Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt Author: Arthur C. Brooks Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 12, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right? Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American. Meanwhile, one in six Americans have stopped talking to close friends and family members over politics. Millions are organizing their social lives and curating their news and information to avoid hearing viewpoints differing from their own. Ideological polarization is at higher levels than at any time since the Civil War. America has developed a “culture of contempt”—a habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect or misguided, but as worthless. Maybe you dislike it—more than nine out of ten Americans say they are tired of how divided we have become as a country. But hey, either you play along, or you’ll be left behind, right? Wrong. In Love Your Enemies, New York Times bestselling author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks shows that treating others with contempt and out-outraging the other side is not a formula for lasting success. Blending cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of America’s top policy think tanks, Love Your Enemies offers a new way to lead based not on attacking others, but on bridging national divides and mending personal relationships. Brooks’ prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, he argues, we shouldn’t try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn’t be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act. Love Your Enemies is not just a guide to being a better person. It offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. And most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Author: Greg Grandin Narrator: Eric Pollins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: *WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION* From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation—democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history—from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion—fighting wars and opening markets—served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases Author: Mark Tushnet Narrator: Mark Tushnet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: December 18, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions? In offering thirteen famous dissents-from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved-renowned Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not pronouncements issued by the utterly objective, they are in fact political statements from highly intelligent but partisan people. Tushnet introduces readers to the very concept of dissent in the courts and then provides useful context for each case, filling in gaps in the Court's history and providing an overview of the issues at stake. After each case, he considers the impact the dissenting opinion would have had, if it had been the majority decision. Lively and accessible, I Dissent offers a radically fresh view of the judiciary in a collection that is essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel Author: Francine Klagsbrun Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 32 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 30, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben-Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund-raising in America in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israel's declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israel's first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in the 1950s and 1960s, Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd deal-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life—the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants. As prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordan's King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israel's neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syria's surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Analyzing newly available documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated using nuclear force. Resigning in the war's aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbrun's superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel's founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Author: Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt Narrator: Jonathan Haidt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 25, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Coddling of the America Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, read by Jonathan Haidt. What doesn't kill you makes you weaker Always trust your feelings Life is a battle between good people and evil people These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. And yet they have become increasingly woven into education, culminating in a stifling culture of 'safetyism' that began on American college campuses and is spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world. In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate six trends that caused the spread of these untruths, from the decline of unsupervised play to the corporatization of universities and the rise of new ideas about identity and justice. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people can hamper their development, with devastating consequences for them, for the educational system and for democracy itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La política en el siglo XXI: Arte, mito o ciencia Author: Jaime Durán Barba Narrator: Martín De Renzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 10, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Jaime Durán Barba y Santiago Nieto, los mejores asesores políticos de Latinoamérica, despliegan todo el conocimiento que adquirieron en los últimos años diseñando campañas electorales, y brindan las claves necesarias para entender la nueva sociedad y la política del siglo XXI. Jaime Durán Barba y Santiago Nieto han tenido éxitos sorprendentes en toda Latinoamérica con sus provocadoras e innovadoras campañas electorales. Siempre alejados de la corrección política, en este libro analizan los cambios que se produjeron en la sociedad para entender la nueva era. Explican por qué el sistema tradicional colapsó y es necesario acercarse a la política superando los mitos, para no caer en análisis arcaicos y paradigmas obsoletos. Argumentan por qué la democracia está en plena crisis de representatividad, con ciudadanos que tienen el poder armados apenas con un teléfono, en medio de la mayor revolución tecnológica y del conocimiento de la historia. Derriban el mito de que el electorado es obediente y manipulable, falacia y prejuicio que lleva a muchos políticos tradicionales a no comprender que la opinión pública es incontrolable. Tras más de treinta años diseñando campañas de comunicación electoral y de gobierno, Durán Barba y Nieto han cambiado la forma de interpretar la relación de los ciudadanos con la política. Con mezcla de teorías de diversas ciencias contrastadas con experiencias concretas, y repleto de jugosos ejemplos recopilados en el campo de batalla durante los últimos años, La política en el siglo XXI es un audiolibro fundamental e ineludible para comprender nuestro tiempo.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists Author: Chris Stirewalt Narrator: Chris Stirewalt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 11, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From Fox News' politics editor Chris Stirewalt -- a fun and lively account of America's populist tradition, from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. Whatever the ideological fad of the moment, American populism has always been home to a fascinating assortment of charismatic leaders, characters, kooks, cranks, and sometimes charlatans who have - with widely varying degrees of success - led the charge of ordinary folks who have gotten wise to the ways of the swamp. This attitude of skeptical resentment also makes populism a fertile field for the work of conspiracy theorists and other enthusiastic apostates from civic convention. After all, if the people in power are found to be rigging one part of the system, why not the rest? Every Man a King tells the stories of America's populist leaders, from an elderly Andrew Jackson brutally caning his would-be-assassin, to William Jennings Bryan's pre-speech routine that combined equally prodigious quantities of prayer and food, to Ross Perot's military-style campaign that made even volunteers wear badges with stars to show rank. It is a rollicking history of an American attitude that has shaped not only our current moment, but also the long struggle over who gets to define the truths we hold to be self evident.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/346977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 Author: Stephen Kotkin Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 14, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue—bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse—this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR. The new edition puts the collapse in the context of the global economic and political changes from the 1970s to the present day. Kotkin creates a compelling profile of post Soviet Russia and he reminds us, with chilling immediacy, of what could not have been predicted—that the world's largest police state, with several million troops, a doomsday arsenal, and an appalling record of violence, would liquidate itself with barely a whimper. Throughout the book, Kotkin also paints vivid portraits of key personalities. Using recently released archive materials, for example, he offers a fascinating picture of Gorbachev, describing this virtuoso tactician and resolutely committed reformer as 'flabbergasted by the fact that his socialist renewal was leading to the system's liquidation'—and more or less going along with it. At once authoritative and provocative, Armageddon Averted illuminates the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealing how 'principled restraint and scheming self-interest brought a deadly system to meek dissolution.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation Author: Kishore Mahbubani Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 5, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble. The West's centuries-old status as the centre of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers - China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America - rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react? Kishore Mahbubani argues passionately and provocatively that the West can no longer impose its power and ideals on the world at large, and - paradoxically - that only by admitting its decline can the West set itself up for strategic success in the long term. Mahbubani examines the myths and self-delusions of Western power with an outsider's critical eye, and the shocking freshness of his geopolitical analysis will give all Westerners and political thinkers pause for thought.