https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-unmissable-full-audiobooks-in-history-world--6586029https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/1634/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we provide you with a rich resource. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and experience. You can listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices, making learning easier than ever. Don't miss the opportunity to improve yourself with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enHistoryCopyright Stanford Littelhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/1d8e55849ffbe1ad9d589297da1cc859.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-unmissable-full-audiobooks-in-history-world--6586029Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:03:40 +0000Stanford LittelStanford Littelfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/1634/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/1634/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we provide you with a rich resource. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and experience. You can listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices, making learning easier than ever. Don't miss the opportunity to improve yourself with us! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-rare-recording-of-mahatma-gandhi-by-mohandas-gandhi--65404824https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Mahatma Gandhi Author: Mohandas Gandhi Narrator: Mohandas Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India. His ideas and strategies of nonviolent civil disobedience led to India ’s independence. This is a rare actual voice recording of Mahatma Gandhi from 1931 where he speaks on spiritual topics, especially Hinduism. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53715Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Mahatma Gandhi Author: Mohandas Gandhi Narrator: Mohandas Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 6 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Mahatma Gandhi Author: Mohandas Gandhi Narrator: Mohandas Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India. His ideas and strategies of nonviolent civil disobedience led to India ’s independence. This is a rare actual voice recording of Mahatma Gandhi from 1931 where he speaks on spiritual topics, especially Hinduism. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-rare-recording-of-sigmund-freud-by-sigmund-freud--65404823https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Sigmund Freud Author: Sigmund Freud Narrator: Sigmund Freud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of the most influential psychologists of the last century. In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53713Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Sigmund Freud Author: Sigmund Freud Narrator: Sigmund Freud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 2 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Sigmund Freud Author: Sigmund Freud Narrator: Sigmund Freud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud developed theories that made him one of the most influential psychologists of the last century. In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-rare-recording-of-aleister-crowley-by-aleister-crowley--65404804https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Aleister Crowley Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Aleister Crowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Aleister Crowley was a British occultist, writer, philosopher and mystic. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). In this rare voice clip from 1920, made on a wax cylinder in London, Crowley reads excerpts from The Gnostic Mass. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53716Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Aleister Crowley Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Aleister Crowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rare Recording of Aleister Crowley Author: Aleister Crowley Narrator: Aleister Crowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Aleister Crowley was a British occultist, writer, philosopher and mystic. Crowley was also an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). In this rare voice clip from 1920, made on a wax cylinder in London, Crowley reads excerpts from The Gnostic Mass. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-man-the-life-of-neil-a-armstrong-by-james-r-hansen--65404856https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Author: James R. Hansen Narrator: Jeremy Bobb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 34 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this “magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon. In this “compelling and nuanced portrait” (Chicago Tribune) filled with revelations, Hansen vividly recreates Armstrong’s career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative trans-atmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrong’s storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the near-fifty years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life. A penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. “First Man burrows deep into Armstrong’s past and present…What emerges is an earnest and brave man” (Houston Chronicle) who will forever be known as history’s most famous space traveler.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915Tue, 29 May 2018 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Author: James R. Hansen Narrator: Jeremy Bobb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/332915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong Author: James R. Hansen Narrator: Jeremy Bobb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 34 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this “magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon. In this “compelling and nuanced portrait” (Chicago Tribune) filled with revelations, Hansen vividly recreates Armstrong’s career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative trans-atmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrong’s storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the near-fifty years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life. A penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. “First Man burrows deep into Armstrong’s past and present…What emerges is an earnest and brave man” (Houston Chronicle) who will forever be known as history’s most famous space traveler.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/citizen-soldiers-by-stephen-e-ambrose--65404844https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen Soldiers Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: George K. Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92602Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen Soldiers Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: George K. Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 46 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/92602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Citizen Soldiers Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: George K. Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 63 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-revolution-1989-the-fall-of-the-soviet-empire-by-victor-sebestyen--65404818https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year’s end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the events, on scores of interviews with witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material. He tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women as well as through the strategic moves of world leaders. He shows how the KGB helped bring down former allies; how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire.“Full of sharp snapshots and crisp narrative … vivid personal glimpses and striking details.”—New York Review of Books]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60267Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Author: Victor Sebestyen Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year’s end, they had all declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene as a reporter, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the events, on scores of interviews with witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material. He tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women as well as through the strategic moves of world leaders. He shows how the KGB helped bring down former allies; how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire.“Full of sharp snapshots and crisp narrative … vivid personal glimpses and striking details.”—New York Review of Books]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fourth-part-of-the-world-the-race-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-and-the-epic-story-of-the-map-that-gave-america-its-name-by-toby-lester--65404833https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name Author: Toby Lester Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507.' So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a 'fourth part of the world,' a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth-until 1507, that is, when Martin WaldseemUller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but WaldseemUller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus's contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, WaldseemUller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci's honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester's telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe's early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the WaldseemUller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity's worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60741Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name Author: Toby Lester Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name Author: Toby Lester Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 20, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507.' So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a 'fourth part of the world,' a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of myth-until 1507, that is, when Martin WaldseemUller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure scholars working in the mountains of eastern France, made it real. Columbus had died the year before convinced that he had sailed to Asia, but WaldseemUller and Ringmann, after reading about the Atlantic discoveries of Columbus's contemporary Amerigo Vespucci, came to a startling conclusion: Vespucci had reached the fourth part of the world. To celebrate his achievement, WaldseemUller and Ringmann printed a huge map, for the first time showing the New World surrounded by water and distinct from Asia, and in Vespucci's honor they gave this New World a name: America. The Fourth Part of the World is the story behind that map, a thrilling saga of geographical and intellectual exploration, full of outsize thinkers and voyages. Taking a kaleidoscopic approach, Toby Lester traces the origins of our modern worldview. His narrative sweeps across continents and centuries, zeroing in on different portions of the map to reveal strands of ancient legend, Biblical prophecy, classical learning, medieval exploration, imperial ambitions, and more. In Lester's telling the map comes alive: Marco Polo and the early Christian missionaries trek across Central Asia and China; Europe's early humanists travel to monastic libraries to recover ancient texts; Portuguese merchants round up the first West African slaves; Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci make their epic voyages of discovery; and finally, vitally, Nicholas Copernicus makes an appearance, deducing from the new geography shown on the WaldseemUller map that the earth could not lie at the center of the cosmos. The map literally altered humanity's worldview. One thousand copies of the map were printed, yet only one remains. Discovered accidentally in 1901 in the library of a German castle it was bought in 2003 for the unprecedented sum of $10 million by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. Lavishly illustrated with rare maps and diagrams, The Fourth Part of the World is the story of that map: the dazzling story of the geographical and intellectual journeys that have helped us decipher our world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bible-and-sword-england-and-palestine-from-the-bronze-age-to-balfour-by-barbara-w-tuchman--65404809https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state—and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil in the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political, countless Englishmen—pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyors—have made their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews. With the lucidity and vividness that characterizes her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these twin motives—the Bible and the sword—in the consciousness of the British people. They were finally brought together at the end of World War I, when Britain's conquest of Palestine from the Turks and the solemn moment of entering Jerusalem were imminent. Requiring a gesture of matching significance, that event evoked the Balfour Declaration of 1917—establishing a British-sponsored national home for the modern survivors of the people of the Old Testament. In her account, first published in 1956, Ms. Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of today's troubles in the Middle East were planted long before the first efforts at founding a modern state of Israel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60002Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state—and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil in the Middle East. Under these influences, one cultural and the other political, countless Englishmen—pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, explorers, and surveyors—have made their way to the land of the ancient Hebrews. With the lucidity and vividness that characterizes her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these twin motives—the Bible and the sword—in the consciousness of the British people. They were finally brought together at the end of World War I, when Britain's conquest of Palestine from the Turks and the solemn moment of entering Jerusalem were imminent. Requiring a gesture of matching significance, that event evoked the Balfour Declaration of 1917—establishing a British-sponsored national home for the modern survivors of the people of the Old Testament. In her account, first published in 1956, Ms. Tuchman demonstrates that the seeds of today's troubles in the Middle East were planted long before the first efforts at founding a modern state of Israel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/defend-the-realm-the-authorized-history-of-mi5-by-christopher-andrew--65404810https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 Author: Christopher Andrew Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed, what its relationship has been with government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction has been placed on the judgments made by the author. Defend the Realm also adds significantly to our knowledge of many celebrated events and notorious individuals and definitively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above all, it shows the place of this previously extremely secretive organization within the United Kingdom. Few books could make such an immediate and extraordinary increase to our understanding of British history over the past century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59944Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 Author: Christopher Andrew Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 Author: Christopher Andrew Narrator: Robin Sachs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 3, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed, what its relationship has been with government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction has been placed on the judgments made by the author. Defend the Realm also adds significantly to our knowledge of many celebrated events and notorious individuals and definitively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above all, it shows the place of this previously extremely secretive organization within the United Kingdom. Few books could make such an immediate and extraordinary increase to our understanding of British history over the past century.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-time-of-their-lives-the-golden-age-of-great-american-book-publishers-their-editors-and-authors-by-al-silverman--65404822https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors Author: Al Silverman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 2, 2009 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate history of never-before-told stories about how some of the most important books in postwar America came into being. He pays particular homage to the era’s talented horde of editors, who offer marvelous stories about their authors, including Barney Rosset whose Grove Press freed such banned authors as D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller. Silverman illuminates a period in publishing that formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59934Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors Author: Al Silverman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors Author: Al Silverman Narrator: Tom Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 2, 2009 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate history of never-before-told stories about how some of the most important books in postwar America came into being. He pays particular homage to the era’s talented horde of editors, who offer marvelous stories about their authors, including Barney Rosset whose Grove Press freed such banned authors as D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller. Silverman illuminates a period in publishing that formed a distinguishing landmark of culture in American life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/k2-life-and-death-on-the-world-s-most-dangerous-mountain-by-ed-viesturs-david-roberts--65404862https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe. Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, thought of it as 'the holy grail of mountaineering.' In K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2's most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering–questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death. Fortunately, Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott' s. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59707Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 13, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe. Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself, Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, thought of it as 'the holy grail of mountaineering.' In K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2's most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering–questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death. Fortunately, Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott' s. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-clinton-tapes-wrestling-history-with-the-president-by-taylor-branch--65404801https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Author: Taylor Branch Narrator: Taylor Branch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public. This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton answered questions and told stories in the White House, usually late at night. His friend Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch recorded seventy-nine of these dialogues to compile a trove of raw information about a presidency as it happened. Clinton drew upon the diary transcripts for his memoir in 2004. Branch recorded his own detailed recollections immediately after each session, covering not only the subjects discussed but also the look and feel of each evening with the president. The text engages Clinton from many angles. Readers hear candid stories, feel buffeting pressures, and weigh vivid descriptions of the White House settings. Branch's firsthand narrative is confessional, unsparing, and personal. The author admits straying at times from his primary role -- to collect raw material for future historians -- because his discussions with Clinton were unpredictable and intense. What should an objective prompter say when the President of the United States seeks advice, argues facts, or lodges complaints against the press? The dynamic relationship that emerges from these interviews is both affectionate and charged, with flashes of anger and humor. President Clinton drives the history, but this story is also about friends. The Clinton Tapes highlights major events of Clinton's two terms, including wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the failure of health care reform, peace initiatives on three continents, the anti-deficit crusade, and titanic political struggles from Whitewater to American history's second presidential impeachment trial. Along the way, Clinton delivers colorful portraits of countless political figures and world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Pope John Paul II. These unprecedented White House dialogues will become a staple of presidential scholarship. Branch's masterly account opens a new window on a controversial era and Bill Clinton's eventual place among our chief executives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59569Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Author: Taylor Branch Narrator: Taylor Branch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Author: Taylor Branch Narrator: Taylor Branch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public. This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton answered questions and told stories in the White House, usually late at night. His friend Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch recorded seventy-nine of these dialogues to compile a trove of raw information about a presidency as it happened. Clinton drew upon the diary transcripts for his memoir in 2004. Branch recorded his own detailed recollections immediately after each session, covering not only the subjects discussed but also the look and feel of each evening with the president. The text engages Clinton from many angles. Readers hear candid stories, feel buffeting pressures, and weigh vivid descriptions of the White House settings. Branch's firsthand narrative is confessional, unsparing, and personal. The author admits straying at times from his primary role -- to collect raw material for future historians -- because his discussions with Clinton were unpredictable and intense. What should an objective prompter say when the President of the United States seeks advice, argues facts, or lodges complaints against the press? The dynamic relationship that emerges from these interviews is both affectionate and charged, with flashes of anger and humor. President Clinton drives the history, but this story is also about friends. The Clinton Tapes highlights major events of Clinton's two terms, including wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the failure of health care reform, peace initiatives on three continents, the anti-deficit crusade, and titanic political struggles from Whitewater to American history's second presidential impeachment trial. Along the way, Clinton delivers colorful portraits of countless political figures and world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Pope John Paul II. These unprecedented White House dialogues will become a staple of presidential scholarship. Branch's masterly account opens a new window on a controversial era and Bill Clinton's eventual place among our chief executives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-to-sodom-and-gomorrah-bible-stories-from-archaeologists-by-charles-pellegrino--65404819https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists Author: Charles Pellegrino Narrator: Richard M. Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Often called the real Indiana Jones, Charles Pellegrino-acclaimed author, scientist, and adventurer-takes the listener on an extraordinary tour of Old Testament archeological sites from the Nile to the Jordan and Tigris-Euphrates rivers. Delightfully candid and refreshingly free of religious dogma, this fascinating and revelatory tale brings together archaeologists, scientists, and theologians to view the same archeological evidence and oral histories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60481Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists Author: Charles Pellegrino Narrator: Richard M. Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists Author: Charles Pellegrino Narrator: Richard M. Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Often called the real Indiana Jones, Charles Pellegrino-acclaimed author, scientist, and adventurer-takes the listener on an extraordinary tour of Old Testament archeological sites from the Nile to the Jordan and Tigris-Euphrates rivers. Delightfully candid and refreshingly free of religious dogma, this fascinating and revelatory tale brings together archaeologists, scientists, and theologians to view the same archeological evidence and oral histories.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-march-of-folly-from-troy-to-vietnam-by-barbara-w-tuchman--65404831https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 12, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ persistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today’s reader.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59432Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 12, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ persistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today’s reader.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-colossal-failure-of-common-sense-the-inside-story-of-the-collapse-of-lehman-brothers-by-lawrence-g-mcdonald-patrick-robinson--65404826https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Author: Lawrence G. Mcdonald, Patrick Robinson Narrator: Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors.   We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation’ s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it.   The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58635Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Author: Lawrence G. Mcdonald, Patrick Robinson Narrator: Erik...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers Author: Lawrence G. Mcdonald, Patrick Robinson Narrator: Erik Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors.   We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation’ s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it.   The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-state-of-jones-the-small-southern-county-that-seceded-from-the-confederacy-by-sally-jenkins-john-stauffer--65404802https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy Author: Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy. The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight’s life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South—and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union. This riveting investigative account takes us inside the battle of Corinth, where thousands lost their lives over less than a quarter mile of land, and to the dreadful siege of Vicksburg, presenting a gritty picture of a war in which generals sacrificed thousands through their arrogance and ignorance. Off the battlefield, the Newton Knight story is rich in drama as well. He was a man with two loves: his wife, who was forced to flee her home simply to survive, and an ex-slave named Rachel, who, in effect, became his second wife. It was Rachel who cared for Knight during the war when he was hunted by the Confederates, and, later, when members of the Knight clan sought revenge for the disgrace he had brought upon the family name. Working hand in hand with John Stauffer, distinguished chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, Sally Jenkins has made the leap from preeminent sportswriter to a historical writer endowed with the accuracy, drive, and passion of Doris Kearns Goodwin. The result is Civil War history at its finest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58371Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy Author: Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer Narrator: Don Leslie Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy Author: Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy. The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. Knight’s life story mirrors the little-known story of class struggle in the South—and it shatters the image of the Confederacy as a unified front against the Union. This riveting investigative account takes us inside the battle of Corinth, where thousands lost their lives over less than a quarter mile of land, and to the dreadful siege of Vicksburg, presenting a gritty picture of a war in which generals sacrificed thousands through their arrogance and ignorance. Off the battlefield, the Newton Knight story is rich in drama as well. He was a man with two loves: his wife, who was forced to flee her home simply to survive, and an ex-slave named Rachel, who, in effect, became his second wife. It was Rachel who cared for Knight during the war when he was hunted by the Confederates, and, later, when members of the Knight clan sought revenge for the disgrace he had brought upon the family name. Working hand in hand with John Stauffer, distinguished chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University, Sally Jenkins has made the leap from preeminent sportswriter to a historical writer endowed with the accuracy, drive, and passion of Doris Kearns Goodwin. The result is Civil War history at its finest.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-two-victoria-and-albert-rulers-partners-rivals-by-gillian-gill--65404835https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals Author: Gillian Gill Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years–each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic–and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters–We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58251Tue, 19 May 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals Author: Gillian Gill Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals Author: Gillian Gill Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 19, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years–each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic–and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters–We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-and-me-by-bill-russell--65404832https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red and Me Author: Bill Russell Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: May 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller ''On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book.'' — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book Review In Red and Me, Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach. A poignant remembrance of a life-altering relationship in the tradition of Big Russ and Me and Tuesdays With Morrie, Red and Me tells an unforgettable story of one unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history. Red Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches in sports history. Bill Russell was the star center and five-time MVP for Auerbach's Celtics, and together they won eleven championships in thirteen years. But Auerbach and Russell were far more than just coach and player. A short, brash Jew from Brooklyn and a tall, intense African-American from Louisiana and Oakland, the men formed a friendship that evolved into a rare, telling example of deep male camaraderie even as their feelings remained largely unspoken. Red and Me is an extraordinary book: an homage to a peerless coach, which shows how he produced results unlike any other, and an inspiring story of mutual success, in which each man gave his all and gained back even more. Above all, it may be the most honest and heartfelt depiction of male friendship ever captured in print.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55178Tue, 05 May 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red and Me Author: Bill Russell Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: May 5, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/55178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red and Me Author: Bill Russell Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: May 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller ''On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book.'' — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book Review In Red and Me, Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach. A poignant remembrance of a life-altering relationship in the tradition of Big Russ and Me and Tuesdays With Morrie, Red and Me tells an unforgettable story of one unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history. Red Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches in sports history. Bill Russell was the star center and five-time MVP for Auerbach's Celtics, and together they won eleven championships in thirteen years. But Auerbach and Russell were far more than just coach and player. A short, brash Jew from Brooklyn and a tall, intense African-American from Louisiana and Oakland, the men formed a friendship that evolved into a rare, telling example of deep male camaraderie even as their feelings remained largely unspoken. Red and Me is an extraordinary book: an homage to a peerless coach, which shows how he produced results unlike any other, and an inspiring story of mutual success, in which each man gave his all and gained back even more. Above all, it may be the most honest and heartfelt depiction of male friendship ever captured in print.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nonviolence-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea-by-h-h-dalai-lama-mark-kurlansky--65404817https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea Author: H.H. Dalai Lama, Mark Kurlansky Narrator: Richard Dreyfuss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a 'dangerous' idea, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a 'just war'? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how, time and again, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners-Gandhi and Martin Luther King, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is, at best, negligible; and, encouragingly, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. Engaging, scholarly, and brilliantly reasoned, Nonviolence is a work that compels readers to look at history in an entirely new way. This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60743Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea Author: H.H. Dalai Lama, Mark Kurlansky Narrator: Richard Dreyfuss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea Author: H.H. Dalai Lama, Mark Kurlansky Narrator: Richard Dreyfuss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 29, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a 'dangerous' idea, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a 'just war'? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how, time and again, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners-Gandhi and Martin Luther King, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is, at best, negligible; and, encouragingly, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. Engaging, scholarly, and brilliantly reasoned, Nonviolence is a work that compels readers to look at history in an entirely new way. This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-persian-night-iran-under-the-khomeinist-revolution-by-amir-taheri--65404815https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution Author: Amir Taheri Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the Khomeinist regime must pose as Israel's archfoe to claim leadership of the Arabs. In this timely new offering, the celebrated Iranian-born journalistAmir Taheri dissects a regime that has mobilized the resources of a major Muslim country andhijacked a nation of millions for a global 'holy war' against the United States and its allies. Taheri reveals the links between the Islamic Republic and terrorist networks including al-Qaeda and Hezballah, investigates the reality of Iran's nuclear and war-making capabilities, and most importantly, reveals how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated. From Ayatollah Khomeini's 'historic mission' to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's messianic campaign in the name of the 'Hidden Imam,'The Persian Nightdepicts a trajectory that will most likely lead to war. More importantly, it addresses the vital question of how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated, enabling Iran to close the chapter of revolution and return to the mainstream of nation-states.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54857Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution Author: Amir Taheri Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution Author: Amir Taheri Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the Khomeinist regime must pose as Israel's archfoe to claim leadership of the Arabs. In this timely new offering, the celebrated Iranian-born journalistAmir Taheri dissects a regime that has mobilized the resources of a major Muslim country andhijacked a nation of millions for a global 'holy war' against the United States and its allies. Taheri reveals the links between the Islamic Republic and terrorist networks including al-Qaeda and Hezballah, investigates the reality of Iran's nuclear and war-making capabilities, and most importantly, reveals how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated. From Ayatollah Khomeini's 'historic mission' to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's messianic campaign in the name of the 'Hidden Imam,'The Persian Nightdepicts a trajectory that will most likely lead to war. More importantly, it addresses the vital question of how the Iranian regime can be resisted and defeated, enabling Iran to close the chapter of revolution and return to the mainstream of nation-states.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-city-of-z-a-tale-of-deadly-obsession-in-the-amazon-by-david-grann--65404820https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Author: David Grann Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 24, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 65 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve 'the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century': What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished. Fawcett’s fate—and the tantalizing clues he left behind about “Z”—became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes, or gone mad. As David Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett’s quest, and the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle’s “green hell.” His quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett’s fate and “Z” form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54504Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Author: David Grann Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Author: David Grann Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 24, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 65 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve 'the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century': What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished. Fawcett’s fate—and the tantalizing clues he left behind about “Z”—became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes, or gone mad. As David Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett’s quest, and the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle’s “green hell.” His quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett’s fate and “Z” form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-return-of-depression-economics-and-the-crisis-of-2008-by-paul-krugman--65404843https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Author: Paul Krugman Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 2, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to America: when the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s burst, the U.S. financial system proved as vulnerable as those of developing countries caught up in earlier crises - and a replay of the 1930s seems all too possible. In this new, greatly updated edition of The Return of Depression Economics, Paul shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. He also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis, and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Paul's trademark style - lucid, lively and supremely informed - this new edition of The Return of Depression Economics will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54189Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Author: Paul Krugman Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 Author: Paul Krugman Narrator: Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 2, 2008 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to America: when the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s burst, the U.S. financial system proved as vulnerable as those of developing countries caught up in earlier crises - and a replay of the 1930s seems all too possible. In this new, greatly updated edition of The Return of Depression Economics, Paul shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. He also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis, and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Paul's trademark style - lucid, lively and supremely informed - this new edition of The Return of Depression Economics will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frost-nixon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-nixon-interview-by-david-frost--65404803https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interview Author: David Frost Narrator: David Frost Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 18, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career—and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President's elusiveness. Frost's encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the programs themselves is fascinating. Frost/Nixon provides the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man's character as it appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras. Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews, this is the story of Sir David Frost's quest to produce one of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at the time as “a catharsis” for the American people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54137Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interview Author: David Frost Narrator: David Frost Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interview Author: David Frost Narrator: David Frost Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: November 18, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career—and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President's elusiveness. Frost's encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential sponsors, and Nixon as negotiator are nothing short of hilarious, and his insight into the taping of the programs themselves is fascinating. Frost/Nixon provides the authoritative account of the only public trial that Nixon would ever have, and a revelation of the man's character as it appeared in the stress of eleven grueling sessions before the cameras. Including historical perspective and transcripts of the edited interviews, this is the story of Sir David Frost's quest to produce one of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast, described by commentators at the time as “a catharsis” for the American people.