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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear America: Live Like It's 9/12 Author: Graham Allen Narrator: John Pruden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on September 12th, 2001 for lessons about our future. On the day after the World Trade Center was attacked, Americans came together regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. We were united. On that day, nearly every store in the country sold out of American flags. After the events of the last eighteen months, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the constant attempts to divide us by race, Graham Allen believes that we should all look back on the events of 9/12 and remember what unites us. He believes that we do not all have to be the same, that it's okay not to agree on everything, but that we share a common history and a set of values. Just as the year 1776 serves as a reminder of our beginning, 9/12 will serve as a reminder of our present and future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism Author: Tucker Carlson Narrator: Tucker Carlson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 73 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America’s long slide from innocence to orthodoxy. Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly magazine, and he went on to write for many other publications before becoming the primetime Fox News host he is today. In The Long Slide, Tucker delivers a few of his favorite pieces—annotated with new commentary and insight—to memorialize the tolerance and diversity of thought that the media used to celebrate instead of punish. In snapshots spanning the 1990s to today, he’ll take you on a visit to Africa with Al Sharpton and members of the Nation of Islam to stop the civil war in Liberia in 2003, inside the (not-so-) secret armies of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and on the campaign trail with Donald Trump in 2016. In case you missed it the first time around, you’ll also learn about the aesthetic merits of British colonialism, the second shift at a baked bean factory, the unexpected charm of James Carville, and the simple beauty of rural western Maine. With his signature wit and 20/20 hindsight, Tucker investigates in this patriotic and memorable collection a question on all of our minds: Has America really changed that much in recent decades? The answer is, unequivocally, yes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process Author: Alan M. Dershowitz Narrator: Jim Seybert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Alan Dershowitz has been called 'one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America' by Politico and 'the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights' by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed 'shoe-on-the-other-foot test,' to those who have been 'cancelled' for any number of faults, both real and imagined. Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture, he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that cancelling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech. In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529756 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition Author: Robert J.C. Young Narrator: David Vickery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of western political and cultural domination. Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The European Union: A Very Short Introduction, 4th edition Author: Simon Usherwood, John Pinder Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organization. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the world. On the other, it is currently in the throes of a phase of profound uncertainty about its viability and future. Showing how and why the EU has developed from 1950 to the present day, this Very Short Introduction covers a range of topics, including the Union's early history, the workings of its institutions and what they do, the interplay between 'eurosceptics' and federalists, and the role of the Union beyond Europe in international affairs and as a peace-keeper. In this fully updated fourth edition, Pinder and Usherwood cover the migrant crisis and the UK's decision to leave the Union, set in the context of a body that is now involved in most areas of public policy. Discussing how the EU continues to draw in new members, they conclude by considering the future of the Union and the choices and challenges that may lie ahead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Protests Are Heard: Enacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation Author: Sharon D. Welch Narrator: Jennifer Aquino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the Women's March in DC to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump's America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change? This book is an invaluable resource for anyone invested in the fight for social justice. Welch highlights examples of social justice work accomplished at the institutional level. From the worlds of social enterprise, impact investing, and sustainable business, After the Protests Are Heard describes the work being done to promote responsible business practices and healthy, cooperative communities. The book also illuminates how colleges and universities educate students to strive toward social justice on campuses across the country, such as the Engaged Scholarship movement, which fosters interactions between faculty and students and local and global communities. In each of these instances, activists work from within institutions to transform practices and structures to foster justice and equality.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don't Author: Laurel Elder Narrator: Janet Metzger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why Democratic women far outnumber Republican women in elective offices From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented rate. It appears that women are on a steady march toward equal representation across state legislatures and the US Congress, but there is a sharp divide in this representation along party lines. Most of the women in office are Democrats, and the number of elected Republican women has been plunging for decades. In The Partisan Gap, Elder examines why this disparity in women's representation exists, and why it's only going to get worse. Drawing on interviews with female office-holders, candidates, and committee members, she takes a look at what it is like to be a woman in each party. From party culture and ideology, to candidate recruitment and the makeup of regional biases, Elder shows the factors contributing to this harmful partisan gap, and what can be done to address it in the future. The Partisan Gap explores the factors that help, and hinder, women's political representation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent Author: Ben Shapiro Narrator: Ben Shapiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.59 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 13 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic. But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left? There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition. The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed. Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it. More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts, The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry Author: Richard Flanagan Narrator: Richard Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters? But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagan's expos� of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing. From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read. Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526302 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 5th Edition Author: Manfred B. Steger Narrator: Rachael Beresford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization. In the fifth edition of his bestselling Very Short Introduction, Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing. From climate change to the Ebola virus, Donald Trump to Twitter, trade wars to China's growing global profile, Steger explores today's unprecedented levels of planetary integration as well as the recent challenges posed by resurgent national populism.