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Title: Electoral Dysfunction

Subtitle: A Survival Manual for American Voters

Author: Victoria Bassetti

Narrator: Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-12

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You're living in it. If the consequences weren't so serious, it would be funny.

An eye-opening, fact-filled companion to the forthcoming PBS documentary starring political satirist and commentator Mo Rocca, Electoral Dysfunction illuminates a broad array of issues, including the Founding Fathers' decision to omit the right to vote from the Constitution and the legal system's patchwork response to this omission; the battle over voter ID, voter impersonation, and voter fraud; the foul-ups that plague Election Day, from ballot design to contested recounts; the role of partisan officials in running elections; and the antidemocratic origins and impact of the Electoral College. The book concludes with a prescription for a healthy voting system by Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote.

Published in the run-up to the 2012 election, Electoral Dysfunction is for listeners across the political spectrum who want their votes to count.

Critic Reviews:

"Crisply written, irreverent yet engaged.... A lively, witty survey of the numerous ailments that afflict the American electoral system." (Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard University)

Members Reviews:

Great, informative book. Everyone should read it.

This book contains many basic facts about the Constitution and Electoral College that most citizens do not know, and definitely need to know. It has been a great help to me in preparation for a presentation on voting rights. The author also has excellent e-mail updates which are also terrific. This should be required reading for every civics class in our schools, except too many schools no longer have civics classes.

Delightfully enraging

Winston Churchill may have been right when he said that "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time," but what he left out is that democracy can fall short of even that modest standard. Though America imagines itself to be a shining paragon for oppressed peoples everywhere, the reality is that - as Bassetti reveals with wit and concision - our political system today is substantially unfair in both design and practice. An essential read in this pre-election season.

A superb overview of the challenges facing our democracy

This is a lovely, readable, and compelling overview of the challenges facing our democracy. Bassetti describes almost farcical situations, which would be humorous if the stakes weren't so high. I wish I'd read this in my American History class.

Great supplement to the video of the same name

Great supplement to the video of the same name. I show the video when I begin teaching elections in a high school government class.

Smart and Entertaining

A timely (and timeless) documentary worth its length in gold. Seriously, how many times does one get to watch a documentary that is educational, funny, informative, funny, teaches you something without making you feel like an idiot for not knowing the information in the first place, is funny, AND stars Mo Rocca? Don't bother answering, it's a rhetorical question.

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Title: Barbecue

Subtitle: The History of an American Institution

Author: Robert F. Moss

Narrator: David Holloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Barbecue: The History of an American Institution draws on hundreds of sources to document the evolution of barbecue from its origins among Native Americans to its present status as an icon of American culture. This is the story not just of a dish but of a social institution that helped shape the many regional cultures of the United States. It begins with British colonists' adoption of barbecuing techniques from Native Americans in the 16th and 17th centuries, moves to barbecue's establishment as the preeminent form of public celebration in the 19th century, and is carried through to barbecue's iconic status today.

From the very beginning, barbecues have been powerful social magnets, drawing together people from a wide range of classes and geographic backgrounds. Barbecue has played a key role in three centuries of American history, both reflecting and influencing the direction of an evolving society. By tracing the story of barbecue from its origins to today, Barbecue: The History of an American Institution traces the very thread of American social history.

Critic Reviews:

"If you enjoy reading about barbecue history, then this book is a must-read for you." (National Barbecue News)

"This is a book that any serious lover of barbecue, with any interest at all in the origin of barbecue, would love to read." (Kansas City BBQ Society)

Members Reviews:

I have read close to 40 books now on all things 'Que and this one had great information and still managed to keep my ADHD at ...

One of the most comprehensive books on Barbecue that I have ever read. I have read close to 40 books now on all things 'Que and this one had great information and still managed to keep my ADHD at bay. Great history of barbecue. Made me feel connected as a Tidewater Resident. Buy it for you favorite "meathead".

Five Stars

Very thorough but an easy read. If you are a fan of BBQ it is a must-read

Five Stars

good stuff

Quite academic

Much of this book felt like reading a textbook. It is a interesting history of BBQ and I am glad that I read it.

It can be a bit dry, like overcooked brisket but even overcooked BBQ is still worth eating.

Very good read. A lot of American history.

Very good read. A lot of American history.

