Tag: Unrest

The Demon of Unrest A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CDQL7TTB | 2024 | 17 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 476 MB
Author: Erik Larson
Narrator: Erik Larson, Will Patton

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War-a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter-a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals.

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Blessed Unrest How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CF6RD1T1 | 2024 | 8 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Paul Hawken
Narrator: Will Damron

The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change. Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world’s fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.

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