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Title: An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Author: Paul Ortiz

Narrator: J. D. Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights

Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.

In precise detail, Ortiz traces this untold history from the Jim Crow-esque racial segregation of the Southwest, the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the 20th century, to May 1, 2006, International Workers' Day, when migrant laborers - Chicana/os, Afro-Cubanos, and immigrants from nearly every continent on earth - united in resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants".

Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today.

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Title: Black Fortunes

Subtitle: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

Author: Shomari Wills

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Harper Audio

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring '20s - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.

While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied 1 percent. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery were reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.

Black Fortunes is an intriguing look at these remarkable individuals, including Napoleon Bonaparte Drew - author Shomari Wills' great-great-great-grandfather - the first black man in Powhatan County (contemporary Richmond) to own property in post-Civil War Virginia. His achievements were matched by five other unknown black entrepreneurs including:

A fresh, little-known chapter in the nation's story - a blend of Hidden Figures, Titan, and The Tycoons - Black Fortunes illuminates the birth of the black business titan and the emergence of the black marketplace in America as never before.

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Title: The Development of the American Social Welfare State from Nixon to Obama

Subtitle: Human Progress and American History, Book 2

Author: Thomas F. Winterbottom

Narrator: William Bahl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-17

Publisher: Thomas F. Winterbottom

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism. We will examine these beliefs and what effect they have had on any development of the American social welfare state.

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Title: Killing England

Subtitle: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

Author: Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2163 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook features an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.

The Revolutionary War as never told before.

The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-best-selling Killing series transports listeners to the most important era in our nation's history: the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the listener from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties.

O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker Hill, Long Island, Saratoga, and Yorktown, revealing the savagery of hand-to-hand combat and the often brutal conditions under which these brave American soldiers lived and fought. Also here is the reckless treachery of Benedict Arnold and the daring guerilla tactics of the "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion. A must-listen, Killing England reminds one and all how the course of history can be changed through the courage and determination of those intent on doing the impossible.

Members Reviews:

highly enjoyable

kept my interest. As a lifelong American history buff I found new information in a very flowing and entertaining form. great read for anyone.

Fascinating story of heroism

An amazing account of the greatest, bravest and most dedicated American patriots, and how they suffered the most formidable challenges .

Everyone in the U. S. Should read this book.

This is the first book that I immediately wanted to start over as soon as I finished. It made me marvel at the supreme incompetence of my high school history teacher who managed to make this story tedious and boring.

You Must Read This Book

If you are interested in history and have a curious mind as to what life was like at the beginning of our country this is a must read. I learned many facts about the people who participated in our freedom. Not exactly what we learned in school Goes into great detail.

Fascinating look at our founders

What made the experience of listening to Killing England the most enjoyable?

Another terrific history book from O'Reilly & Dugard. Lots of interesting little tidbits about the men and women who fought for our independence. Well written and well researched. Should be required reading in all history classes.

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Title: County of Sacramento v. Lewis: Case Briefing

Author: A. Biographer

Narrator: 411 Audio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-17

Publisher: Locust and Honey Productions

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This book may change your life. Or it may not.

Either way, you will become more informed about the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution!

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Title: America at the Ballot Box

Subtitle: Elections and Political History

Author: Gareth Davies, Julian E. Zelizer

Narrator: Rich Fuga

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate American political democracy and its development from the early Republic to the late 20th century.

Some of the contributions in America at the Ballot Box focus on elections that resulted in dramatic political change, including Jefferson's defeat of Adams in 1800, the 1860 election of Lincoln, and Reagan's 1980 landslide victory. Others concentrate on contests whose importance lies more in the way they illuminate the broad, underlying processes of political change, such as the corruption controversy of Cleveland's acrimonious election in 1884 or the advent of television advertising during the 1952 campaign, when Eisenhower defeated Stevenson. Another set of essays takes a thematic approach, exploring the impact of foreign relations, Anglophobia, and political communications over long periods of electoral time. Uniting all of the chapters is the common conviction that elections provide a unique vantage point from which to view the American political system.

Ranging from landmark contests to less influential victories and defeats, the essays by leading political historians seek to rehabilitate the historical significance of presidential elections and integrate them into the broader evolution of American government, policies, and politics.

The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Title: Vice Capades

Subtitle: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

Author: Mark Stein

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From the illegality of bowling in colonial America to violent video games and synthetic drugs, Vice Capades by best-selling author Mark Stein examines the nation's relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have defined morality. This comprehensive yet humorous history reveals that our views of vice are not formed merely by morals but by power. By viewing a variety of vices across the span of American history, Vice Capades brings into focus the nation's inconsistent moral compass and helps us understand shifts in laws to combat vice by revealing who and what wields power (often invisibly) in the United States.

While laws against such things as nude dancing have become less restrictive, restrictive laws have been enacted against sexual harassment. While marijuana is no longer illegal in numerous jurisdictions, restrictive laws have been enacted against cigarettes. Stein examines how this nation's inconsistent moral compass has consistently pointed to every era's powers-that-be and enables us to view shifts in the power structure taking place before the public became aware of particular laws against vice and who determines what is or is not deemed vice.

Critic Reviews:

Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment. (Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Anything by Mark Stein is worth reading.

Insightful, Entertaining and Informative

An insightful book that is an easy read. Stein is a really good writer who can be serious and yet interject a touch of humor that keeps things in perspective. His observations as well as his reporting is not only engaging, it really gets you thinking. A really good book.

"A fresh look at US history".

