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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment Author: Brad Snyder Narrator: James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court’s principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings true. A pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal who rejected shifting political labels, Frankfurter advocated for judicial restraint―he believed that people should seek change not from the courts but through the democratic political process. Indeed, he knew American presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson, advised Franklin Roosevelt, and inspired his students and law clerks to enter government service. Organized around presidential administrations and major political and world events, this definitive biography chronicles Frankfurter’s impact on American life. As a young government lawyer, he befriended Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, and Holmes. As a Harvard law professor, he earned fame as a civil libertarian, Zionist, and New Deal power broker. As a justice, he hired the first African American law clerk and helped the Court achieve unanimity in outlawing racially segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education. In this sweeping narrative, Brad Snyder offers a full and fascinating portrait of the remarkable life and legacy of a long misunderstood American figure. This is the biography of an Austrian Jewish immigrant who arrived in the United States at age eleven speaking not a word of English, who by age twenty-six befriended former president Theodore Roosevelt, and who by age fifty was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s most trusted advisers. It is the story of a man devoted to democratic ideals, a natural orator and often overbearing justice, whose passion allowed him to amass highly influential friends and helped create the liberal establishment.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government-A Retelling for Our Times Author: John Keane Narrator: Grant Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: From The Shortest History series comes the complete history of democracy, its champions, and its detractors—from the assemblies of ancient Mesopotamia to present perils This tumultuous global story begins with democracy's radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own lives and futures. John Keane traces how this concept emerged and evolved, from the earliest 'assembly democracies' to European-style electoral democracy to our present system of 'monitory democracy.' Today, governments answer not only to voters on Election Day, but to intense public scrutiny (monitoring) every day. Keane calls this media- and communication-driven system 'the most complex and vibrant form of democracy yet'—but it is not invulnerable. We live in an age of political and environmental crisis, when despots in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere reject the promises of power-sharing. At this urgent moment, Keane's book mounts a new defense of a precious global ideal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diplomacy and the Future of World Order Author: Pamela R. Aall, Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Diplomacy in pursuit of peace and security faces severe challenges not seen in decades. The reemergence of strong states, discord in the UN Security Council, destabilizing transnational nonstate actors, closing space for civil society within states, and the weakening of the international liberal order all present new obstacles to diplomacy. In Diplomacy and the Future of World Order, an international group of experts confronts these challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy—defined as the effort to manage others' conflicts, cope with great power competition, and deal with threats to the state system itself. In doing so, they consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on a case-by-case basis to address common threats and problems. These three scenarios are then evaluated through the prism of regional perspectives from around the world and for their potential ramifications for major security threats including peacekeeping, nuclear nonproliferation, cyber competition, and terrorism. Editors Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall conclude the volume by identifying emerging types of diplomacy that may form the foundation for global peacemaking and conflict management in an uncertain future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution Author: Christopher Phillips Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “A provocative extension of Jefferson’s original plan.”—Kirkus Reviews Thomas Jefferson believed that every generation of Americans should rewrite our Constitution from scratch—to mirror the progress of the human mind and, most of all, to maintain the revolutionary spirit. He would be dismayed that it’s considered untouchable these days. Taking up Jefferson’s cause, Christopher Phillips leads a motley group of Americans across the fruited plain in an offbeat Constitutional Convention. His Constitution Café project is sparking a much-needed conversation about our founding document and forging common ground at a time when our country needs it most.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, From Syria to the Capitol Siege Author: Rita Katz Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of jihadist militants, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention to the Far Right. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online—including mass murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the Capitol siege—have brought home the danger. How has the internet shaped today's threats, and what do the online origins of these movements reveal about how to stop them? In Saints and Soldiers, Katz reveals a new generation of terrorist movements that don't just use the internet, but exist almost entirely on it. She provides a vivid view from the trenches, spanning edgy video game chat groups to mainstream social media platforms to what ISIS and Far-Right mass-shooters in El Paso, Orlando, and elsewhere unwittingly reveal between the lines of their manifestos. Katz shows how the online cultures of these movements create today's terrorists and shape how they commit 'real world' violence. