Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defeating Big Government Socialism: Saving America's Future Author: Newt Gingrich Narrator: Tom Parks, Newt Gingrich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author and former Speaker Newt Gingrich reveals how Big Government Socialism is crippling America—and offers strategies and insights for everyday citizens to overcome its influence.   In communities across our country, Americans are debating Critical Race Theory, vaccine mandates, tax increases, rising inflation, online censorship, and a host of other important issues.    We have serious decisions to make about the future of our nation. Do we want big government, or limited government? Do we want to work hard and keep what we earn, or do we want government to decide how our money is spent? Do we want our children to learn how to think in school, or be told what to think? Do we want to make our own decisions about health care, or should the federal government dictate our treatments? Should American companies compete on a level playing field, or should Washington decide who wins and loses?  Speaker Gingrich analyzes these questions, describes the polling that shows what the American Majority wants, and illustrates how we can create a safer, more prosperous, and secure future for America.     In Defeating Big Government Socialism, Gingrich explains how Americans can reject the values of Big Government Socialists who have taken over the modern Democratic Party, big business, news media, entertainment, and academia. He lays out a roadmap to save America’s future and ensure it remains the greatest nation on earth.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party Author: Tony Saich Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary, the party remains in command, leading a nation primed for global dominance. Tony Saich tells the authoritative, comprehensive story of the Chinese Communist Party—its rise to power against incredible odds, its struggle to consolidate rule and overcome self-inflicted disasters, and its thriving amid other Communist parties' collapse. Saich argues that the brutal Japanese invasion in the 1930s actually helped the party. Once in power, however, the Communists faced the difficult task of learning how to rule. Leninist systems are thought to be rigid, yet the Chinese Communist Party has proved adaptable. From Rebel to Ruler shows that the party owes its endurance to its flexibility. But is it nimble enough to realize Xi Jinping's 'China Dream?' Challenges are multiplying, as the growing middle class makes new demands on the state and the ideological retreat from communism draws the party further from its revolutionary roots. The legacy of the party may be secure, but its future is anything but guaranteed.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Celia, A Slave Author: Melton A. Mclaurin Narrator: Mia Ellis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most prosperous and respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. After purchasing Celia in a neighboring county, Newsom raped her on the journey back to his farm. He then established her in a small cabin near his house and visited her regularly. Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club and disposed of his body in her fireplace. Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial. She received a surprisingly vigorous defense from her court-appointed attorneys. Nevertheless, the court upheld the tenets of a white social order that wielded almost total control over the lives of slaves. Celia was found guilty and hanged. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society. Celia's case demonstrates how one master's abuse of power over a single slave forced whites to make moral decisions about the nature of slavery.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Western Jihadism Author: Jytte Klausen Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In forensic and compelling detail, Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s helped create and control one of the world's most impactful terrorist movements—and how, after the near-obliteration of the organization during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, they helped build it again. She shows how the diffusion of Islamist terrorism to Europe and North America has been driven, not by local grievances of Western Muslims, but by the strategic priorities of the international Salafi-jihadist revolutionary movement. The jihadists—Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and their many affiliates and associates—also proved to be amazingly resilient. Again and again, the movement recovered from major setbacks. Appealing to disaffected Muslims of immigrant origin and alienated converts to Islam, jihadist groups continue to recruit new adherents in Europe and North America, street-side in neighborhoods, in jails, and online through increasingly clandestine platforms. Taking a comparative and historical approach, deploying cutting-edge analytical tools, and drawing on her unparalleled database of up to 6,500 Western jihadist extremists and their networks, Klausen has produced the most comprehensive account yet of the origins of Western jihadism and its role in the global movement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Author: Michael Parenti Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how 'rational fascism' renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the 'free-market' victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington Author: Donald A. Ritchie Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily 'Washington Merry-Go-Round' column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources. For forty years, this syndicated columnist and radio and television commentator called public officials to account and forced them to confront the facts. Pearson's daily column, published in more than 600 newspapers, and his weekly