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Title: Uneven Justice: The Plot to Sink Galleon

Author: Raj Rajaratnam

Narrator: Asa Siegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Release date: December 14, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Raj Rajaratnam, the respected founder of the iconic hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed seven billion and employed 180 people in its heyday, chose to go to trial rather than concede to a false narrative concocted by ambitious prosecutors looking for a scapegoat for the 2008 financial crisis. Naively perhaps, Rajaratnam had expected to get a fair hearing in court. As an immigrant who had achieved tremendous success in his adopted country, he trusted the system. He had not anticipated prosecutorial overreach—inspired by political ambition—FBI fabrications, judicial compliance, and lies told under oath by cooperating witnesses. In the end, Rajaratnam was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served seven and a half. Meanwhile, not a single senior bank executive responsible for the financial crisis was even charged. Uneven Justice is the story of his bewildering and confounding prosecution by forces who, quite frankly, were looking for bigger game. When Rajaratnam refused to support the narrative that would make that happen, he and the Galleon Group became collateral damage. A must-listen cautionary tale with implications for us all, Uneven Justice is an eye-opening lesson in the vagaries of justice when an unscrupulous prosecutor is calling the shots.

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Title: Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI

Author: Florence Tate, Jake-Ann Jones

Narrator: Kim Staunton, Beresford Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Release date: December 7, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931–2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-themovement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.Tate defied stereotypes of the 1960s, playing key roles in the lives and work of an astonishing number of high-profile leaders of the most influential social-change organizations and events of the twentieth century. She also worked with numerous Black Nationalist leaders and Pan-African activists, US politicians, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She was close to Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, serving both men as press secretary.An accomplished activist, most people never knew that Tate was bravely fighting chronic depression. She endured years of electroconvulsive shock treatments and therapy to live a full life, contribute to her community, fight for human and civil rights, and be available to her family.Farmgirls is an engaging collage of Tate’s life, woven together from her journal entries, memories from people who knew her, and excerpts from her FBI files. These multiple perspectives bring into focus the complex and complicated saga of a public persona engaged in private struggle, defying and overcoming the odds.

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Title: Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash

Author: Michael Stewart Foley

Narrator: Greg Littlefield, Michael Stewart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Release date: December 7, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for huge hits like “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States, even if he wasn’t recognized for it in his own lifetime, or since his death in 2003. Then and now, people have misread Cash’s politics, usually accepting the idea of him as a “walking contradiction.” Cash didn’t fit into easy political categories—liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, hawk or dove. Like most people, Cash’s politics were remarkably consistent in that they were based not on ideology or scripts but on empathy—emotion, instinct, and identification. Drawing on untapped archives and new research on social movements and grassroots activism, Citizen Cash offers a major reassessment of a legendary figure.

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Title: [Spanish] - El zorro rojo: La vida de Santiago Carrillo

Author: Paul Preston

Narrator: Javier Viñas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Release date: December 2, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

La biografía del líder comunista español Santiago Carrillo, figura fundamental del siglo XX. El fallecimiento de Santiago Carrillo el 28 de octubre de 2012 puso fin a noventa y siete años vividos intensamente y en primera fila de la política. Hijo de Wenceslao Carrillo, dirigente socialista, su primer recuerdo era visitar a su padre en prisión. Aún adolescente participó en la huelga de 1934 y pasó por la cárcel, donde se radicalizó. Tras un viaje a Moscú logró unificar las juventudes del PSOE y del PCE en vísperas de la Guerra Civil, para a continuación unirse a los comunistas. Durante la guerra ocurrió uno de los episodios más oscuros de su vida, la matanza de presos rebeldes en Paracuellos, cuando era responsable de seguridad en Madrid. Tras la guerra permaneció treinta y ocho años exiliado, siempre en la dirección comunista, que ejerció con mano de hierro. Su giro hacia el eurocomunismo y su papel fundamental en la Transición aliviaron su figura. Paul Preston, el historiador más importante del siglo XX español, autor de las biografías definitivas de Franco y de Juan Carlos I, dedica su nuevo libro a uno de los personajes más fascinantes e inasibles de la historia reciente de nuestro país. La crítica ha dicho... «...su demoledor y controvertido retrato del principal líder de la oposición antifranquista arrancará sarpullidos.» El País «Una extensa y lúcida biografía del histórico jefe del Partido Comunista Español.» El Mundo

