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Título: República Dominicana [The Dominican Republic]

Subtitular: Perfil social, político y cultural [Social, Political and Cultural Profile]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 33 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-25-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 4 votos

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

La reseña de la historia de este país caribeño que Usted no puede perderse. Desde sus pasados remotos, su etapa de larga dominación española y su enorme lucha por la independencia, hasta su vida republicana y moderna.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

amazing

the narrator was very good I really enjoy listen to the book I was very amazed

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Título: Cuba: Perfil social, político y cultural [Cuba: Social, Political and Cultural Profile]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 37 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-25-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

Todos los detalles de la famosa isla en un audiolibro que no puede perderse. Este bello país del Caribe, gobernado por el régimen castrista desde hace más de medio siglo con Fidel Castro a la cabeza, es conocido por ser el epicentro de una magnífica cultura musical, un pueblo que pese a sus problemas anhela por su libertad, y una alegría invencible.

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Título: Costa Rica: Perfil social, político y cultural [Costa Rica: Social, Political and Cultural Profile]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 23 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 03-25-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

Este país centroamericano es dueño de una gran riqueza natural representada en su variada flora y fauna, una superficie cubierta por hermosos y verdes follajes, además de un cálido y fresco clima ha hecho que Costa Rica sea conocida como el país de la eterna primavera. Por otro lado, este paradisíaco territorio se ha consolidado desde hace dos décadas como una de las democracias más estables de América, además de lograr uno de los mejores índices de desarrollo a nivel latinoamericano.

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Title: President Calvin Coolidge's Last Address

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth president of the United States (1923-1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston police strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the twenty-ninth vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.

Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative and as a man who said very little. This last public address was delivered at George Washington University on February 22, 1929.

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Title: President Woodrow Wilson's Last State of the Union Address

Author: Woodrow Wilson

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856-February 3, 1924) was the 2twenty-eighth president of the United States, from 1913 to 1921, and leader of the progressive movement. Wilson induced a conservative Democratic Congress to pass a progressive legislative agenda, unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. This included the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act, and an income tax. Child labor was temporarily curtailed by the Keating-Owen Act of 1916. Wilson also averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis through passage of the Adamson Act, imposing an eight-hour workday for railroads.

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality. Narrowly reelected in 1916 around the slogan "he kept us out of war", Wilson's second term was dominated by American entry into World War I.

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Title: Corruption in America

Subtitle: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United

Author: Zephyr Teachout

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

For two centuries, the Framers' ideas about political corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected officials. In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court began to narrow the definition of corruption, and the meaning has since changed dramatically. No case makes that clearer than Citizens United. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing more than explicit bribery. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, Citizens United was not just bad law but bad history.

Corruption in America clearly shows that if the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal.

Critic Reviews:

"...an eloquent, revealing, and sometimes surprising historical inquiry, Teachout convincingly argues that corruption, broadly understood as placing private interests over the public good in public office, is at the root of what ails American democracy." (David Cole, New York Review of Books)

Members Reviews:

Law Review+

The author paints a picture of a world where corruption has lost meaning and the American people are content to be governed rather than citizens involved in self-government. However, it is written like a law review article rather than a history book.

Read for class, an easy read.

The book is comprehensive and interesting, but can be difficult if the reader does not have at least a foundational understanding of legal language.

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Title: Deeply Divided

Subtitle: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America

Author: Doug McAdam, Karina Kloos

Narrator: Eric Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

By many measures - commonsensical or statistical - the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today?

In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process. The Civil Rights struggle and the white backlash it provoked reintroduced the centrifugal force of social movements into American politics, ushering in an especially active and sustained period of movement/party dynamism, culminating in today's tug of war between the Tea Party and Republican establishment for control of the GOP.

In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s. Angered by Lyndon Johnson's more aggressive embrace of civil rights reform in 1964, Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats for the first time in history, setting in motion a sustained regional realignment that would, in time, serve as the electoral foundation for a resurgent and increasingly more conservative Republican Party.

Members Reviews:

Historically accurate

The United States is divided politically, racially and socially. This division does not support the United States Constitution and the and the meaning behind The Pledge to our American flag. The only benefit of the division is to support another country that is trying to overcome and take over America. Let's get our act together and become one America. This book was well done well written and I will listen to it again.

Great book on the great divide in politics.

Loved the discussion tying health inequity to income inequity. Thanks for a great discussion on ways to increase voter turnout

This book needs to be read by every American

Open your eyes America, our Democracy is crumbling before our very eyes, being undone by party extremists This book explains how and why.

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Title: The Light of the Home

Subtitle: An Intimate View of the Lives of Women in Victorian America

Author: Harvey Green

Narrator: Emil Nicholas Gallina

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-14

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Now considered a classic, Light of the Home offers a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago.

