Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509862 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Here, Right Matters: An American Story

Author: Alexander Vindman

Narrator: Alexander Vindman, Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Release date: August 3, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his career in service of his new home on the battlefield and at the White House, and the decisions leading up to, and fallout surrounding, his exposure of President Trump's abuse of power.  0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine’s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman’s actions and subsequent testimony before congress would lead to Trump’s impeachment and affirm Vindman's belief that he had done the right thing in the face of intense pressure to stay silent. But it would come at an enormous cost, straining relationships with colleagues, superiors, and even his own father, and eventually end his decorated career in the US Army, by a Trump administration intent on retribution.  Here, Right Matters is Vindman’s proud, passionate, and candid account of his family, his career, and the moment of truth he faced for his nation. As an immigrant, raised by a father who fled the Soviet Union in pursuit of a better life for his children, Vindman learned about respect for truth throughout his education and military service. As this memoir makes clear, his decision to speak up about the July 25th call was never a choice: it was Vindman’s duty, as a naturalized citizen and member of the armed forces. In the wake of his testimony, he would endure furious partisan attacks on his record and his loyalty. But far louder was the extraordinary chorus of support from citizens who were collectively intent on reaffirming an abiding American commitment to integrity.   In the face of a sure-fire career derailment and public excoriation, Vindman heeded the lessons from the people and institutions who instilled in him the moral compass and the courage to act decisively. Like so many other American immigrant families, the Vindmans had to learn to build a life from scratch and take big risks to achieve important goals. Here, Right Matters is about the quiet heroes who keep us safe; but, above all, it is a call to arms for those who refuse to let America betray its true self.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513625 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place

Author: Felix Marquardt

Narrator: Felix Marquardt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Release date: July 29, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills. We've got it all wrong. Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. Our times require more migration, not less.  Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501955 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP

Author: Jess Phillips

Narrator: Jess Phillips

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 0 minutes

Release date: July 22, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

‘This book is here to take you inside the daily realities of Westminster. I don’t mean that it’s going to bore you to death with a blow by blow account of what it’s like to sit on the Statutory Instrument Debate on Naval regulations 1968-2020 – but to demystify the places and practice of politics.’ From agonising decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in on history-making moments at the UN to eating McCain potato smiles at a black-tie banquet in China, the life of a politician is never dull. And it’s also never been more important. But politics is far bigger than Westminster, and in this book Jess Phillips makes the compelling case for why now, more than ever, we all need to be a part of it. With trademark humour and honesty, Jess Phillips lifts the lid on what a career in politics is really like and why it matters – to all of us. This is the inside story of what’s really going on.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514016 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870

Author: Daniel Carpenter

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 3 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Known as the age of democracy, the nineteenth century witnessed the extension of the franchise and the rise of party politics. As Daniel Carpenter shows, however, democracy in America emerged not merely through elections and parties, but through the transformation of an ancient political tool: the petition. A statement of grievance accompanied by a list of signatures, the petition afforded women and men excluded from formal politics the chance to make their voices heard and to reshape the landscape of political possibility. Democracy by Petition traces the explosion and expansion of petitioning across the North American continent. Indigenous tribes in Canada, free Blacks from Boston to the British West Indies, Irish canal workers in Indiana, and Hispanic settlers in territorial New Mexico all used petitions to make claims on those in power. Petitions facilitated the extension of suffrage, the decline of feudal land tenure, and advances in liberty for women, African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. Even where petitioners failed in their immediate aims, their campaigns advanced democracy by setting agendas, recruiting people into political causes, and fostering aspirations of equality. The coming of democracy in America owes much to the unprecedented energy with which the petition was employed in the antebellum period.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/508365 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Race, Crime, and the Law

Author: Randall Kennedy

Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

An 'admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book” (New York Times Book Review) in which “one of our most important and perceptive writers on race' (The Washington Post) takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. 'This book should be a standard for all law students.'—Boston Globe In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, probing allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/508359 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Author: Randall Kennedy

