politics in our country. The Election of 1872 was the most contentious in American history. After both parties complained of corruption, neither candidate would concede, two governors claimed office and chaos erupted. Rival newspapers engaged in a bitter war of words, politicians plotted to overthrow the government, and their supporters fought in the streets and attempted assassinations. The entire country watched in grim fascination as the wounds of the Civil War were ripped open and the promise of President Grant’s Reconstruction faltered in the face of violent resistance and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. In this riveting book, Dana Bash and David Fisher tell the incredible, little-known story of the election that pushed democracy to the breaking point, and sparked historic events including: - The Colfax Massacre, in which at least 150 Black men were killed by white supremacists - The extraordinary train race from New York to New Orleans for control of the state government - The election of the first black Congressman from Louisiana in the face of violent resistance - The Supreme Court ruling that ended Reconstruction and became the foundation of Southern segregation, changing the American legal system for the next century Readers will find eerie parallels to today's divided political landscape and leaders willing to seize power no matter the cost. An eye-opening warning of what's at stake and what it takes to protect our democracy, this is a must-read tale of America's deadliest election.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War Author: Tbd Narrator: Allyson Johnson, William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, interacted with, and resisted the young republic as if it was merely another empire. Such perspectives have driven scholars to reevaluate the early United States, as the parameters of early American history have expanded in Atlantic, continental, and global directions. The essays gathered in The Early Imperial Republic move beyond the question of whether the new republic was an empire, investigating instead where, how, and why it was one. They use the category of empire to situate the early United States in the global context its contemporaries understood, drawing important connections between territorial conquests on the continent and American incursions. In tracing these stories, the volume's contributors bring the study of early United States imperialism down to earth, encouraging us to see the exertion of United States power on the ground as a process that drew upon the example of its imperial predecessors and was forced to grapple with their legacies. They argue that American empire was never confined to one era but is instead a thread throughout history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry Author: Tevi Troy Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?  In The Power and the Money, acclaimed presidential historian Tevi Troy takes readers on a riveting journey through the biggest battles between CEOs and the nation’s commander in chief. He unearths the untold stories – both political and personal – that have shaped America. Troy shows how the vast reach of the federal government become a critical fact of life for every business, entrepreneur, and innovator. Today, companies find themselves navigating a competitive landscape defined by stringent regulations, so top CEOs and key business leaders must influence the legislative and regulatory system. As public affairs teams and government relations experts put forward strategies to survive Washington, CEOs have become the most important warrior on the frontlines. The Power and the Money shows how some of the nation’s most important CEOs forged (and fumbled) relationships with the president. Troy also shows how the most powerful man in the world depends on CEOs. CEOs provide assistance in the form of personnel, policy insights, and campaign cash, but they also become essential foils for presidents, serving as both allies and convenient enemies. The Power and the Money reveals an intricate web of power, where CEOs need presidents, and presidents need CEOs. Troy shows how each must step carefully – or risk unpredictable costs and collateral damage. From heavyweights John D. Rockefeller and Mark Zuckerberg to Katherine Graham, Elon Musk, and more, Troy takes readers inside the friendships and the conflicts that shook the American economy and re-shaped America. Drawing on his experiences as bestselling historian and former senior White House aide, Troy offers unique insights and details that shed light on the growing, intertwining behemoths of government and big business – and what it means for the future of our nation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin Author: Susanna Ashton Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States. A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Susanna Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson's remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. This fresh and original work takes us through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the restoration of white supremacy—where we last glimpse Jackson losing his freedom again on a Southern chain gang. In the spirit of Tiya Miles's prizewinning All That She Carried and Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught, Susanna Ashton breathes life into a striving and nuanced American character, one unmistakably rooted in the vast sweep of nineteenth-century America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now Author: Leslie Kemp Poole Narrator: Ann Sprinkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: How has Florida's land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today. In this book, John Muir and Harriet Beecher Stowe write about their visits to Florida, reflecting their expectations of a place that was touted to be 'paradise.' John James Audubon finds riches of bird life in the Keys. Zora Neale Hurston travels to turpentine camps and sawmills documenting the stories and music of workers and residents. Jonathan Dickinson and Stephen Crane recount shipwrecks along a sparsely populated coastline. Using journals and articles by these and other authors that date back to the early European exploration of the region, Poole retraces their steps. The land they write about is often hard to imagine in today's Florida, a top destination for tourists filled with almost twenty-two million residents. These stories show the evolving history of the state and the richness of its natural resources. Poole's comparisons also point to the people who have been displaced and the ecosystems that have been dramatically altered by exploration and development.