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Audiobooks Narrated by Logan Stearns
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"When you’re “connected” in the Windy City, there are no guarantees.
I grew up in the Family, navigating the labyrinth of courtesies in the layer cake of the Chicago Mob.
When the capo says jump, you ask “how high?”
They tell you to off somebody… You get the job done or you don’t come home.
Play your cards right, and you’ll be a Made Man.
Set for life—a violent life, but set.
Play them wrong… well, the pay is great, but the retirement plan stinks.
Enter one Isabella Lastra. Beautiful but sad, thoughtful but spirited.
One look, and I know…
I have to make her mine.
I’m supposed to protect Isabella, not fall in love with her.
The Loggia Family is out for blood, and Isabella is in their crosshairs.
I’ll do anything to protect the woman I love. Anything.
Even if I have to steal her.
Can love survive in this blood-soaked, honor-bound world?
Or will my quest to be a Made Man cost me the one woman I can’t live without?
One thing’s for sure, if they want to take Isabella from me…
They’re going to have to kill me first. "
"On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Northern-born businessmen, and white and Black Creoles. However, by 1880 New Orleans rivaled Richmond as a bastion of the Lost Cause. After Appomattox, a significant number of Confederate veterans moved into the city giving elites the backing to form a Confederate civic culture.
While it's fair to say that the three Confederate monuments and the white supremacist Liberty Monument all came out of this dangerous nostalgia, the authors argue that each monument embodies its own story and mirrors the city and the times. The Lee monument expressed the bereavement of veterans and a desire to reconcile with the North, though strictly on their own terms. The Davis monument articulated the will of the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association to solidify the Lost Cause and Southern patriotism. The Beauregard Monument honored a local hero, but symbolized the waning of French New Orleans and rising Americanization. The Liberty Monument represented white supremacy and the cruel hypocrisy of celebrating a past that never existed.
Gill and Hunter contextualize these statues rather than polarize, interviewing people who are on both sides, including citizens, academics, public intellectuals, and former mayor Mitch Landrieu."
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