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Title: Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power

Author: Sherry L. Smith

Narrator: Kristin Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights.

In Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power, Sherry Smith offers the first full account of this remarkable story. Hippies were among the first non-Indians of the post-World War II generation to seek contact with Native Americans. The counterculture saw Indians as genuine holdouts against conformity, inherently spiritual, ecological, tribal, communal - the original "long hairs". Searching for authenticity while trying to achieve social and political justice for minorities, progressives of various stripes and colors were soon drawn to the Indian cause. Black Panthers took part in Pacific Northwest fish-ins. Corky Gonzales' Mexican American Crusade for Justice provided supplies and support for the Wounded Knee occupation. Actor Marlon Brando and comedian Dick Gregory spoke about the problems Native Americans faced. For their part, Indians understood they could not achieve political change without help. Non-Indians had to be educated and enlisted. Smith shows how Indians found, among this hodge-podge of dissatisfied Americans, willing recruits to their campaign for recognition of treaty rights; realization of tribal power, sovereignty, and self-determination; and protection of reservations as cultural homelands. The coalition was ephemeral but significant, leading to political reforms that strengthened Indian sovereignty.

Thoroughly researched and vividly written, this book not only illuminates this transformative historical moment but contributes greatly to our understanding about social movements.

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Title: Days of Valor

Subtitle: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War

Author: Robert Tonsetic

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

During the War, Vietnam's coast had to be protected against Viet Cong ambushes and smuggling. The U.S. forces had destroyers, cruisers and gargantuan aircraft carriers, none suited for inshore patrol. This is the story of the Brown Water Navy, the garage-band flotilla assembled to do the job.

Douglas Branson has been to Vietnam several times, including trips in 1966, 1995 and 2011. The first time, he was a 22-year-old, Brown Water Navy lieutenant JG. Subsequent visits were as a consultant/tourist. Here, Branson recounts three of his Vietnam adventures with humor, detail and insight into the economic, political and gastronomic forces at work.

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Title: The Good Doctors

Subtitle: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care

Author: John Dittmer

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals, mostly white and Northern, to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists who were organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, to the March on Selma, to the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized, and sometimes radicalized, by their firsthand view of disenfranchised communities, the MCHR soon expanded its mission to encompass a range of causes from poverty to the war in Vietnam, and later took on the whole of the United States healthcare system. The MCHR doctors soon realized that fighting segregation would mean not just caring for white volunteers, but exposing and correcting the shocking inequalities in segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans and brought medical care to underserved, or unserved, areas.

Though education was the most famous battleground for integration, the appaling injustice of segregated health care had equally devastating consequences. Award-winning historian John Dittmer, author of the classic Civil Rights history Local People, has written an insightful and moving account of a group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the belief, stated in their motto, that "Health Care Is a Human Right."

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Title: Together We Stand: North Africa 1942-1943

Subtitle: Turning the Tide in the West

Author: James Holland

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The birth of an alliance that changed the course of history.

From the best-selling author of Fortress Malta, this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This audiobook looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the involvement of the US and the way this early collaboration to defeat Rommel shaped the whole Anglo-American axis for the rest of the war in Europe.

By June 1942, Britain had reached her lowest ebb. Her military command was in tatters, her armies beaten, and in the Middle East it seemed all might be lost. Her new ally, America, had only fledgling armed forces and was severely under-trained, yet it was this alliance of the weary combatant and naïve newcomer, coming together for the first time in North Africa, that would eventually bring about the defeat of Nazi Germany.

This crucial period - from defeat at Gazala through to the victories of Alamein and ultimately in Tunisia - was a time of learning for the Allies, yet by the end Britain and America had finally gained material and certain tactical advantages over Germany, particularly in the air warfare. As this book shows, the development of a tactical air force - principles that are still used to this day - were founded over the skies of North Africa. When the Axis forces were finally driven from North Africa in May 1943, over 250,000 Axis troops were taken prisoner, more than had surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad. It was a major victory and a crucial steppingstone to the future invasion of Italy and France.

