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A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506566 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506566] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman Like Me: A Memoir Author: Diane Abbott Narrator: Diane Abbott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all. A Woman Like Me takes readers through Diane’s incredible journey, painting a vivid picture of growing up in 1960s North London with her working-class Jamaican parents, before entering the hallowed halls of Cambridge University to study history. Ever since the day she first walked through the House of Commons as the first Black woman MP, she has been a fearless and vocal champion for the causes that have made Britain what it is today, whether it’s increasing access to education for Black children and speaking out against the Iraq war or advocating tirelessly for refugees and immigrants. A unique figure in British public life, Diane has often had nothing but the courage of her convictions to carry her through incredibly hostile environments, from torrential abuse in the mainstream media and on social media, to being shunned by the political establishment, including by her own party. Written with frankness and wry humour, A Woman Like Me is an inspirational account that celebrates how one woman succeeded against massive odds and built an extraordinary legacy. © Diane Abbott 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564593 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564593] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV Author: Rob Burley Narrator: Rob Burley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and Margaret A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider’s account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television ‘What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing’ – Andrew Neil ‘A delicious read’ – Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' – Jeremy Paxman 'Very funny’ – Steve Coogan 'An excellent book' – James O'Brien 'He writes brilliantly' – Adam Buxton Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? is a deliciously irreverent insider’s account of a career spent trying to get straight answers from politicians, offering a unique insight into the British political class during a time when no one appears to be telling the truth. This book is Rob Burley’s love letter to the political interview and, with the help of exclusive conversations with TV giants from Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Neil to Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis, it will take you inside the process like never before.

The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective by Liam Thomas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544453 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544453] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Buyer: The making and breaking of an undercover detective Author: Liam Thomas Narrator: Liam Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real Line of Duty. 'The first rule of covert surveillance is never disturb the environment. To be an undercover officer, you must watch and wait. Before that, though, is the question of identity. Embarking on a covert operation you first must decide who you are. Who will you be today?' Liam Thomas was an officer in the Met for over a decade, many of those years spent deep at the heart of Britain's most dangerous criminal enterprises in the murky world of undercover surveillance. Before him, his father had also been a police officer, a pillar of their small community. Fighting corruption was Liam's life. But the murky world of undercover work teaches him that justice is far from black and white - and a family secret reveals that corruption is closer to home than he had ever expected. The revelations push him to the edge of his sanity - and then he discovers that his bosses are investigating him... A thrilling memoir of a life lived amongst a world of corruption, justice and questionable loyalties, this book tells the real story of the police's line of duty. ©2023 Liam Thomas (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Brown Boy: A Memoir by Omer Aziz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556508 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556508] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Boy: A Memoir Author: Omer Aziz Narrator: Omer Aziz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Aziz's story is a story that is common to many but one that is rarely told. It is the story of growing up the child of immigrants and trying to progress in a society where the realities of racism and xenophobia are all too obvious. It gives voice to the experience of finding oneself caught between worlds and the concomitant feelings of shame, insecurity and powerlessness that this can engender. As he describes it, he found himself ‘a hyphenated man’ struggling to create an identity that fused East and West. Brown Boy is a hugely important and desperately needed book, which asks the most important questions and answers them in a way that is sometimes uncomfortable but always incredibly stimulating. Like Richard Wright's Black Boy, from which it draws inspiration, Brown Boy will be read for years to come. It is an enormously significant contribution to the contemporary debate around race and identity, and a work of deep literary sensitivity that will stand the test of time.

Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009 by Neal Gabler

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538767 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/538767] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009 Author: Neal Gabler Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 46 hours 53 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. “Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s—and his fallen brothers’—political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line, Kennedy was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans. Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by Kennedy’s Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted Kennedy’s personal moral failures in this era—the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations against his nephew William Kennedy Smith—would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality. Tracing Kennedy’s life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage against the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds Kennedy’s heroic legislative work against the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with Catching the Wind, Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. Against the Wind sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America’s current existential crisis.