Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The Americas

About Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The Americas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/1591/ (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/1591/) to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you looking for ways to relax after stressful working hours? With over 500,000+ audiobooks in categories like Comedy, Sports & Entertainment, and Science Fiction, we will bring you interesting experiences. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and start exploring the world of sound. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and many other devices; audiobooks will be the perfect companion for your modern life. 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.

Publisher

thebookvoice.com

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2002

Latest episode

30 Jun 2020

Latest episodes

188 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jun 2020

   Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382245 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/382245) to listen full audiobooks. Title: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Author: Eddie S. Glaude Narrator: Eddie S. Glaude Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?   One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice   “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin   Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.   In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.

2. 

   19 May 2020

   Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Andersen Brower

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/373938 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/373938) to listen full audiobooks. Title: Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump Author: Kate Andersen Brower Narrator: Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 19, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women—also a New York Times bestseller—comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy. After serving the highest office of American government, five men—Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—became members of the world’s most exclusive fraternity. In Team of Five, Kate Andersen Brower goes beyond the White House to uncover what, exactly, comes after the presidency, offering a glimpse into the complex relationships of these five former presidents, and how each of these men views his place in a nation that has been upended by the Oval Office’s current, norm-breaking occupant, President Donald Trump. With an empathetic yet critical eye and firsthand testimony from the Carters, Donald Trump, and the top aides, friends, and family members of the five former presidents, Team of Five takes us inside the exclusive world of these powerful men and their families, including the unlikely friendship between George W. Bush and Michelle Obama, the last private visits Bill Clinton and Barack Obama shared with George H. W. Bush, and the Obamas’ flight to Palm Springs after Donald Trump’s inauguration. This insightful, illuminating book overflows with anecdotes about how the ex-presidents are working to combat President Trump’s attempts to undo the achievements and hard work accomplished during their own terms. Perhaps most poignantly, Team of Five sheds light on the inherent loneliness and inevitable feelings of powerlessness and frustration that come with no longer being the most important person in the world, but a leader with only symbolic power. There are ways, though, that these men, and their wives, have become powerful political and cultural forces in American life, even as so-called “formers.” Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

3. 

   3 Mar 2020

   The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America by Jacob Dorman

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381159 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/381159) to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America Author: Jacob Dorman Narrator: Chris Ruen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 3, 2020 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The just-discovered story of how two enigmatic circus performers and the cultural ferment of the Gilded Age sparked the Black Muslim movement in America Delving into new archives and uncovering fascinating biographical narratives, secret rituals, and hidden identities, historian Jacob Dorman explains why thousands of Americans were enthralled by the Islamic Orient, and why some came to see Islam as a global antiracist movement uniquely suited to people of African descent in an era of European imperialism, Jim Crow segregation, and officially sanctioned racism. The Princess and the Prophet tells the story of the Black Broadway performer who, among the world of Arabian acrobats and equestrians, Muslim fakirs, and Wild West shows, discovered in Islam a greater measure of freedom and dignity, and a rebuttal to the racism and parochialism of white America. Overturning the received wisdom that the prophet was born on the East Coast, Dorman has discovered that Noble Drew Ali was born Walter Brister in Kentucky. With the help of his wife, a former lion tamer and “Hindoo” magician herself, Brister renamed himself Prophet Noble Drew Ali and founded the predecessor of the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple of America, in the 1920s. With an array of profitable businesses, the “Moors” built a nationwide following of thousands of dues-paying members, swung Chicago elections, and embedded themselves in Chicago’s dominant Republican political machine at the height of Prohibition racketeering, only to see their sect descend into infighting in 1929 that likely claimed the prophet’s life. This fascinating untold story reveals that cultures grow as much from imagination as inheritance, and that breaking down the artificial silos around various racial and religious cultures helps to understand not only America’s hidden past but also its polycultural present.

Contact Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The Americas

Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Shows with a similar audience

• 

  Truth Be Told Paranormal

• 

  Dateline NBC

• 

  Crime Junkie

• 

  American Scandal

• 

  Dark Downeast

• 

  48 Hours