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Title: The Triangle Fire, Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York

Author: Richard Greenwald

Narrator: Tom Kruse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that flared so often in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the ladies' garment industry, a unique experiment in industrial democracy brought together labor, management, and the public. As Richard Greenwald explains, it was an attempt to "square free market capitalism with ideals of democracy to provide a fair and just workplace." Led by Louis Brandeis, this group negotiated the "Protocols of Peace." But in the midst of this experiment, 146 mostly young, immigrant women died in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. As a result of the fire, a second, interrelated experiment, New York's Factory Investigating Commission (FIC) - led by Robert Wagner and Al Smith - created one of the largest reform successes of the period. The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York uses these linked episodes to show the increasing interdependence of labor, industry, and the state. Greenwald explains how the Protocols and the FIC best illustrate the transformation of industrial democracy and the struggle for political and economic justice.

The book is published by Temple University Press.

Members Reviews:

Almost painful to listen to

What would have made The Triangle Fire, Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York better?

1. Substance - The author's source material clearly drives the narrative here, such that he almost never comes up for air to give us a sense of the bigger picture. Giant sections of the book read like minutes of meetings, with names and positions and organizations (easily forgotten) that lack analysis or argument that might give them a framework.

2. Narrator. Seriously terrible, almost funny reader. Dull and pedantic.

What was most disappointing about Richard Greenwalds story?

There is this great potential in the beginning, where Greenwald lays out the garment industry , the system of sweating labor, some of the details of exploitation in the factory that give a glimmer of vitality... and then we disappear into long, boring chapters on who led which organization, names and dates and such that are a stereotype of history as mere facts, rather than a discipline that makes and substantiates arguments, illustrates scenes, and analyses facts with engaging scrutiny.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Tom Kruse?

Almost anyone else.

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Title: The Knight of the Dixie Wilds

Author: K. Meador, Walter E. Taylor

Narrator: Tyler Edmunds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-15

Publisher: K-Trina Meador

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

No period in the history of the United States of America forms a field so rich with chivalry, romance, and drama as the years between 1865 and 1870, the so-called days of the reconstruction of the South. During this period the nation was born again and started on its climb to the top rung of power among the nations of the world.

The heroism of the overpowered South during that time was strangely slighted by historians. For more than 60 years it has remained practically unknown except to a few survivors of the day.

Members Reviews:

A Genteel Beauty of a Story

A fascinating story about the reconstruction years following the end of the Civil War. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first began reading this story. In school, we learned about the Civil War but never went much beyond the years of reconstruction that took place after it ended, but this work of American fiction with its engrossing characters and a well-crafted storyline about a young man, Buck, and the losses, struggles and trials he and his family had to endure to start their lives over again cast light on what life must have been like trying to set roots in a wild frontier. These people who'd once had servants and didn't have to do manual labor had lost it all in the war and were now challenged to start over in recovering their losses while trying to survive in an untamed country running amok with bandits and criminals. Told in the genteel language and manner of the time period, is a great example of how well-written fiction stands the test of time.

Throughout Buck's adventures and mis-adventures, he garners the faith and loyalty from those surrounding him, from a freed Negro slave to a small tribe of Indians. Much like Civil War/reconstruction classic, Gone With the Wind, there's language and references in this story that reflects the beliefs (and prejudices) of the time period that, to me, shows how far we've come, and how far we've yet to go. 5 Stars to The Knight of the Dixie Wilds.

At once you're captivated with Buck Tyler's sweetness and you gladly go along on his heroic adventures!

Knight of the Dixie Wilds was a surprising romp through history. K. Meador takes the reader down a historic path, through brush and bramble of the Civil War era where we meet Buck Tyler, an extraordinary young man whose well-to-do family has fell on hard times. They move to Texas and Buck's adventures ensue. Through passages of careful symmetry of text and with the historic verbiage of the age(1861-1865), page by page, I was taken to a world of florid, genteel times entwined with the absolute horrors of the Civil War and the dealings of the KKK of the times. I was at once captivated with Buck's heroic nature and the fact that the story is based on true events made this book a true must read! By the end, I was chiming the sentiment, "There was never but one Buck Tyler, Knight of the Dixie Wilds!"

excellent work and a real addition to that period of history

Going to school in New Orleans of the 1950's, I learned a bit more about the reconstruction era than other school children may have. The author did a wonderful job of bringing this particularly trying time for the South, to life. Many families trekked from the places their families had lived for several generations, away into the west.