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Titolo: Breve storia degli indiani d'America [A Brief History of the Native Americans]

Autore: William Kelly

Narratore: Valentina Palmieri

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 09-12-12

Editore: Area51 Publishing

Valutazioni: 4.5 su 5 su 2 voti

Categoria: History, American

Riepilogo Editore:

Una completa rassegna della storia degli indiani d'America, dalle diffusioni dei primi americani in Nordamerica alla scoperta del Nuovo Mondo, dalla colonizzazione alla conquista del West. Se ami gli indiani d'America non perderti la loro tragica, eroica storia.

A complete review of the history of the Native Americans, from the first Americans in North America to the discovery of the New World, from colonization to the conquest of the West. If you love Native Americans do not miss their tragic and heroic story.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Recensioni dei membri:

molto bello ed interessante. per tutte le età.

molto bello ed interessante. per tutte le età. l' ho finito in un giorno. a a a a a

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Title: The Mindset Lists of American History

Subtitle: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal

Author: Tom McBride, Ron Nief

Narrator: Scott Woodside

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations - from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation.

Just as high-school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street corner.Every August, the Mindset List highlights the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of that year's incoming college class. Now this fascinating book extends the Mindset List approach to dramatize what it was like to grow up for every American generation since 1880, showcasing the remarkable changes in what Americans have considered "normal" about the world around them. This book:

The annual Mindset List garners extensive media attention, including on Today, The Early Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and Fox, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and hundreds of international publications.

Whatever your own generational mindset, this book will give you an entertaining and important new tool for understanding the unique perspective and experience of Americans over more than 150 years.

Members Reviews:

Gallop through a hundred years of American History

Mindset Lists is an astounding book.

It is deceptive, perceptive, honest, smooth, far-reaching, easy to read. The book has the power of simplicity, combined with places we have beenâhome, high school, college, the battlefront, the hospital, dad driving off to work, leaving the suburbsâplaces that shaped our perceptions and our reflexes. The book reminds us what we watched on TVâThe Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, All in the Familyâand offers an insight into how it reflected/created our values at the time.

In this book, the authors have captured the voice and the vision of America. On the one hand, there is the Cracker Barrel humor. On the other hand, there is the Learned Seminarâthese guys know their subject.

For my entry into this book, I jumped to the Class of 1957 chapterâfour years away from my high school class of 1953âbut still a pictorial landscape of my time, my student days, my perceptions and prejudices and fears. I myself was a card-carrying member of the Silent Generation. We watched Estes Kefauver on TV. Even without visiting the site, my class knew the mythic marketing fame of Disneyland, selling Mickey Mouse in a theme park. We played Scrabble, we drove cars with big fins for fenders.

When I was immersed, soaked in my own class, my own lost time, my own sepia memories, I flipped forward to the Class of 2009âIâm writing this detective novel and one of the characters is a 20-something. She entered the story as a walk-on, then worked her way into the dialogue, learned her lines, carried a couple of scenes, and then demanded (lots of characters do this) her own personal Point-of-View. âI want more ink,â she said. âI deserve it.â

I had kept her small because she was three generations away, maybe four, I lose count.

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Title: Visions of Progress

Subtitle: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

Author: Doug Rossinow

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Liberals and leftists in the United States have not always been estranged from one another as they are today. Historian Doug Rossinow examines how the cooperation and the creative tension between left-wing radicals and liberal reformers advanced many of the most important political values of the 20th century, including free speech, freedom of conscience, and racial equality.

Visions of Progress chronicles the broad alliances of radical and liberal figures who were driven by a particular concept of social progress - a transformative vision in which the country would become not simply wealthier or a bit fairer, but fundamentally more democratic, just, and united. Believers in this vision - from the settlement-house pioneer Jane Addams and the civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1890s and after, to the founders of the ACLU in the 1920s, to Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson and assorted labor-union radicals in the 1930s, to New Dealer Henry Wallace in the 1940s - belonged to a left-liberal tradition in America. They helped push political leaders, including Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, toward reforms that made the goals of opportunity and security real for ever more Americans. Yet, during the Cold War era of the 1950s and '60s, leftists and liberals came to view one another as enemies, and their influential alliance all but vanished.

Visions of Progress revisits the period between the 1880s and the 1940s, when reformers and radicals worked together along a middle path between the revolutionary left and establishment liberalism. Rossinow takes the story up to the present, showing how the progressive connection was lost and explaining the consequences that followed. This book introduces today's progressives to their historical predecessors, while offering an ambitious reinterpretation of issues in American political history.