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop these never-before-seen threats.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kingdom and Country: Following Jesus in the Land that You Love Author: Angie Ward Narrator: Lyle Blaker, Charity Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: We love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well? National tensions are at a record high. People on all points in the political spectrum care deeply about their country, although they differ wildly in their opinions about what it looks like to serve that country well. As Christians, we love God and seek to follow him. At the same time, nothing shapes us and tugs at our loyalties quite like the place we live. And of course we are regularly encouraged to pledge our allegiance to our country―or particular understandings of it. Who wins when the priorities of God and our country clash? In Kingdom and Country, a collection of leading Christian thinkers and practitioners take a holistic approach to considering the questions of patriotism, nationalism, and where our ultimate loyalties must like. Contributors include Alejandro Mandes, Juliet Liu, Ryan Tafilowski, Derek Vreeland, Rod Wilson, Michelle Reyes, Amanda Smith, Karen Wilk, Sean Palmer, and Tina Boesch Kingdom and Country is the second in a series of Kingdom Conversations, books that bring together trusted Christian voices to address some of the most urgent and perplexing challenges of our time in timeless and redemptive ways.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602647 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting China Wrong Author: Aaron L. Friedberg Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the existing international system. To the contrary: China today is more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad, and more obviously intent on establishing itself as the world's preponderant power than at any time since the death of Chairman Mao. What went wrong? Put simply, the democracies underestimated the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party. For far too long, the United States and its allies failed to take seriously the Party's unwavering determination to crush opposition, build national power, and fulfill its ideological and geopolitical ambitions. In this powerfully argued study, Friedberg identifies the assumptions underpinning engagement, describes the counterstrategy that China's Communist Party rulers devised in order to exploit the West's openness while defeating its plans, and explains what the democracies must do now if they wish to preserve their prosperity, protect their security, and defend their common values.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El grito armenio Author: Mariano Saravia Narrator: Maia Trogolo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Este libro recopila los resultados de una sólida investigación sobre el genocidio de más de un millón y medio de armenias y armenios a manos del ejército turco entre 1915 y 1923. Mariano Saravia explica con claridad los antecedentes y desencadenantes de ese primer genocidio del siglo XX. Recupera documentos gubernamentales, crónicas de la época y testimonios de sobrevivientes que despejan toda duda sobre la magnitud de lo sucedido, sobre las responsabilidades alrededor del crimen y de su encubrimiento posterior. También se preocupa por reconstruir la historia de aquel pueblo, sus costumbres y sueños que siguieron en pie pese al intento de exterminio –y cuenta cómo aún hoy los descendientes de las víctimas luchan para que se lo reconozca como tal–. Editado en 2007, El grito armenio tuvo un prólogo altamente elogioso de Osvaldo Bayer y fue traducido a varios idiomas. - Mariano Saravia es un periodista, historiador y docente universitario nacido en Córdoba, Argentina. Conduce el programa radial Mirada sur, enfocado en política internacional, y trabaja como columnista en otros envíos. Ha recorrido su provincia y otros puntos de América Latina dictando conferencias sobre diversos temas. Lleva publicados diez libros hasta la fecha, entre los cuales se cuentan La sombra azul (2005), El grito armenio (2007), El golpe paraguayo (2012) y Cuadernos de un viajador 1 y 2 (2016).

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power Author: Vijay Prashad, Noam Chomsky Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan. Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York Times Book Review, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In The Withdrawal, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad—who “helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media” (Eduardo Galeano)—to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change. Chomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America’s downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan. As the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage—and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Birth Certificate: An American History Author: Susan J. Pearson Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow 'birthers' reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn't an American citizen, it plays a central role in determining identity and citizenship. In The Birth Certificate: An American History, award-winning historian Susan J. Pearson traces the document's two-hundred-year history to explain when, how, and why birth certificates came to matter so much in the United States. Deftly weaving together social, political, and legal history, The Birth Certificate is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans.