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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177458 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - Enigmas históricos al descubierto. De Jesús a Bin LadenAuthor: César VidalNarrator: Rafael OñateFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 1 minuteRelease date: January 28, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: El conocido divulgador César Vidal aborda los mayores misterios históricos, nacionales e internacionales, para satisfacer la curiosidad de los lectores más inquietos, a través de una prosa clara y accesible: ¿quién ordenó el bombardeo de Guernica?, ¿fue Bin Laden un agente de la CIA?, ¿cómo se apoderó Gran Bretaña de Gibraltar?, ¿salvó el Opus Dei la economía de Franco? Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - César Vidal Manzanares es un abogado, periodista y escritor español. Ha trabajado para varias cadenas de radio, como la COPE y EsRadio, y periódicos, como El Mundo o La Razón.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230182 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Rescue at Los Banos: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War IIAuthor: Bruce HendersonNarrator: Brett BarryFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 55 minutesRelease date: March 31, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines—most of them American men, women and children—would not survive much longer unless rescued soon. Deeply concerned about the half-starved and ill-treated prisoners, General Douglas MacArthur assigned to the 11th Airborne Division a dangerous rescue mission deep behind enemy lines that became a deadly race against the clock. The Los Baños raid would become one of the greatest triumphs of that war or any war; hailed years later by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell: “I doubt that any airborne unit in the world will ever be able to rival the Los Baños prison raid. It is the textbook operation for all ages and all armies.” Combining personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research, Rescue at Los Baños tells the story of a remarkable group of prisoners—whose courage and fortitude helped them overcome hardship, deprivation, and cruelty—and of the young American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas who risked their lives to save them.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230252 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza, 1648–1715Series: #8 of The Story of CivilizationAuthor: Ariel Durant, Will DurantNarrator: Stefan RudnickiFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 36 hours 34 minutesRelease date: March 15, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The Age of Louis XIV is the biography of a period (1648–1715) that Spengler considered the apex of modern European civilization. 'Some centuries hence,' Frederick the Great correctly predicted to Voltaire, 'they will translate the good authors of the age of Pericles and Augustus.' Those authors are lovingly treated here: Pascal, Racine, and Boileau, Madame de S├®vign├®, Madame de la Fayette, and above all the philosopher-dramatist Moli├¿re, who so memorably exposed the vices and hypocrisies of the age. Central to the book is the 'Sun King' himself, Louis XIV. Louis XIV ruled France for over seventy years, longer than almost any European ruler in history. He is the subject of a character study that runs through seven chapters, revealing the flesh and blood beneath the purple and the crown. He is seen at his worst in his struggle with Jansenists and Huguenots, at his best in his patronage of literature and art, and at his most human in his love affairs with Henrietta Anne of Orl├®ans, Louise de La Valli├¿re, Madame de Montespan, and Madame de Maintenon. From France the narrative passes to the Netherlands, and after pausing to examine the domestic idylls of Vermeer, shows the Dutch opening their dikes to save their land from Louis XIV and sending William of Orange to become king of England and a leader of the European alliance against Louis' hegemony. In England we contemplate the heyday of virtue under the Puritans and study the strange character of Cromwell. We see Milton's passionate career as part of the vain effort to prevent the Stuart Restoration. We find Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch,' with more manners than morals, attend boisterous Restoration plays; we skim the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys; and we follow Jonathan Swift from genius to insanity. Crossing the North Sea we trace the tragic heroism of Charles XII of Sweden and the attempt of Peter the Great to lead Russia from barbarism to civilization. We accompany the noble Sobieski of Poland as he rescues Vienna from the Turks. We visit Italy and Spain. We see the Jews proscribed and impoverished in Europe but rising to riches in Amsterdam and following Sabbatai Zevi in a desperate hope of regaining Palestine and freedom. All this forms the background for the 'intellectual adventure' of the European mind in its passage from superstition, mythology, and intolerance to education, science, and philosophy, for this was the age when Newton and Leibniz gave simultaneous birth to calculus, when Newton bound the planets and the stars with a chain of universal gravitation. Toward the end of the volume the authors revert to their favorite subject, philosophy, and devote a full chapter, with love and care, to Spinoza. The book ends with the sunset of Le Roi Soleil: Louis punished for his aggressions by a swarm of enemies gathering around him; fighting till his people are destitute and disillusioned, till his treasury and his heart are empty; dying defeated and repentant, begging his grandson and successor not to imitate his taste for splendor and war; and followed in his funeral by the insults of the crowd.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230085 to listen full audiobooks.Title: 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in HistoryAuthor: Andrew MortonNarrator: James LangtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 0 minutesRelease date: March 10, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man dubbed 'the traitor king' and the Nazi high command, this is a saga of intrigue, betrayal, and deception suffused with a heady aroma of sex and suspicion. ,br> For the first time, Morton reveals the full story behind the cover-up of those damning letters and diagrams: the daring heist ordered by King George VI, the smooth duplicity of a Soviet spy as well as the bitter rows and recriminations among the British and American diplomats, politicians, and academics. Drawing on FBI documents, exclusive pictures, and material from the German, Russian, and British royal archives, as well as the personal correspondence of Churchill, Eisenhower, and the Windsors themselves, 17 CARNATIONS is a dazzling historical drama, full of adventure, intrigue, and startling revelations, written by a master of the genre.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228740 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the LusitaniaAuthor: Erik LarsonNarrator: Scott BrickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 5 minutesRelease date: March 10, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 143 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229843 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of CuteAuthor: Zac BissonnetteNarrator: P.J. OchlanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 36 minutesRelease date: March 3, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without advertising or big-box distribution. Beanie Babies were ten percent of eBay’s sales in its early days, with an average selling price of $30—six times the retail price. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal income of $662 million—more than Hasbro and Mattel combined. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with “rare” Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they’d once been deemed priceless. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226303 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and PowerAuthor: Steve FraserNarrator: Pete LarkinFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 16 hours 34 minutesRelease date: February 17, 2015Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, The Age of Acquiescence is provocative and fascinating.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228770 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789–1848Author: Adam ZamoyskiNarrator: Gildart JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 22 hours 34 minutesRelease date: February 10, 2015Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power—and their heads—were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they chose to fight back against every threat and insurgency, whether real or merely perceived, repressing their populaces through surveillance networks and violent, secretive police action. Europe, and the world, had entered a new era. In Phantom Terror, award-winning historian Adam Zamoyski argues that the stringent measures designed to prevent unrest had disastrous and far-reaching consequences, inciting the very rebellions they had hoped to quash. The newly established culture of state control halted economic development in Austria and birthed a rebellious youth culture in Russia that would require even harsher methods to suppress. By the end of the era, the first stirrings of terrorist movements had become evident across the continent, making the previously unfounded fears of European monarchs a reality. Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I. We still live with the legacy of this era of paranoia, which prefigured not only the modern totalitarian state but also the now preeminent contest between society's haves and have-nots. These tempestuous years of suspicion and suppression were the crux upon which the rest of European history would turn. In this magisterial history, Zamoyski chronicles the moment when desperate monarchs took the world down the path of revolution, terror, and world war.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/229839 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it MadeAuthor: Richard RhodesNarrator: Christian CoulsonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 0 minutesRelease date: February 3, 2015Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, “The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered” (The Washington Post). The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict inspired some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth. The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century. From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, readers have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now, he takes us into battlefields and bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain and changed the world forever. “Hell and Good Company is vivid and emotive…thrilling reading” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226404 to listen full audiobooks.Title: When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010Author: Tony JudtNarrator: Sean PrattFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 3 minutesRelease date: February 1, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt’s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of Judt’s life, the years in which he found his voice in the public sphere. Included are seminal essays on the full range of Judt’s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality, before 1989 and thereafter; Israel, the Holocaust and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in an age of increasing inequality. Judt was at once most at home and in a state of what he called internal exile from his native England, from Europe, and from America, and he finally settled in New York—between them all. He was a historian of the twentieth century acutely aware of the dangers of ethnic exceptionalism, and if he was shaped by anything, it was the Jewish past and his own secularism. His essays on Israel ignited a firestorm debate for their forthright criticisms of Israeli government polices relating to the Palestinians and the occupied territories. Those crucial pieces are published here in book form for the first time, including an essay, never previously published, called “What Is to Be Done?” These pieces are suffused with a deep compassion for the Israeli dilemma, a compassion that instilled in Judt a sense of responsibility to speak out and try to find a better path, away from what he saw as a road to ruin.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228384 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558–1648Series: #7 of The Story of CivilizationAuthor: Ariel Durant, Will DurantNarrator: Grover GardnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 34 hours 56 minutesRelease date: January 27, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: This seventh volume of Will and Ariel Durant's renowned Story of Civilization chronicles the history of European civilization from 1558 to 1648. The Age of Reason Begins brings together a fascinating network of stories in the discussion of the bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs and greater artists—on the one hand, Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and Henry IV of France; on the other, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Rembrandt. It also encompasses the heyday of Francis Bacon, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Descartes, the fathers of modern science and philosophy. But it is equally an age of extreme violence, a moment in which all Europe was embroiled in the horrible Thirty Years' War—in some respects, the real first world war. This chapter in cultural history is one that can't be missed.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/228361 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and HavanaAuthor: William M. LeoGrande, Peter KornbluhNarrator: Robertson DeanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 18 hours 49 minutesRelease date: January 20, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top-secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a 'new approach,' William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future. LeoGrande and Kornbluh have uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers. The authors describe how, despite the political clamor surrounding any hint of better relations with Havana, serious negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226045 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in FranceAuthor: Miranda Richmond MouillotNarrator: Miranda Richmond MouillotFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 24 minutesRelease date: January 20, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever. A Fifty-Year Silence is the deeply involving account of Miranda Richmond Mouillot's journey to find out what happened between her grandmother, a physician, and her grandfather, an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, who refused to utter his wife's name aloud after she left him. To discover the roots of their embittered and entrenched silence, Miranda abandons her plans for the future and moves to their stone house, now a crumbling ruin; immerses herself in letters, archival materials, and secondary sources; and teases stories out of her reticent, and declining, grandparents. As she reconstructs how Anna and Armand braved overwhelming odds and how the knowledge her grandfather acquired at Nuremberg destroyed their relationship, Miranda wrestles with the legacy of trauma, the burden of history, and the complexities of memory. She also finds herself learning how not only to survive but to thrive--making a home in the village and falling in love. With warmth, humor, and rich, evocative details that bring her grandparents' outsize characters and their daily struggles vividly to life, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking, uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223417 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel CompanyAuthor: Joseph MichelliNarrator: Tom ParksFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 14 minutesRelease date: January 6, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as:• Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers • Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect • Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns • Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimenSharing engaging stories from the company's employees—from the corporate office and hotels around the globe—Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them.The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225768 to listen full audiobooks.Title: City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaAuthor: Donald L. MillerNarrator: Johnny HellerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 24 hours 22 minutesRelease date: January 2, 2015Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects -- which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's unresolved struggle between order and freedom, growth and control, capitalism and community, remains instructive for our time, as we seek ways to build and maintain cities that retain their humanity without losing their energy. City of the Century throbs with the pulse of the great city it brilliantly brings to life.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/226222 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil WarAuthor: Don H. DoyleNarrator: Adam GrupperFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 5 minutesRelease date: December 30, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, he realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that in Europe and Latin America people were watching to see whether the democratic experiment in 'government by the people' would 'perish from the earth.' In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was more than an internal American conflict; it was a struggle that spanned the Atlantic Ocean. This book follows the agents of the North and South who went abroad to tell the world what they were fighting for, and the foreign politicians, journalists, and intellectuals who told America and the world what they thought this war was really about-or ought to be about. Foreigners looked upon the American contest as an epic battle in a grand historic struggle that would decide the fate of democracy as well as slavery for generations to come. A bold account of the international dimensions of America's defining conflict, The Cause of All Nations frames the Civil War as a crucial turning point in the global struggle over the future of democracy.