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Title: The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Author: Jennifer Steinhauer

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

In November 2018, the greatest number of women in American history entered Congress. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 'the Squad' to 'the Badasses' with national security backgrounds, from the first two Native Americans in Congress to the first two Muslim women, all were swept into office on a wave of grassroots support, diverse in background, age, professional experience, and ideology. In The Firsts, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer follows these women's first year in the 116th Congress, chronicling their transition from running trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms, offices, and conversations on the run through the halls of the Capitol, she probed the question: Would Washington, with its hidebound traditions, change the changemakers, or would this Congress, which looked a little more like today's America, truly be the start of something new? Vivid and smart, The Firsts delivers fresh details, inside access, historical perspective, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring, controversial, talented, and rebellious—do something truly surprising: make Congress essential again.

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Title: Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener

Author: Kimberly A. Hamlin

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth's affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing women's rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She became one of the most sought-after speakers on the nineteenth-century lecture circuit, published seven books and countless essays, supported herself, hobnobbed with the most interesting thinkers of her era, visited twenty-two countries, and was celebrated for her audacious ideas and keen wit. Opposed to piety, temperance, and conventional thinking, Gardener eventually settled in Washington, DC, where her tireless work proved, according to her colleague Maud Wood Park, 'the most potent factor' in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Free Thinker is the first biography of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship. Hamlin takes active steps to unpack the racism that underpinned the women’s suffrage movement, giving listeners a detailed view of Gardener's politics and the contradictions inherent in them. Her life sheds new light on why it was not until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Nineteenth Amendment became a reality for all women.

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Title: An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

Author: Michael S. Kochin, Michael Taylor

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Foreign policies and diplomatic missions, combined with military action, were the driving forces behind the growth of the early United States. In an era when the Old and New Worlds were subject to British, French, and Spanish imperial ambitions, the new republic had limited diplomatic presence and minimal public credit. It was vulnerable to hostile forces in every direction. The United States could not have survived, grown, or flourished without the adoption of prescient foreign policies, or without skillful diplomatic operations. An Independent Empire shows how foreign policy and diplomacy constitute a truly national story, necessary for understanding the history of the United States. In this lively and well-written book, episodes in American history—such as the writing and ratification of the Constitution, Henry Clay's advocacy of an American System, Pinckney's Treaty with Spain, and the visionary but absurd Congress of Panama—are recast as elemental aspects of United States foreign and security policy. An Independent Empire tells the stories of the people who defined the early history of America’s international relationships. Throughout the book are brief, entertaining vignettes of often-overlooked intellectuals, spies, diplomats, and statesmen whose actions and decisions shaped the first fifty years of the United States.

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Title: Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage

Author: Geoffrey Blainey

Narrator: John Gregg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphoria of discovering new lands. Drawing from his previous book, Sea of Dangers, in Captain Cook's Epic Voyage Professor Geoffrey Blainey takes readers once again on a vivid journey through history, challenging accepted views and the intersection of myth, science and exploration.

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Title: Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation

Author: Jack Reid

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw 'thumb tripping' as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet, by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone—along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in sync with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.

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Title: Heroes and Rascals of Old Oregon: Offbeat Oregon History Vol. 1

Author: Finn J.D. John

Narrator: Finn J.D. John

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: March 17, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Heroes and Rascals … Shipwrecks and Lost Gold … since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state. Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to readers in book form -- starting with this volume, in which we've selected the most inspirational heroes, the most scurrilous rascals, and the most hilariously quirky mavericks of our state.

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Title: Why Learn History: (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Author: Sam Wineburg

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Release date: March 17, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Let’s start with two truths about our era: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the internet always at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: If we want to educate citizens who can sift through the mass of information around them and separate fact from fake, we have to explicitly work to give them the necessary critical thinking tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows us in Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone), has nothing to do with test prep–style ability to memorize facts. Instead, it's an orientation to the world that we can cultivate, one that encourages reasoned skepticism, discourages haste, and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg draws on surprising discoveries from an array of research and experiments—including surveys of students, recent attempts to update history curricula, and analyses of how historians, students, and even fact checkers approach online sources—to paint a picture of a dangerously mine-filled landscape, but one that, with care, attention, and awareness, we can all learn to navigate.

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Title: [Swedish] - Stilla havet brinner

Author: Allt Om Historia

Narrator: Gert Lundstedt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 11, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

I maj 1942 cirklar amerikanska och japanska piloter över Korallhavet öster om Australien. Båda sidor försöker desperat lokalisera fiendens hangarfartyg. Till en början har amerikanerna turen på sin sida, men senare slår japanerna tillbaka. Det är första gången i historien som ett sjöslag utkämpas utan att de inblandade fartygen har kontakt med varandra. Trots att drabbningen i Korallhavet slutar nästan oavgjord blir uppgörelsen ändå en strategisk seger för de allierade. Japans expansion hejdas. Kejsardömet pressas tillbaka mot hemlandet men lämnar död och lidande efter sig. Och vid krigsslutet försöker en grupp officerare sabotera själva kapitulationen genom ett kuppförsök. I del 23 av serien 'En värld i krig' skildras de blodiga striderna i Stilla havet. 'Allt om Historia' tar med dig på en halsbrytande resa till svunna tider, så att du kan njuta av historiens största händelser. Följ med tillbaka i tiden – tillbaka till andra världskrigets frontlinjer, vikingarnas räder och egypternas gudsdyrkan. 'Allt om Historia' är för dig som vill veta mer om spännande och dramatiska händelser i det förflutna.

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Title: MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

Author: Ben Hubbard

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Release date: March 10, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A gripping, behind-the-scenes portrait of the rise of Saudi Arabia’s secretive and mercurial new ruler “Revelatory . . . a vivid portrait of how MBS has altered the kingdom during his half-decade of rule.”—The Washington Post   Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society of the richest country in the Middle East—and gather as much power as possible into his own hands. Since his father, King Salman, ascended to the throne in 2015, Mohammed bin Salman has leveraged his influence to restructure the kingdom’s economy, loosen its strict Islamic social codes, and confront its enemies around the region, especially Iran. That vision won him fans at home and on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, in Hollywood, and at the White House, where President Trump embraced the prince as a key player in his own vision for the Middle East. But over time, the sheen of the visionary young reformer has become tarnished, leaving many struggling to determine whether MBS is in fact a rising dictator whose inexperience and rash decisions are destabilizing the world’s most volatile region.   Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, MBS reveals the machinations behind the kingdom’s catastrophic military intervention in Yemen, the bizarre detention of princes and businessmen in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, and the shifting Saudi relationships with Israel and the United States. And finally, it sheds new light on the greatest scandal of the young autocrat’s rise: the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, a crime that shook Saudi Arabia’s relationship with Washington and left the world wondering whether MBS could get away with murder.   MBS is a riveting, eye-opening account of how the young prince has wielded vast powers to reshape his kingdom and the world around him.

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Title: The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Author: Tim Madigan

Narrator: William Andrew Quinn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Release date: February 25, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, eighty years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most terrible incident in our shared past. With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.