A very fresh approach to the the history and evolution of laws and mores pertaining to the "vices": drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography, gambling, tobacco... and what that history can tell us about social power both economic and political. No, when I see changes occurring in our legal landscape and political policies, I have learned to ask myself, "What does this tell us about the people trying to attain or maintain power in ou society".

Smart and funny

This smart and funny read does a brilliant job of dissecting America's history with vice and how people have used the label of vice to maintain - or obtain - power. Even when delving into some of the darker aspects of our history, Stein manages to keep a light and often hilarious tone, while not minimizing the experience of the oppressed. A difficult line to walk, but Stein walks it beautifully.

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Title: The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal

Subtitle: New York Times Magazine, January 15, 1995

Author: Ron Rosenbaum

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

One afternoon in the late 1970s, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.

Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side, and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins. In "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Scandal", Ron Rosenbaum embarks on a quest for the lost nude "posture photos", and through his reporting finds both a scandal and an extreme example of academic folly that bares sinister eugenic origins.

"The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Scandal" was originally published in the New York Times Magazine, January 15, 1995.

Members Reviews:

Stomach Turning

I'm shocked and disgusted at the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen to the young people entrusted to their care. As I read this article I kept thinking and hoping it really couldn't have happened. Unfortunately it seems that it really did

Go figure.

The last lines of the story do sum things precisely. And now for ten more words to appease amazon gods.

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Title: Remember the Ladies

Subtitle: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box

Author: Angela P. Dodson

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The year 2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that hard-won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since.

From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote, drawing on historic research, biographies of leaders, and such original sources as documents, posters, ads, and buttons. It presents this often-forgotten struggle in an accessible, conversational, relevant manner for a wide audience.

Here are the groundbreaking convention records, speeches, newspaper accounts, and letters of those who fought for women's right to vote, all in their own words, arranged to convey the inherent historical drama. The accessible almanac style allows this entertaining history speak for itself.

It is full of little-known facts. For instance, when the Constitutional Convention of the 13 colonies convened to draft the Constitution, Abigail Adams admonished her husband, John Adams, to "remember the ladies" (write rights for women into the Constitution!).

Important for today's discussions, Remember the Ladies does not extract women's suffrage from the inseparable concurrent historic endeavors for emancipation, immigration, and temperance. Its robust research documents the intersectionality of women's struggle for the vote in its true context with other progressive efforts.

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Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Excellent portrayal of the story. Easy reader. Once started, it's hard to put it donw.

From popularizing the bloomer to the failure of the Pantsuit Revolution

Most histories of the womenâs suffrage movement in the United States go back to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 but âRemember the Ladiesâ takes its title from a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband, John, whilst he was attending the Second Continental Congress, imploring him and his colleagues "Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors" when devising "the new Code of Laws". This plea was, of course, not heeded and this book tells the uplifting story of the struggle to gain the right to vote for women in federal elections which culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

One of the bookâs many attractive features is its inclusion of beautiful black and white photographs of many of this movementâs key figures. All the âusual suspectsâ are there, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Ida B Wells-Barnett, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and Lucy Burns.

It is a tribute to Angela P.

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Title: Operation Relentless

Subtitle: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History

Author: Damien Lewis

Narrator: Greg Wagland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-17

Publisher: Quercus

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The new best-seller from the author of Zero Six Bravo.

By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the 'Merchant of Death' he was both "Public Enemy No. 1" to the global intelligence agencies and a ruthless criminal worth around six billion dollars.

For years Bout had eluded capture, meanwhile building up a labyrinthine network of airlines selling weapons to order to dictators, rebels, despots and terror groups worldwide. He was hunted by the CIA, NSA, MI6, as well sought by the United Nations for being their top global sanctions buster. Holed up in Moscow - from where he ran a suite of offices selling anything from AK47s to state-of-the-art helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft missiles - he was shielded by a Russian state that was a partner in his dark dealings. In short, Bout appeared utterly invulnerable and beyond any hope of capture.

Step forward former SAS man Mike Snow. After serving in the Regiment, Snow had worked as a bush pilot in Africa, where he'd got to know Bout well. Via its own secretive, shadow network, Snow was approached by the US DEA, the Drugs Enforcement Agency. The DEA agents had one question for him: was Snow able to get to Viktor Bout?

This is the incredible tale of Operation Relentless, the top-secret mission that Snow and a handful of DEA operatives launched to entrap Viktor Bout - a story that ranges from the steamy jungles of Colombia to the ice-bound streets of Moscow, and from horrific bloodshed and tyranny in the Congo, to a snatch operation like no other. It may read like an implausible thriller, but every word of Operation Relentless is true.

Critic Reviews:

"The Night Manager meets Narcos." (Saul David)

"To catch this criminal took incredible courage and skill. This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne." (Bear Grylls"

Members Reviews:

You know what you're getting

If you've read/listened to the excellent Zero Six Bravo and Damien Lewis' books on the special forces during the Second World War, then you know what to expect from his latest offering; an extraordinary story of bravery, fast-paced action and history made not just readable but exciting.

Operation Relentless is very much in the same vein.

Without giving anything away, as the quote on the frontispiece says 'The Night Manager meets Narcos' is pretty apt. If you've ever enjoyed any of Wilbur Smith's works, you can add that to the mix too. The key feature and the most important point of course with most of Lewis' books...is that they're not ficton.

Ben Waddams

captivating and enlightening

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. the author created a great narrative and paced the details well. I particularly enjoyed the narrator Greg. his pitch, pace and accents made the book even more enjoyable. really good account is a true story. One which in parts had you saying out loud.