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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306910 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306910] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Author: Niall Ferguson Narrator: Niall Ferguson, Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of 'pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts' in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by David Remnick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249561 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249561] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Author: David Remnick Narrator: Michael Prichard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 6 minutes Release date: December 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times  From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule leading up to the collapse and gives us the voices of those who lived through it, from democratic activists to Party members, from anti-Semites to Holocaust survivors, from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Sakharov. An extraordinary history of an empire undone, Lenin’s Tomb stands as essential reading for our times.

Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party by Dinesh D'Souza

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247760 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/247760] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party Author: Dinesh D'Souza Narrator: Dinesh D'Souza, Andrew Klavan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 17, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: WHY HILLARY, OBAMA, AND THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE NO BETTER THAN A GANG OF THIEVES In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend’s Senate campaign. D’Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center.  There he lived among hardened criminals—drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but fundamentally transformed his view of his adopted country. Previously, D’Souza had seen America through the eyes of a grateful immigrant who became successful by applying and defending conservative principles. Again and again, D’Souza made the case that America is an exceptional nation, fundamentally fair and just. In book after book, he argued against liberalism as though it were a genuine movement of ideas capable of being engaged and refuted. But his prolonged exposure to the criminal underclass provided an eye-opening education in American realities. In the view of hardened criminals, D’Souza learned, America is anything but fair and just. Instead, it is a jungle in which various armed gangs face off against one another, with the biggest and most powerful gangs inhabiting the federal government. As for American liberalism, it is not a movement of ideas at all but a series of scams and cons aimed at nothing less than stealing the entire wealth of the nation, built up over more than two centuries: the total value of the homes, the lifelong savings of the people, the assets of every industry, and all the funds allocated to health and education and every other service, both public and private. “The thieves I am speaking about want all of it.” And who are the leading figures in this historically ambitious scam that has turned the federal government into a vast and unprecedented shakedown scheme? Why, none other than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – the current leaders of the Democratic Party. This pair of smooth-talking con artists, trained in the methods of radical activist Saul Alinsky, have taken his crude but effective political shakedown techniques to a level even he never dreamed of. As the nation approaches a crucial election in 2016, Stealing America is an urgent wakeup call for all Americans who want to prevent this theft from being completed by eight more years of Democratic rule.

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 1: 1933–1968 by Speechworks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249682 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249682] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 1: 1933–1968 Author: Speechworks Narrator: Speechworks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 17, 2015 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A day that will live in infamy … Nothing to fear but fear itself … Ask not what your country can do for you … Ich bin ein Berliner … Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, this collection features original speeches by the presidents of the United States. *These are actual historic recordings, the sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording.

Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War by James Harkin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248192 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/248192] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Season: James Foley, ISIS, and the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War Author: James Harkin Narrator: Paul Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 10, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, Hunting Season is award-winning journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of James Foley, at the hands of the masked militant known as 'Jihadi John' (Mohammed Emwazi), and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. On August 19, 2014, the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America,' the clip depicted the final moments of American journalist James Foley's life--and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley's murder--and the choreographed killings that would follow--captured the world's attention, and the Islamic State's kidnapping campaign exploded into war. Hunting Season is a riveting account of how the world's newest and most powerful terror franchise came to target Western hostages, who was behind it, and why almost no one knew about it until it was too late.