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Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula by Wilfred Reilly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622881] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula Author: Wilfred Reilly Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula. In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books. But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down. Among the popular lies he debunks: “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies” “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing” “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing” “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican” “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless” Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.  Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617640] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Author: Nellie Bowles Narrator: Nellie Bowles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and friends—until she started questioning  whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected. In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life. Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623549] to listen full audiobooks. Title: If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Author: Vincent Bevins Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?   From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon.   Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.

Crisis by Nicky Perfect

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life. The most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning. From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance. It’s about finding yourself and following your passion, and of a life lived to help others.

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616269] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Author: Michele Goodwin Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. Goodwin warns, however, poor women are simply the canaries in the coalmine as some legislators now claim that women’s constitutional rights equal that of embryos and fetuses. In this book, Michele Goodwin brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s reproduction has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for pregnant women.