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Title: 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Narrator: Dominic Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers' now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not'". Rogers' little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers' was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the "facts" and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then.

With élan and erudition - and with winning enthusiasm - Henry Louis Gates Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogers' work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African American history in question-and-answer format. Among the 100 questions: Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was history's wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which black man made many of our favorite household products better?

Here is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievous - all the while highly instructive and entertaining - compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being "Negro" in the world.

Critic Reviews:

"A collection of vignettes about the black experience in the United States and around the globe. In 1957, respected Pittsburgh Courier journalist Joel A. Rogers published a book, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, based on research he had conducted for his columns...Gates, the prolific scholar and popularizer of black history, presents this book as an homage and update to the work of 'Mr. Rogers'.... The pieces range widely in chronology, theme, and geography, and his facts about the 'Negro' (the anachronism is intentional, part of the tribute to Rogers) most heavily emphasize the African-American experience but also explore Africa and the diaspora across the Americas and in Europe...Gates surprises...intrigues, and rarely disappoints." (Kirkus Reviews)

"Gates pens a corrective yet loving homage to a work of the same title published in 1957 by Joel A. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

good book, happy to add this to my collection

Five Stars

Nice update

Five Stars

Already an exciting read!

Four Stars

This is a great book, very informative and educational. Glad I purchased it.

We Love it and enjoy that we can do this together

I have not had a chance to read it. My husband reads facts to me each night. We Love it and enjoy that we can do this together.

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Title: The Apparitionists

Subtitle: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Author: Peter Manseau

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead

In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amid rumors of seances in the White House.

Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then the judge sided with the defense - nobody ever solved the mystery of his spirit photography.

This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while clinging desperately to belief.

Members Reviews:

The books title is accurate a numer of recent books diverge from their topic

It was very interesting and informative

It provided a lot of information about the individuals. And. Was not judgemental but let the reader form your own opinion

Five Stars

It's ok

Novel and fascinating take on a particular period of U.S. history

As someone who learned darkroom skills at my dad's side at age 10, who used to write for a national photography magazine and who loves history, I was very much intrigued by The Apparitionists from the outset,. Happily, the book didn't disappoint. Author Peter Manseau has managed to blend the early history of photography with the cultural and political history of the mid-19th century (pre, during and post-Civil War) America, while bringing to life a fairly eccentric cast of characters, some legendary in America's past. More than once I was reminded of Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, though the stakes were never as high in The Apparitionists (garden-variety fraud, as opposed to mass murder).

After setting the stage in the prologue with the 1869 trial of William Mumler, who stood accused of swindling customers with "spirit photos," Manseau launches into an account of the arrival of photography in America, with daguerrotypes, introduced in the U.S. by none other than Samuel Morse, whose name to this day is associated with the telegraph and code he invented. He then outlines how other entrepreneurs jumped into the nascent field, including William Mumler, an engraver by trade, who seemed mainly to be captivated by a widow who ran a photo studio and later became his wife. Somehow, on Mumler's early images, ghostly impressions would somehow appear, and he gained a reputation among Spiritualists for the ability to call forth the spirits of people's deceased loved ones.

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Title: Mercy for Animals

Subtitle: One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals

Author: Gene Stone, Nathan Runkle

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

A compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy for Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.

Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small Midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation's leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy for Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organization's work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.

But this isn't just Nathan's story. Mercy for Animals examines how our country moved from a network of small, local farms with more than 50 percent of Americans involved in agriculture to a massive coast-to-coast industrial complex controlled by a mere one percent of our population - and the consequences of this drastic change on animals as well as our global and local environments. We also learn how MFA strives to protect farmed animals in behind-the-scenes negotiations with companies like Nestlé and other brand names - conglomerates whose policy changes can save countless lives and strengthen our planet. Alongside this unflinching snapshot of our current food system, listeners are also offered hope and solutions - big and small - for ending mistreatment of factory farmed animals. From simple diet modifications to a clear explanation of how to contact corporations and legislators efficiently, Mercy for Animals proves that you don't have to be a hardcore vegan or an animal-rights activist to make a powerful difference in the lives of animals.

Members Reviews:

Powerful, emotional and inspiring

Author Nathan Runkle could have easily and rightfully made this book entirely about himself, but instead it (in my opinion) functioned more as a way of honoring the incredible and selfless undercover investigators who bring light to the most abused in our society. The book beautiful weaves personal stories of Runkles with the mission and successes of his organization without feeling like a commercial for MFA, which to me speaks to the honesty of Runkles true motivation.

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Title: Summary: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Author: Readtrepreneur Publishing

Narrator: Donna Lorenz Motta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Readtrepreneur Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Disclaimer: This is not the original book.

What's real, what's fake? Who's to be blamed? Who's the hero and who's the victim?

Have you ever wondered how USA was built from the time of "discovery" to the present day...without the school or government twisting around the facts? This book is a perspective of America as it built its empire (without romanticizing the facts.

"History is important. If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything." - Howard Zinn

This book reveals the cruel truth of the US as it was building its empire. It explores the extreme racism, sexism, and unfairness of the US back in the older days.

Understand your history and understand how fortunate you are right now. Indulge in a captivating and inspiring listen.

Note: This summary is wholly written and published by readtrepreneur.com. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way.

PS: Influence will open your eyes to the many tactics and tools used by compliance professionals, which you will immediately recognize and learn how to protect yourself against them, or even become a compliance professional yourself.

Members Reviews:

Love this book

I purchased this for my son to read for a summer assignment for his history class. He really enjoyed and wanted to keep on reading this book. He mentioned a few weeks ago that he wished his history textbook was as interesting as this boom

best book

This book came in great condition, but I didn't realize until I got it that it is not the updated version with the extra chapters at the end.

Real book

Pretty good book if you're into history. I purchased this book for my history 103 class and it had all the pages with the correct writing.

practical advice

I ordered it and have been enjoying a different type of history book ever since. It's a most enjoyable and thought provoking read. As a bonus, I get to carry on conversations about history with my grandson.

informative....

An entertaining history book. I am not a history buff. My grandson had this book for his social studies class and I read a chapter while he was visiting. It was not the stuffy history books I remember from school days.

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Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution

Author: Larry Schweikart, Dave Dougherty

Narrator: John McLain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide series provides an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of controversial topics every American should understand.

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the American Revolution is a myth-busting review of America's violent struggle for independence.

Members Reviews:

'A paperback without makeup but with a heart of gold'

Great overview of the battles and narrative from the founding fathers of our country, but the publisher failed to highlight the battles and major events with larger type to make it easier to use the book as a tool for research and personal enjoyment. Overall I'd give it a thumbs-up...

read this book

Very good and very detailed battle plans.

Five Stars

Very interesting and informative!

Five Stars

Informational and easy to read

Five Stars

great read

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Title: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Subtitle: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Author: Daina Ramey Berry

Narrator: Robin Eller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives - including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death - in the early American domestic slave trade. Covering the full "life cycle", historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to maximize profits and protect their investments. Illuminating "ghost values" or the prices placed on dead enslaved people, Berry explores the little-known domestic cadaver trade and traces the illicit sales of dead bodies to medical schools.

Writing with sensitivity and depth, Berry resurrects the voices of the enslaved and provides a rare window into enslaved peoples' experiences and thoughts, revealing how enslaved people recalled and responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold throughout the course of their lives.

Members Reviews:

Appraising Black Life

This book emerges amongst a growing set of literature on social histories of race and science in and after the Transatlantic Slave Trade. However, the diligence and, more importantly, care that Dr. Berry offers in her research on economics of the physical, social, and spiritual lives of enslaved men, women and children is a remarkable gift. This includes scalar attention to detail extends from providing specific details of individual lives before and after their transaction to constructing the work itself to reflect and honor the life cycle of the forsaken subjects of slavery. Dr. Berry has crafted a book that brings to bear crucial insight into an insidious arithmetic imposed on black lives and a restorative justice that affords their souls repose. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the intersections of economics and black bodies, legacies of human commodification, and histories of rac(ial)ist science.

An interesting and heart wrenching take on slavery

This work provides empirical and emotional testimonials on slavery from birth to death. Fantastic work.

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Title: American Eclipse

Subtitle: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

Author: David Baron

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three competitors - James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison - and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of 19th-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.

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Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Author: Bernard Bailyn

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a postscript. Here he discusses the intense nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.

This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological origins adds a new dimension to the book and projects its meaning forward into vital current concerns.

Members Reviews:

A wonderful book!

A classic on the origins of the American Revolution!

This is a great book that give you a feeling of what it ...

This is a great book that give you a feeling of what it might have felt like to live back then.. Bailyn traces back the thinking and literative for a hundred years before 1776 - The revolution was slow in the making.

GREAT BOOK!

This was an incredibly interesting book. Realizing that Bailyn is quite an accomplished historian-scholar, I put off reading this - I assumed it would be brilliant but very difficult to get through. Well, I was correct about the brilliant part - but wrong about the "difficult to get through" part. It was increadibly readable. Also, the main points of the book are important to understanding American political thought. Interestingly, the country's revolutionary thinking originated from the very country we were fighting againt - ENGLAND! In arguing the continuous debates over the tension between liberty and power, the pamphlet writers of the day turned to 17th and 18th century thinkers to make their case. The best parts of the book are the last two chapters. In the second to last, originally the last chapter until the enlarged edition came out, Bailyn discusses concepts like democracy, representation, and slavery. In the final chapter, "Fulfillment," apparently written much later, Bailyn focuses on the Constitutional Convention and the arguments between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists; particularly, what they felt about virtue residing among the country's people and how best to form a government. One final note: Bailyn's sources from other scholarly journals will lead the read to many interesting gems - especially a few of the articles from William and Mary Quarterly (a must-have journal for anyone interested in the time-period).

ENJOY!

Five Stars

One of the truly outstanding books to understand the US Rvolution

A book to own forever, a book to give away, a book to share.

I have only just begun reading this book, and I am completely astounded by it content. The American Revolution was not the war, says john adams. It was in the minds of the people, and in their literature in the 15 years that proceeded that war. Here is the substance of that revolution, their struggle to come to terms documented in pamphlets and sermons. A book to own forever, a book to give away, a book to share.

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Title: This Vast Southern Empire

Subtitle: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

Author: Matthew Karp

Narrator: Tom Zingarelli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

For proslavery leaders like John C. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the 19th-century world was torn between two hostile forces: a rising movement against bondage and an Atlantic plantation system that was larger and more productive than ever before. In this great struggle, Southern statesmen saw the United States as slavery's most powerful champion. Overcoming traditional qualms about a strong central government, slaveholding leaders harnessed the power of the state to defend slavery abroad. During the antebellum years, they worked energetically to modernize the US military while steering American diplomacy to protect slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Texas. As Matthew Karp demonstrates, these leaders were nationalists, not separatists. Their "vast Southern empire" was not an independent South but the entire United States, and only the election of Abraham Lincoln broke their grip on national power. Fortified by years at the helm of US foreign affairs, slave-holding elites formed their own Confederacy - not only as a desperate effort to preserve their property but as a confident bid to shape the future of the Atlantic world.

Critic Reviews:

"Karp's thorough and polished study will be eagerly welcomed by scholars, if not a wider public." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Excellent Listen

Very powerful writing on a topic generally mistaught or overlooked. Clear and concise coverage of the power of Southern states in the years before Lincoln's election. Good narration as well.

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Title: Madness Rules the Hour

Subtitle: Charleston, 1860, and the Mania for War

Author: Paul Starobin

Narrator: Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"The tea has been thrown overboard - the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." (Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860)

In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: They could submit to abolition - or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow.

In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "Le Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.

Critic Reviews:

"A dramatic and engaging addition to Civil War studies that serves as a fitting bookend paired with Jay Winik's account of the end of the war, April 1865 (2001)." (Kirkus Reviews)

"'South Carolina is too small for a Republic,' wrote James Petigru in 1860, 'but too large for an insane asylum.' Starobin has skillfully chronicled the mass psychology in favor of secession that built to a climax after Lincoln's election and led the state out of the Union." (James M. McPherson, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom)

"Starobin's narrative is readable and lively; he is skilled at creating setting and character description. Recommended for those interested in the Civil War and its causes." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Very interesting

I loved this book. The recording was quite good as well.

It is a fascinating dive into the story about the men in Charleston who engineered disunion with full knowledge they were probably starting a Civil War.