There is also a cast of some of the very best audiobook narrators. “The books we choose give the listener something that they might not otherwise get” Sometimes there are authors who are reading their own work, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, who also wrote 1619, another history project that has been getting a lot of attention in the US. There are 90 entries, so most of them are fairly short, less than 10 minutes each. It’s about the focus a contemporary author brings to that period of history, in a way that we might not think about. There’s a lot of really interesting focus on specific events, on the laws that were passed, on tragic incidents. They asked writers to take a five-year period of history and write something about that period, so it could be anything, but it is chronological: it starts in 1619 and goes through to 2019 and contemporary history. This is a book of essays and poems, collected and edited by Ibram X. Can you tell me what the book is about and why the audiobook is so good? Let’s move to the first book on your list, which is Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. Foreign Policy & International Relationsįour Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019īy Ibram X.
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