Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/738453 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson

Author: Horace Busby

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson's politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors. Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis. From the aftereffects of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns that defined the Great Society—civil rights, the economy, social legislation, housing, and the Vietnam War—Busby not only articulated and refined Johnson's political thinking, he also helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda since FDR's New Deal. Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK's choice of an open limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father, sickened by the deaths of young men fighting and dying in Vietnam on his orders. The Thirty-first of March is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of Johnson's presidency, as seen through the eyes of one of the people who understood him best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/735883 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: A Jacket Off the Gorge: True Story of the Biggest Liar

Author: Susan Ashline

Narrator: Elisabeth Lagelee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Release date: March 5, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A must-listen real-life psychological thriller Jon Fontaine's teenage years are shaped by his motivation to run a lucrative drug-selling enterprise. Despite the many tricks up his sleeve, the law catches up with him time after time. To escape a lengthy prison sentence, Jon bails out of jail and fakes his own death. He throws his jacket off a gorge, the pinnacle of a meticulously staged suicide. Police find the jacket and declare him dead, only to capture him later as a fugitive from justice. Seven years after the ruse, Jon meets Susan, who is unaware of his criminal past. And he's keeping a secret: he's stolen a treasure of ancient gold and silver coins. He will never give away its location. Jon sends Susan on a roller-coaster of love and fear, and exploits the weaknesses in the criminal justice system to work his biggest cons yet, ending in a trail of victims—and death. A Jacket Off the Gorge peels back the layers of the criminal mind, revealing a fascinating look at one man's struggles within himself and with others. Jon's story raises questions about incarceration versus rehabilitation, lack of mental health treatment for offenders, and abuses by those we entrust to uphold the law.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747206 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [German] - Jón Gnarr - vom Outlaw zum Bürgermeister - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

Author: Seán Mcdonagh, Jón Gnarr

Narrator: Kristof Magnusson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Einer der schillerndsten Politiker des letzten Jahrzehnts erzählt in 'Outlaw' seine Jugend. In den 1980er-Jahren gilt Jón Gnarr als schwer erziehbar, wird an den nordwestlichsten Rand Islands ins Internat geschickt und verlebt die schmerzlichste Phase seines Lebens. Als Außenseiter stigmatisiert, flüchtet er sich in Punkmusik und entdeckt dort die Ideale, für die er 30 Jahre später als Bürgermeister Reykjaviks eintreten wird. Mod.: Kristof Magnusson, dt. Text: Seán McDonagh. Ein Gespräch mit Lesung im Rahmen der lit.COLOGNE 2017.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747208 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [German] - 'Ich komme gleich nach Goethe.' Ein Abend über Brecht - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

Author: Bertholt Brecht

Narrator: Heinrich Breloer, Bettina Böttinger, Burghart Klaußner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Heinrich Breloer hat mit seinen Filmen und Büchern schon viele Figuren der deutschen Geschichte zu neuem Leben erweckt. Nun also Bertolt Brecht. Der Zweiteiler wird das TV-Ereignis des Frühlings. Mit dem kongenialen Burghart Klaußner als Brecht. Über Jahrzehnte hat Breloer mit Brechts Weggefährten, mit Geliebten, Familienmitgliedern und Freunden, Verbündeten und Verstoßenen gesprochen und darüber ein großes Buch geschrieben: 'Brecht. Der Roman seines Lebens'. Mod.: Bettina Böttinger. Ein Autorenporträt im Rahmen der lit.COLOGNE 2019.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747419 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [German] - Der gute Onkel: Mein verdammtes deutsches Erbe: Die Großnichte von Nazi-Verbrecher Hermann Göring reflektiert ihre NS-Familiengeschichte

Author: Bettina Göring, Melissa Müller

Narrator: Karolina Hofmeister

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Release date: February 29, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Bettina Görings Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer dunklen Familiengeschichte und dem verbrecherischen Erbe Ihres Großonkels, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring Bettina Görings Name ist ihr Schicksal. Als Großnichte von Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring wächst sie im Schatten seiner Verbrechen auf. Früh rebelliert sie und entflieht der bedrückenden Verbindung in die Welt der Hippies und Freigeister. Doch weder in der linken Kommune noch im Aschram in Poona kann sie ihrer Vergangenheit entkommen. Sie erkennt, dass auch sie falschen Führern hinterhergelaufen ist und dass allein die Auseinandersetzung mit der dunklen Seite ihrer Familie sie befreien kann. Bettina Göring gewährt einen sehr persönlichen Einblick in die Geschichte ihrer Familie und legt ein mutiges Zeugnis ab über den Umgang mit ihrem schwierigen Erbe. Dieses Buch legt den Finger in die Wunde der deutschen Erinnerungskultur – und wird dabei aus einer persönlichen und erlebbaren Perspektive erzählt. Es ergründet die Frage, wie sich der Schatten unserer deutschen Vergangenheit bis heute auf uns auswirkt und damit gleichzeitig die Sinnfrage einer ganzen Generation in den Fokus.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712575 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Keir Starmer: The Biography

