Tom Weitzel has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Inventing America.
The Next American City
Summary
From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years. Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America...and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country", Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places - and it is not alone. In this book, Cornett translates his city's success - and the success of cities like his - into a vision for the future of our country. The Next American City is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It is a study of the changes reshaping American urban life - and a blueprint for those to come.
©2018 Mick Cornett and Jayson White (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Roxy's Sniper
Summary
Will unexpected encounters lead to endless love? Struggling to put the events of his last deployment behind him, US marine sniper Drew Slater travels to the beaches of Mombasa, Kenya. Still healing from physical and emotional wounds sustained in a mission gone wrong, love is the last thing on Drew’s mind. That is, until a beautiful brunette bumps into him in an airport coffee shop. Though eager to visit her sister for the first time in Kenya, Officer Roxy Carter is anxious about flying. During her layover in London, she accidentally spills her drink on a handsome stranger. Embarrassed, Roxy hurries away, believing she will never see him again. Unforeseen circumstances bring the two together for a whirlwind courtship. Will their relationship end on the white sands of Mombasa or grow and flourish despite the challenges they face?
©2020 Martha Pruett (P)2020 Martha Pruett
Inventing America
Summary
From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document. Inventing America upended decades of thinking about The Declaration of Independence when it was first published in 1978 and remains one of the most influential and important works of scholarship about this founding document. Wills challenged the idea that Jefferson took all his ideas from John Locke. Instead, by focussing on Jefferson's original drafts, he showed Jefferson's debt to Scottish Enlightenment philosophers such as Lord Kames and Francis Hutcheson, and even the metaphysics of Aristotle. Wills's close reading of the previously overlooked drafts of the Declaration have altered and deepened the meaning and consequences of the single most important document that contintues to define America.
©1978 Garry Wills (P)2018 Random House Audio