Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 3: 1989–2015 by Speechworks

The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict by Austin Reed

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251652 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251652] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict Author: Austin Reed Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 26, 2016 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript: the memoir of Austin Reed, a free black man born in the 1820s who spent most of his early life ricocheting between forced labor in prison and forced labor as an indentured servant. Lost for more than one hundred and fifty years, the handwritten document is the first known prison memoir written by an African American. Corroborated by prison records and other documentary sources, Reed’s text gives a gripping first-person account of an antebellum Northern life lived outside slavery that nonetheless bore, in its day-to-day details, unsettling resemblances to that very institution. Now, for the first time, we can hear Austin Reed’s story as he meant to tell it. He was born to a middle-class black family in the boomtown of Rochester, New York, but when his father died, his mother struggled to make ends meet. Still a child, Austin was placed as an indentured servant to a nearby family of white farmers near Rochester. He was caught attempting to set fire to a building and sentenced to ten years at Manhattan’s brutal House of Refuge, an early juvenile reformatory that would soon become known for beatings and forced labor. Seven years later, Reed found himself at New York’s infamous Auburn State Prison. It was there that he finished writing this memoir, which explores America’s first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate’s point of view, recalling the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places and excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage that extended beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. Formatted for optimal listenability and including fascinating historical documents (including a series of poignant letters written by Reed near the end of his life), The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a work of uncommon beauty that tells a story of nineteenth-century racism, violence, labor, and captivity in a proud, defiant voice. Reed’s memoir illuminates his own life and times—as well as ours today. Read by Dominic Hoffman. Introduction Read by Caleb Smith.  Includes a PDF of Appendixes A and B from the Book. Advance praise for The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict “This extraordinary first-person account, from New York’s House of Refuge to the Auburn State Prison, exposes the roots of a prison culture that continues to haunt far too many black families today. We owe a great debt to Austin Reed for writing it and to Caleb Smith for unraveling the mysteries of identity and authentication after its discovery a century-and-a-half later.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University “The discovery story behind this memoir by a black prisoner—written 150 years ago and hidden for generations—is a modern gumshoe plot, and the tale it tells of perennial jail for the crime of blackness reads like a case study from today’s age of mass incarceration.”—Edward Ball, author of the National Book Award winner Slaves in the Family “The voice of Austin Reed, a black man in early nineteenth-century America who was incarcerated at the tender age of ten, rises up and speaks to us now, in artful, almost picaresque tones, to tell of his own unbelievable suffering. He’s a riveting figure.”—Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers

The President’s First Year: None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned—Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency by Douglas Alan Cohn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251279 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251279] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The President’s First Year: None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned—Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency Author: Douglas Alan Cohn Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: January 15, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of all forty-four presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world Grouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first year in office, The President’s First Year takes listeners into the history, thought processes, and results on a case-by-case basis, including how the presidents’ subsequent actions prove that they learned—or didn’t learn—from their mistakes. From George Washington to Barack Obama, The President’s First Year details the challenging first twelve months of all our presidents’ tenures.

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 3: 1989–2015 by Speechworks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250182 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/250182] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 3: 1989–2015 Author: Speechworks Narrator: Speechworks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 12, 2016 Genres: The Americas 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. George H. W. Bush: Inauguration Speech (1989), Panama (1989), Kuwait (1990), State of the Union (1991), End of Gulf War (1991), Gulf War (1991) William Jefferson Clinton: First Inauguration (1993), Health Care (1993), Normandy (1994), Oklahoma Bombing (1995), Bosnia (1995), State of the Union (1996), Balanced Budget (1997), Farewell to the Nation (2001) George W. Bush: Inauguration Address (2001), 9/11 (2001), Ground Zero (2001), Joint Session (2001), Iraqi Freedom Operation (2003), Second Inauguration Address (2005) Barack Obama: Inauguration (2009), Health Care (2009), Obamacare (2010), Bin Laden (2011), Reelection Victory Speech (2012), State of the Union Address (2014), Iran (2015) *These are actual historic recordings, the sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era, and varies by recording.

Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 2: 1952–1988 by Speechworks

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249832 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249832] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 2: 1952–1988 Author: Speechworks Narrator: Speechworks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: December 8, 2015 Genres: The Americas 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.

The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249480 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249480] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters Author: Karl Rove Narrator: Karl Rove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 24, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2.8 of Total 5 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove—“a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals). The 1896 political environment resembles that of today: an electorate being transformed by a growing immigrant population, an uncertain economy disrupted by new technologies, growing income inequality, and basic political questions the two parties could not resolve. McKinley’s winning presidential campaign addressed these challenges and reformed his party. With “a sure touch [and] professional eye” (The Washington Post), Rove tells the story of the 1896 election and shows why McKinley won, creating a governing majority that dominated American politics for the next thirty-six years. McKinley, a Civil War hero, changed the arc of American history by running the first truly modern presidential campaign. Knowing his party needed to expand its base to win, he reached out to diverse ethnic groups, seeking the endorsement of Catholic leaders and advocating for black voting rights. Running on the slogan “The People Against the Bosses,” McKinley also took on the machine men who dominated his own party. He deployed campaign tactics still used today, including targeting voters with the best available technology. Above all, he offered bold, controversial answers to the nation’s most pressing problem—how to make a new, more global economy work for every American—and although this split his own party, he won the White House by sticking to his principles, defeating a champion of economic populism, William Jennings Bryan. Rove “brings to life the drama of an electoral contest whose outcome seemed uncertain to the candidate and his handlers until the end” (The New York Times Book Review) in a “lively and…rigorous book” (The Wall Street Journal) that will delight students of American political history.