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  • New audiobook release: America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall, by Sen. Joe McCarthy

    02/13/2024 6:58:57 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 45 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 2024-02-12
    Today, with great enthusiasm I can let everybody know that the audiobook recording for America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall, by Senator Joseph McCarthy, (as of yesterday) has been completed! It is high quality, great care was put into its creation, and since this is a free and open source item I would encourage all to give this to as many people as you can think of. If you have X/Twitter, Facebook, email, snail mail, whatever you have. Make sure you give it to others. What astounds me is how quickly this was strong-armed to completion....
  • New audiobook release: The American Newspaper

    11/29/2023 7:37:13 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    After a much longer delay than I hoped would happen, I am very happy to say that Will Irwin's The American Newspaper is now available as a public domain audio book. For those of you who have strong feelings against media bias, this one is one you will not want to overlook. It's also a short work. There are only 15 segments, and the average runtime for each segment is often times in the 20-25 minute range making it both easy and quick to consume. Irwin properly frames how media use their power for political ends, and how their power...
  • Of Plimoth Plantation, Librivox audio book

    11/25/2023 8:04:22 AM PST · by ProgressingAmerica · 5 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 11/25/23
    I hope that everybody had a Happy Thanksgiving this week. My plan for this week had been to go ahead and begin a new collaborative audiobook about Governor William Bradford's chronicle of the early years at Plymouth Plantation. But little did I know, it's been complete since 2010! It just had a different name because someone "translated" it into a more common vernacular. There really are already some great works at Librivox to help contribute to a more educated populace. This work is a solo work, and it's fantastically read. This would be well worth paying for, but the fact...
  • New audiobook release: Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences of the present contentions with the colonies

    10/26/2023 10:01:58 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 20 replies
    § 11. Can the Americans with a good grace complain of tyranny in the mother country for imposing an easy and inconsiderable tax, whilst they themselves are rioting on the labour of thousand of their species, torn from their dearest relations and doomed to abject and perpetual slavery?In answer to this objection, it may be asked, where did this infamous commerce orginate? Where is it still carried on with all the eagerness which avarice can inspire? Where, but in England? By what means can it be abolished? Surely by that power alone, which America acknowledges the parent state, may juftly...
  • New audiobook release: Benjamin Franklin (biography)

    10/22/2023 11:47:03 PM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 15 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 10/23
    I happened to notice that a biography of Benjamin Franklin was produced and published at Librivox. Thought you all might enjoy this. Benjamin Franklin, Robin McKown (1907 - 1975)This biography of Franklin was written for young people, but can be enjoyed by anyone. The author Robin McKown, is known for her young adult historical fiction and historical biographies. - Summary by Ciufi GaleazziThis audiobook is a solo, which means it is of a much higher quality than group books and yes, this reader did a fantastic job. However, it's free and open source so I would encourage you to give...
  • New audiobook release: The Life and Times of Joseph Warren

    10/13/2023 10:37:59 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 14 replies
    Happy Friday! What has just happened, I don't have the words to fully convey my excitement about this. This morning the biography written by Richard Frothingham, Jr. about General Joseph Warren has been completed and published! Life and Times of Joseph Warren The summary is as follows:Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil freedom, and aimed to impress on the public mind its dignity and glory. By ten years of devotion to the patriot cause, he rose to be the head of...
  • New audiobook release: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1, by Mercy Otis Warren

    08/21/2023 2:51:17 PM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    PGA Weblog ^ | 8/21/2023
    Two completed audio books in one month, its so exciting. A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era spanning the crisis caused by the Stamp Act in 1765 to the closing of the establishment of the Constitution in 1789. Warren's book carries a strong Republican viewpoint as she comprehensively guides the reader through the events as they unfolded around her. - Summary by progressingamerica https://librivox.org/history-of-the-rise-progress-and-termination-of-the-american-revolution-vol-1-by-mercy-otis-warren/The schools want to teach your kids falsehoods about the American Revolution. (In some instances, schools will ignore American history in total) With this,...
  • New audiobook release: An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes

    08/04/2023 4:38:50 PM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 304 replies
    Librivox ^ | 8/4/23
    If the contents of The 1619 Project are getting under your skin, here's a new audiobook for you. Nothing else need be said, book speaks for itself. An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers, by George LivermoreBook summary: Collects the speeches, writings, public statements and legislative acts of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the United States against slavery. (Summary by progressingamerica)
  • The Life of Columbus

    05/27/2023 8:25:56 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 9 replies
    Librivox ^ | Sir Arthur Helps
    A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506.
  • The American Crisis aka "The Crisis" (audio)

    04/04/2023 7:19:10 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 1 replies
    librivox ^ | 2014-06-10 | Thomas Paine
    A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately following the American Revolution, gathered into one volume in 1882 by Moncure D. Conway. Each essay, plus 2 inserts, bolstered the morale of the American colonists to fight hard for their independence, appealed to the English to support the colonist's cause, clarified the issues at stake, and denounced any type of negotiated peace. Replete with quotable quotes, the first pamphlet, Crisis I, begins with the now-familiar words "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine...
  • The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat (Audio)

