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Title: Terror and Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

Author: Stephen A. King

Narrator: Edward Herrman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Stephen A. King and Roger Davis Gatchet examine how Mississippi confronts its history of racial violence and injustice through civil rights tourism. Mississippi's civil rights memorials include a vast constellation of sites and experiences—from the humble Fannie Lou Hamer Museum in Ruleville to the expansive Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson—where the state's collective memories of the movement are enshrined, constructed, and contested. Rather than chronicle the history of the Mississippi Movement, the authors explore the museums, monuments, memorials, interpretive centers, homes, and historical markers marketed to heritage tourists in the state. Terror and Truth: Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement is the first book to examine critically and unflinchingly Mississippi's civil rights tourism industry. Combining rhetorical analysis, onsite fieldwork, and interviews with museum directors, local civil rights entrepreneurs, historians, and movement veterans, the authors address important questions of memory and the Mississippi Movement. How is Mississippi, a poor, racially divided state with a long history of systemic racial oppression and white supremacy, actively packaging its civil rights history for tourists? Whose stories are told? And what perspectives are marginalized in telling those stories? The ascendency of civil rights memorialization in Mississippi comes at a time when the nation is reckoning with its racial past, as evidenced by the Black Lives Matter movement, Mississippi's adoption of a new state flag, the conviction of former members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the South. Terror and Truth directly engages this national conversation. This recording is presented by University Press of Mississippi and has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator's voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.

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Title: The Subversive Seventies

Author: Michael Hardt

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In The Subversive Seventies, Michael Hardt sets out to show that popular understandings of the political movements of the seventies—often seen as fractious, violent, and largely unsuccessful—are not just inaccurate, but foreclose valuable lessons for the political struggles of today. While many accounts of the 1970s have been written about the regimes of domination that emerged throughout the decade, Hardt approaches the subversive from the perspectives of those who sought to undermine the base of established authority and transform the fundamental structures of society. In so doing, he provides a novel account of the theoretical and practical projects of liberation that still speak to us today, too many of which have been all but forgotten. The movements of the seventies responded directly to emerging neoliberal frameworks and other structures of power that continue to rule over us today. They identified and confronted political problems that remain central for us. The 1970s, in this sense, marks the beginning of our time. Looking at a wide range of movements around the globe, from the United States, to Guinea Bissau, South Korea, Chile, Turkey, and Italy, The Subversive Seventies provides a reassessment of the political action of the 1970s that sheds new light not only on our revolutionary past but also on what liberation can be and do today.

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Title: The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Linda Greenhouse

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For thirty years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show listeners how the Supreme Court really works. Greenhouse offers a fascinating institutional biography of a place and its people—men and women who exercise great power but whose names and faces are unrecognized by many Americans and whose work often appears cloaked in mystery. How do cases get to the Supreme Court? How do the justices go about deciding them? What special role does the chief justice play? What do the law clerks do? How does the court relate to the other branches of government? Greenhouse answers these questions by depicting the justices as they confront deep constitutional issues or wrestle with the meaning of confusing federal statutes. Throughout, the author examines many individual Supreme Court cases to illustrate points under discussion. The third edition of Greenhouse's Very Short Introduction tracks the changes in the Court's makeup over the past decade, including the landmark decisions of the Obama and Trump eras and the emergence of a conservative supermajority.

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Title: Nazi War Secrets

Author: Raphael Terra

Narrator: Raphael Terra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 53 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). Adolf Hitler changed the world. He was a messiah to his people and the anti-Christ to the rest. He was personally responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the globe. He is the greatest war criminal in history. We are all familiar with the rise to power of the Nazi party and the global conflict they instigated. But not everybody is aware of how this all came to be and the many secrets. From deep religious and occult secrets to technical innovations far beyond the abilities of the rest of the world, the Nazi party is a fascinating and tragically evil part of mankind's history. From flying wings, super heavy tanks and suicidal rocket bombs to flying saucers and huge orbital solar mirrors, the world of Nazi war machines brings to mind the death star and super weapons of Star Wars. This is the tale of manipulation, control, secret societies, weird weapons and ancient prophecy coming true. This is the tale of the world's most terrifying element of humanity - the dark side. Welcome to Nazi War Secrets.

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Title: Nazi Mind Control

Author: Raphael Terra

Narrator: Raphael Terra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 37 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). In the 1930's an entire nation was brainwashed. It was manipulated by masters of propaganda and the arcane arts. The result was the deaths of millions of people. The world was changed in just a few short years. The men behind this massive scheme were members of the most evil and vile of political parties ever to have existed. We know them as the Nazis. Their purpose was to bring about the rise of a so-called Aryan race. A race that would rule the world for a thousand years. This would be the third reich. In-order to see the fulfilment of their grand scheme they needed to eradicate certain races from the globe and subjugate others. In-order to achieve this, they needed millions of people to believe and follow them and only them. And so they created a messiah, a God on Earth. His name was Adolf Hitler and he would become the master of manipulating the hearts and souls of man. From mass hypnosis to blatant propaganda, from control of the media to eradicating the opposition. All methods were employed. This is the story of how that incredible goal was actually brought to fruition and the methods used to control the minds of men. This is the story of Nazi Propaganda.