Narrator: Tovah Ott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of the term and shows how its usage bedevils blacks and whites, while elucidating the effects it has on individuals and on our society as a whole. Kennedy begins his exploration of selling out with a cogent, historical definition of the "black" community, accounting precisely for who is considered black and who is not. He looks at the ways in which prominent members of that community--Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Barack Obama, among others--have been stigmatized as sellouts. He outlines the history of the suspicion of racial betrayal among blacks, and he shows how current fears of selling out are expressed in thought and practice. He offers a rigorous and bracing case study of the quintessential "sellout"--Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps the most vilified black public official in American history. And he gives is a first-person reckoning of how he himself has dealt with accusations of having sold out at Harvard, especially after the publication of Nigger. Lucidly and powerfully articulated, Sellout is essential to any discussion of the troubled history of race in America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/499292 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

Author: Jamie Mackay

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Release date: July 13, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places. From its pivotal position in the development of Greek and Roman mythology, and the beautiful remnants of both the Arab and Norman invasions, through to the rise of the bandits and the Cosa Nostra, The Invention of Sicily is the perfect companion to the culture and history of Sicily. Mackay weaves the political and social development of the island in with its fascinating cultural heritage—in doing so discussing how great works including Lampedusa's masterpiece The Leopard and its film adaptation by Visconti, and the novels of Leonardo Sciascia, among many others, have both been shaped by Sicily's past, and continue to shape it into the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504279 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: It’s a Fair Cop: Series 4-6: The BBC Radio 4 stand-up comedy

Author: Alfie Moore

Narrator: Alfie Moore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Release date: July 8, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Ever wondered what sort of a police officer you might make? In Series 4-6, Alfie dives into deeper topics than before. How many times were you filmed without your knowledge today? What is the legacy of ASBOs? Alfie takes the audience with him as he navigates the twisted world of government surveillance. Alfie Moore spent 18 years on the Humberside police force before turning to stand-up comedy. In each episode of this live stand-up show, he takes his audience through a scenario based on a real-life case and tasks them with deciding how they would have acted in the circumstances. Along the way Alfie spills the beans on what it's really like to be one of Britain's finest, tells us some great anecdotes about law breakers and makers that he's come across and gets his audience to divulge secrets about their own, sometimes less than strictly law-abiding lives. Series 4: 1. The Wrath of Zeus 2. Office Banter 3. Hedgerow Hedge Row 4. Pass the Person 5. Misper Mervyn Series 5: 1. Police Complaints 2. Babysitter 3. Wild Westwood 4. Informant Series 6: 1. Dog Theft 2. Malicious Communication 3. Sudden Death 4. Vehicle Stop 5. Exposure 6. Policing Covid Written and performed by Alfie Moore. Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith. © 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513390 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy

Author: Jeffrey E. Garten

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard—breaking the link between gold and the dollar—transforming the entire global monetary system. Over the course of three days—from August 13 to 15, 1971—at a secret meeting at Camp David, President Richard Nixon and his brain trust changed the course of history. Before that weekend, all national currencies were valued to the U.S. dollar, which was convertible to gold at a fixed rate. That system, established by the Bretton Woods Agreement at the end of World War II, was the foundation of the international monetary system that helped fuel the greatest expansion of middle-class prosperity the world has ever seen.   In making his decision, Nixon shocked world leaders, bankers, investors, traders and everyone involved in global finance. Jeffrey E. Garten argues that many of the roots of America’s dramatic retrenchment in world affairs began with that momentous event that was an admission that America could no longer afford to uphold the global monetary system. It opened the way for massive market instability and speculation that has plagued the world economy ever since, but at the same time it made possible the gigantic expansion of trade and investment across borders which created our modern era of once unimaginable progress. Based on extensive historical research and interviews with several participants at Camp David, and informed by Garten’s own insights from positions in four presidential administrations and on Wall Street, Three Days at Camp David chronicles this critical turning point, analyzes its impact on the American economy and world markets, and explores its ramifications now and for the future.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506186 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Politics in the European Union, Fifth Edition

Author: Owen Parker, Simon Bulmer, Stephen George, Charlotte Burns, Ian Bache

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 33 hours 43 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2021

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Politics in the European Union is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the EU. Unique in its in-depth coverage of the history of the EU, the book explores a wide range of topics, including institutions and policies, making it a complete guide to understanding the complex nature of the EU. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been fully updated to include coverage of Brexit, the refugee crisis, and political developments within member states.