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Title: The Economics of Crisis

Author: Eliot Janeway

Narrator: James Cunningham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This might have been called "The War Behind the War," for it concerns policy for management of the United States economy during World War II. The almost overnight shift from peace to a war footing after 8 years of grinding depression necessarily entailed economic policy that was controversial. This book established Eliot Janeway as one of the foremost writers on "the dismal science."

(P) Books on Tape, Inc.

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Title: Mass Motorization and Mass Transit

Subtitle: An American History and Policy Analysis

Author: David W. Jones

Narrator: Emil Nicholas Gallina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation. The book's historical and international perspective provides a uniquely effective framework for understanding both the intensity of US motorization and the difficulties the country will face in moderating its demands on the world's oil supply and reducing the CO2 emissions generated by motor vehicles. No other book offers as comprehensive a history of mass transit, mass motorization, highway development, and suburbanization or provides as penetrating an analysis of the historical differences between motorization in the United States and that of other advanced industrial nations.

The book is published by Indiana University Press.

Members Reviews:

Decent, but with errors

Given his academic credentials, I suppose that I can say that he knows what he's talking about. He does cite much of what he writes. However, he didn't seem to dot his i's and cross his t's before publishing the book. I'm just finishing the first chapter and have already noted several errors, including:

1) Calling the United States a Commonwealth nation

2) His written descriptions of trends do not always match the corresponding tables.

3) In one table, he listed the same country twice, but with two different data values for the same year.

I probably would have purchased a different book if I were doing this over again.

The comprhensive analysis I'd been looking for

This book was something that I had been seeking for quite some time. In all the discussions of urban transportation and why our cities and suburbs have the structures they do, I had never found an analysis that, for me, provided a convincing and comprehensive explanation for why things are as they are now. This book did that. It goes back to the rise (and subsequent decline) of mass transit in the form of streetcars, subways, and then buses in major metropolitan areas, the reasons why the US became the first motorized nation in the world and continues to be the most motorized nation, the unexpected impacts of both radial and circumferential parkways and freeways on the distribution of homes and jobs, and a myriad of related subjects.

It also tries to address where we go from here. The choices are not easy. Mass transit after 40+ years of public intervention is of only limited help. We have created a built environment that has serious environmental and sustainability problems with not many choices to escape from the cul de sac we find ourselves approaching.

All in all, a book I've been wanting to find and a very satisfying, if disturbing, study. I will note that there were a few text and table errors that better proofreading might have eliminated, but they didn't really distract from the thrust of the arguments presented.

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Title: American Labor

Subtitle: From Working Class to Middle Class

Author: Sasha Gong

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-09

Publisher: Gong and Associates

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Chinese speakers may enjoy this audio lecture series, which provides, in Mandarin Chinese, an overview of U.S. history, economy, politics, and society with the goal of helping listeners improve their understanding of America and Americans. The series is also aimed at people who are learning to speak Chinese, who will gain vocabulary to discuss American society and culture with native speakers.

In this course, Dr. Sasha Gong, a Peking University and Harvard-educated scholar, gives a historical account of American labor relations.

Please note: This lecture is in Mandarin Chinese.

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Title: How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

Author: Leigh Ann Wheeler

Narrator: Melissa Reizian

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows how the private lives of women and men in the American Civil Liberties Union shaped their understanding of sexual rights as they built the constitutional foundation for the twentieth-century's sexual revolutions. Wheeler introduces listeners to a number of fascinating figures, including ACLU founders Crystal Eastman and Roger Baldwin; nudists, victims of involuntary sterilization, and others who appealed to the organization for help; as well as attorneys like Dorothy Kenyon, Harriet Pilpel, and Melvin Wulf, who pushed the ACLU to tackle such controversial issues as abortion and homosexuality. It demonstrates how their work with the American Birth Control League, Planned Parenthood Federation, Kinsey Institute, Playboy magazine, and other organizations influenced the ACLU's agenda.