    05/22/2021 8:50:21 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 8 replies
    LibriVox ^ | 2020-07-02
    "The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law becomes the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very inequity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to call the attention of my fellow-citizens." —Frédéric Bastiat Genre(s): Law, Political Science Language: English
  • "The Real Constitution, and its real enemies" Rectifying the attack on our Constitution

    03/24/2022 1:31:46 AM PDT · by Loud Mime · 24 replies
    FreeRepublic Book Club ^ | 1/22/2022 | Steven Maikoski, Author
    From the Book: "The Democrats are fundamentally transforming our nation by using a plan that is so clever that the conservatives do not recognize their compliance with the poisonous design. Their tactic is brilliant. They have us arguing over the political left and right, conservative versus liberal, tolerance, intolerance, rights, race, civil rights or privileges, benefits and fairness while they engage in a continual drone that we are a democracy instead of a republic. The bickering has directed our attention to party politics instead of working from our constitutional foundation, which is allowing our government’s decay into fascism, communism, or...
  • The Last Kingdom series!

    02/13/2021 9:50:06 AM PST · by rfreedom4u · 31 replies
    2/13/2021 | Rfreedom4u
    I saw a couple episodes of The Last Kingdom on Netflix at my daughter's house. No chance of seeing it at home as I have no television or cable. It was actually very good. I learned later that it was based on a series of books by Bernard Cornwell. It's about a Northrumbrian man who was captured as a child by Danes and raised by them. His lifelong goal is to retake his homeland from his uncle who usurped his title.
  • Pat Buchanan: The Great Betrayal (best book on tariffs and their history)

    From The Great Betrayal jacket (1998): Pat Buchanan has seen firsthand the devastating effects of America's slavish devotion to global free trade. As a Republican candidate for president in 1992 and 1996, he met plenty of American workers who had been sacrificed to the Global Economy, and saw towns and entire regions abandoned by the industries that once supported them. While America boasts of having a strong economy - a powerful stock market, booming corporate profits, record CEO salaries - the men and women he met on the campaign trail told a far different story. With free trade now supported...
  • FreeperBookClub: Free review copy of Epic Fantasy novel from a conservative author

    11/04/2018 2:43:19 PM PST · by jwesleybush · 26 replies
    Amazon.com ^ | 11/15/2018 | J. Wesley Bush
    FreeperBookClub friends (and other book lovers): My latest epic fantasy novel debuts November 15, and since it's written from a conservative perspective, I'm offering free review copies to folks on conservative fora. It's in PDF format, and can be read on mobile phones, Kindle apps, iPads, or any electronic device. The long-term (and subtle) themes for the series include: - A Burkean comparison of French-style "liberation" with true liberty - Conservatism vs. Reaction - Duty before Desire -- the need for rights WITH responsibility
  • What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton

    New York Times bestselling author Howie Carr chronicles the historic election of President Donald J. Trump. This is the inside, no-holds-barred story of Trump's rise from a celebrity business mogul to the White House as told by a veteran journalist who was in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign from day one.
  • US Civil War reading Recommendations?

    11/23/2016 6:01:04 PM PST · by Loud Mime · 726 replies
    Free Republic ^ | 11/23/2016 | Loud Mime
    I am studying our Civil War; anybody have any recommendations for reading?
  • To fully understand oligarchy (the "Establishment"), read John Adams

    07/04/2016 6:03:17 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 8 replies
    Over the past several years, the term "the Establishment" has been frequently used. The Republican Establishment, the Democrat Establishment, etc. The "Establishment" is nothing more than the ruling oligarchy, "the few" who have consolidated power within themselves and pass it around amongst themselves (witness the Bushes, the Clintons, the Romneys, the Cuomos, the Kennedys, etc.). And witness the means that congressional leaders select and elect only their own types for power (the NRSC, NRCC, DNSC, DNCC and the oligarchs that fund them). There is nothing new in this. In fact, it is quite common in world history. And there is...
  • Book: Torn Asunder-The Second American Civil War

    03/27/2016 1:14:37 PM PDT · by rstrahan · 23 replies
    Vanity | 03/27/2016 | Roger D. Strahan
    There has been a reoccurring thought- that POTUS would declare martial law if he saw his legacy about to go down the drain. So, I wrote a book along this line. Essentially, I believe that there would be a schism, with much of the south and midwest declaring their allegiance to the Constitution and resisting the Washington dictates. Some states would sit it out, others, like California, would support martial law. If interested, the book is out there on Amazon Unlimited. Those that have read it think it is a good read.
  • new book to read

    12/15/2015 10:35:37 AM PST · by bunkerhill7 · 17 replies
    website ^ | 2015 | William Olivadoti
    Here`s an interesting book I read: "NATIVE AMERICAN TALES AND TRAILS OF THE NORTHEAST WARPATH OF THE NATIONS" 569 pages Some info on site above has hundreds of photos, maps etc.