radio and television commentaries led to the censure of two US senators, sent four members of the House to prison, and undermined numerous political careers. Breaking secrets was the heartbeat of Pearson's column. He played cat and mouse with the investigators who shadowed him, tapped his phone, read his mail, and planted agents among his friends. Yet they rarely learned his sources. Drawing on Pearson's extensive correspondence, diaries, and oral histories, The Columnist reveals the mystery behind Pearson's leaks and the accuracy of his most controversial revelations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division Author: Samuel Goldman Narrator: Roger Wayne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Nationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end of the Cold War. In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman trains a sympathetic but skeptical eye on the trend, highlighting the deep challenges that face any contemporary effort to revive social cohesion at the national level. Noting the obstacles standing in the way of basing any unifying political project on a singular vision of national identity, Goldman highlights three pillars of mid-twentieth-century nationalism, all of which are absent today: the social dominance of Protestant Christianity, the absorption of European immigrants in a broader white identity, and the defense of democracy abroad. Most of today's nationalists fail to recognize these necessary underpinnings of any renewed nationalism, or the potentially troubling consequences that they would engender. To secure the general welfare in a new century, the future of American unity lies not in monolithic nationalism. Rather, Goldman suggests we move in the opposite direction: go small, embrace difference as the driving characteristic of American society, and support political projects grounded in local communities.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El príncipe moderno: Democracia, política y poder Author: Pablo Simón Narrator: Eduardo Robles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ¿Cómo podemos entender la política para así poder obrar como consejeros del Príncipe? Una introducción al descompuesto y desorientador panorama de la política actual. La crisis económica ha acelerado el ritmo de los cambios políticos en todo el mundo: mayor imprevisibilidad electoral, regresiones autoritarias, surgimiento de nuevos partidos, dificultades para formar gobierno o aumento de las tensiones territoriales, todas ellas cuestiones al orden del día. Esta aceleración ha hecho que cada vez haya ganado más espacio en el debate público una figura hasta ahora ignorada: el politólogo. Este libro tiene por objeto reivindicar su papel y presentar modestamente lo que la ciencia política empírica puede aportar a este tiempo de cambios. Con guiños a la obra clásica de Nicolás Maquiavelo, El príncipe moderno hace una revisión de la agenda política contemporánea. El origen del Estado y el papel de la globalización, los ejes fundamentales de la democracia y su organización institucional, el destino de los nuevos y viejos partidos o el devenir de nuestros Estados de bienestar son algunas de las cuestiones revisadas. Muchas de ellas aún están abiertas, pero constituyen el mejor ejemplo para reivindicar la importancia de esta disciplina como un instrumento útil para entender mejor los cimientos de la política actual.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - ¿Dónde está la franja amarilla? Author: William Ospina Narrator: René Sagastume Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'En algunos de sus relatos Gabriel García Márquez habla de un hombre que está muriendo de indigencia en el paraíso. Cualquier colombiano, rico o pobre, puede hoy reconocerse allí.' 'Hemos hecho del más privilegiado territorio del continente una desoladora pesadilla. Las sierras eléctricas aniquilan una naturaleza que podría salvarnos; la conquista de América prosigue con su viejo rostro brutal contra los hombres y las selvas; la peste del olvido borró nuestros orígenes y nuestros sueños. Pero todos necesitamos un país. Las páginas que siguen no son más que un esfuerzo sincero por entender lo que somos: un escritor tiene el deber de ser parte de su tierra y de su época. Reinventar el país no puede ser tarea de unos cuantos, pero la enormidad de la labor casi exige milagros. Recuerdo entonces aquellaspalabras de Voltaire sobre los hombres de su tiempo: 'Necesitaban milagros: los hicieron'' William Ospina

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El poder vacío: El agotamiento de un régimen sin legitimidad Author: Lorenzo Meyer Narrator: Beto Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: «Tras el agotamiento del priismo, México está embarcado en una gran aventura: escribir un nuevo capítulo de su historia.» El poder vacío no escatima ideas para exprimir (en el sentido barroco de «explicar») la naturaleza de la política, su crítica y la estructura social en nuestro país, lo que constituye el bagaje para analizar, por momentos acaso sin piedad, los lastres de un PRI muy venido a menos, como la violencia, la corrupción y la violación de los derechos humanos, así como las realidades que no previó ni como partido ni como gobierno: las elecciones de 2018, la enseña lopezobradorista y, finalmente, el inimaginado cambio que, cuando despertó, ya estaba ahí. Con hechos descritos puntualmente, con cifras documentadas, con la luz de fundadas teorías políticas y no con un adarme de citas, sino con una razonada exposición de ellas, este libro da cuenta de la decadencia de un sistema que incluso en el año 2000, con la engañosa alternancia, parecía imbatible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La libertad de ser libres Author: Hannah Arendt Narrator: Javier Portugués (portu), Charo Soria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: «Leer a Hannah Arendt permite comprender mejor el presente.» Berliner Morgenpost ¿Qué es la libertad y qué significa para nosotros? ¿Consiste solo en la ausencia de miedo y restricciones, o acaso implica también la participación en procesos sociales, con voz política propia, ser escuchado, reconocido y finalmente recordado por otros? Publicado en Estados Unidos en los años sesenta pero inédito hasta hoy en español -y en alemán-, este ensayo refleja el rigor y la fuerza del pensamiento político de Hannah Arendt y condensa con precisión y maestría sus reflexiones sobre la libertad, de gran calado y capaces de conectar de manera asombrosa con los desafíos y peligros de nuestro tiempo. Arendt rastrea el desarrollo histórico de la noción de libertad, en particular, toma en cuenta las revoluciones en Francia y América. Mientras que la primera supuso un punto de inflexión en la historia pero terminó en desastre, la otra fue un éxito triunfal pero semantuvo como un asunto local. Repensar la idea de revolución se ha vuelto imperioso hoy, y este reencuentro con Hannah Arendt representa el impulso necesario para las nuevas generaciones. La crítica ha dicho: «Hannah Arendt tuvo una fecunda relación con la teoría política, un campo del saber que revindicó con ahínco y que le sirvió para sobrellevar todas las crisis políticas y personales de los amargos tiempos que le tocó vivir. Hoy, como entonces, el vocabulario que empleó para pensar y narrar el mundo, sus reflexiones y esa escritura tan bella, tan suya, nos ayudan a interpretar lo que nos ocurre, aunque solo sea como simplesenanos mirando el mundo a hombros de gigantes. Ella, desde luego, lo fue.» Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, Babelia, El País «Este ensayo recién redescubierto es como una petición de compromiso político en la era de Trump.» Die Zeit «Pese a haber sido escrito hace cincuenta años, es tan moderno que parece pensado para la actualidad política mundial.» Westdeutscher Rundfunk «Breve y revelador. Escrito hace más de cincuenta años, es de una vigencia pasmosa.» Deutschlandfunk Kultur «Una pieza muy atractiva y perdida por largo tiempo.» Süddeutsche Zeitung «Este texto tiene futuro hoy.» Frankfurter Rundschau «Un texto muy sugerente, que además es perfecto para los recién llegados a Arendt.» Zeitzeichen «Un ensayo inspirador de una relevancia extraordinaria, especialmente en tiempos en que se cuestionan los valores liberales del orden democrático.» Philosophie «Lo que parece un análisis preciso de la fallida construcción de la nación por medios militares,desde Somalia hasta Irak y Afganistán, en realidad tiene cinco décadas de antigüedad.» Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung «Vale la pena leerlo por la claridad de su razonamiento, por ejemplo a la hora de fijar el concepto de 'revolución' y reflejar su cambio histórico de significado.» Badische Neueste Nachrichten

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Anarchist Handbook Author: Michael Malice Narrator: Michael Malice And Others Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.7 of Total 10 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Anarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society—and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself—anarchism—is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in many colors.The Anarchist Handbook is an opportunity for all these many varied voices to speak for themselves, from across the decades. These were human beings who saw things differently from their fellow men. They fought and they loved. They lived and they died. They disagreed on much, but they all shared one vision: Freedom. TRACK LISTING 1. Hoch Die Anarchie! read by Michael Malice 2. William Godwin read by Arthur Herman 3. Max Stirner read by Ethan Suplee 4. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon read by Tim Pool 5. Herbert Spencer read by Chris Williamson 6. Josiah Warren read by David Pietrusza 7. Mikhail Bakunin read by Karol Markowicz 8. Lysander Spooner read by Kmele Foster 9. Johann Most read by Curtis Yarvin 10. Louis Lingg read by Michael Malice 11. Benjamin Tucker read by Dave Rubin 12. Peter Kropotkin read by Yeon-Mi Park 13. Leo Tolstoy read by Buck Sexton 14. Alexander Berkman read by Maj Toure 15. Voltairine De Cleyre read by Adrianne Curry 16. Emma Goldman read by Mikhaila Peterson 17. Dynamite read by Lauren Chen 18. Morris and Linda Tannehill read by Bridget Phetasy 19. David Friedman read by Dave Smith 20. Murray Rothbard read by Tom Woods 21. John Hasnas read by Ron Coleman 22. Michael Malice read by Lex Fridman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Principles Matter: The Constitution, Progressives, and the Trump Era Author: Carlos A. Ball Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Progressives who opposed the Trump administration's policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist the federal government. Although many progressives had either criticized or underemphasized those principles before Trump, the principles became vital to progressive causes after Trump was elected. Using dozens of examples from the ways in which Trump abused presidential powers, this book explains how the three sets of principles can help mitigate the harms that autocratic leaders in the Trump mold can inflict on both democratic institutions and vulnerable minorities. In doing so, the book urges progressives to follow this rule of thumb in the post-Trump era: If a constitutional principle was worth deploying to resist Trump's harmful policies and autocratic governance, then it is worth defending in the post-Trump era even if it makes the short-term attainment of progressive objectives more difficult. This type of principled constitutionalism is essential not only because being principled is good in and of itself, but also because being principled in matters related to federalism, separation of powers, and free speech will help both advance progressive causes over the long run and reduce the threats posed by future autocratic leaders.