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Title: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice

Author: Carol Menaker

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole. For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the intensely emotional experience of the sequestration and trial behind her, rarely speaking of it to others and avoiding jury service when at all possible. But the arrival of a jury summons at her home in Northern California in 2017 set her on a path to unravel the painful experience of sequestration and finally ask the question: What ever happened to Freddy Burton—and is it possible that my youth and white privilege were what led me to convict him of murder? The Worst Thing We've Ever Done is Menaker's inspirational account of journeying back in time to uncover the personal bias that may have led her to judge someone whose shoes she never could have walked in.

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Title: The Isolated Presidency

Author: Jordan T. Cash

Narrator: Joshua Saxon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

How powerful is the President of the United States? For many scholars, this is a question that can be answered only by considering factors outside the office itself, such as the president's popularity, personal clout, political talents, or institutional relationships. In The Isolated Presidency, Jordan T. Cash reframes this question to instead ask what authority is available to all presidents. Drawing on the Constitution itself, Cash argues that the presidency possesses an internal logic derived from its structure, duties, and powers which not only grants the president a unique institutional perspective, but also provides the president with considerable agency and discretion in pursuing agendas. To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Cash examines the 'isolated presidents'—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Stripped of all external supports, these presidents were left with nothing but their constitutional authority to rely on. Through three case studies of isolated presidents, Cash illustrates how the Constitution creates an empowering logic within the presidency which orients presidential behavior and grants every president significant power and agency.

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Title: Democracy In Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions

Author: Katlyn Marie Carter

Narrator: Kate Udall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world's first representative democracies. Unveiling modern democracy's surprisingly shadowy origins, Carter reshapes our understanding of how government by and for the people emerged during the Age of Revolutions.

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Title: Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Robert Paarlberg

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Release date: October 31, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape. The third edition of Food Politics has been updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health challenges. New material covers the rise of China in world food markets and global food politics, the unabated and increasing risks to farming from climate change, the impact COVID-19 had on incomes and hunger, the equally shocking impact from the war in Ukraine on food prices and trade, and surprising scientific and technical breakthroughs such as the genome editing of crops (CRISPR) and the marketing of cell-cultured (animal-free) meats. Each chapter has been updated with new data on population growth, hunger and food security, trade conflicts, humanitarian aid, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, holistic grazing, animal welfare, genetically engineered food, and more. Discussing the politics and policies that continue to shape our contemporary food system, Robert Paarlberg challenges myths and critiques more than a few of today's fashionable beliefs about farming and food. A must-listen for those ready to have their thinking about food politics informed, but also challenged.

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Title: [German] - Die Reichsbürger: Ermächtigungsversuche einer gespenstischen Bewegung

Author: Sophie Schönberger, Christoph Schönberger

Narrator: Heiko Grauel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2023

Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

WER SIND DIE REICHSBÜRGER? Am 7. Dezember 2022 rückten mehr als 3 000 Polizisten zur wohl größten Anti-Terror-Razzia in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik aus. Sie verhafteten die Rädelsführer einer Gruppe aus dem Reichsbürgermilieu, die einen gewaltsamen Umsturz der Regierung geplant hatte. Wer aber sind diese Reichsbürger, die die Bundesrepublik Deutschland nicht als legitimen Staat anerkennen, von einer BRD GmbH fabulieren und sich immer noch im Deutschen Reich wähnen? Die Verfassungsrechtler Sophie und Christoph Schönberger betrachten die historischen Wurzeln der Reichsbürgerszene, die zu den Besonderheiten der deutschen Teilung zurückführen, beleuchten das vielfältige Spektrum ihrer gegenwärtigen Erscheinungsformen und untersuchen die Fragmente ihrer bruchstückhaften Ideologie. Die kuriose Besessenheit der Reichsbürger mit Rechtsnormen und bürokratischen Formen verleitet zwar allzu schnell dazu, sie als marginal und lächerlich abzutun. Tatsächlich ist die wachsende Szene allerdings von paradigmatischer Bedeutung für die gegenwärtige Bedrohung der Demokratie. Denn so gestrig die Reichsbürger durch ihren Bezug auf das vergangene Reich auch erscheinen mögen: Sie erweisen sich dennoch als ein durch und durch zeitgeistiges Phänomen unserer individualisierten Gesellschaft. Auf verbreitete Erfahrungen von Haltlosigkeit und Ohnmacht reagieren sie mit der Erfindung eines imaginären Rechts, das ihnen als Mittel zu einer radikalen Selbstermächtigung dient. Damit rühren sie nicht nur an die Grenzen des Verständlichen, sondern auch an die Grenzen staatlicher Macht. Die historische Entwicklung der Reichsbürgerszene Eine interessante Deutung, die über die Faktenlage hinausweist Die Reichsbürger stehen exemplarisch für die gegenwärtigen Bedrohungen unserer Demokratie Die gespenstische Bewegung enthüllt zugleich etwas Unheimliches über die Verfasstheit unserer Demokratie Die Schönbergers gehören zu den in der Öffentlichkeit profiliertesten und publizistisch talentiertesten Rechtswissenschaftlern Deutschlands