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Title: Inside North Korea: A BBC Radio Documentary Collection

Author: Sara Jane Hall, Becky Milligan, David Torrance

Narrator: Natalia Zuo, Jonathan Griffin, Becky Milligan, Matthew Bannister, David Torrance, Various

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Release date: December 2, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A compelling collection of programmes exploring one of the world's most repressive and dangerous nations The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a highly secretive totalitarian state - and one that poses an increasing threat to the West due to its rapidly expanding nuclear weapons programme. This unique 3-part collection takes an in-depth look at the country, encompassing its history, the human stories behind the regime, and its possible future. Part 1: Inside North Korea examines the politics, economy and leadership of this isolated nation. The Real Story: How dangerous is North Korea? discusses whether the country's increasing military belligerence rules out any hope for engagement with the rest of the world, while The Inquiry: Is North Korea broke? investigates how the state makes its money, from coffee shops to counterfeiting. And in two illuminating Profile programmes, David Torrance and Becky Milligan scrutinize the Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, and his sister and closest confidant Kim Yo-jong. In Part 2: The People, North Koreans and Westerners recount their experiences. Assignment: Escape from North Korea talks to the forgotten survivors who made it across Asia's iron curtain, while The Documentary Podcast: North Korea's celebrity defectors discovers how these escapees have become a valuable commodity in South Korea. Seven fascinating Outlook documentaries focus on the extraordinary stories of ordinary individuals, including a defector interrogated for playing Western music; a young man who led a street gang; a female soldier; an author who befriended dictator Kim Il-sung; a former spy; a woman who fled North Koreat twice - and another who claims her defection was a terrible mistake. Trending: North Korea's YouTube Stars looks at the vloggers uploading footage from inside the hermit kingdom, and in an episode of HARDtalk, American missionary Kenneth Bae tells of his arrest and imprisonment in a Pyongyang labour camp. Part 3: Looking Forward asks, what next for North Korea? Three engrossing episodes of The Inquiry delve into the regime's missile capability and its global repercussions; reveal the conversations inside the war rooms; and consider whether China may hold the key to getting North Korea to step back from its nuclear ambitions. Finally, A Korean Thaw revisits the 2018 Winter Olympics, when North and South Korea competed under a single banner, and poses the question, could sports diplomacy stop a war in the peninsula? Cast and credits The Real Story: How dangerous is North Korea? Presented by Ritula Shah. First broadcast BBC Radio World Service, 16 October 2020 The Inquiry: Is North Korea Broke? Presented by Celia Hatton. First broadcast BBC Radio World Service, 24 May 2018 Profile: Kim Jong-un Presented by David Torrance. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 14 April 2012 Profile: Kim Yo-jong Presented by Becky Milligan. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 2 May 2020 Assignment: Escape from North Korea Presented by Chris Gunness. First broadcast BBC World Service, 14 May 2003 The Documentary: North Korea's celebrity defectors Presented by Jonathan Griffin and Natalia Zuo. First broadcast BBC Radio World Service, 26 March 2020 Outlook: I fled North Korea for playing the wrong song Presented by Rajan Datar. First broadcast BBC World Service, 26 March 2020 Outlook: I led a street gang in North Korea Presented by Matthew Bannister. First broadcast BBC World Service, 13 October 2016 Outlook: A Woman Inside North Korea's Army Presented by Matthew Bannister. First broadcast BBC World Service, 28 September 2017 Outlook: My Time with North Korea's Dictator Presented by Matthew Bannister. First broadcast BBC World Service, 4 April 2018 Outlook: I Spied for North Korea Presented by Lucy Ash. First broadcast BBC World Service, 21 October 2013 Outlook: Escaping North Korea Twice Presented by Jo Fidgen. First broadcast BBC World Service, 5 March 2018 Outlook: I Want to Go Back to North Korea Presented by Matthew Bannister. First broadcast BBC World Service, 30 September 2015 Trending: North Korea's YouTube stars Presented by Jonathan Griffin. First broadcast BBC World Service, 6 April 2018 HARDtalk: Former North Korea Detainee - Kenneth Bae Presented by Stephen Sackur. First broadcast BBC World Service, 28 August 2017 The Inquiry: North Korea Deep Dive Presented by Ruth Alexander. First broadcast BBC World Service, 22 December 2017 The Inquiry: What Would War with North Korea Look Like? Presented by Neal Razzell. First broadcast BBC World Service, 27 July 2017 The Inquiry: Can China Solve the North Korea Problem? Presented by Neal Razzell. First broadcast BBC World Service, 21 September 2017 A Korean Thaw Presented by Jean Lee. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 February 2018 ©2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

