Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifties Author: David Halberstam Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 34 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silk Road: A New History Author: Valerie Hansen Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: July 31, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different—and far more interesting—as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For centuries, key records remained hidden—sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping. But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed fascinating material, sometimes preserved by illiterate locals who recycled official documents to make insoles for shoes or garments for the dead. Hansen explores seven oases along the road, from Xi'an to Samarkand, where merchants, envoys, pilgrims, and travelers mixed in cosmopolitan communities, tolerant of religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. There was no single, continuous road, but a chain of markets that traded between east and west. China and the Roman Empire had very little direct trade. China's main partners were the peoples of modern-day Iran, whose tombs in China reveal much about their Zoroastrian beliefs. Silk was not the most important good on the road; paper, invented in China before Julius Caesar was born, had a bigger impact in Europe, while metals, spices, and glass were just as important as silk. Perhaps most significant of all was the road's transmission of ideas, technologies, and artistic motifs. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tides of History: Rise of the Modern World, Vol. 1 Series: Part of The Tides of History Series Author: Patrick Wyman Narrator: Patrick Wyman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 5, 2018 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. On Tides of History, we prove that the key to understanding our modern world is in our past.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 Author: Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper Narrator: Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 17, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Paris After the Liberation by Antony Beevor, read by Sean Barrett. Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944 Post-liberation Paris: an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a thrilling, unsurpassed account of the drama and upheaval of one of history's most fascinating eras. 'A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Pétain's and de Gaulle's point of view), the international theatricals and the tourist invasion, blitzkrieg and Ritzkrieg - to create a lovely tapestry, threaded with facts and figures' Olivier Todd, Sunday Times 'Absorbing . . . a rich, many-layered account, selecting from official documents, private archives, memoirs and histories with a wonderful lightness of touch, so that the most complex events become clear' Jenny Uglow, Independent on Sunday 'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social upheaval. Remarkably well-researched, wise, balanced, very funny at times . . . I was a witness to events in Paris in the first desperate, glorious, mad weeks, and this is just how it was' Dirk Bogarde

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332638 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels Author: Jon Meacham Narrator: Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 132 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history.   He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America Author: Philip Dray Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect 'soft' urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country's pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint towards wildlife, emerged as a worldview and gave birth to the conservation movement. But the sport's popularity also caused class, ethnic, and racial divisions, and stirred debate about the treatment of Native Americans and the role of hunting in preparing young men for war. This sweeping and balanced book offers a definitive account of hunting in America. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of our nation's foundational myths.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/331017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Days Author: Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men. The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon’s dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon’s fall from office—one of the gravest crises in presidential history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/337539 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain Author: Ruth Goodman Narrator: Ruth Goodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 5, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Historian and popular BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman, author of How to Be a Tudor, offers up a history of Renaissance Britain - the offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the Tudor neighbours.From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in.In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover:- how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard- why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form- the politics behind men kissing each other on the lips- why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone- the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besidesRuth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn't just rude, it worked!'Ruth is the queen of living history - long may she reign!'Lucy Worsley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention Author: Daniel L. Everett Narrator: Jonathan Yen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a 'bombshell' linguist and 'instant folk hero' (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than seven thousand languages that exist today. Although fossil hunters and linguists have brought us closer to unearthing the true origins of language, Daniel Everett's discoveries have upended the contemporary linguistic world, reverberating far beyond academic circles. While conducting field research in the Amazonian rainforest, Everett came across an age-old language nestled amongst a tribe of hunter-gatherers. Challenging long-standing principles in the field, Everett now builds on the theory that language was not intrinsic to our species. In order to truly understand its origins, a more interdisciplinary approach is needed—one that accounts as much for our propensity for culture as it does our biological makeup.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Political Scandals Series: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech Series Author: The Speech Resource Company Narrator: The Speech Resource Company Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Politicians, government officials, lobbyists, party officials, and others have been accused—and some prosecuted—of various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices throughout the years. Political Scandals includes speeches from the accused and the accusers in the political arena. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom WATERGATE 1. President Nixon’s first address to the nation, 4/30/73 2. Select committee testimony, 5/17/73–10/3/73 3. President Nixon’s address to the nation, 8/15/73 4. President Nixon’s answer to House Judiciary Committee, 4/29/74 5. House of Representatives Committee vote on impeachment, 7/28/74 6. Representative Barbara Jordan addresses impeachment proceedings, 7/25/74 7. Senate vote on impeachment, 7/28/74 8. President Nixon resigns, 8/8/74 9. Bob Woodward reflects on Watergate 10. President Ford pardons Richard Nixon, 9/8/74 BILL CLINTON SEX SCANDALS 11. President Clinton denies sexual relations with Monica Lewinski, 1/26/98 12. House impeachment hearings, 8/17/98 13. President Clinton admits affair, 8/17/98 14. Remarks following House vote to impeach, 12/19/98 15. President Clinton calls for conciliation following Senate vote, 2/12/99 16. Paula Jones reflects 17. Juanita Broderick reflects 18. Monica Lewinski reflects IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL 19. President Reagan addresses the nation on aid to the Contras, 6/24/86 20. President Reagan address to the nation on arms to Iran, 11/13/86 21. Iran-Contras Tower Report, 3/4/87 22. Iran-Contras congressional hearings—Oliver North & Fawn Hall OTHER POLITICAL SCANDALS 23. Anita Hill testimony at Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings 24. Clarence Thomas rebuttal of Anita Hill testimony 25. Ted Kennedy on Chappaquiddick fatal accident 26. John Edwards’ press conference on affair and illegitimate child 27. South Carolina governor Mark Sanford confesses affair 28. Gary Hart confesses to affair 29. Anthony Weiner press conference on sexting scandal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Maggie Mash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir's extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.