Wheeler explores the ACLU's prominent role in nearly every major court decision related to sexuality while examining how the ACLU also promoted its agenda through grassroots activism, political action, and public education. She shows how the ACLU helped to collapse distinctions between public and private in ways that privileged access to sexual expression over protection from it. Thanks largely to the organization's work, abortion and birth control are legal, coerced sterilization is rare, sexually explicit material is readily available, and gay rights are becoming a reality. But this book does not simply applaud the creation of a sex-saturated culture and the arming of citizens with sexual rights; it shows how hard-won rights for some often impinged upon freedoms held dear by others.

Members Reviews:

A very Well Wriitten, Informative Book on the amazing evolution of Sexual Civil Liberties in the U.S

I found this book to be a wonderful and detailed review of an important cultural and legal revolution that has taken place in this country. There are a number of people, including me, that were amazed at the speed with which the law and the culture of this country have changed concerning sexual civil liberties. This book gives a very clear explanation of the legal underpinnings of those changes--and the fascinating characters that moved this along. I recommend it highly.

Cool read

A very informative look at how the sex revolution brought about the reasoning that sex and one's sexual preference is a protected right.

Knowing History is Important! And regarding sexual civil liberties....essential

this book is amazing. The author does a comprehensive review of the emergence of sexual civil liberty movement in the US...much work remains to be done, obviously. This is a great book.

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Title: The Women's Rights Movement

Author: Shane Mountjoy

Narrator: Talmadge Ragan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-11

Publisher: University Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The women's rights movement grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the mid-1800s and also addressed other women's legal rights issues. The second wave of the movement, which promoted economic, political, and social equality, gained momentum in the 1960s and '70s, when such groups as the National Organization for Women fought for equal pay and laws banning employment discrimination. Clearly written, The Women's Rights Movement is an illuminating introduction to one of the most prominent reform movements of the last 40 years. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

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Title: To Congress Requesting a Declaration of War (December 8, 1941)

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Format: Original Recording

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-15

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, served as the 32nd president of the United States. He was a compelling orator who inspired millions with his "fireside" radio speeches during the Great Depression of the 1930s and his wartime addresses to the nation in the 1940s.

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Title: On Lend Lease (March 15, 1941)

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Format: Original Recording

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-15

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, served as the 32nd president of the United States. He was a compelling orator who inspired millions with his "fireside" radio speeches during the Great Depression of the 1930s and his wartime addresses to the nation in the 1940s.

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Title: On Sacrifice (April 28, 1942)

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Format: Original Recording

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-15

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, served as the 32nd president of the United States. He was a compelling orator who inspired millions with his "fireside" radio speeches during the Great Depression of the 1930s and his wartime addresses to the nation in the 1940s.

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Title: President Herbert Hoover's Last Public Address

Author: Herbert Hoover

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874-October 20, 1964) was the thirty-first president of the United States (1929-1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I.

As the United States secretary of commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination despite having no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected president of the United States as well as one of only two presidents (along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience or high military rank.

Members Reviews:

Great speaker and understanding of world status

Would you listen to President Herbert Hoover's Last Public Address again? Why?

Each time I listen it makes more sense of how world economies depend on each other and how each country needs to keep the confidence of its people and other countries. The scores of countries that failed after manufacturing their own currency, borrowing heavily, and not balancing their budget. Sound familiar?

What did you like best about this story?

It was interesting to hear his take on the upcoming world problems leading to world war 2. He mentioned war could come soon. He really understood how difficult it was for countries to match currency and trade during these rough times. Hoover wanted to continue the gold standard and even include silver, but he did admit that someday we could get away from it.

What does John Greenman bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I think he brings Hoovers candor out well and the difficulty in speaking without modern audio equipment. It sounds authentic.

Whats the most interesting tidbit youve picked up from this book?

How Hoover was gracious and respectful of the democratic party winning the election and for his fellow republicans to not be partisan but to support what was best for the american peoples welfare. Hoover was a true statesman.

Any additional comments?

I wish you would put "The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson"by Hoover and "Freedom Betrayed" by Hoover and George H. Nash on audible.com

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Title: On the Armistice in Italy (September 8, 1943)

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Format: Original Recording

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-15

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, served as the 32nd president of the United States. He was a compelling orator who inspired millions with his "fireside" radio speeches during the Great Depression of the 1930s and his wartime addresses to the nation in the 1940s.