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/creating-magic-10-common-sense-leadership-strategies-from-a-life-at-disney-by-lee-cockerell--65404827https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney Author: Lee Cockerell Narrator: Lee Cockerell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 14, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.” The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results. No one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World® Resort operations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares the leadership principles that not only guided his own journey from a poor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for a multibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form the cultural bedrock of the world’s number one vacation destination. But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn’t about mastering impossibly complex management theories. We can all become outstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sense strategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward as they are profound, these leadership lessons include: Everyone is important. Make your people your brand. Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement. Give people a purpose, not just a job. Combining surprising business wisdom with insightful and entertaining stories from Lee’s four decades on the front lines of some of the world’s best-run companies, Creating Magic shows all of us – from small business owners to managers at every level – how to become better leaders by infusing quality, character, courage, enthusiasm, and integrity into our workplace and into our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53781Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney Author: Lee Cockerell Narrator: Lee Cockerell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney Author: Lee Cockerell Narrator: Lee Cockerell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 14, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.48 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.” The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results. No one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World® Resort operations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares the leadership principles that not only guided his own journey from a poor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for a multibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form the cultural bedrock of the world’s number one vacation destination. But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn’t about mastering impossibly complex management theories. We can all become outstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sense strategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward as they are profound, these leadership lessons include: Everyone is important. Make your people your brand. Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement. Give people a purpose, not just a job. Combining surprising business wisdom with insightful and entertaining stories from Lee’s four decades on the front lines of some of the world’s best-run companies, Creating Magic shows all of us – from small business owners to managers at every level – how to become better leaders by infusing quality, character, courage, enthusiasm, and integrity into our workplace and into our lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-short-history-of-the-united-states-by-robert-vincent-remini--65404830https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of the United States Author: Robert Vincent Remini Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In A Short History of the United States, National Book Award winner Robert V. Remini offers a much-needed, concise history of our country. This accessible and lively volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival and migration of Native Americans, the founding of a republic under the Constitution, the emergence of the United States as a world power, the outbreak of terrorism here and abroad, the Obama presidency, and everything in between.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53884Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of the United States Author: Robert Vincent Remini Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of the United States Author: Robert Vincent Remini Narrator: Oliver Wyman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 7, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In A Short History of the United States, National Book Award winner Robert V. Remini offers a much-needed, concise history of our country. This accessible and lively volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival and migration of Native Americans, the founding of a republic under the Constitution, the emergence of the United States as a world power, the outbreak of terrorism here and abroad, the Obama presidency, and everything in between.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rome-1960-the-olympics-that-changed-the-world-by-david-maraniss--65404840https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World Author: David Maraniss Narrator: David Maraniss Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world. Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise of women superstars all converged to forever change the essence of the Olympics. Using the meticulous research and sweeping narrative style that have become his trademark, maraniss reveals the rich palette of character, competition, and meaning that gave rome 1960 its singular essence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52814Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World Author: David Maraniss Narrator: David Maraniss Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World Author: David Maraniss Narrator: David Maraniss Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world. Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise of women superstars all converged to forever change the essence of the Olympics. Using the meticulous research and sweeping narrative style that have become his trademark, maraniss reveals the rich palette of character, competition, and meaning that gave rome 1960 its singular essence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-minute-to-midnight-kennedy-khrushchev-and-castro-on-the-brink-of-nuclear-war-by-michael-dobbs--65404807https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Author: Michael Dobbs Narrator: Bob Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev’s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro–never swayed by conventional political considerations–demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator’s overthrow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52141Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Author: Michael Dobbs Narrator: Bob Walter Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Author: Michael Dobbs Narrator: Bob Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 3, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev’s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro–never swayed by conventional political considerations–demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator’s overthrow.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/moyers-on-democracy-by-bill-moyers--65404848https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moyers on Democracy Author: Bill Moyers Narrator: Bill Moyers Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 6, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our souls demanded by this challenge . . . kindred spirits across the nation must confront the most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility—the gift we have received and the legacy we must bequeath. “Although our sojourn in life is brief, we are on a great journey. For those who came before us and for those who follow, our moral, political, and religious duty to make sure that this nation, which was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all are equal under the law, is in good hands on our watch.” —from “For America’s Sake” People know Bill Moyers mostly from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America’s most sought-after public speakers. His appearances draw sell-out crowds across the country and are among the most reproduced on the Web. “And one reason,” writes noted journalist Bill McKibben, “is that Moyers pulls no punches. His understanding of America’s history is at least as deep as his understanding of Christian tradition, which is an integral part of his background . . . With his feet firmly planted in the deepest American traditions, Bill Moyers is helping to keep alive an oratorical tradition that is fading after two centuries. Trained by his career in broadcasting, he writes for the ear, his cadences and his repetitions timed to bring an audience to full realization of its role and its power.” And that is the message of this book. Moyers on Democracy collects many of Bill Moyers’s most moving statements to connect the dots on what is happening to our country—the twinned growth of private wealth and public squalor, the assault on our Constitution, the undermining of the electoral process, the accelerating class war against ordinary (and vulnerable) Americans inherent in the growth of economic inequality, the dangers of an imperial executive, the attack on the independence of the press, the despoiling of the earth we share as our common gift—and to rekindle the reader’s conviction that “the gravediggers of democracy will not have the last word.” Richly insightful and alive with a fierce, abiding love for our country, Moyers on Democracy is essential reading in this fateful presidential year.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52562Tue, 06 May 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moyers on Democracy Author: Bill Moyers Narrator: Bill Moyers Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 6, 2008 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moyers on Democracy Author: Bill Moyers Narrator: Bill Moyers Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 6, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our souls demanded by this challenge . . . kindred spirits across the nation must confront the most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility—the gift we have received and the legacy we must bequeath. “Although our sojourn in life is brief, we are on a great journey. For those who came before us and for those who follow, our moral, political, and religious duty to make sure that this nation, which was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all are equal under the law, is in good hands on our watch.” —from “For America’s Sake” People know Bill Moyers mostly from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America’s most sought-after public speakers. His appearances draw sell-out crowds across the country and are among the most reproduced on the Web. “And one reason,” writes noted journalist Bill McKibben, “is that Moyers pulls no punches. His understanding of America’s history is at least as deep as his understanding of Christian tradition, which is an integral part of his background . . . With his feet firmly planted in the deepest American traditions, Bill Moyers is helping to keep alive an oratorical tradition that is fading after two centuries. Trained by his career in broadcasting, he writes for the ear, his cadences and his repetitions timed to bring an audience to full realization of its role and its power.” And that is the message of this book. Moyers on Democracy collects many of Bill Moyers’s most moving statements to connect the dots on what is happening to our country—the twinned growth of private wealth and public squalor, the assault on our Constitution, the undermining of the electoral process, the accelerating class war against ordinary (and vulnerable) Americans inherent in the growth of economic inequality, the dangers of an imperial executive, the attack on the independence of the press, the despoiling of the earth we share as our common gift—and to rekindle the reader’s conviction that “the gravediggers of democracy will not have the last word.” Richly insightful and alive with a fierce, abiding love for our country, Moyers on Democracy is essential reading in this fateful presidential year.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-post-american-world-by-fareed-zakaria--65404852https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Post-American World Author: Fareed Zakaria Narrator: Fareed Zakaria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Age For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places. It's also producing political confidence and national pride. As these trends continue, the push of globalization will increasingly be joined by the pull of nationalism -- a tension that is likely to define the next decades. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, Zakaria draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past five hundred years -- the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States -- to tell us what we can expect from the third shift, the 'rise of the rest.' Washington must begin a serious transformation of global strategy and seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy, and define the global agenda. None of this will be easy for the greatest power the world has ever known -- the only power that for so long has really mattered. But all that is changing now. The future we face is the post-American world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51683Thu, 01 May 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Post-American World Author: Fareed Zakaria Narrator: Fareed Zakaria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Post-American World Author: Fareed Zakaria Narrator: Fareed Zakaria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 14 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A Prophetic Assessment of America's Changing Place in an Increasingly Global Age For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else -- the growth of countries such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and many, many more. This economic growth is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places. It's also producing political confidence and national pride. As these trends continue, the push of globalization will increasingly be joined by the pull of nationalism -- a tension that is likely to define the next decades. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, Zakaria draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past five hundred years -- the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States -- to tell us what we can expect from the third shift, the 'rise of the rest.' Washington must begin a serious transformation of global strategy and seek to share power, create coalitions, build legitimacy, and define the global agenda. None of this will be easy for the greatest power the world has ever known -- the only power that for so long has really mattered. But all that is changing now. The future we face is the post-American world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-voyage-long-and-strange-rediscovering-the-new-world-by-tony-horwitz--65404842https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Author: Tony Horwitz Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 160-something. Did nothing happen in between? Horwitz decides to find out, and in A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE he uncovers the neglected story of America’s founding by Europeans. He begins a thousand years ago, with the Vikings, and then tells the dramatic tale of conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, and many others who roamed and rampaged across half the states of the present-day U.S. continent, long before the Mayflower landed. To explore this history and its legacy in the present, Horwitz embarks on an epic quest of his own—trekking in search of grape-rich Vinland, Ponce de León’s Fountain of Youth, Coronado’s Cities of Gold, Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colonists, and other mysteries of early America. And everywhere he goes, Horwitz probes the revealing gap between fact and legend, between what we enshrine and what we forget. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51745Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Author: Tony Horwitz Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/51745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World Author: Tony Horwitz Narrator: John H. Mayer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 160-something. Did nothing happen in between? Horwitz decides to find out, and in A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE he uncovers the neglected story of America’s founding by Europeans. He begins a thousand years ago, with the Vikings, and then tells the dramatic tale of conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, and many others who roamed and rampaged across half the states of the present-day U.S. continent, long before the Mayflower landed. To explore this history and its legacy in the present, Horwitz embarks on an epic quest of his own—trekking in search of grape-rich Vinland, Ponce de León’s Fountain of Youth, Coronado’s Cities of Gold, Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colonists, and other mysteries of early America. And everywhere he goes, Horwitz probes the revealing gap between fact and legend, between what we enshrine and what we forget. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mcmafia-a-journey-through-the-global-criminal-underworld-by-misha-glenny--65404841https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Author: Misha Glenny Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP. In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld--police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52517Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Author: Misha Glenny Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Author: Misha Glenny Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 8, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP. In this fearless and wholly authoritative investigation of the seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares, veteran reporter Misha Glenny travels across five continents to speak with participants from every level of the global underworld--police, victims, politicians, and even the criminals themselves. What follows is a groundbreaking, propulsive look at an unprecedented phenomenon from a savvy, street-wise guide.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jane-boleyn-the-true-story-of-the-infamous-lady-rochford-by-julia-fox--65404825https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 26, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and rewarded. But the price for her loyalty would eventually be her undoing and the ruination of her name. For centuries, little beyond rumor and scandal has been associated with “the infamous Lady Rochford.” But now historian Julia Fox sets the record straight and restores dignity to this much-maligned figure whose life and reputation were taken from her. Drawing upon her own deep knowledge and years of original research, Julia Fox brings us into the inner sanctum of court life, laced with intrigue and encumbered by disgrace. Through the eyes and ears of Jane Boleyn, we witness the myriad players of the stormy Tudor period. Jane emerges as a courageous spirit, a modern woman forced by circumstances to fend for herself in a privileged but vicious world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52342Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 26, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and rewarded. But the price for her loyalty would eventually be her undoing and the ruination of her name. For centuries, little beyond rumor and scandal has been associated with “the infamous Lady Rochford.” But now historian Julia Fox sets the record straight and restores dignity to this much-maligned figure whose life and reputation were taken from her. Drawing upon her own deep knowledge and years of original research, Julia Fox brings us into the inner sanctum of court life, laced with intrigue and encumbered by disgrace. Through the eyes and ears of Jane Boleyn, we witness the myriad players of the stormy Tudor period. Jane emerges as a courageous spirit, a modern woman forced by circumstances to fend for herself in a privileged but vicious world.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boom-voices-of-the-sixties-personal-reflections-on-the-60s-and-today-by-tom-brokaw--65404854https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 6, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessons that might guide us in the years ahead. Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before. Published as the fortieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, Boom! gives us what Brokaw sees as a virtual reunion of some members of “the class of ’68,” offering wise and moving reflections and frank personal remembrances about people’s lives during a time of high ideals and profound social, political, and individual change. What were the gains, what were the losses? Who were the winners, who were the losers? As they look back decades later, what do members of the Sixties generation think really mattered in that tumultuous time, and what will have meaning going forward? Race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture, and music are all explored here, and we learn from a wide range of people about their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship today. We hear stories of how this formative decade has led to a recalibrated perspective–on business, the environment, politics, family, our national existence. Remarkable in its insights, profoundly moving, wonderfully written and reported, this revealing portrait of a generation and of an era, and of the impact of the 1960s on our lives today, lets us be present at this reunion ourselves, and join in these frank conversations about America then, now, and tomorrow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49550Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 6, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 9 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessons that might guide us in the years ahead. Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before. Published as the fortieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, Boom! gives us what Brokaw sees as a virtual reunion of some members of “the class of ’68,” offering wise and moving reflections and frank personal remembrances about people’s lives during a time of high ideals and profound social, political, and individual change. What were the gains, what were the losses? Who were the winners, who were the losers? As they look back decades later, what do members of the Sixties generation think really mattered in that tumultuous time, and what will have meaning going forward? Race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture, and music are all explored here, and we learn from a wide range of people about their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship today. We hear stories of how this formative decade has led to a recalibrated perspective–on business, the environment, politics, family, our national existence. Remarkable in its insights, profoundly moving, wonderfully written and reported, this revealing portrait of a generation and of an era, and of the impact of the 1960s on our lives today, lets us be present at this reunion ourselves, and join in these frank conversations about America then, now, and tomorrow.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marco-polo-from-venice-to-xanadu-by-laurence-bergreen--65404857https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully authoritative biography of one of the most enchanting figures in world history. In this masterly work, Marco Polo’s incredible odyssey–along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life–is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Drawing on original sources in more than half a dozen languages, and his own travels along Polo’s route in China and Mongolia, Bergreen explores the lingering controversies surrounding Polo’s legend, settling age-old questions and testing others for significance. Synthesizing history, biography, and travelogue, this is a timely chronicle of a man who extended the boundaries of human knowledge and imagination. Destined to be the definitive account of its subject for decades to come, Marco Polo takes us on a journey to the limits of history–and beyond.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52254Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52254 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 23, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully authoritative biography of one of the most enchanting figures in world history. In this masterly work, Marco Polo’s incredible odyssey–along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life–is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Drawing on original sources in more than half a dozen languages, and his own travels along Polo’s route in China and Mongolia, Bergreen explores the lingering controversies surrounding Polo’s legend, settling age-old questions and testing others for significance. Synthesizing history, biography, and travelogue, this is a timely chronicle of a man who extended the boundaries of human knowledge and imagination. Destined to be the definitive account of its subject for decades to come, Marco Polo takes us on a journey to the limits of history–and beyond.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/agent-zigzag-a-true-story-of-nazi-espionage-love-and-betrayal-by-ben-macintyre--65404808https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Author: Ben Macintyre Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 2, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was orders orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory in Britain. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and, miraculously, keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, becoming the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. Sixty years after the end of the war, and ten years after Chapman’s death, MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman’s files, releasing more than 1,800 pages of top secret material and allowing the full story of Agent Zigzag to be told for the first time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49543Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Author: Ben Macintyre Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Author: Ben Macintyre Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 2, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was orders orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory in Britain. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and, miraculously, keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, becoming the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. Sixty years after the end of the war, and ten years after Chapman’s death, MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman’s files, releasing more than 1,800 pages of top secret material and allowing the full story of Agent Zigzag to be told for the first time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-moon-rising-sputnik-and-the-hidden-rivals-that-ignited-the-space-age-by-matthew-brzezinski--65404837https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age Author: Matthew Brzezinski Narrator: Charles Stransky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 18, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed our world. On October fourth, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world. Based on extensive research in the US and newly opened archives in the former USSR, Red Moon Rising tells the story of five extraordinary months in the history of technology and the rivalry between two superpowers. It takes us inside the Kremlin and introduces the Soviet engineer Korolev, the charismatic, politically-minded visionary who motivated Khruschev to support what others dismissed as a ridiculous program. Korolev is virtually unknown to most Americans, yet it is because of him that NASA exists, that college loan programs were started in the US, and that Kennedy and Johnson became presidents. Character driven, suspenseful, and dramatic, Red Moon Rising unveils the politics, people, science, and mindset behind a critical and transformative world event.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50651Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age Author: Matthew Brzezinski Narrator: Charles Stransky Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/50651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age Author: Matthew Brzezinski Narrator: Charles Stransky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 18, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed our world. On October fourth, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world. Based on extensive research in the US and newly opened archives in the former USSR, Red Moon Rising tells the story of five extraordinary months in the history of technology and the rivalry between two superpowers. It takes us inside the Kremlin and introduces the Soviet engineer Korolev, the charismatic, politically-minded visionary who motivated Khruschev to support what others dismissed as a ridiculous program. Korolev is virtually unknown to most Americans, yet it is because of him that NASA exists, that college loan programs were started in the US, and that Kennedy and Johnson became presidents. Character driven, suspenseful, and dramatic, Red Moon Rising unveils the politics, people, science, and mindset behind a critical and transformative world event.