Critic Reviews:

"A fascinating and very disturbing inventory of the means by which 'women's place' has been defined." Washington Post Book World

Members Reviews:

interesting

interesting information. good flow. good general focus throughout the home and societal influences. well read.

very interesting and informative

really interesting to hear about everyday life as well as thoughts and social life of Americans of that time. Very enjoyable to listen to.

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Title: Quicklet on Isabel Wilkerson's the Warmth of Other Suns

Subtitle: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Author: Taryn Nakamura

Narrator: John Delaney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-14

Publisher: Maxie LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is truly a labor of love. It took 15 years to research and write, as she interviewed over 1,200 people. Wilkerson tracked down her subjects at churches, quilting clubs, funerals, family reunions, and others. After preliminary rounds of interviews, she narrowed her search down to 30 people, and then chose the three main subjects who appear in the book. She was racing against the clock to collect as many stories as possible from the migrants, whose numbers were starting to dwindle. Her book even covers the funerals of both George Starling and Robert Pershing Foster.

In order to write her story in a heartfelt manner, Wilkerson recreated Robert Foster's exhausting drive from Louisiana to California. Dr. Foster drove through three states without rest because blacks weren't welcome at any motels in those regions. Wilkerson's trip was cut short by her parents, who insisted she stop before reaching dangerous levels of fatigue. At a particularly perilous tract of the drive, Wilkerson writes that her mother said, "You know he must have been ready to cry right about here."

Members Reviews:

Quicklet is not Cliff Notes

I purchased this quicklet because our book club chose the book (538 pages) and I didn't think I had time to read it all. I had already read 180 pages when I ordered the quicklet. I wanted it to be more thorough in its synopsis and content like an old "Cliff Notes" that I used once in college. It is not that (only 25 pages)! The real summary of the book is only 6 pages. I did like the information about the author and some interesting facts about the North/South during this time period. It cost $10.99 with shipping which wasn't worth it for me. It did, however, make me find the time to read the entire book. The book "The Warmth of Other Suns" is outstanding.

Best for familiarizing with book previously read

I had read this book and enjoyed it around three years ago. I had to read it again for a book club and I read the quicklet instead. It did help me remember characters, situations and issues, but I would only recommend the quicklet for purposes of recall. It is not a good substitute for the book which had so many layers and much more substance.

A longer abreviated version would be better

I can't complain because the reviews said it was much too short. As other said, it should have been longer so one could get more of the emotional and cultural impact of the book. Our book club was reviewing and I was busy with other reading so I decided to buy it anyway. I could tell that those who had read it felt the book was very worthwhile even though it was very long. If I have time to read it at a later date, I plan to read the entire book.

This is one of the best books I have ever read

This is one of the best books I have ever read, so well put together with characters from different eras and how discrimination affected their lives wherever they lived in the US, but especially how the south's reaction to the emancipation proclamation and the civil rights movement.

The best book I have ever read explaining the migration of ...

The best book I have ever read explaining the migration of the African American from the South to the North.

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Title: If the Devil Had a Wife

Author: Frank Mills

Narrator: A.T. Chandler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-14

Publisher: Roslyn Group LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Once upon a time. Happily ever after. Such are the classic promises of fairy tales. Yet in Texas we find a twist to the familiar storyline. In If the Devil Had a Wife, there is still the battle of Good vs. Evil, a beautiful maiden, a wealthy suitor, a kingdom of riches and the wicked witch, but any similarity with Cinderella and Snow White ends there. With the help of her life partner and an attorney (always necessary in these modern times), Nelda Stark executes a devious plan that elevates fraud and theft to a new high. A massive coverup reaches into the Texas Attorney General's Office, stealing from not only the Stark family, but the federal and state governments.

Members Reviews:

Combine a great audio book with road trip!

Would you listen to If the Devil Had a Wife again? Why?

Having read the book, I found that listening to the audiobook refreshed my memory and reminded me of some details I had forgotten.

What about A.T. Chandlers performance did you like?

Mr. Chandler does a great job of presenting this appropriately as a bigger than life Texas story! Great delivery!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I was intrigued by the twists and turns of seeing a calculating and methodical plan unfold at the expense of many innocent and yet some guilty folks. Big money and power and the corruption that too often accompanies it is on full view here.

Any additional comments?

This book has something for anyone who enjoys a Texas story involving history as well as human nature. I wonder if more stories have come to light since this book was published? We are ready to hear them!!!

What a Tale!!

As a Texas only vaguely familiar with the Stark name I found the story totally fascinating and have already been to the computer to learn more. I would recommend it to anyone who wants an interesting read.

Laborious

This was laborious beyond belief. Minute details overwhelmed the story and the reader. Beware when there are fewer than 100 reviews. If this book had a wife, she'd have put it in the shredder.

The Orange Texas I didn't know

Very interesting to hear the names of people from the past.

Great story just a shame it is a true story.

Wow wow wow

This story breaks my heart. Being from SW LA, with roots in Starks, I was very familiar with all the places and some of the names. When justice finally comes to the Stark family, I hope the family makes a movie about this fascinating story.