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Title: Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

Author: Gary Stein

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Release date: July 1, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The never-before-told story of Martin T. Manton, a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. From his misconduct, to his co-conspirators, to the sensational prosecution and trial, this is the exhaustively researched account of a discovery that shocked the nation. Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research. More than just a biography, this book examines Manton’s misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City in the first part of the twentieth century. Dozens of others—prominent business executives, leading Wall Street lawyers, accountants, bankers, fixers, con men, another federal judge—participated in Manton’s crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well. Manton and his corrupt schemes were finally brought down but not until Manhattan district attorney and future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey’s successful pursuit of Manton, a federal grand jury investigation, and a sensational prosecution and trial in federal court that shocked the nation.

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Title: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)

Author: Peter Moore

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness' is the best-known phrase from the Declaration of Independence, one of the most important documents of the eighteenth century and the whole Enlightenment Age. Written by Thomas Jefferson, it is frequently evoked today as a shorthand for that idea we call the 'American Dream'. But this is a line with a surprising history. Rather than being uniquely American, the vision it encapsulates - of a free and happy world - owes a great deal to British thinkers too. Centred on the life of Benjamin Franklin, featuring figures like the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. It takes us back to a vital moment in the foundation of the West, a time full of intent, confidence and ideas. It tells a whole new story about the birth of the United States of America - and some of the key principles by which we live to this very day. 'A trove of gripping...characters. Wonderfully absorbing and stimulating' SARAH BAKEWELL, author of AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE ©2023 Peter Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: American Traitor: General James Wilkinson's Betrayal of the Republic and Escape from Justice

Author: Howard W. Cox

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

American Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose corruption and espionage exposed the United States to grave dangers during the early years of the republic. Wilkinson is largely forgotten today, which is unfortunate because his sordid story is a cautionary tale about unscrupulous actors who would take advantage of gaps in the law, oversight, and accountability for self-dealing. Wilkinson's military career began during the Revolutionary War and continued through the War of 1812. As he rose to the rank of commanding general of the US Army, Wilkinson betrayed virtually everyone he worked with to advance his career and finances. He was a spy for Spain, plotted to have western territories split from the United States, and accepted kickbacks from contractors. His negligence and greed also caused the largest peacetime disaster in the history of the US Army. Howard W. Cox picks apart Wilkinson's misdeeds with the eye of an experienced investigator. American Traitor offers the most in-depth analysis of Wilkinson's court-martial trials and how he evaded efforts to hold him accountable. This astounding history of villainy in the early republic will fascinate anyone with an interest in the period as well as listeners of espionage history.

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Title: The Last Charge of the Rough Rider: Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

Author: William Elliott Hazelgrove

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own regiment in World War I, leading a suicide mission of Rough Riders against the Germans, to the devastating news that his son Quentin had been shot down and killed over France. Suffering from grief and guilt, marginalized by world events, the great glow that had been his life was now but a dimming lantern. But TR's final years were productive ones as well: he churned out several 'instant' books that promoted United States entry into the Great War, and he was making plans for another run at the Presidency in 1920 at the time of his death. Indeed, his political influence was so great that his opposition to the policies of Woodrow Wilson helped the Republican Party take back the Congress in 1918. However, as William Hazelgrove points out in this book, it was Roosevelt's quest for the 'vigorous life' that, ironically, may have led to his early demise at the age of sixty. 'The Old Lion is dead,' TR's son Archie cabled his brother on January 6, 1919, and so, too, ended a historic era in American life and politics.

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Title: The Enemy Harassed: Washington's New Jersey Campaign of 1777

Author: Jim Stempel

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In late December 1776, the American War of Independence appeared to be on its last legs. General George Washington's continental forces had been reduced to a shadow of their former strength, and the British Army had chased them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. Desperate times call for desperate measures, however, and George Washington responded to this crisis with astonishing audacity. On Christmas night 1776, he recrossed the Delaware as a nor'easter churned up the coast, burying his small detachment under howling sheets of snow and ice. Undaunted, they attacked a Hessian brigade at Trenton, New Jersey, taking the German auxiliaries by complete surprise. Then, only three days later, Washington struck again, crossing the Delaware, slipping away from the British at Trenton, and attacking the Redcoats at Princeton. The British, now back on their heels, retreated toward New Brunswick as Washington's reinvigorated force followed them north into Jersey. Over the next eight months, Washington's continentals and the state militias of New Jersey would go head-to-head with the British in a multitude of battles, eventually forcing the British to flee New Jersey by sea. In this captivating narrative of the American War of Independence, Jim Stempel brings to life one of the most violent, courageous, yet virtually forgotten periods of the Revolutionary War.

