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In part of two of Giuliano’s intense tribute to Ronald Reagan, Reagan rains fire upon his opponents bringing an end to the Cold War and paving the way for America’s growing empire. With interviews and speeches with the congenial president, who was very hard to dislike.

The grand old man of the Republican Party started out as a B actor and ended up president of the United States. Here are his greatest moments: his monumental speeches, political philosophy, and common-sense pronouncements, which have since been morphed into a philosophy followed by conservatives worldwide. Narrated by the author with the chronological speeches of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Recommended for all school and library collections.

Charlie Watts provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. The band became a by-word for rock ‘n’ roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band; he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews. And he famously described life with the Stones as five years of playing, 20 years of hanging around. Charles Robert Watts was born on 2 June 1941 at the University College Hospital in London and was raised in Kingsbury, now part of the London Borough of Brent. His father was a lorry driver and Watts was brought up in a prefabricated house to which the family had moved after German bombs destroyed hundreds of houses in the area. A childhood friend once described how Watts had an early interest in jazz and recalled listening to 78s in Charlie’s bedroom by artists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Charlie Parker.

In this unexpected, evocative audiobook on the last days of Brian Jones from a confidential Stones insider we learn about the final, torturous days of the founding member of the band’s short life, as well as the seamy particulars of his murky, murderous death. This is a must-have audiobook from rock historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano.