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Free Download The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush
English | ASIN: B0CTR6485J | 2024 | 2 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Jon Meacham
Narrator: Jon Meacham
Lavishly illustrated, The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images-many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush-Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life. From the values of integrity, empathy, and grace that Bush learned in childhood to his leadership at the highest levels in tumultuous times, the forty-first president embodied an ideal of service that warrants attention in our own divided time. Bush pursued a life of service to America through his heroic combat experience in the Pacific during World War II, his political rise in Texas, his serving as U.S. ambassador to the UN, his time as envoy to China and as director of the CIA, his tenure as Ronald Reagan’s vice president, and his election as the forty-first president of the United States.

Free Download Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D38B1KWH | 2024 | 12 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Matthew R. Costello
Narrator: Holly Adams
The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered United States presidents since George Washington’s death in 1799. Over twelve individually illuminating chapters, this volume offers a unique approach to understanding American culture and politics by uncovering parallels between different generations of mourners, highlighting distinct experiences, and examining what presidential deaths can tell us about societal fissures at various critical points in the nation’s history, right up to the present moment.

Free Download I Have Your Back: How an American Soldier Became an International Hero (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLWFHJM | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Tom Sileo
Narrator: Roger Wayne
The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike’s deep desire to serve was cemented on the day his beloved city was attacked. From 9/11 onward, Mike’s one and only mission was to save lives. After two tense combat deployments, Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis earned the US Army’s coveted Ranger tab and set his sights on the perilous mountains of eastern Afghanistan. On August 28, 2013, Mike was suddenly caught in the middle of a massive and unprecedented Taliban assault on a coalition military base.

Free Download American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2PKYY4Z | 2024 | 17 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 506 MB
Author: Elizabeth Duquette
Narrator: Diana Blue
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny’s dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source-Napoleon Bonaparte, the century’s most famous man and its most notorious tyrant.

Free Download American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2PKYY4Z | 2024 | 17 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 506 MB
Author: Elizabeth Duquette
Narrator: Diana Blue
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny’s dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source-Napoleon Bonaparte, the century’s most famous man and its most notorious tyrant.

Free Download American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LTXKD4 | 2024 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Narrator: Lee Goettl
American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country’s history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg’s ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease. At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

Free Download We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC75YM8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Ray Suarez
Narrator: Ray Suarez
From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many continents-especially Asia, Africa, and South America. Just like their predecessors, they face countless obstacles, including political hatred. And yet, just like their predecessors, they work hard. They persist. And they become us. The newest Americans are poorly understood and frequently presented only in stereotypes. Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and interviewer Ray Suarez has crisscrossed the country to speak to new Americans from all corners of the globe, and to record their stories. This portrait of our newest citizens is full of their own, compelling voices. It’s a story as old as the country, yet each new wave of arrivals tells that classic story in new and crucially important ways.

Free Download UnStuck: Rebirth of an American Icon
Author: Stephanie Stuckey
Narrator: Tiffany Morgan
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CZPLGH4B | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 5h 41m | 385 MB
Discover the inspiring firsthand account of Stephanie Stuckey’s rise to CEO upon suddenly acquiring her family’s beloved yet struggling brand, which had become a "whatever happened to . . . ?" fading memory for most Americans.

Free Download The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYFTKY | 2024 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung
Narrator: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe
The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Free Download Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK2T3M8S | 2024 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Kim A. Wagner
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called ‘Battle of Bud Dajo’ was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the historical record. In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre-which claimed hundreds more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined-reveals the extent to which practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism, were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results.