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Title: Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity

Author: Harriet F. Senie

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

In recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most revered presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Is Rushmore a proud national achievement or a symbol of the US theft and desecration of the Lakota Sioux’s sacred land? Is it fair to denigrate George Washington for having owned slaves and Thomas Jefferson for having had a relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman, to the point of dismissing these men’s accomplishments? Should we retroactively hold Abraham Lincoln accountable for having signed off on the largest single-day mass execution in US history of thirty-eight Dakota men? How do we reckon with Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy? He was criticized for his imperialist policies but praised for his pro-labor antitrust and conservation programs. These charged issues and many others have been plaguing our nation and prompting the removal of Confederate statues and flags amid racial unrest, a national pandemic, and political strife. Noted art historian Harriet F. Senie tackles these pivotal subjects and more in Monumental Controversies. Senie places partisan politics aside as she investigates subjects that have not been adequately covered in classrooms or literature and require substantial reconciliation in order for Americans to come to terms with their history. She shines a spotlight on the complicated facts surrounding these figures, monuments, and sites, enabling us to revisit the flaws of our Founding Fathers and their checkered legacies while still recognizing their enormous importance and influence on the United States of America. Monumental Controversies presents strategies to create an inclusive narrative that honors the varied stakeholders in a democracy—a vital step toward healing the divisiveness that now appears to be a dominant feature of American discourse. As the public and press reconsider the viability of the American experiment in democracy, Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex lives and legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore. All four presidents faced some of the most contentious times in our history and yet they championed unity, made possible by acknowledging and accepting opposing opinions as a basic premise of democracy. Historians, curators, government officials, academics, and students at all levels will be riveted by this authoritative work.

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Title: [Spanish] - Homo emoticus: La historia de la Humanidad contada a través de las emociones

Author: Richard Firth-Godbehere

Narrator: Raúl Rodríguez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

La historia humana contada desde las emociones. A los humanos nos gusta pensar en nosotros mismos como criaturas racionales. Sin embargo, algunos de los momentos más excepcionales de la historia no tratan de acontecimientos sino de sentimientos: los orígenes de la filosofía, el nacimiento del cristianismo, la caída de Roma, la Revolución científica o los grandes conflictos bélicos del siglo XX no pueden entenderse sin las emociones. Gracias a sus sólidos conocimientos en psicología, neurociencia, arte, filosofía y religión, Richard Firth-Godbehere hilvana un fascinante recorrido por la historia de la humanidad desde una perspectiva absolutamente original, un relato que explica cómo las emociones han modelado el mundo en el que vivimos con toda su complejidad, maravilla y diversidad. La crítica ha dicho... «Una mirada fascinante al papel de las emociones humanas en la forja de la historia y la cultura universales.» Gina Rippon, autora de El género y nuestros cerebros «Las emociones son una parte mucho más importante de la experiencia del ser humano de lo que la mayoría de la gente cree. Si quieres saber más sobre las emociones y cómo hemos llegado a entenderlas, este libro es exactamente lo que necesitas.» Dean Burnett, autor de El cerebro feliz «Tanto si buscas nuevas ideas, como historia narrativa, teoría psicológica o antropología cultural, este libro te enseñará algo nuevo sobre cómo la gente ha sentido a través de los tiempos. Un libro como ningún otro.» Thomas Dixon, autor de Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

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Title: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Author: Nancy Isenberg

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking  bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.   “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.   Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.   We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

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Title: The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War

Author: Des Ekin

Narrator: Roger Clark

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided to exploit the vulnerability of the United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten. The Lionkeeper of Algiers reveals the extraordinary and unlikely story of Cathcart, who rose steadily up the ranks from lionkeeper at the Dey's private zoo to become Chief Clerk at the Palace, along the way amassing a chain of taverns in Algiers that functioned as safe houses and food banks for American prisoners. Eleven years later, Cathcart was paroled back to America and charged with delivering a vital letter to President George Washington, saving a tenuous peace deal and bringing the other captives home. Cathcart would go on to become a US diplomat in the lands where he was held captive for more than a decade. This narrative follows the twists and turns of Cathcart's own life upon the international stage of diplomacy, trade, and maritime statecraft at a time when America's place in the world was hanging in the balance.