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-money-in-the-world-how-the-forbes-400-make-and-spend-their-fortunes-by-peter-w-bernstein--65404851https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes Author: Peter W. Bernstein Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from original research, interviews with Forbes 400 members, and never-before-compiled data, it shows how fortunes are made in various industries, and how, once made, they are saved, enhanced, and sometimes squandered. From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most wasteful family feuds, and the most and least generous philanthropists. Produced in collaboration with Forbes magazine, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today’s Big Rich, a subject of enduring fascination to all Americans.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48990Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes Author: Peter W. Bernstein Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes Author: Peter W. Bernstein Narrator: Marc Cashman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 4, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 6 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from original research, interviews with Forbes 400 members, and never-before-compiled data, it shows how fortunes are made in various industries, and how, once made, they are saved, enhanced, and sometimes squandered. From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most wasteful family feuds, and the most and least generous philanthropists. Produced in collaboration with Forbes magazine, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today’s Big Rich, a subject of enduring fascination to all Americans.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-know-much-about-anything-everything-you-need-to-know-but-never-learned-about-people-places-events-and-more-by-kenneth-c-davis--65404861https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About People, Places, Events, And More! Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 31, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Entertainment and More! is a compendium of around 275 columns, sorted into the subject categories listed in the subtitle. Quizzes on the atomic bomb, hamburgers, football, and The Wizard of Oz are included, along with the Emancipation Proclamation, cold weather, and Mother Theresa, to name a few. Like all of Ken Davis' Don't Know Much About audiobooks, Don't Know Much About Anything will educate and inform listeners while allowing them to have fun.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48903Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About People, Places, Events, And More! Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/48903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About People, Places, Events, And More! Author: Kenneth C. Davis Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 31, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Don't Know Much About Anything: Everything You Need to Know But Never Learned About Famous People, Exceptional Places, Historical Happenings, Holidays and Traditions, Everyday Objects, Remarkable Inventions, Space, Sports, Food, Entertainment and More! is a compendium of around 275 columns, sorted into the subject categories listed in the subtitle. Quizzes on the atomic bomb, hamburgers, football, and The Wizard of Oz are included, along with the Emancipation Proclamation, cold weather, and Mother Theresa, to name a few. Like all of Ken Davis' Don't Know Much About audiobooks, Don't Know Much About Anything will educate and inform listeners while allowing them to have fun.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-of-a-dissident-the-poisoning-of-alexander-litvinenko-and-the-return-of-the-kgb-by-alex-goldfarb-marina-litvinenko--65404855https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB Author: Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander 'Sasha' Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a 'tiny nuclear bomb.' Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed? The full story of Sasha Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. His closest friend, Alex Goldfarb, and his widow, Marina, are the only two people who can tell it all, from firsthand knowledge, with dramatic scenes from Moscow to London to Washington. Death of a Dissident reads like a political thriller, yet its story is more fantastic and frightening than any novel. Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB's darkest secrets. After a dramatic escape to London with Goldfarb's assistance, he spent six years, often working with Goldfarb, investigating a widening series of scandals. Oligarchs and journalists have been assassinated. Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was poisoned on the campaign trail. The war in Chechnya became unspeakably harsh on both sides. Sasha Litvinenko investigated all of it, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms for their dirty deeds. Death of a Dissident opens a window into the dark heart of the Putin Kremlin. With its strong-arm tactics, tight control over the media, and penetration of all levels of government, the old KGB is back with a vengeance. Sasha Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth. It took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46800Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB Author: Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko Narrator: Dennis...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB Author: Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander 'Sasha' Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a 'tiny nuclear bomb.' Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on certain airplanes, suggesting a travel route from Russia for the carriers of the fatal poison. But what really happened? What did Litvinenko know? And why was he killed? The full story of Sasha Litvinenko's life and death is one that the Kremlin does not want told. His closest friend, Alex Goldfarb, and his widow, Marina, are the only two people who can tell it all, from firsthand knowledge, with dramatic scenes from Moscow to London to Washington. Death of a Dissident reads like a political thriller, yet its story is more fantastic and frightening than any novel. Ever since 1998, when Litvinenko denounced the FSB for ordering him to assassinate tycoon Boris Berezovsky, he had devoted his life to exposing the FSB's darkest secrets. After a dramatic escape to London with Goldfarb's assistance, he spent six years, often working with Goldfarb, investigating a widening series of scandals. Oligarchs and journalists have been assassinated. Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko was poisoned on the campaign trail. The war in Chechnya became unspeakably harsh on both sides. Sasha Litvinenko investigated all of it, and he denounced his former employers in no uncertain terms for their dirty deeds. Death of a Dissident opens a window into the dark heart of the Putin Kremlin. With its strong-arm tactics, tight control over the media, and penetration of all levels of government, the old KGB is back with a vengeance. Sasha Litvinenko dedicated his life to exposing this truth. It took his diabolical murder for the world to listen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/einstein-his-life-and-universe-by-walter-isaacson--65404829https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/45732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Einstein: His Life and Universe Author: Walter Isaacson Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.08 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, “an illuminating delight” (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/45732Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/45732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Einstein: His Life and Universe Author: Walter Isaacson Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 31 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/45732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Einstein: His Life and Universe Author: Walter Isaacson Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 10, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 55 Ratings of Narrator: 4.08 of Total 12 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein, the classic #1 New York Times bestseller, is a brilliantly acclaimed account of the most influential scientist of the twentieth century, “an illuminating delight” (The New York Times). The basis for the National Geographic series Genius, by the author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invention-of-childhood-by-hugh-cunningham--65404811https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention Of Childhood Author: Hugh Cunningham Narrator: Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 6, 2006 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Written by Hugh Cunningham and presented by award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood teaches us about the key elements that have shaped children's lives. The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout the ages. Beginning from the year 1000, Cunningham studies the many important events in history for our children, ranging from Britain's earliest child-care guru in the Middle Ages to the first ever Foundling Hospital in the 18th Century. This hugely enjoyable piece of teaching that delves into the idea of how childhood has been constantly reinvented through the centuries, and why the role of children in society continues to obsess us today. Fascinating and thought-provoking, it will appeal to parents, grandparents and anyone who has ever been a child themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49762Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention Of Childhood Author: Hugh Cunningham Narrator: Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49762 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention Of Childhood Author: Hugh Cunningham Narrator: Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 6, 2006 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Written by Hugh Cunningham and presented by award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood teaches us about the key elements that have shaped children's lives. The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout the ages. Beginning from the year 1000, Cunningham studies the many important events in history for our children, ranging from Britain's earliest child-care guru in the Middle Ages to the first ever Foundling Hospital in the 18th Century. This hugely enjoyable piece of teaching that delves into the idea of how childhood has been constantly reinvented through the centuries, and why the role of children in society continues to obsess us today. Fascinating and thought-provoking, it will appeal to parents, grandparents and anyone who has ever been a child themselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part-iii-by-bob-woodward--65404828https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 30, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.47 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: THE DETAILED, INSIDE STORY OF A WAR-TORN WHITE HOUSE Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to themselves in State of Denial. Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president, through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term. State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage the war that he chose to define his presidency? And, is there an achievable plan for victory? After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making, including his two #1 national bestsellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War and Plan of Attack, Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the White House staff have walked.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42953Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42953 to listen full audiobooks. Title: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 30, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.47 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: THE DETAILED, INSIDE STORY OF A WAR-TORN WHITE HOUSE Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to themselves in State of Denial. Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president, through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term. State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage the war that he chose to define his presidency? And, is there an achievable plan for victory? After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making, including his two #1 national bestsellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War and Plan of Attack, Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the White House staff have walked.