Critic Reviews:

"A fresh and highly learned examination of an essential part of U.S. political history; one that offers illuminating insights for students into the important but frequently neglected topic of liberals, leftists, and the tortured relations between the two." (Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media?)

"Visions of Progress makes an important contribution to historical scholarship by tracing a left-liberal tradition that defies easy categorization as either radical or reformist and by recognizing that tradition's key role in the political changes of the twentieth century." (Reviews in American History)

Members Reviews:

Too Easy On CP and No Mention of New Democrats

The Popular Front collapsed because the Communists Party USA loyalty was to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union not to the people of the United States. The CPUPA was an agent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for its entire existence until Gorbachev cut of its funding in the late 1980s.

Mr. Rossinow insinuates the decline of the liberal and left co-operation was the fault of the prejudice of the anti-communist liberals and radicals against their former Popular Front ally, the CPUSA. He claims they fell in-line with the "Red Baiting" of the Cold War. This is a tiresome New Left claim that has been continuously made from the 1960s to today.

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Title: The American Bible

Subtitle: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation

Author: Stephen Prothero

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-12

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Since Thomas Jefferson first recorded those self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence, America has been a nation that has unfolded as much on the page and the podium as on battlefields or in statehouses. Here Stephen Prothero reveals which texts continue to generate controversy and drive debate. He then puts these voices into conversation, tracing how prominent leaders and thinkers of one generation have commented upon the core texts of another, and invites listeners to join in.

Few can question that the Constitution is part of our shared cultural lexicon, that the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision still impacts lives, or that "The Star-Spangled Banner" informs our national identity. But Prothero also considers lesser known texts that have sparked our war of words, including Thomas Paine's Common Sense and Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

In The American Bible, Christopher Hitchens weighs in on Huck Finn, and Sarah Palin comments on Martin Luther King Jr. From the speeches of Presidents Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan to the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ayn Rand, Prothero takes the listener into the heart of America's culture wars. These "scriptures" provide the words that continue to unite, divide, and define Americans today.

Members Reviews:

A nice collection of important American works

This was one of those instances that anyone who buys audio books has had from time to time where the book didn't turn out to be anything like what I expected. I thought the book was going to be about how America's religious beliefs came to be what they are today. In actuality, the phrase "American Bible" refers to a collection of the famous works (speeches, books, judicial rulings, articles of government, etc) that make up the American canon so to speak. This isn't a typical non-fiction work. Prothero has come up with a number of the important works in American history and they are reproduced in the book either in their entirety or through excerpts. Prothero gives a brief introduction to each work and why it is important, and following the reading of that work, he includes a number of references that have been made concerning that work over the years. It took a while for me to get into it but after a while I started to find it enjoyable and interesting. I thought Prothero's device of using a book from the bible to categorize each group of writings was very clever, although at times there didn't seem to be an obvious reason why he listed a certain work under a particular bible book. The narrator is blah.

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Title: Tea Party Patriots

Subtitle: The Second American Revolution

Author: Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler

Narrator: Jenny Beth Martin, Mark Meckler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In 2009, an unemployed mother of two and a politically inexperienced Northern California attorney met on a conference call that would end up starting one of the largest grassroots political organizations in American history, the Tea Party Patriots. Fueled by the fires of passion and patriotism, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin have become the faces of the most powerful political movement in the country, empowering their more than twenty million members by using both high-tech advances and the time-tested American tradition of rallying in public. With unparalleled access to the inner workings of the movement, Meckler and Martin explain how the Tea Party came to be, what it is and is not, and, perhaps most important, provide the first comprehensive, forward-looking document outlining a plan to restore America to its prior greatness. This is the definitive history of one of the most radical and revolutionary movements the country has ever seen, from those who started it all.

Members Reviews:

TeaParty Cult

I consider this report on the Tea Party movement to have cultish comparisons. it states truthful aspirations for advocating a government by the people for the people rather that bought and controlled by the ultra rich elites. The problem is it is laced with falsehood.

This is the agenda of the Koch brothers who have been subverting the minds of our citizens to accept ultra-radical Libertarianism. Selling their agenda of free choice and do away with regulations that provide boundaries to protect the health and safety of people from the greedy corporate world in order to benefit them at the expense of the environment and future generations. They are set to do away with all social nets and public education. No more Social Security or Medicare for the elderly.

How the TEA party came about

What did you love best about Tea Party Patriots?

That we are not alone, but are actually a majority of Americans want a fiscally responsible government, the rule of law, and free enterprise in our country.

What does Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

There is a personal touch in narration by the author that would be missing in text.

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Title: A Bright and Guilty Place

Subtitle: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age

Author: Richard Rayner

Narrator: Brett Barry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Novels like The Big Sleep and L.A. Confidential, movies like Chinatown, even vampire TV shows like Angel, depict L.A. as existing in the shadows, no matter how bright the sun. That is the style we call noir.

In A Bright and Guilty Place, an exhilarating tale of murder in L.A., Richard Rayner finds the source of the city's darkness in real-life events that unfolded in the 1920s, when the booming early years of L.A. started to shade into the Depression, and the city of sunshine revealed the hidden darkness and corruption at its heart.

Rayner follows two very different characters: Leslie White, a photographer and budding novelist whose job as a crime-scene investigator for the city prosecutor's office lands him right in the middle of some of the age's biggest scandals; and Dave Clark, a charming, handsome prosecutor-turned-political candidate whose ambition and voracious appetites drive him into the bowels of L.A.'s corrupt politics and perhaps even to murder. The two men live in an L.A. populated by corrupt preachers, dark-hearted oil barons, sexually perverse starlets, and hookers with a heart of gold. It is a city controlled by organized crime to such an extent that when Al Capone came to see about setting up a syndicate there, he was run out of town without a single shot fired. And the tension comes to a boiling point when the head of the crime syndicate, Charlie Crawford, is found murdered in cold blood and the chief suspect is none other than golden boy Dave Clark.

Raymond Chandler, that bard of L.A. despair, would later turn the travails of Dave Clark and Leslie White into the superlatively pessimistic fiction which has defined L.A. for generations. And in A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner has done something similar, transporting us to a turning point in the life of a great city. In the murderous events in these pages, we witness how sunny Los Angeles came of age - and got noir.

Critic Reviews:

"A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul." (Amazon.com review)

"Brilliant.... The nonfiction equivalent of the Raymond Chandler classics.... Utterly truthful, fantastic and new." (Los Angeles Times)

"[A] multifaceted literary high wire act. . . . Rayner can write an engaging sentence and construct an artful, evocative yarn." (The New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Didn't hold my interest

I listened to the first 3 hours, but wasn't enjoying it. I tried to listen to more just because I had paid for it and then realized that was just stupid when it felt like drudgery.

Excellent audio book

What made the experience of listening to A Bright and Guilty Place the most enjoyable?

This is a side of L.A. that I had never heard of before. I remember hearing that it had been very corrupt in the 20s and 30s but not to this extent. It was totally fascinating to read about the history of the city and its people. Amazing what went on in the town. I love

history and really enjoyed this book.

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Bright and Guilty Place?

When 'the' murder was committed. I was actually very surprised at the about total about face of the person involved.

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Title: Fires of Faith

Subtitle: Christianity in America

Author: Jimmy Gray

Narrator: Don King, Joe Loesch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-10

Publisher: Readio Theatre, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From itinerant circuit preachers warning of eternal damnation, to the flamboyant radio evagelism of Aimee Semple McPherson, the age of American ferver ignited with diversity and power. Welcome to Fires of Faith, the historical audio collection. Chronicling the lives and times of a cast of characters both strident and spiritual, Fires of Faith takes the listener on an evocative journey through the U.S. religious movement, an era of sin, song, and salvation.

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Titolo: Alimentazione e Cultura in Mesoamerica [Food and Culture in Mesoamerica]

Autore: Davide Domenici

Narratore: Daniela Bruni

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 43 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 06-23-10

Editore: e-Soft s.r.l.

Categoria: History, American

Riepilogo Editore:

Quando si pensa alle antiche civiltà del continente americano, come quella maya o azteca, si è soliti associarle a immagini di piramidi immerse nella foresta; difficilmente si pensa a come si nutrivano. Se in genere si fatica a riconoscere lorigine americana di molti cibi della nostra tavola, come patate, mais e pomodori, ancor più difficilmente si associano questi cibi alle loro originarie forme di preparazione e alle antiche culture alimentari di cui fecero parte. Questo audiolibro conduce, sul filo dei sapori, attraverso un universo alimentare e culturale radicalmente diverso da quello Europeo. E se viene considerato diverso oggi, che impatto ebbe al tempo della scoperta dell'America?

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.