New audiobook release: The autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge was a great man and president, and his legacy is entirely unique. Sure, it is due in part to the timing of when he became President but the thing of it is that as President, he acted accordingly. He was the only President in U.S. history who defeated both the left-wing progressives(the Wilsonians) and the right-wing progressives.(The Bull Moosers)

Some people are placed in a position of greatness. Acting great once in that position is left solely to the man.

It is Calvin Coolidge, he is why the Progressive Era came to an end.

I hope you enjoy the audio recording of his life story from his own hand.

New audiobook release: The autobiography of Benjamin Rush

Our Founding Fathers left us many wonderful works with which to learn more about their lives and beliefs, many of which are in the form of a multitude of letters written to other people or specific-topic-based works. Perhaps the best well-known topic-based work of the Founders is the Federalist Papers, produced by three Founders over the course of some months.

Benjamin Rush did something different though, producing a short autobiography about his own life. I do believe there are others who had autobiographies as well but I think they were exceedingly rare among the Founding generation.

I suspect very few people have read Rush's autobiography in recent times. With the more convenient method of listening to an audio book, that consumption level will increase and that is a good thing for us all. The more we know about our Founding Fathers and the more (hopefully) we attempt to be like them the better off we are as Americans.

New audiobook release: Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet, by Roberts Vaux

I am so happy to announce that today Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet is now available in audio. When it comes to the Abolitionist Founding Fathers, this is the guy who ties it all together.

In order to restore American history from all of the damage that progressives have done to it, making it easier for people to be reminded of or learn of the important people is essential.

Many of the prominent Founding Fathers were abolitionist. Many more opposed slavery. Who did they have correspondence with? Anthony Benezet.

Patrick Henry knew of Anthony Benezet and his work.

Anthony Benezet is credited with converting Benjamin Franklin into an abolitionist.

Anthony Benezet also worked directly with Benjamin Rush in the fight against slavery.

Benezet's works can also be found in the John Adams library.

South Carolinian Henry Laurens, during the time he penned his abolitionist pamphlet, was sending letters to Anthony Benezet.

This is the guy. He was everywhere. And he didn't just get abolitionism started in the U.S. before the U.S. was the U.S., the major abolitionists in Britain also were heavily influenced by Benezet's works. Granville Sharp, John Wesley, and Thomas Clarkson were all influenced by Benezet - later Wilberforce as well.

The only point of sadness I have at this moment is that I believe most people (in particular those who adore American history and specifically the Founding) will not bother to either read this, listen to it, or take time to seek out other books written about Benezet and discover his profound impact upon early American abolitionism. Its a gut feeling I hope I am incorrect about, but I cannot escape it.

The 1619 Project is still out there and this is the one thing, the only thing, that can stand in its way. The Abolitionist Founding Fathers is the cure to The 1619 Project.

New audiobook release: The Phantom Public, by Walter Lippmann

Today The Phantom Public is now available, much to my surprise.

https://librivox.org/phantom-public-by-walter-lippmann/

I actually own a hard-copy of this book, one of the early printings from the 20s. I could never make time for it but when I purchased this there were no available PDF online anywhere(it was still under copyright) and I had planned to scan all the pages and read it myself from my own uploaded scans once it went public domain. So among other things, this release saves me a ton of time. It's a solo recording as well, which is wonderful.

In The Phantom Public, Lippmann takes a very sour look at the world and becomes much more rigidly in favor of rule by experts. He captures a moment when the progressives had been so defeated after the 1920 election, these people didn't even want to be called progressives anymore it was that bad! Little did he know. In less than a decade from this progressives would re-brand themselves as "liberals".

The Phantom Public is a sort of follow up to his earlier book Public Opinion, which I did the recording all by myself.

New audiobook release: Propaganda, by Edward Bernays

Today we have a new audio book release, this time from Edward Bernays with his 1928 work "Propaganda". Download the audio here.

There is a lot to learn about progressivism in this book. Among other things (prior post on this) Bernays believed the following items which were captions on a newer reprint cover:

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented(Page 39)

Nowadays the successors of the rulers, those whose position or ability gives them power, can no longer do what they want without the approval of the masses, they find in propaganda a tool which is increasingly powerful in gaining that approval(Page 54)

Democracy is administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses(Page 127)

Democracy is administered by the intelligent minority. The "experts". That's the arrogance of progressivism. They can't just leave us alone. Ok, then we need to study these moonbats so we can defend ourselves against their machinations. My guiding principle since day one, this has never changed going all the way back to 2010:

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle - Sun Tzu (Art of War, Chapter 3)

New audiobook release: Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. Goodrich

Today I would like to highlight the release of a book written by Charles A. Goodrich: Great Events in the History of North and South America

https://librivox.org/great-events-in-the-history-of-north-and-south-america-by-charles-goodrich/

This book ought to be highly useful for home schoolers, it is nearly 90 sections of audio covering a much more generalized education than a deep-dive into one single person or historical event. Many of the audio sections are short in length in the 5-10 minute range, and while the book mentions both North America and South America, 75%~ of the book is North America and almost half of it is the American Revolution and the later Revolutionary War.

Goodrich was a good historian whose name I've come across before, I'm happy someone got to one of his books before I did.

I did not request nor contribute in any way to this book. I simply mention it because I know this will have a benefit and value for someone.

New audiobook release: Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence

What an important release this one is. Today, Benson Lossing's "Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence" is ready for a listen.

This book has some really important sections in it which are not biographies at all, but a 1-by-1 explanation of what each grievance in the Declaration is in reference to. That makes this audio book surely one of a kind in that regard.

As for the biographies, most as audio are inbetween 5 to 10 minutes, giving a brief overview of all of these wonderful people. Some Founding Fathers never received a major biographical work until somewhat more recently, such as George Wythe. I will be dead before those ever reach copyright expiration so I'll never be able to have brought through LibriVox. That means for many Founders, this short biography you will hear is the only you will ever hear until someone else takes the time to have those created.