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/simple-courage-the-true-story-of-peril-on-the-sea-by-frank-delaney--65404834https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/286373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Simple Courage: The True Story of Peril on the Sea Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.” –old folk prayer In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and turned drops of freezing Atlantic foam into icy missiles. When, in the space of twenty-eight hours, the ship was slammed by two rogue waves–solid walls of water more than sixty feet high–the impacts cracked the decks and hull almost down to the waterline, threw the vessel over on her side, and thrust all on board into terror. Flying Enterprise’s captain, Kurt Carlsen, a seaman of rare ability and valor, mustered all hands to patch the cracks and then try to right the ship. When these efforts came to naught, he helped transfer, across waves forty feet high, the passengers and the entire crew to lifeboats sent from nearby ships. Then, for reasons both professional and intensely personal, and to the amazement of the world, Carlsen defied all requests and entreaties to abandon ship. Instead, for the next two weeks, he fought to bring Flying Enterprise and her cargo to port. His heroic endeavor became the world’s biggest news. In a narrative as dramatic as the ocean’s fury, acclaimed bestselling author Frank Delaney tells, for the first time, the full story of this unmatched bravery and endurance at sea. We meet the devoted family whose well-being and safety impelled Carlsen to stay with his ship. And we read of Flying Enterprise’s buccaneering owner, the fearless and unorthodox Hans Isbrandtsen, who played a crucial role in Kurt Carlsen’s fate. Drawing on historical documents and contemporary accounts and on exclusive interviews with Carlsen’s family, Delaney opens a window into the world of the merchant marine. With deep affection–and respect–for the weather and all that goes with it, he places us in the heart of the storm, a “biblical tempest” of unimaginable power. He illuminates the bravery and ingenuity of Carlsen and the extraordinary courage that the thirty-seven-year-old captain inspired in his stalwart crew. This is a gripping, absorbing narrative that highlights one man’s outstanding fortitude and heroic sense of duty. “One of the great sea stories of the twentieth century… [a] surefire nautical crowd-pleaser.” --Booklist é (starred review) “Frank Delaney has written a completely absorbing, thrilling and inspirational account of a disaster at sea that occasioned heroism of the first order. In the hands of a gifted storyteller, the ‘simple courage’ of the ship’s captain and the young radio man who risked their lives to bring a mortally wounded ship to port reveals the essence and power of all true courage– a stubborn devotion to the things we love.” –Senator John McCain]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/286373Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/286373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Simple Courage: The True Story of Peril on the Sea Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/286373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Simple Courage: The True Story of Peril on the Sea Author: Frank Delaney Narrator: Frank Delaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 27, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: “HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.” –old folk prayer In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious storm. Force 12 winds tossed men about like playthings and turned drops of freezing Atlantic foam into icy missiles. When, in the space of twenty-eight hours, the ship was slammed by two rogue waves–solid walls of water more than sixty feet high–the impacts cracked the decks and hull almost down to the waterline, threw the vessel over on her side, and thrust all on board into terror. Flying Enterprise’s captain, Kurt Carlsen, a seaman of rare ability and valor, mustered all hands to patch the cracks and then try to right the ship. When these efforts came to naught, he helped transfer, across waves forty feet high, the passengers and the entire crew to lifeboats sent from nearby ships. Then, for reasons both professional and intensely personal, and to the amazement of the world, Carlsen defied all requests and entreaties to abandon ship. Instead, for the next two weeks, he fought to bring Flying Enterprise and her cargo to port. His heroic endeavor became the world’s biggest news. In a narrative as dramatic as the ocean’s fury, acclaimed bestselling author Frank Delaney tells, for the first time, the full story of this unmatched bravery and endurance at sea. We meet the devoted family whose well-being and safety impelled Carlsen to stay with his ship. And we read of Flying Enterprise’s buccaneering owner, the fearless and unorthodox Hans Isbrandtsen, who played a crucial role in Kurt Carlsen’s fate. Drawing on historical documents and contemporary accounts and on exclusive interviews with Carlsen’s family, Delaney opens a window into the world of the merchant marine. With deep affection–and respect–for the weather and all that goes with it, he places us in the heart of the storm, a “biblical tempest” of unimaginable power. He illuminates the bravery and ingenuity of Carlsen and the extraordinary courage that the thirty-seven-year-old captain inspired in his stalwart crew. This is a gripping, absorbing narrative that highlights one man’s outstanding fortitude and heroic sense of duty. “One of the great sea stories of the twentieth century… [a] surefire nautical crowd-pleaser.” --Booklist é (starred review) “Frank Delaney has written a completely absorbing, thrilling and inspirational account of a disaster at sea that occasioned heroism of the first order. In the hands of a gifted storyteller, the ‘simple courage’ of the ship’s captain and the young radio man who risked their lives to bring a mortally wounded ship to port reveals the essence and power of all true courage– a stubborn devotion to the things we love.” –Senator John McCain]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-men-the-harrowing-saga-of-shackleton-s-ross-sea-party-by-kelly-tyler-lewis--65404812https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/35235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party Author: Kelly Tyler-Lewis Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 20, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots. When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1,700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile -- for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude. With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/35235Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/35235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party Author: Kelly Tyler-Lewis Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/35235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party Author: Kelly Tyler-Lewis Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 20, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.36 of Total 11 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots. When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1,700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile -- for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude. With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flags-of-our-fathers-by-ron-powers-james-bradley--65404853https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flags of Our Fathers Author: Ron Powers, James Bradley Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima–and into history. The son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in the heroic battle for the Pacific’s most crucial island.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284577Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flags of Our Fathers Author: Ron Powers, James Bradley Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flags of Our Fathers Author: Ron Powers, James Bradley Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 36 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima–and into history. The son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in the heroic battle for the Pacific’s most crucial island.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/parish-priest-by-douglas-brinkley-julie-m-fenster--65404821https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parish Priest Author: Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster Narrator: Julie M. Fenster Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom ''family values'' represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world. In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Called to action in 1882, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that helped to save countless families. It has since grown to an international membership of 1.7 million men. At heart, though, Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that, either. In an incredible work of academic research, Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster re-create the life of Father McGivney, a fiercely dynamic and yet tenderhearted man. Moving and inspirational, Parish Priest chronicles the process of canonization that may well make Father McGivney the first American-born parish priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34285Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parish Priest Author: Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster Narrator: Julie M. Fenster Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34285 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Parish Priest Author: Douglas Brinkley, Julie M. Fenster Narrator: Julie M. Fenster Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom ''family values'' represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world. In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Called to action in 1882, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that helped to save countless families. It has since grown to an international membership of 1.7 million men. At heart, though, Father McGivney was never anything more than an American parish priest, and nothing less than that, either. In an incredible work of academic research, Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster re-create the life of Father McGivney, a fiercely dynamic and yet tenderhearted man. Moving and inspirational, Parish Priest chronicles the process of canonization that may well make Father McGivney the first American-born parish priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-man-the-story-of-watergate-s-deep-throat-by-bob-woodward--65404836https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. The Secret Man is an intense 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33273Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 6, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward's first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. The Secret Man is an intense 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-course-of-human-events-by-david-mccullough--65404805https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Course of Human Events Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 24, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style. In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49811Tue, 24 May 2005 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Course of Human Events Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/49811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Course of Human Events Author: David McCullough Narrator: David McCullough Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 24, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.82 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style. In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/102-minutes-by-jim-dwyer-kevin-flynn--65404814https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 102 Minutes Author: Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn Narrator: Ron Mcclarty Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it -- until now. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before. Read by Ron McLarty]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33933Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 102 Minutes Author: Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn Narrator: Ron Mcclarty Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 102 Minutes Author: Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn Narrator: Ron Mcclarty Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: January 18, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 115 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it -- until now. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before. Read by Ron McLarty]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/plan-of-attack-by-bob-woodward--65404846https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plan of Attack Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three-and-a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war. What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin. Plan of Attack provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33226Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plan of Attack Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2004 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plan of Attack Author: Bob Woodward Narrator: Boyd Gaines Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 19, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three-and-a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war. What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin. Plan of Attack provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-people-speak-american-voices-some-famous-some-little-known-by-howard-zinn--65404839https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known Author: Howard Zinn Narrator: James Earl Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others. From that celebration, this audio was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent. Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32955Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known Author: Howard Zinn Narrator: James Earl Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/32955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known Author: Howard Zinn Narrator: James Earl Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: February 24, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others. From that celebration, this audio was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent. Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-america-messages-from-the-heart-and-heartland-by-glenn-beck--65404849https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland Author: Glenn Beck Narrator: Glenn Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, delivers a compelling, patriotic, and spiritually driven message to inspire you to help lead us back to that place that is quickly being forgotten...THE REAL AMERICA. Glenn Beck has entertained, inspired, and informed millions with his self-effacing humor, heartfelt conviction, and down-to-earth approach to life. And in The Real America, a powerful collection of his early writings, he calls it as he sees it, cutting through the fog of those who have made it their mission to underestimate -- and undermine -- the greatness of America and the power of 'We the People.' Whether the topic is family, religion, personal responsibility, rampant political correctness, presidential elections, or out-of-control celebrities, Glenn Beck rails against the forces that keep us from uniting and fulfilling our potential and explains how to overcome them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33201Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland Author: Glenn Beck Narrator: Glenn Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland Author: Glenn Beck Narrator: Glenn Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.64 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, delivers a compelling, patriotic, and spiritually driven message to inspire you to help lead us back to that place that is quickly being forgotten...THE REAL AMERICA. Glenn Beck has entertained, inspired, and informed millions with his self-effacing humor, heartfelt conviction, and down-to-earth approach to life. And in The Real America, a powerful collection of his early writings, he calls it as he sees it, cutting through the fog of those who have made it their mission to underestimate -- and undermine -- the greatness of America and the power of 'We the People.' Whether the topic is family, religion, personal responsibility, rampant political correctness, presidential elections, or out-of-control celebrities, Glenn Beck rails against the forces that keep us from uniting and fulfilling our potential and explains how to overcome them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/general-ike-a-personal-reminiscence-by-john-s-d-eisenhower--65404845https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: General IKE: A Personal Reminiscence Author: John S. D. Eisenhower Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best. General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father. John chose to write about the “military Ike,” as opposed to the “political Ike,” because Ike cared far more about his career in uniform than about his time in the White House. A series of portraits of Ike’s relations with soldiers and statesmen, from MacArthur to Patton to Montgomery to Churchill to de Gaulle, reveals the many facets of a talented, driven, headstrong, yet diplomatic leader. Taken together, they reveal a man who was brilliant, if flawed; naïve at times in dealing with the public, yet who never lost his head when others around him were losing theirs. Above all, General Ike was a man who never let up in the relentless pursuit of the destruction of Hitler. Here for the first time are eyewitness stories of General Patton showing off during military exercises; of Ike on the verge of departing for Europe and assuming command of the Eastern Theater; of Churchill stewing and lobbying Ike in his “off hours.” Faced with giant personalities such as these men and MacArthur, not to mention difficult allies such as de Gaulle and Montgomery, Ike nevertheless managed to pull together history's greatest invasion force and to face down a determined enemy from Normandy to the Bulge and beyond. John Eisenhower masterfully uses the backdrop of Ike's key battles to paint a portrait of his father and his relationships with the great men of his time. General Ike is a ringing and inspiring testament to a great man by an accomplished historian. It is also a personal portrait of a caring, if not always available, father by his admiring son. It is history at its best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46416Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: General IKE: A Personal Reminiscence Author: John S. D. Eisenhower Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: General IKE: A Personal Reminiscence Author: John S. D. Eisenhower Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.3 of Total 10 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best. General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father. John chose to write about the “military Ike,” as opposed to the “political Ike,” because Ike cared far more about his career in uniform than about his time in the White House. A series of portraits of Ike’s relations with soldiers and statesmen, from MacArthur to Patton to Montgomery to Churchill to de Gaulle, reveals the many facets of a talented, driven, headstrong, yet diplomatic leader. Taken together, they reveal a man who was brilliant, if flawed; naïve at times in dealing with the public, yet who never lost his head when others around him were losing theirs. Above all, General Ike was a man who never let up in the relentless pursuit of the destruction of Hitler. Here for the first time are eyewitness stories of General Patton showing off during military exercises; of Ike on the verge of departing for Europe and assuming command of the Eastern Theater; of Churchill stewing and lobbying Ike in his “off hours.” Faced with giant personalities such as these men and MacArthur, not to mention difficult allies such as de Gaulle and Montgomery, Ike nevertheless managed to pull together history's greatest invasion force and to face down a determined enemy from Normandy to the Bulge and beyond. John Eisenhower masterfully uses the backdrop of Ike's key battles to paint a portrait of his father and his relationships with the great men of his time. General Ike is a ringing and inspiring testament to a great man by an accomplished historian. It is also a personal portrait of a caring, if not always available, father by his admiring son. It is history at its best.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-path-between-the-seas-the-creation-of-the-panama-canal-1870-1914-by-david-mccullough--65404806https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Author: David McCullough Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33181Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Author: David McCullough Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Author: David McCullough Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 13 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reefer-madness-sex-drugs-and-cheap-labor-in-the-black-market-by-eric-schlosser--65404859https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market Author: Eric Schlosser Narrator: Eric Schlosser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- or more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs. All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33182Thu, 01 May 2003 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market Author: Eric Schlosser Narrator: Eric Schlosser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33182 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the Black Market Author: Eric Schlosser Narrator: Eric Schlosser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- or more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs. All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-by-bill-bryson--65404858https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 228 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 33 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52396Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52396 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Richard Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 19 minutes Release date: February 4, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 228 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 33 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-greatest-generation-by-tom-brokaw--65404850https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greatest Generation Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Tom Brokaw Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years. In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, and honor. From military heroes to community leaders to ordinary citizens, he profiles men and women who served their country with valor, then came home and transformed it: Senator Daniel Inouye, decorated at the front, fighting prejudice at home; Martha Settle Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs; Charles Van Gorder, a doctor who set up a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of battle, then opened a small clinic in his hometown; Navy pilot and future president George H. W. Bush, assigned to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, who says that in doing so he “learned about life”; and many other laudable Americans. To this generation that gave so much and asked so little, Brokaw offers eloquent tribute in true stories of everyday heroes in extraordinary times. Praise for The Greatest Generation “Moving . . . a tribute to the members of the World War II generation to whom we Americans and the world owe so much.”—The New York Times Book Review “Full of wonderful, wrenching tales of a generation of heroes. Tom Brokaw reminds us what we are capable of as a people. An inspiring read for those who wish their spirits lifted.”—Colin L. Powell   “Offers welcome inspiration . . . It is impossible to read even a few of these accounts and not be touched by the book’s overarching message: We who followed this generation have lived in the midst of greatness.”—The Washington Times   “Entirely compelling.”—The Wall Street Journal]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52690Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greatest Generation Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Tom Brokaw Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greatest Generation Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Tom Brokaw Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 61 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years. In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, and honor. From military heroes to community leaders to ordinary citizens, he profiles men and women who served their country with valor, then came home and transformed it: Senator Daniel Inouye, decorated at the front, fighting prejudice at home; Martha Settle Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs; Charles Van Gorder, a doctor who set up a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of battle, then opened a small clinic in his hometown; Navy pilot and future president George H. W. Bush, assigned to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, who says that in doing so he “learned about life”; and many other laudable Americans. To this generation that gave so much and asked so little, Brokaw offers eloquent tribute in true stories of everyday heroes in extraordinary times. Praise for The Greatest Generation “Moving . . . a tribute to the members of the World War II generation to whom we Americans and the world owe so much.”—The New York Times Book Review “Full of wonderful, wrenching tales of a generation of heroes. Tom Brokaw reminds us what we are capable of as a people. An inspiring read for those who wish their spirits lifted.”—Colin L. Powell   “Offers welcome inspiration . . . It is impossible to read even a few of these accounts and not be touched by the book’s overarching message: We who followed this generation have lived in the midst of greatness.”—The Washington Times   “Entirely compelling.”—The Wall Street Journal]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-the-irish-saved-civilization-the-untold-story-of-ireland-s-heroic-role-from-the-fall-of-rome-to-the-rise-of-medieval-europe-by-thomas-c--65404838https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill Narrator: Donal Donnelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.49 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42153Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Series: Part of The...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/42153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Series: Part of The Hinges of History Author: Thomas Cahill Narrator: Donal Donnelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: July 5, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.49 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/undaunted-courage-meriwether-lewis-thomas-jefferson-and-the-openin-by-stephen-e-ambrose--65404816https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Openin Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Cotter Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 142 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34505Sat, 01 Jun 1996 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Openin Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Cotter Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/34505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Openin Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Cotter Smith Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 1, 1996 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 142 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/d-day-june-6-1944-the-climactic-battle-of-wwii-by-stephen-e-ambrose--65404847https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Stephen E. Ambrose Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33121Wed, 01 Jun 1994 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Stephen E. Ambrose Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Narrator: Stephen E. Ambrose Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history. D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Drawing on more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans, Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion had to be abandoned, and how enlisted men and junior officers acted on their own initiative when they realized that nothing was as they were told it would be. The action begins at midnight, June 5/6, when the first British and American airborne troops jumped into France. It ends at midnight June 6/7. Focusing on those pivotal twenty-four hours, it moves from the level of Supreme Commander to that of a French child, from General Omar Bradley to an American paratrooper, from Field Marshal Montgomery to a German sergeant. Ambrose’s D-Day is the finest account of one of our history’s most important days.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-money-and-power-by-daniel-yergin--65404813https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Author: Daniel Yergin Narrator: Bob Jamieson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 1991 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This updated edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.” With his far-reaching insight and in-depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, and both the Iraq War and current climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today—and tomorrow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52826Wed, 01 May 1991 12:58:58 +0000Stanford LittelPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Author: Daniel Yergin Narrator: Bob Jamieson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Author: Daniel Yergin Narrator: Bob Jamieson Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 1, 1991 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This updated edition categorically proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first by tracing economic and political clashes over precious “black gold.” With his far-reaching insight and in-depth research, Yergin is uniquely positioned to address the present battle over energy which undoubtedly ranks as one of the most vital issues of our time. The canvas of his narrative history is enormous—from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, and both the Iraq War and current climate change. The definitive work on the subject of oil, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great value—crucial to our understanding of world politics and the economy today—and tomorrow.]]>185cleanfull