Author: Claude A. Clegg

Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

In this first interpretative, comprehensive history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency's historical environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans—the tens of millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his years in office. Drawing on an expansive archive of materials, including government records, speeches, and insider accounts, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.

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Title: His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation

Author: Diana Schaub

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent. His thoughts on these landmarks can be traced through three speeches: the Lyceum Address, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural. The latter two are well-known, enshrined forever on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial. The former is much less familiar to most, written a quarter century before his presidency, when he was a twenty-eight-year-old Illinois state legislator. In His Greatest Speeches, professor Diana Schaub offers a brilliant line-by-line analysis of these timeless works, placing them in historical context and explaining the brilliance behind their rhetoric. The result is a complete vision of Lincoln's worldview that is sure to fascinate and inspire general audiences and history buffs alike. This book is a wholly original resource for considering the difficult questions of American purpose and identity, questions that are no less contentious or essential today than they were over two hundred years ago.

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Title: The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

Author: David Cay Johnston

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family. While the world watched Donald Trump’s presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers. More than $1.7 billion flowed into Donald Trump’s bank accounts during his four years as president. Foreign governments rented out whole floors of his hotel five blocks from the White House while lobbyists conducted business in the hotel’s restaurants. Payday lenders and other trade groups moved their annual conventions to Trump golf resorts. And individual favor seekers joined his private Mar-a-Lago club with its $200,000 admission fee in hopes of getting a few minutes with the President. Despite earning more than $1 million every day he was in office, Trump left the White House as he arrived—hard up for cash. More than $400 million in debt comes due by 2024, and Trump still lacks the resources to pay it back. “Few people are as well positioned to write an exposé of the former president as Johnston” (The Washington Post), and The Big Cheat offers a guided tour of how money flowed in and out of Trump’s hundreds of enterprises, showing in simple terms how a corrupt president used our government for his benefit, even putting national security at risk. Johnston details the four most recent years of the corruption that has defined the Trump family since 1885 and reveals the costs of Trump’s extravagant lifestyle for American taxpayers.

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Title: The Beatle Bandit: A Serial Bank Robber's Deadly Heist, a Cross-Country Manhunt, and the Insanity Plea that Shook the Nation

Author: Nate Hendley

Narrator: David Marantz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

The sensational true story of how a bank robber killed a man in a wild shootout, sparking a national debate around gun control and the death penalty. On July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario. The intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution. Outside the bank, Smith was confronted by Jack Blanc, a former member of the Canadian and Israeli armies, who brandished a revolver. During a wild shootout, Blanc was killed, and Smith escaped—only to become the object of the largest manhunt in the history of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force. Dubbed 'The Beatle Bandit,' Smith was eventually captured, tried, and sentenced to hang. His murderous rampage had tragic consequences for multiple families and fueled a national debate about the death penalty, gun control, and the insanity defense.

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Title: Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike

Author: Richard O’rawe

Narrator: Roger Clark

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths.' Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the 'Blanketmen,' he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those turbulent times that saw British and Irish governments entering unprecedented negotiations with the IRA Army Council and the prisoners themselves. Passionate, disturbing, and controversial, this remains a landmark book in the cruel history of Northern Ireland. After ten years, and the release of historical state and personal papers, Richard O'Rawe's assertions in Blanketmen have been vindicated. He has been married to Bernadette for forty years, has three grown-up children, and still lives in west Belfast.