In this new reappraisal, James Holland also interweaves the personal stories of the men - and women - who made up these polyglot Allied forces: British and American, Nepalese and Punjabi, South African and Australian, Maori and Zulu, from all ranks and all services. From the heat and dust of the Western Desert to the mud and mountains of Northern Tunisia, this book charts the extraordinary first days of an Alliance that has worked together ever since.

Critic Reviews:

Anyone who wants to know how it felt to fight in the desert war should read Holland's book. It represents a remarkable collation of personal experience and sensible historical judgments. (Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph)

Holland has produced a wonderful book whose pacenever seems to flag he is a master at evoking time and place, with haunting descriptions of the desert landscape If there is a better book on the North African campaign, I haven't read it. (Saul David, Daily Telegraph)

Using personal testimony and private memoirs as effectively as official archives, he recreates the hardships and challenges faced by ordinary soldiers and reassesses the tactical and strategic innovations that finally gave the allies the upper hand. (Sunday Times)

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Title: Gentlemen Volunteers

Subtitle: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

Author: Arlen J. Hansen

Narrator: Sam LeMans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore, manners amid madness. Until now this stirring example of wartime courage has been recounted only in fragments. Arlen J. Hansen's Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men - and women - who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture.

Some were to become legends - Ernest Hemingway, E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Malcolm Cowley, Walt Disney, Dashiell Hammett - but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home.

What the volunteers found in France was carnage on an unprecedented scale. Shrapnel and barbed wire, the machine gun, flamethrower, and poison gas - all then-recent inventions - were producing casualties that overwhelmed medical facilities. Wounded soldiers spent hours, sometimes days, lying in squalor while waiting to be transported to hospitals on horse-drawn wagons. What was most critical was to get the wounded from the front lines to the field hospitals, and quickly. It was here that the ambulance drivers covered themselves in mud and glory.

Featuring firsthand accounts, letters and diaries, and a trove of previously unpublished and rare archival material, Gentlemen Volunteers is the definitive book on this fascinating chapter in American history.

Editorial Reviews:

The First World War was marked by long-lasting fighting and brutality in the trenches, but amidst the chaos, American volunteers stepped up to help. In Arlen J. Hansen's Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War , narrator Sam LeMans chronicles the heroic efforts of American military hospital volunteers in Paris as well as the volunteer motor ambulance corps who braved the front. In a gritty, affecting performance, LeMans sympathetically voices the firsthand accounts of these brave men and women, whose ranks included luminaries of American culture such as Ernest Hemingway, e. e. Cummings, Walt Disney, and Dashiell Hammett. Including previously unheard archival material, this is a gripping listen that will fascinate any military history buff.

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Title: The Great Persuasion

Subtitle: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression

Author: Angus Burgin

Narrator: Derek Shetterly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-13

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Just as todays observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world.

Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influential defender of the free market. By examining the work of such organizations as the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international association founded by Hayek in 1947 and later led by Milton Friedman, Burgin reveals that Hayek and his colleagues were deeply conflicted about many of the enduring problems of capitalism. Far from adopting an uncompromising stance against the interventionist state, they developed a social philosophy that admitted significant constraints on the market. Postwar conservative thought was more dynamic and cosmopolitan than has previously been understood.

It was only in the 1960s and 70s that Friedman and his contemporaries developed a more strident defense of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and inspired much of the political and economic agenda of the United States in the ensuing decades. Burgins brilliant inquiry uncovers both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for the free market and the moral quandaries it has left behind.

