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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military Series: Part of Bridging the Gap Author: Peter D. Feaver Narrator: Lee Goettl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A definitive study on the decades-long run of high public confidence in the military and why it may rest on some shaky foundations. What explains the high levels of public confidence in the US military and does high confidence matter? In Thanks for Your Service, the eminent civil-military relations scholar Peter D. Feaver addresses this question and focuses on what it means for the military. Proprietary survey data show that confidence is partly based on public beliefs about the military's high competence, adherence to high professional ethics, and a determination to stand apart from the bitter divisions of partisan politics. However, as Feaver argues, confidence is also shaped by a partisan gap and by social desirability bias, the idea that some individuals express confidence in the military because they believe that is the socially approved attitude to hold. Not only does Feaver help us understand how and why the public has confidence in the military, but he also exposes problems that policymakers need to be aware of. Specifically, this book traces how confidence in the institution shapes public attitudes on the use of force and may not always reinforce best practices in democratic civil-military relations.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wounds into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma Author: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Phd Narrator: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Phd, Barry Abrams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children—a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives. In this book, Tirzah Firestone brings to life the profound impact of protracted historical trauma through the compelling narratives of Israeli terror victims, Holocaust survivors, and those whose lives were marred by racial persecution and displacement. The tragic story of Firestone's own family lays the groundwork for these revealing testimonies of recovery, forgiveness, and moral leadership. Throughout, Firestone interweaves their voices with neuroscientific and psychological findings, as well as relevant and inspiring Jewish teachings. Seven principles emerge from these wise narratives—powerful prescriptive tools that speak to anyone dealing with the effects of past injury. At the broadest level, these principles are directives for staying morally awake in a world rife with terror.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories more than hard truths, he came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw, intimate detail, he narrates not only the events of that night, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Gawande and Tweedy, he diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, training his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills manifesting themselves in his patients' bodies. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it's designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until we transform policy and law with compassion and care.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class Author: Max Fraser Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The 'hillbilly highway' was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture—from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives. The book draws on a diverse range of sources—from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music—to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest—bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City: Teaching Historical, Economic, and Biological Truth in a World of Lies Author: Katy Faust, Stacy Manning Narrator: Stacy Manning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Practical, age-appropriate strategies every parent can employ to train kids capable of resisting leftist indoctrination and fight the raging culture war. In Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, two moms living in the bluest of cities offer practical guidance, parenting strategies, and humorous commentary to help parents immunize their children against Woke infection. In whichever zip code or tax bracket you dwell, there’s hope for parents who seek to indoctrinate their kids into conservatism—that is, kids who understand historical, economic, and biological reality. This book coaches parents in the how, when, and who of teaching children to think about the world rightly. The authors identify principles and processes that walk the line between protection and exposure, sheltering and equipping. They also share real-life stories of kids who have effectively pushed back against aggressive adults, stood against the crowd, and won conservative converts. If two moms sending their kids to public school in Seattle can raise conservative kids, you can too.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time Author: Yascha Mounk Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have come to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity if they are to resist injustice. But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities has transformed into an obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology - which Yascha Mounk terms the 'identity synthesis' - seeks to put each citizen's matrix of identities at the heart of social, cultural and political life. This, he argues, is The Identity Trap. Mounk traces the intellectual origin of these ideas. He tells the story of how they were able to win tremendous power over the past decade. And he makes a nuanced case why their application to areas from education to public policy is proving to be deeply counterproductive. In his passionate plea for universalism and humanism, he argues that the proponents of identitarian ideas will, though they may be full of good intentions, make it harder to achieve progress towards genuine equality. © Yascha Mounk 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism Author: Vijay Prashad Narrator: Shawn K. Jain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars. Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under covered struggles being waged all across the world by workers in countries such as India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina. A marvelously global but grassroots perspective. Prashad also examines pressing topics such as debt cancellation, a wealth tax, austerity, the pandemic, the arms industry, the climate crisis, socialism, working-class social movements and much more.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 Author: Luke A. Nichter Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today's fractured politics The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of the campaign. Nichter chronicles how the evangelist Billy Graham met with Johnson after the president's attempt to reenter the race was stymied by his own party, and offered him a deal: Nixon, if elected, would continue Johnson's Vietnam War policy and also not oppose his Great Society, if Johnson would soften his support for Humphrey. Johnson agreed. This eye-opening account of the political calculations and maneuvering that decided this fiercely fought election reshapes our understanding of a key moment in twentieth-century American history.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mord im Tiergarten: Putins Staatsterror in Europa Author: Silvia Stöber Narrator: Heiko Grauel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Die Hinrichtung des Tschetschenen Selimchan Changoschwili im Berliner Tiergarten im August 2019 sorgte weltweit für Entsetzen. Ende 2021 verurteilte das Berliner Kammergericht den russischen Angeklagten Wadim Krassikow zu lebenslanger Haft. Während der Ermittlungen und des Prozesses tritt zutage, wie der russische Geheimdienst FSB im Ausland operiert und seine Spezialagenten mit einer Tarnidentität nach Europa schickt, um dort unliebsame Gegner zu töten. Silvia Stöber hat den gesamten Prozess begleitet, mit zahlreichen Beteiligten und Journalisten gesprochen und Orte besucht, die mit der Tat in Zusammenhang stehen. Vor dem Hintergrund des Tiergartenmords entwirft sie ein Panorama postsowjetischer Schicksale und bettet diese in die gewaltsame Machtpolitik Russlands ein, die sich staatsterroristischer Methoden bedient. Sie macht deutlich, was auf dem Spiel steht: Niemand ist vor Russland sicher, nicht einmal in Europa. Kann sich der deutsche Staat, kann sich Europa wehren?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives Author: Josiah Ober, Brook Manville Narrator: Christopher Douyard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it to Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being 'tested' or is 'under attack.' But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a 'civic bargain' with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity. That bargain also requires them to fulfill the duties of democratic citizenship: governing themselves with no 'boss' except one another, embracing compromise, treating each other as civic friends, and investing in civic education for each rising generation. Manville and Ober trace the long progression toward self-government through four key moments in democracy's history: Classical Athens, Republican Rome, Great Britain's constitutional monarchy, and America's founding. Comparing what worked and what failed in each case, they draw out lessons for how modern democracies can survive and thrive.