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Title: Family Lexicon

Author: Natalia Ginzburg

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. 'Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it],' Ginzburg tells us at the start. 'The places, events, and people are all real.'

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Title: Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine

Author: Lynne Viola

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator. It uncovers the mechanics and logistics of the terror at the local level by examining the criminal files of a series of mid-level NKVD operatives from across Ukraine. The result offers new perspectives on both Stalin's central role in the architecture of the terror and NKVD perpetrators' agency in implementing one of the most horrific episodes of twentieth-century mass violence.

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Title: [Spanish] - Historia secreta de Chile 3

Author: Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales

Narrator: Sebastián Fernández Robles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

El lado B de la historia de Chile tiene tercera parte, con narraciones aún más sorpresivas y descubrimientos increíbles ¿En la Isla de Pascua hubo una revolución dirigida por una vidente? ¿Es verdad que esclavos africanos pelearon en la Independencia de Chile? ¿Hubo un exorcismo público en Santiago? ¿Cuáles son los misterios que esconde la Antártica? ¿Cuáles son los secretos oscuros detrás de la vida y terrible muerte de José Miguel Carrera? ¿Qué nos han ocultado de nuestro Premio Nobel, Gabriela Mistral? Jorge Baradit, en la tercera parte de Historia secreta de Chile (el fenómeno editorial más importante que ha tenido nuestro país en décadas), nos relata la vida de héroes postergados, pueblos originarios saqueados, minorías reducidas por el poder predominante, para así sacar a la luz una verdad incómoda, que muchos quisieran seguir pasando de alto. La historia de Chile no es de las instituciones, del Estado o de un sector específico, sino nuestra, y necesitamos descubrirla para entender nuestra propia identidad.

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Title: [Spanish] - Invasión del Gulumapu

Author: Guillermo Parvex

Narrator: Adrián Wowczuk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Continuación de la novela en la que el periodista y escritor de no ficción se adentra en el imaginario mapuche a través del peñi Pedro Bórquez. Pedro Bórquez ha armado familia y una vida en el Gulumapu. Con esposa, hijos y buen vivir, el chileno que se adentró en tierras mapuche luego del terremoto que dejó Concepción en el suelo es el brazo derecho del lonko Mañilwenu, y junto a él consultará el cherrufe, la piedra mágica que le permite avizorar el futuro de su pueblo y el peligro que esas tierras corren por la amenaza de los chilenos. Segunda entrega de la exitosa ficción sobre el mundo mapuche que Guillermo Parvex inició con Frontera Sur y que, como lo hizo también en la ficción, cuenta con una fundamentación histórica que hace de esta novela un fiel retrato de los hechos que constituyeron a Chile como nación mestiza.

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Title: Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

Author: Martin Puchner

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the 'know-how' of life, but the 'know-why'—the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of insights from the past and from other cultures. In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume. From Nefertiti's lost city to the plays of Wole Soyinka; from the theaters of ancient Greece to Chinese travel journals to Arab and Aztec libraries; from a South Asian statuette found at Pompeii to a time capsule left behind on the Moon, Puchner tells the gripping story of human achievement through our collective losses and rediscoveries, power plays and heroic journeys, innovations, imitations, and appropriations. More than a work of history, Culture is an archive of humanity's most monumental junctures and a guidebook for the future of us humans as a creative species.

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Title: The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

Author: Bill Hammack

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Release date: March 21, 2023

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Discover the secret method used to build the world . . . For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the 'engineering method', is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let alone understand—but that influences every aspect of our lives. Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral 'The Engineer Guy' on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer to a better, more functional world. Spanning centuries and cultures, Hammack offers a fascinating perspective on how humans engineer solutions in a world full of problems.