Critic Reviews:

"A brilliant rereading of the history of modern conservative thought, which casts each of its key protagonists in new light. The line from Friedrich Hayek to Milton Friedman was no straightforward unfolding of constant neoliberal premises, but a crooked path full of contradictions, contention, and unexpected contingencies. (Daniel T. Rodgers, Author of Age of Fracture)

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Title: Dawn of D-Day

Subtitle: These Men Were There, June 6, 1944

Author: David Howarth

Narrator: James Lurie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous dates in world history, and, as David Howarth shows, a defining date in countless personal histories. In this intimate chronicle, the 7,000 vessels, 12,000 aircraft, and 750,000 men committed on D-Day are taken for granted. Instead, we see D-Day through the eyes of the men on the ground as Howarth weaves together the larger story of the beginning of the battle of Normandy with the stories of the beachhead itself. The scope of Howarth's vision - focusing on England and France, on sky, beach, and hedgerow, on divisions and squads - makes Dawn of D-Day a franker portrayal than any other of the turning-point of the war on the Western Front and the greatest amphibious operation in history.

Editorial Reviews:

Dawn of D-Day is not a blow-by-blow recount of various battles and military strategies. Rather it is a collection of numerous individual accounts of World War II - oriented around the pivotal battle at Normandy - from both a personal and emotional level. The subtitle, These Men Were There, June 6, 1944, is of grand importance, since this audiobook seeks to bring the listener into rabble of that historic amphibious invasion.

Performer James Lurie brings extraordinary lucidity to the text of Dawn of D-Day. Additionally his vocal performance also helps convey simultaneously both the insignificance and grandeur so many soldiers felt from their place in history.

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Title: FDR: Selected Speeches of President Franklin D Roosevelt

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Narrator: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Format: Original Recording

Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-13

Publisher: BN Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The longest-serving President in American history, Franklin D Roosevelt led the nation through its two most lethal challenges of the 20th century - the Great Depression and the Second World War. This is a collection of FDR's most stirring speeches, from his First Inaugural Address ('the only thing we have fear is fear itself"), to his speeches outlining the New Deal and opposing the "economic royalty" ("I welcome their hatred"), to his call for a declaration of war with Japan ("a date which will live in infamy"), the Atlantic Charter, and his joint statement with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta.

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Title: Half-Safe

Subtitle: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure

Author: James Nestor

Narrator: James Nestor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-13

Publisher: The Atavist

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good for either one. Undaunted, Carlin and his wife Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of fame and fortune, and of carving a small notch in history.

What happened next is one of the most bizarre, remarkable, and forgotten adventure stories of the 20th century. In Half-Safe, author James Nestor endeavors to uncover Ben Carlin's fate and finds a gripping story of love, danger, and extraordinary perseverance that spans three oceans and five continents. Half-Safe takes us from the eye of an Atlantic Ocean hurricane to the sweltering Sahara to the impenetrable jungles of Southeast Asia - and into the mind of a man who could overcome everything but his own demons.

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Title: Searching the Shadows

Subtitle: A Layman's Investigation Into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Author: Steven S. Airheart

Narrator: Kevin Scollin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-12

Publisher: Iconoclassic Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

As the 50th anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy approaches, it seems as if opinions or who committed the crime are as divided as ever. Instead of a much hoped for consensus as to who might have been responsible for America's greatest unsolved mystery, no clear and near unanimous verdict has come forth. Although the general public continues to support a conspiracy in the shooting, solid group of researchers and notable members of the main broadcast media in America pounce on every opportunity to quell any attempt to find Lee Harvey Oswald not guilty.

Those who believe that the case against Oswald was weak have steadfastly held to the feeling that no new evidence has come forth to seal his fate once and for all. In fact, if anything the case against Oswald has continued to crumble bit by bit over time. Although the case against him is mostly circumstantial, television networks like National Geographic, Discovery, and History Channel have produced documentaries which allow little room for questioning Oswald's guilt.

So what is fact? What is fiction? Searching the Shadows - Steve Airheart's presentation about the assassination of John F. Kennedy - is a straightforward, factual, insightful, objective and exciting compendium of the myriad facts and red herrings in the case. Mr. Airheart discusses major theories about JFK's death and all the while gives the reader little-known facts, thought-provoking comments, and other curios which lead into the labyrinth of gangsters and government. Searching the Shadows is a factual and logical investigation that is easily understood.

Originally published in print in 1993 and 2000, this eBook debut contains a brand new chapter from the author that details the most recent developments in the JFK murder case.

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