Beyond Baseball’s Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future by Rocco Constantino

The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World by Saul Singer, Dan Senor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501962 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/501962] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World Author: Saul Singer, Dan Senor Narrator: Dan Senor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies? Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline? Dan Senor and Saul Singer, the writers behind the international bestseller Start-Up Nation, have long been students of the global innovation race. But as they spent time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Tel Aviv techies, and Israeli Arabs, they realized that they had missed what really sets Israel apart. Moving from military commanders integrating at-risk youth and people who are neurodiverse into national service, to high performing companies making space for working parents, from dreamers and innovators launching a duct-taped spacecraft to the moon, to bringing better health solutions to people around the world, The Genius of Israel tells the story of a diverse people and society built around the values of service, solidarity, and belonging. Widely admired for having the world’s highest density of high-tech start-ups, Israel’s greatest innovation may not be a technology at all, but Israeli society itself. Understanding how a country facing so many challenges can be among the happiest provides surprising insights into how we can confront the crisis of community, human connectedness, and purpose in modern life. Bold, timely, and insightful, Senor and Singer’s latest work shines an important light on the impressive innovative distinctions of Israeli society—and what other communities and countries can learn.

All In: How we build a country that works by Lisa Nandy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509126 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509126] to listen full audiobooks. Title: All In: How we build a country that works Author: Lisa Nandy Narrator: Lisa Nandy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ‘A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.’ Observer Book of the Day Britain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how to achieve it. In this brilliant and accessible intervention, Lisa Nandy reveals how Britain can leave behind the mess in which we find ourselves. All In charts a course towards a fairer, more equal, more prosperous country by drawing on the greatest asset we have – each other. Rapid global changes, political division and economic crisis have left Britain reeling. For decades, large swathes of the country have been shut out, condemned to low productivity, underinvestment and managed decline, and stripped of their voice. With most major cities now beset with high housing costs, air pollution and congestion, even the ‘winners’ are losing. All In shows how, by handing power and resources to people with a stake in the outcome, Britain can draw on the talent, assets and potential in every part of the country and start firing on all cylinders again. Finding strength rather than fear in our differences, it reimagines the relationship between people and government so that all of us can play our part in meeting the challenges of our age and rebuilding Britain the only way that works – together. Lucid, clear-eyed and hopeful, this book sets out how we restore values, energy and direction to our politics and offers a glimpse of the alternative future that remains within our grasp.

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition by Cedric J. Robinson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513834 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513834] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Third Edition Author: Cedric J. Robinson Narrator: David Sadzin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 39 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by Blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century Black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright. This revised and updated third edition includes a new preface by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas Iii

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513948 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513948] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War Author: William G. Thomas Iii Narrator: Diana Blue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 36 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation's capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

Beyond Baseball’s Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future by Rocco Constantino

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514141 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/514141] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond Baseball’s Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future Author: Rocco Constantino Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A fascinating history celebrating Black players in Major League Baseball from the 1800s through today, with special insight into what the future may hold. In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier, Rocco Constantino chronicles the history of generations of ballplayers, showing how African Americans have influenced baseball from the 1800s to the present. He details how the color line was drawn, efforts made to erode it, and the progress towards Jackie Robinson's debut—including a pre-integration survey in which players unanimously promoted integration years before it actually happened. Personal accounts and colorful stories trace the exponential growth of diversity in the sport since integration, from a boom in participation in the 1970s to peak participation in the early 1990s, but also reveal the current downward trend in the number of African American players to percentages not seen since the 1960s. Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier not only explores the stories of icons like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Satchel Paige but also considers contributions made by players like Vida Blue, Mudcat Grant, and Dwight Gooden. Exclusive interviews with former players and individuals involved in the game, including the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, add first-hand expert insight into the history of the topic and what the future holds.