Author: Tom Baldwin

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Release date: February 29, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW D’ANCONA, EVENING STANDARD This authoritative – but not authorised – biography by Tom Baldwin provides answers by drawing deeply on many hours of interviews with Prime Minister himself, as well as unprecedented access to members of his family, his oldest friends and closest colleagues. Together, they tell an unexpectedly intimate story filled with feelings of grief and love that has driven him on more than any rigid ideology or loyalty to a particular faction. The book tracks Starmer’s emergence from a troubled small town background and rebellious youth, through a storied legal career as a human rights barrister and the country’s chief prosecutor, to becoming an MP relatively late in life. Baldwin provides a vivid and compelling account of how this untypical politician then rose to be leader of his party in succession to Jeremy Corbyn, then transformed it with a ruthless rapidity that has enraged opponents from the left just as much as it has bewildered those on the right. Above all, this is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand how someone who has too often been underestimated or dismissed as dull, now intends to change Britain. 'The first serious and consistently readable biography of Starmer…It is a wonder that he has said so much to Baldwin' PATRICK MAGUIRE, THE TIMES 'This is an absolutely riveting and very timely biography' AMOL RAJAN ‘Highly readable… Baldwin has peeled back more layers than anyone else' ROBERT SHRIMSLEY, FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Tom Baldwin’s portrait is of a tough, conscientious, and kindly man with the right values' ANDREW MARR, NEW STATESMAN

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722928 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

Author: Terry Golway

Narrator: Jon Vertullo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 0 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues that would have been familiar to the Little Flower, as he was affectionately known. It's time to bring back LaGuardia, argues historian and journalist Terry Golway, to remind us all what an effective municipal officer (as he preferred to call himself) can achieve . . . Golway examines LaGuardia's extraordinary career through four essential qualities: As a patriot, a dissenter, a leader, and a statesman. He needed them all when he stood against the nativism, religious and racial bigotry, and reactionary economic policies of the 1920s, and again when he faced the realities of Depression-era New York and the rise of fascism at home and abroad in the 1930s. Just before World War II, the Roosevelt administration formally apologized to the Nazis when LaGuardia referred to Hitler as a 'brown-shirted fanatic.' There was nobody quite like Fiorello LaGuardia. In this immensely listenable book, as entertaining as the man himself, Terry Golway captures the enduring appeal of one of America's greatest leaders.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/722656 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

Author: Lisa G. Bailey

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Release date: February 20, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up. Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation—sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull—that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just might help them be identified, and that might help law enforcement track down their killer. Bailey worked on hundreds of cases and grew to become a subject matter expert in the field. It was the most challenging and fulfilling work she could have imagined, and she never thought of leaving. But her life changed when she became the target of sexual discrimination and harassment. She was stunned when FBI management protected the abusers and retaliated with threats, slander, and an arsenal of lawyers. Trapped in an increasingly hostile work environment, and infuriated at the hypocrisy of the FBI's tactics, Bailey decided to fight back. Clay and Bones is a memoir with a mission, and a fascinating exploration into the surreal and satisfying work of a forensic artist.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754887 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [Spanish] - Rosario de México: Testimonio de una infamia

Author: Rosario Robles

Narrator: Rosario Robles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Narrado por la autora Prólogo de Ciro Gómez Leyva «A Rosario la clavaron en la cárcel para convertirla en un objeto de deshonra, en un símbolo de inagotable humillación. No lo consiguieron. Ya en libertad, sin el rencor como combustible, ha sabido resurgir fortalecida para rehacerse e incluso tratar de regresar a la vida pública.» -Ciro Gómez Leyva Estas líneas representan lo vivido en mil 101 días de cautiverio injusto, de lo aberrante que significa el abuso de la prisión preventiva en nuestro país, pues se convierte en una condena anticipada, una estigmatización, violatoria de la inocencia. Hoy tengo la oportunidad de contar mi verdad, que nunca será absoluta, lo que aprendí a un alto precio. De recordar pasajes de una lucha que no fue sencilla por no venir de una familia con pedigrí político, una clasemediera a la que le tocó, junto con otras compañeras de generación con convicciones semejantes, romper el techo de cristal en los ámbitos del poder. Hoy debo volver a batallar para señalar un hecho profundamente injusto: la operación que pretendió destrozar una carrera política de tantos años. En este libro se recogen también revelaciones simbólicas de quienes son privadas de su libertad, de sus tragedias personales; contiene recuerdos de los logros y aportaciones a favor de un país al que amo y que he recorrido de cabo a rabo. Es un testimonio —para cuando yo ya no esté— de la necesidad de dejar claro que sí se puede llegar alto a pesar de todos los intentos por destruir esa trayectoria. Estoy empeñada en que se recuerde que después del viacrucis siempre viene la resurrección. Rosario Robles

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757320 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [Russian] - Помещичья Россия

Author: николай врангель

Narrator: наталья домерецкая

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2024

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Этот текст был опубликован под названием «Старые усадьбы. Очерки русского искусства и быта» больше ста лет назад - в 1910 году. Последующие десятилетия катком прошлись по помещичьей России. Из остатков былого великолепия, которое ещё застал автор, сохранилось немногое — что-то разрушено, что-то перестроено, но что-то в последнее время и возрождается. Мы не будем рассказывать, сохранилась или нет та или иная усадьба к 20-м годам XXI века и в каком она состоянии, да и от комментариев текста того давнего издания воздержимся. Просто будем слушать Николая Николаевича Врангеля — поэта и историка искусств, который летом 1909 года объехал 25 помещичьих усадеб по всей России и написал эту статью. Содержание: Несколько слов от студии АРДИС Помещичья Россия Усадьбы и их обитатели Убранство комнат и любимые предметы Искусство крепостных В былое время Развал Остатки прошлого