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Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee by Katherine J. Ballantyne

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818857 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818857] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee Author: Katherine J. Ballantyne Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 24, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast. By incorporating accounts of students from both historically Black and predominantly white colleges and universities across Tennessee, Radical Volunteers places events that might otherwise appear random and intermittent into conversation with one another. This methodological approach reveals that students joined organizations and became activists in an effort to assert their autonomy and, as a result, student power became a rallying cry across the state. Importantly, Ballantyne does not confine her analysis to just campuses. Indeed, Radical Volunteers also situates campus activism within their broader communities. While outnumbered, Tennessee student activists secured significant campus reforms, pursued ambitious community initiatives, and articulated a powerful countervision for the South and the United States.

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795897 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795897] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Author: Aidan Levy Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 17, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the 'Saxophone Colossus,' he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called 'the only jazz recluse' has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny's own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians' own words, part chronicle of one man's quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795 by Linda Myrsiades

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818855 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818855] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795 Author: Linda Myrsiades Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges' bench notes, and defense notes for the trials, to develop a portrait of the hegemony of official interpretations of the law. At the same time, the book illuminates popular attitudes about the courts and the law and explores the nature of extralegal courts operated by the people. Myrsiades captures the agitation-propaganda efforts mounted by rebel communities and groups together with petitions and speeches in the rebel assemblies in demonstrating that popular culture offered a clear politico-legal justification within the rebel movement on the unofficial side of legal culture. Myrsiades thus presents a holistic picture of the legal culture of the rebellion. Her examination denies the common perception that the rebel movement was incoherent and chaotic and presents an alternative view that its perceptions are a necessary correlative to understanding how treason law functioned and what its critical elements were in the late-eighteenth century, serving as a lesson for democracy in the present era.

Belle Starr—The Bandit Queen by William Yancey Shackleford

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829459 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829459] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belle Starr—The Bandit Queen Author: William Yancey Shackleford Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: December 10, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living and hanging out with members of the James and Younger gangs. Belle was a crack shot who rode side saddle while engaging in horse thievery, cattle rustling, and holdups. In between these activities, Belle bore two children and was involved with (though not necessarily married to) several men, including Sam Starr. Belle was murdered in 1889 just 2 days before her 41st birthday. The case is officially considered unsolved. This book was the first of many about Belle and was originally published the same year she died.

The Order by Kevin Flynn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809529 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809529] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Order Author: Kevin Flynn Narrator: Gibson Frazier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 3, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture! Originally published as The Silent Brotherhood, uncover the chilling depths of America’s racist underground with this investigative true crime masterpiece exposing the inner workings of white supremacist militias and domestic terror groups. Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider’s account of the “silent brotherhood”—the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan. They claim to be patriots, as American as apple pie, but they are this nation’s deadly brotherhood—hate groups that package their alienation against the federal government under such names as the Aryan Nation, the Order, and other white supremacist militias. The group attracts seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religion and their mission to save white Christian America. They spout anti-Black, antisemitic, neo-Nazi rhetoric, and their grievances have festered into full-blown paranoia and a call for an all-out race war. The Order reveals in terrifying detail how the group became criminals and assassins in their effort to establish an Aryan homeland.