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Title: North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

Author: Blake Gumprecht

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject. Blake Gumprecht traces the history of this migration and explores its impacts in greater depth through the lives of ten individuals, each the subject of one chapter. Those chapters are short biographies based on extensive interviews by the author and are told in an engaging style that reflects the author's background as a journalist. The ten people featured came from six southern states. They fled racism, limited opportunity, and hopelessness, and moved north in pursuit of better jobs, equal treatment, and greater freedom. They settled in neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. They worked as teachers, factory workers, welders, and security guards. Their stories are emblematic of the experiences of Black people everywhere who left the South, and provide a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary people living in one city's Black community.

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Title: 'If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania': The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg: Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863

Author: Scott L. Mingus Sr., Eric J. Wittenberg

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

General Robert E. Lee's movement north shifted the war out of the central counties of the Old Dominion into the Shenandoah Valley, across the Potomac, and beyond. The first installment carried the armies through the defining clash at Battle of Brandy Station, after which Lee pushed his corps into the Shenandoah Valley and achieved victory at Second Winchester. Major General Joseph Hooker used his cavalry to probe the mountain gaps, triggering a series of consequential mounted actions. The current volume completes the march to Gettysburg and details the actions and whereabout of each of the armies. The maneuvering prompted General Hooker to move his Army of the Potomac north after his opponent and eventually above the Potomac, where he loses command to Major General George G. Meade. Jeb Stuart begins his consequential ride that strips away the eyes and ears of the Virginia army. Civilians and soldiers alike struggle with the reality of a mobile campaign and the logistical needs of the armies. Untold numbers of reports, editorials, news articles, letters, and diaries describe the passage of the long martial columns, the thunderous galloping of hooves, and the looting, fighting, suffering, and dying. Mingus and Wittenberg mined hundreds of primary accounts, newspapers, and other sources to produce this powerful and gripping saga.

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Title: The Laws and the Land

Author: Dr. Daniel Rück

Narrator: Kaniehti:io Horn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 21, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotinonhsiónni confederacy. The Laws and the Land delineates the establishment of a settler colonial relationship from early contact ways of sharing land; land practices under Kahnawà:ke law; the establishment of modern Kahnawà:ke in the context of French imperial claims; intensifying colonial invasions under British rule; and ultimately the Canadian invasion in the guise of the Indian Act, private property, and coercive pressure to assimilate. What Daniel Rück describes is an invasion spearheaded by bureaucrats, Indian agents, politicians, surveyors, and entrepreneurs. This original, meticulously researched book is deeply connected to larger issues of human relations with environments, communal and individual ways of relating to land, legal pluralism, historical racism and inequality, and Indigenous resurgence.

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Title: The Winning of the West, Vol. 2: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777–1783 

Series: #2 of The Winning of the West

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Winning of the West, Volume 2: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777–1783 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in Four Volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1889. Narrated by Joseph TablerNote: This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain. We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. BUT few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller. The first edition of his book sold out in little more than a month and helped establish Roosevelt as a literary man and scholar, placing him on a path toward future greatness. (Gordon T. Belt’s The Posterity Project). CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER I. The War in the Northwest, 1777–1778CHAPTER II. Clark’s Conquest of the Illinois, 1778CHAPTER III. Clark’s Campaign against Vincennes, 1779CHAPTER IV. Continuance of the Struggle in Kentucky and the Northwest, 1779–1781CHAPTER V. The Moravian Massacre, 1779–1783CHAPTER VI. The Administration of the Conquered French Settlements, 1779–1783CHAPTER VII. Kentucky until the End of the Revolution, 1782–1783CHAPTER VIII. The Holston Settlements, 1777–1779CHAPTER IX. King’s Mountain, 1780CHAPTER X. The Holston Settlements to the End of the Revolution, 1781–1783CHAPTER XI. Robertson Founds the Cumberland Settlement, I779–1780CHAPTER XII. The Cumberland Settlements to the Close of the Revolution, 1781–1783CHAPTER XIII. What the Westerners had Done During the Revolution Audio cover picture: Theodore Roosevelt Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration. Please excuse the dust.

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Title: Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era

Author: Mike Bunn

Narrator: Kyle Snyder

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an important and compelling interlude in Gulf Coast history that has for too long been overlooked. For a host of reasons, including the fact that West Florida did not rebel against the British Government, the colony has long been dismissed as a loyal but inconsequential fringe outpost, if considered at all. But the colony's history showcases a tumultuous political scene featuring a halting attempt at instituting representative government; a host of bold and colorful characters; a compelling saga of struggle and perseverance in the pursuit of financial stability; and a dramatic series of battles on land and water which brought about the end of its days under the Union Jack. In Fourteenth Colony, historian Mike Bunn offers the first comprehensive history of the colony, introducing listeners to the Gulf Coast's remarkable British period and putting West Florida back in its rightful place on the map of Colonial America.