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225927 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving ThemAuthor: Tim Howard, Ali BenjaminNarrator: Jd JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 27 minutesRelease date: December 9, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: In this inspiring, down-to-earth memoir the revered goalkeeper and American icon idolized by millions worldwide for his dependability, daring, and humility recounts his rise to stardom at the 2014 World Cup, the psychological and professional challenges he has faced, and the enduring faith that has sustained him. In The Keeper, the man who electrified the world with his amazing performance in Brazil does something he would never do on a soccer field: he drops his guard. As fiercely protective about his privacy as he is guarding the goal on the field, Howard opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette’s syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world’s premier goalkeepers. The Keeper recalls his childhood, being raised by a single mother who instilled in him a love of sports and a devout Christian faith that helped him cope when he was diagnosed with Tourette’s in the fifth grade. He looks back over his fifteen-year professional career—from becoming the youngest player to win MLS Goalkeeper of the Year to his storied move to the English Premier League with Manchester United and his current team, Liverpool’s Everton, to becoming an overnight star after his record-making performance with the United States Men’s National Team. He also talks about the things closest to his heart—the importance of family and the Christian beliefs that guide him. Told in his thoughtful and articulate voice, The Keeper is an illuminating look at a remarkable man who is an inspirational role model for all of us. The Keeper is illustrated with two 8-page color photo inserts.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225791 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War & GodAuthor: Will DurantNarrator: Grover GardnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 19 minutesRelease date: December 9, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant—discovered thirty-two years after his death—is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey. From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: 'a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God.' And in 1975: 'I propose…to answer all the important questions, simply, fairly, and imperfectly.' Even into his nineties, he worked on the book daily, writing it out on legal notepads. Upon his death in 1981, no one, not even the Durant heirs, knew if he had completed it, or even if it still existed. Thirty-two years later, in a granddaughter's attic trunk, the manuscript was discovered. Fallen Leaves is Will Durant's most personal book. It is precisely as he described: twenty-two short chapters on everything from youth and old age, religion and morals, to sex, war, politics, and art. The culmination of Durant's sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of a gifted scholar with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. In its preface Durant mentions that over the course of his career he received letters from 'curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.' With Fallen Leaves he accepted their challenge. It contains strong opinions, elegant prose, and deep insights into the human condition as only Will Durant could provide, as well as his revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223804 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made HistoryAuthor: Boris Johnson, Simon ShepherdNarrator: Simon ShepherdFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 12 minutesRelease date: November 13, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays—with characteristic wit and passion—a man of contagious bravery, breathtaking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the king to stay out of action on D-Day; he pioneered aerial bombing and few could match his experience in organizing violence on a colossal scale, yet he hated war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was the most famous journalist of his time and perhaps the greatest orator of all time, despite a lisp and chronic depression he kept at bay by painting. His maneuvering positioned America for entry into World War II, even as it ushered in England’s post-war decline. His openmindedness made him a trailblazer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, he was a rebuttal to the idea that history is the story of vast and impersonal forces; he is proof that one person—intrepid, ingenious, determined—can make all the difference.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223616 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Between Two Worlds: How the English Became AmericansAuthor: Malcolm GaskillNarrator: Gildart JacksonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 38 minutesRelease date: November 11, 2014Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: WorldPublisher's Summary: Over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America in the seventeenth century, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future on distant shores. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these early English migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—sought to re-create their old country in the new land. Yet as Malcolm Gaskill reveals in Between Two Worlds, colonists' efforts to remake England and retain their Englishness proved impossible. As they strove to leave their mark on the New World, they too were altered: by harsh wilderness, by illness and infighting, and by bloody battles with Indians. Gradually acclimating to their new environment, later generations realized that they were perhaps not even English at all. These were the first Americans, and their newfound independence would propel them along the path toward rebellion. A major work of transatlantic history, Between Two Worlds brilliantly illuminates the long, complicated, and often traumatic process by which English colonists became American.
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