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Title: President Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address

Author: Jimmy Carter

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th president of the United States, from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.

Carter, raised in rural Georgia, was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia State senator, from 1963 to 1967, and one as the governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975. He was elected president in 1976, defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in a relatively close election, running as an outsider who promised truth in government in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He is the second-oldest (after George H. W. Bush) of America's four living former presidents.

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Title: President George H.W. Bush's Last Address

Author: George H.W. Bush

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is a retired American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd vice president of the United States (1981-1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former president and vice president. He is also the last living former president who is a veteran of World War II.

Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the Elder", or "George Bush Sr." to distinguish him from his son, former president George W. Bush. Prior to his son's presidency, he was known simply as George Bush or President Bush.

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Title: President Reagan's Farewell Address

Author: Ronald Reagan

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911-June 5, 2004) was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th president of the United States (1981-'89) and served as the 33rd governor of California (1967-'75) before his presidency. As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending.

In his first term, he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, escalated the War on Drugs, and ordered an invasion of Grenada to reverse a Communist coup.

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Title: President Lyndon B. Johnson's Last State of the Union

Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908-January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States (1963-1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th vice president (1961-1963). Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, served as a United States representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States senator from 1949 to 1961, including six years as Senate majority leader, two as Senate minority leader, and two as Senate majority whip. He campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 but ran for vice president with John F. Kennedy, heading the ticket for the 1960 presidential election.

After their election, Johnson succeeded Kennedy following his assassination on November 22, 1963; he completed Kennedy's term and was elected president in his own right in the 1964 election, winning by a large margin over Barry Goldwater. Johnson ended his reelection campaign shorty after doing poorly in the 1968 New Hampshire primary. He is one of four people who served in both offices of the executive branch as well as both houses of Congress.

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Title: President Rutherford B. Hayes' Last State of the Union

Author: Rutherford B. Hayes

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 - January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States (1877 - 1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Title: President Gerald Ford's Last State of the Union Address

Author: Gerald Ford

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., July 14, 1913-December 26, 2006), was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and was the 40th vice president of the United States, serving from 1973 to 1974 under President Richard Nixon. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, after Spiro Agnew resigned.

When he became president upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the first and to date only person to have served as both vice president and president of the United States without being elected by the Electoral College. Before ascending to the vice presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as the representative from Michigan's Fifth Congressional District, eight of them as the Republican minority leader.

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Title: Pearl

Author: Cynthia Jordan

Narrator: Cynthia Jordan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-15

Publisher: Emerald Eagle Productions

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1923. The Santa Rita No. 1 has hit the pay in West Texas, and San Angelo is becoming an oil boom town. Prosperity is flowing, and Miss Pearl's Parlor is open for business! Thirteen women have come to work at Miss Pearl's Parlor. How did they get there? What challenges did they have to overcome? Why did they make so much money? Why did they have so much business? Why San Angelo? In 1904, fate has brought Victoria Pearl McDougal to live in the adventurous West Texas frontier. In 1921 she has opened Miss Pearl's Parlor, a profitable business on the Concho River in San Angelo where she has incorporated her experiences working as a courtesan at the famous Everleigh Club in Chicago. Just like her mentors, Minna and Ada Everleigh, Victoria Pearl is an expert on men and allows only a select, gentlemanly clientele. The historical facts are true and the stories are real. Wait until you read about Suzy Poontang!

Members Reviews:

Story great narration wooden

Pearl is a good story but the narrator is stiff and I'll at ease with the English language. The extra characters are often downright irritatating !

This book needs a professional narrator before they sell it again on audible.

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Título: Grandes íconos de los 60's [Great Icons of the 60s]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 36 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-18-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

La década prodigiosa, una época en donde el sexo, la moda, la música, la sociedad y la política cambiaron para siempre gracias a importantes hechos como la revolución sexual, el rock, la liberación femenina y la lucha contra la discriminación racial de la mano de inolvidables personajes como Briggite Bardot, Andy Warhol, Twiggy, Los Beatles, y Martin Luther King, entre muchos otros que marcaron la pauta en diez años de experimentación, aventuras, utopía y rebeldía.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.