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Title: The AIG Story, + Website

Author: Lawrence A. Cunningham, Maurice R. Greenberg

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They regale readers with riveting vignettes of how AIG grew from a modest group of insurance enterprises in 1970 to the largest insurance company in world history. They help us understand AIG's distinctive entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding employees worldwide helped pave the road to globalization.  Corrects numerous common misconceptions about AIG that arose due to its role at the center of the financial crisis of 2008. A unique account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of the twentieth century who developed close relationships with many of the most important world leaders of the period and helped to open markets everywhere Offers new critical perspective on battles with N. Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure of AIG amid the financial crisis  Shares considerable information not previously made public  The AIG Story captures an impressive saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that was nearly--destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens. The AIG Story carries important lessons and implications for the U.S., especially its role in international affairs, its approach to business, its legal system and its handling of financial crises.

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Title: Reminiscences of the Civil War

Author: John Brown Gordon

Narrator: Tim Getman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s first-hand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The work begins with him being elected as the commander of the “Raccoon Roughs” and his recollection of the Battle of Manassas. He also describes the South’s surrender at Appomattox, in which he participated. He recounts his role in individual battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and Gettysburg. The author attempts to provide calculated assessments of Confederate military errors on the battlefield, but yet, is ready to praise the bravery and determination of the Union army. Bringing the Civil War into focus, this memoir reconciles the courage and horror that come with armed conflict.

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Title: The Problem with Lincoln

Author: Thomas J. Dilorenzo

Narrator: John Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

So many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency. This book should create doubt in anyone’s mind over the designation of Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. Some may even decide that he was the worst. You’ll learn that Lincoln promised to protect slavery forever in his first inaugural address by endorsing the “Corwin Amendment” to the Constitution, which would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery. It should rightly be known as Lincoln’s “slavery forever” speech. You’ll learn that the real reason why Lincoln launched an invasion of his own country (he never admitted that secession was legal or legitimate) was to destroy the voluntary union of the founders and replace it with a coerced union held together by violence and threats of violence, much more like the old Soviet Union than the original American union. You were probably not taught in school that by waging total war on Southern civilians and bombing Southern cities into a smoldering ruin, Lincoln violated all moral codes and international law regarding waging war on civilians and opened the door to the horrific atrocities of twentieth-century warfare. Finally, professor DiLorenzo introduces listeners to the real Abraham Lincoln.

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Title: The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement

Author: Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier

Narrator: Kate Mulligan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: June 16, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying—abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history. Through personal narratives, vivid images, and previously untold stories, Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today. From the fights for public health and immigrants’ rights that fueled its founding, to advocating for relief during the Great Depression, all the way to tackling homelessness and AIDS in the 1980s, and into today—Henry Street has been a champion for social justice. Its powerful narrative illuminates larger stories about poverty, and who is “worthy” of help; immigration and migration, and who is welcomed; human rights, and whose voice is heard. For over 125 years, Henry Street Settlement has survived in a changing city and nation because of its ability to change with the times; because of the ingenuity of its guiding principle—that by bridging divides of class, culture, and race we could create a more equitable world; and because of the persistence of poverty, racism, and income disparity that it has pledged to confront. This makes the story of Henry Street as relevant today as it was more than a century ago. The House on Henry Street is not just about the challenges of overcoming hardship, but about the best possibilities of urban life and the hope and ambition it takes to achieve them.

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Title: The Hollywood Canteen: Where the Greatest Generation Danced with the Most Beautiful Girls in the World

Author: Bruce Torrence, Lisa Mitchell

Narrator: Nat Segaloff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Hollywood Canteen was the jewel in the crown of World War II Hollywood. From 1942 to 1945, over three million servicemen came through its doors on their way to fight in the Pacific—some never to return. There, in a converted barn in the heart of Hollywood, soldiers were fed, entertained by, and danced with some of the biggest stars in the world. The Canteen was free to all servicemen or women, regardless of race, inviting them to jive to the music of Kay Kyser and Harry James, laugh at Bob Hope’s jokes, be handed sandwiches by Rita Hayworth, or dance with Hedy Lamarr. Knowing they were so appreciated, the soldiers were armed with the kinds of hope and encouragement that would help them win a war. The Hollywood Canteen: Where the Greatest Generation Danced with the Most Beautiful Girls in the World is the only complete history of the Canteen.

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Title: Speeches by Malcolm X - The Ultimate Collection

Author: Malcolm X

Narrator: Malcolm X

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Release date: May 6, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail.' Speeches and interviews of Malcolm X.

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Title: Military Memoirs of a Confederate

Author: Edward Porter Alexander

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation. The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah to suppress the hostility of Mormons who had refused to establish a municipal government approved by President Buchanan. Only a few years later, Alexander found himself on the opposite side of a much larger rebellion of Confederates wanting to secede from the Union. In the years that follow, he is involved in most major battles including Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Alexander describes each battle and battlefield with a keen eye for detail. Few wartime narratives offer such insight and critical perspective as Alexander’s memoir.

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Title: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Series: #3 of American Imperialism

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2019

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Gore Vidal has been described as the last “noble defender” of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America—those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue—by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America’s international power, are the true patriots. “Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic,” he writes. “They are giving evidence of sanity, not cowardice, of adult thinking as distinguished from infantilism. They intend to preserve and defend the Republic. America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.”

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Title: [German] - Der Untergang der Azteken: Wie ein spanischer Abenteurer die geheimnisvolle Großmacht vernichtete

Author: Der Spiegel

Narrator: Der Spiegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 38 minutes

Release date: October 5, 2019

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

?Vor 500 Jahren zerstörte der Spanier Hernán Cortés mit einem kleinen Trupp von Glücksrittern das Reich der Azteken - mit enormen weltgeschichtlichen Folgen. Wie konnte ihm das gelingen? Neuen Ausgrabungen zufolge war die rätselhafte Hochkultur nicht nur erstaunlich fortschrittlich, sondern auch grausam und äußerst wehrhaft. Dies ist die Vertonung der Titelgeschichte zur SPIEGEL-Ausgabe 41/2019.

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Title: Sign My Name to Freedom

Author: Betty Reid-Soskin

Narrator: Betty Reid-Soskin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Release date: February 5, 2019

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, women were looked at suspiciously by many for exercising their right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until she was in her mid-2s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the difficult times for Black Folk that immediately followed. In her lifetime, Betty has seen the nation begin to break down its race and gender biases, watched it nearly split apart in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras, and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. But far more than being merely a witness, Betty Reid Soskin has been an active participant with so many other Americans in shaping the country as we know it now. The child of Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, she was raised in the Black Bay Area community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian homefront effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a white community east of the Oakland hills. There she raised four children-one openly gay, one developmentally disabled-while working to end the prejudices against the family that existed among many of her neighbors. With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her community organizing activities eventually led her to work as a state legislative aid, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter National Park in Richmond, California, then to a 'second' career at the Rosie Park as the oldest park ranger in the history of the National Park Service. In between, she used her talents as a singer and songwriter to interpret and chronicle the great social upheavals that marked the 196s. In 23, Betty displayed a new talent, writing, when she created the popular blog CBreaux Speaks. Now followed by thousands, her blog is a collection of Betty's sometimes fierce, sometimes gently persuasive, but always brightly honest story that weaves both the wisdom of the ages and the fresh enthusiasm of an always youthful mind into her long journey through an American and African-American life, as well as America's long struggle to both understand and cleanse its soul. Blending together selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches collected throughout her long life, Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes.