Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas

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Title: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Author: Frederick Douglass

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Release date: December 7, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In 1852, Frederick Douglass, former slave and, by then, a leading figure in the abolitionist movement was asked by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Association to address the group for their July 4th celebration at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. Delivered, in fact, on the 5th of July, the speech caused an immediate sensation and swiftly became a seminal rallying cry of the abolitionist movement in America. The audience in Rochester included none other than President Millard Fillmore (along with a group of politicians from Washington) as well as some of the most important leaders of the abolitionist movement at the time. Through the years, Douglass' powerful words have only grown in stature, resonance and importance. His timeless message and elegant prose have made this speech - here presented in its unabridged, original format - one of the greatest orations in history.

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Title: Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

Author: James Kirchick

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 26 hours 15 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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Title: A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools

Author: Michael Hines

Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Release date: May 24, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Madeline Morgan, the activist educator who brought Black history to one of the nation’s largest and most segregated school systems A Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a teacher and an activist in WWII-era Chicago, who fought her own battle on the home front, authoring curricula that bolstered Black claims for recognition and equal citizenship. During the Second World War, as Black Americans both fought to save democracy abroad and demanded full citizenship at home, Morgan’s work gained national attention and widespread praise, and became a model for teachers, schools, districts, and cities across the country. Scholar Michael Hines unveils this history for the first time, providing a rich understanding of the ways in which Black educators have created counternarratives to challenge the anti-Black racism found in school textbooks and curricula. At a moment when Black history is under attack in school districts and state legislatures across the country, A Worthy Piece of Work reminds us that struggles over history, representation, and race are far from a new phenomenon.

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Title: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage

Author: Jarrod Shanahan

Narrator: Greg Tremblay

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 17, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Just about everybody knows the name Rikers Island. A fixture of pop culture and underground prison lore alike, the sprawling East River jail complex has become synonymous with both the horrors of mass incarceration and the structurally-racist class domination at its core. But how did Rikers Island get to be this way? America's Jail represents a scrupulously researched answer to this question, written for a lay audience in an accessible narrative form. Befitting the high stakes of the present Rikers debate, the issues explored in this work have broad implications for the future of mass incarceration in the United States and beyond. Drawing from extensive archival research, decades of journalism, interviews, prisoner testimonials, and firsthand experience, Jarrod Shanahan tells the story of how so many miserable jail facilities ended up on one tiny East River islet, by charting the unwitting cooperation between prison reformers, who built jail infrastructure on the optimistic wager it could be used for social good, and the forces of organized retrenchment, who ensured this would never come to pass. By tracing the failure of jail reform in postwar New York in detail, America's Jail casts considerable doubt on jail reformers' ability to solve the problems of incarceration with better incarceration, even in shiny new jails.

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Title: Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World

Author: Wil Haygood

Narrator: Cary Hite

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • BOOKLISTS' EDITOR'S CHOICE • ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book.… Without a doubt, not only the very best film book [but] also one of the best books of the year in any genre. An absolutely essential read.” —Shondaland This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther—using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown. Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation—which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster—Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes.   He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. J. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves—including Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, Porgy and Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the seventies, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others.   An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.

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Title: [Spanish] - El país de la desmemoria

Author: Juan Miguel Baquero

Narrator: Xavier Borràs

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

En la investigación que titula El país de la desmemoria, Juan Miguel Baquero utiliza nuevos testimonios, incontables datos y sincera pasión para denunciar la estrategia de terror desencadenada por Franco desde que dio el golpe de Estado contra la República hasta su muerte. Y da cuenta de lo muchísimo que queda por investigar, y por juzgar, sobre las víctimas del franquismo en este país que no quiere hacer frente a la verdad. En su prólogo, Baltasar Garzón escribe: 'Me conmueve el niño Alejandro cuya historia cuenta al inicio este libro; le dijeron que cuando los aviones bombardearan se tirase a la cuneta y tapara su cuerpecito con una manta. Como ese niño real, nuestra sociedad se ha cubierto durante todos estos años con una frágil colcha que, al ser retirada, deja ver la cara fea de un régimen franquista que mató, hizo desaparecer, humilló, torturó y encarceló; que robó niños; que asoló con el terror para lograr la sumisión y no levantó la bota hasta bien entrada la década de los 70.' - Periodista. Especializado en Memoria Histórica y Derechos humanos. Colaborador habitual de eldiario.es. Autor de 'El país de la desmemoria' y de los libros 'Las huellas en la tierra' y 'Que fuera mi tierra' –reconocido con el Premio Chaves Nogales al mejor libro periodístico del año 2016 –, sobre intervenciones en fosas comunes del franquismo en Andalucía.

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Title: Robert E. Lee: A Life

Author: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 28, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. 'An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts.' —New York Times Book Review   Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.

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Title: The Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience

Author: Eli Saslow

Narrator: Alejandra Reynoso, Chanté Mccormick, Matt Godfrey, Amy Landon, Andrew Eiden, Amanda Carlin, Eli Saslow, Henry Levya, Robert Fass, Dion Graham, Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Release date: September 28, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the whole thing is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking people to wear masks; patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save them. Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, we are given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts make for cathartic reading, as we see Americans at their worst, and at their resilient best. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

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Title: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

Author: Max Chafkin

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A New York Times Notable Book  A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics   “Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency. It’s also a disturbing history of Silicon Valley that will make you reconsider the ideological foundations of America’s relentless engine of creative destruction.”—Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious. In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates, notably Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy.

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Title: The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power

Author: Ben Schreckinger

Narrator: Aaron Abano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: September 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.75 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 4

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A deeply reported exploration of Joe Biden as told through his extended family. Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to his son Hunter's foreign deal-making spree—and the Trump gang's ham-handed efforts to exploit it. ​On November 3, Americans did not just elect Joe Biden: They got a package deal. The tight-knit Biden family—siblings, children, in-laws, and beyond—is coming right along with him. They are sure to play a defining role in his presidency, just as they have in every other one of his endeavors. Inside, you’ll find these and other stories and revelations about the Biden family, including: - Joe’s childhood, the stunning 1972 Senate upset engineered by his sister Valerie, and the car accident that took the lives of his first wife and infant daughter soon after - Joe’s early years in the Senate and his role in the creation of the cozy “Delaware Way” of conducting politics - The Biden brothers’ business escapades, including the ’70s rock club rivalry that pitted Jim Biden against Jill’s first husband and ended in a banking scandal - The Delaware lawman who oversaw an FBI investigation into Joe’s 2007 campaign fundraising and now has Hunter in his sights - Hunter’s surprisingly close friendship with his Fox News antagonist, Tucker Carlson - What Steve Bannon really hoped to accomplish by giving the contents of “the Laptop from Hell” to the New York Post - New evidence that sheds light on the authenticity of Hunter’s alleged computer files Like the Kennedys before them, the Bidens are a tight-knit, idealistic Irish Catholic clan with good looks, dynastic ambitions, and serious personal problems. As THE BIDENS reveals, the best way to understand Joe Biden—his values, fears, and motives—is to understand his family: Their Irish (and not-so-Irish) roots, their place in the Delaware pecking order, their dodgy business deals, and their personal struggles and triumphs alike.