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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Author: Russell Kirk Narrator: Phillip Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 18, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed. Kirk defines 'the conservative mind' by examining such brilliant men as Edmund Burke, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Cardinal Newman, George Santayana, and finally, T. S. Eliot. Vigorously written, the book represents conservatism as an ideology born of sound intellectual traditions.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits Author: David Horowitz Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 11, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Politics is war; but in America, one side is doing all the shooting—the liberals. Shell-shocked conservatives blame their failures on the media or on unscrupulous opponents, but they refuse to name the real culprit: themselves. In a book that will shatter the complacency of establishment conservatives, David Horowitz shows how Bill Clinton's generation, having mastered the art of political war, has spent the last ten years clobbering the conservatives in and out of government. The bestselling author of Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes has the strategy to fight back.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception Author: Scott Mcclellan Narrator: Scott Mcclellan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 2, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling book that provoked a media sensation, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan takes readers behind the scenes of the presidency of George W. Bush. McClellan belonged to Bush’s select inner circle of trusted advisors during one of the most challenging and contentious periods of recent history. Over a period of more than seven years, he witnessed day-to-day exactly how the presidency veered off course: not only by its decision to topple Saddam Hussein but by an embrace of confrontational politics in the face of an increasingly partisan Washington and hostile media. In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, McClellan provides unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and two hotly contested presidential campaigns. He gives readers a candid look into who George W. Bush is and what he believes and explores the lessons this presidency offers the American people as we look to the future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society Author: Farhad Manjoo Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 1, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Why has punditry overtaken news, with so many media outlets pushing partisan agendas instead of information? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem to work so well? Comedian Stephen Colbert's catchword 'truthiness' captured something essential about our age: that people are now more comfortable with ideas thatfeeltrue, even if the evidence for those beliefs is thin. In a subtle and fascinating exploration, Farhad Manjoo explains what's powering this phenomenon. He explores how new technologies that give us control over what we see and read have caused 'reality' to split across political and cultural lines, allowing opposing groups to subscribe not only to different opinions from each other but also different facts.In an age of talk radio, cable television, and the blog- and YouTube-addled internet universe, it is no longer necessary for any of us to confront notions that contradict what we 'know' to be true. With brilliant insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, Manjoo explains how myths pushed by both partisans and marketers—whether about global warming, the war in Iraq, 9/11, or even the virtues of a certain candy bar—have attracted wide support in recent years. His characters include the Swift Boat veterans, Lou Dobbs, and conspiracy theorists of all varieties, all of whom prove thattruematters less, now, than trueenough.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Anti-Chomsky Reader Author: Peter Collier, David Horowitz Narrator: Kirk Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Noam Chomsky’s defense of Pol Pot and the genocidal Khymer Rouge, as well as his bizarre associations with Holocaust revisionists, may surprise those who think they know what he believes. Other Chomsky views, such as his claim that the United States has taken the place of Nazi Germany on the world stage, will be more familiar. With Chomskyism growing here and abroad, Collier writes, “It is clearly time for a reckoning.” The essays in this book provide a response to the millions of words Noam Chomsky has written in the past forty years. Examining Chomsky’s controversial ideas about various foreign and domestic issues and even the legitimacy of the linguistics theories on which his reputation rests, The Anti-Chomsky Reader explores the dark corners of what the New Yorker recently called “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon Author: Khidir Hamza Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Saddam’s Bombmaker is the true saga of one man’s journey through the circles of hell. Educated at MIT and Florida State University, dedicated to a life of peaceful teaching in America, Iraqi scientist Dr. Khidhir Hamza relates how Saddam’s regime ordered him home, seduced him into a pampered life as an atomic energy official, and forced him to design a bomb. The price of refusal was torture. With the cynical help of US, French, German, and British suppliers and experts, he secretly developed Baghdad’s nuclear bomb and kept it hidden from UN inspectors after the Gulf War. The tale of his escape, his first bungled contact with CIA agents, and his flight abroad will keep listeners riveted toward a climax worthy of a well-crafted spy thriller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent’s Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rights Author: Jeffrey St. John Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this “eyewitness account” of America's first Federal elections, the First Congress, and the creation of the Bill of Rights. In a swift-moving and colorful chronicle written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, listeners will discover how Madison had to fight both friend and foe of the Constitution to pass a Federal Bill of Rights in the First Congress; why Washington and Madison saw the future of America in the frontier West and not in Europe; and how Spanish and British intrigues—and hostile Indian tribes on the American frontier—posed a threat to the survival of the new national government. Vastly entertaining, based on documented and newly-available sources, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Author: Ayn Rand Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. This collection of twenty-six essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as well as three essays by Alan Greenspan, two by Nathaniel Branden, and one by Robert Hessen. These essays are a challenging look at modern society by some of America’s most provocative intellectuals.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628044 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan Author: Michael Barone Narrator: William Lavelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this rare, sweeping history, Michael Barone draws from deep within the political and social record of modern America to tell the story of how the country of our parents and of our grandparents became the prosperous and powerful nation we know today. Barone points out that the single most significant issue to dominate American politics in this century is that of who really is an American. Gone are the vaunted battles over the distribution of wealth and income. In their place are the powerfully rooted political battles fought between America’s cultural poles: its racial and ethnic groups, its urban liberals and small-town conservatives, its state’s rightists and centrists, and ultimately also between advocates of culturally diverse lifestyles. Barone’s extensive knowledge of the historical record and his portrayal of well-known individual participants add color and dimension to this narrative.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law Author: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one found the courage to file the first sexual harassment class action suit in America, permanently changing the legal landscape. When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn’t think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paying job. What she hadn’t considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resented the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner. Relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults, the women largely kept quiet for fear of losing their jobs, until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to sue—and won. This book was the basis for the acclaimed motion picture North Country starring Charlize Theron.