Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

• Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father by Peter Stark

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329944 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father Author: Peter Stark Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: A vivid and groundbreaking portrait of a young, struggling George Washington that casts a new light on his character and the history of American independence, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naive and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War—a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution. With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader. Enduring terrifying summer storms and subzero winters imparted resilience and self-reliance, helping prepare him for what he would one day face at Valley Forge. Leading the Virginia troops into battle taught him to set aside his own relentless ambitions and stand in solidarity with those who looked to him for leadership. Negotiating military strategy with British and colonial allies honed his diplomatic skills. And thwarted in his obsessive, youthful love for one woman, he grew to cultivate deeper, enduring relationships.    By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation.

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• Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/330025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World Author: Eileen McNamara Narrator: Amanda Carlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: In this “revelation” of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family’s most profound political legacy. While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter, Eunice, was hijacking her father’s fortune and her brothers’ political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time on behalf of millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Her compassion was born of rage: at the medical establishment that had no answers for her sister Rosemary, at her revered but dismissive father, whose vision for his family did not extend beyond his sons, and at a government that failed to deliver on America’s promise of equality. Now, in this “fascinating” (the Today show), “nuanced” (The Boston Globe) biography, “ace reporter and artful storyteller” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Megan Marshall) Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers’ shadow. Granted access to never-before-seen private papers, including the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London, McNamara paints an extraordinary portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with it: the visionary founder of Special Olympics, a devout Catholic in a secular age, and an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman whose impact on American society was longer lasting than that of any of the Kennedy men.

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• Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan by Sheila Tate

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan Author: Sheila Tate Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: Lady in Red is the long-awaited collection of behind-the-scenes stories of one of the most influential First Ladies in modern history -- Nancy Reagan. Lovingly compiled by long-time close confidante and aide, Sheila Tate, the audiobook provides a rare and much-anticipated look into the personal life of the president's wife, from her daily routines and travels as First Lady to her friendships and deep influence in the Reagan White House. Lady in Red depicts a nuanced portrait of this graceful yet strong woman who felt it was her mission to restore a sense of grandeur, mystique, and excitement to the presidency, showcasing the various roles that Mrs. Reagan played during her years in the White House, that of Wife, Mother, Protector, Host, Diplomat, and Advisor, among others.  To complete the portrait, Lady in Red includes interviews with the friends and politicians who knew Mrs. Reagan best: President George H. W. Bush, Chris Wallace, James Baker, Ed Meese, Maureen Dowd, and Marlin Fitzwater share their most cherished memories of the First Lady.

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• The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder by Nikki Meredith

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/328492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder Author: Nikki Meredith Narrator: Andrea Gallo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 4 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described the two so-called Manson Women as 'human monsters.' But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such an unfathomable crime. Award-winning journalist Nikki Meredith began visiting Van Houten and Krenwinkel in prison to discover how they had changed during their incarceration. The more Meredith got to know them, the more she was lured into a deeper dilemma: What compels 'normal' people to do unspeakable things? The author's relationship with her subjects provides a chilling lens through which we gain insight into a particular kind of woman capable of a particular kind of brutality. Through their stories, Nikki Meredith takes readers on a dark journey into the very heart of evil.

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• The Resurrection of the Romanovs by Greg King, Penny Wilson

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Resurrection of the Romanovs Author: Greg King, Penny Wilson Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess. Refuting long-accepted evidence in the Anderson case, The Resurrection of the Romanovs finally explodes the greatest royal mystery of the twentieth-century. Covers the subject so thoroughly and so honestly that this is almost certainly the last book that needs to be written. -Robert K. Massie, author of Nicholas and Alexandra

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