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The Trump Tapes
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As relevant as ever to the task of understanding Donald Trump, The Trump Tapes reveal Trump in his own words – a man consumed by the past and clinging to his grievances, unable to understand his responsibilities as president or address the crises affecting the country....
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whinging lying Trump
- By Suffolk Pest on 08-11-22
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A Promised Land
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- Narrated by: Barack Obama
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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Dropping a classic
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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A tale of stupefying greed, corruption and racism
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The Only Plane in the Sky
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- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Garrett M. Graff, Holter Graham, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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The first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events....
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A Powerful and Important Work of Nonfiction
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A Land So Strange
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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Fascinating and well narrated
- By Chris F on 07-07-21
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history....
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Racist and one-sided account
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The Trump Tapes
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- Narrated by: Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
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A Promised Land
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- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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Dropping a classic
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles....
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A tale of stupefying greed, corruption and racism
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The Only Plane in the Sky
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- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Garrett M. Graff, Holter Graham, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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The first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events....
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A Powerful and Important Work of Nonfiction
- By Vivienne on 15-09-19
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A Land So Strange
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- By: Andres Resendez
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- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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Fascinating and well narrated
- By Chris F on 07-07-21
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history....
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Racist and one-sided account
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Braiding Sweetgrass
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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Spellbinding
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Chaos
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- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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The truth is always stronger than the lie.
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The Fourth Turning
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- Narrated by: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
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An interesting perspective.... But!
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Mitchell Zuckoff
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day....
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Sombre listen
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Phenomenal and absolutely essential!
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9/11: The Conspiracy Theories
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- By: David Gardner
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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Nearly 20 years ago, on 11 September 2001, four passenger aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania....
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Interesting and NOT sensationalised - recommended.
- By Sadbassa on 08-10-21
By: David Gardner
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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Tommie Earl Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Twelve Years a Slave is the true story of Solomon Northup: born a free black man in New York State, and sold into slavery after being tricked in 1841....
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VeryDisappoiting
- By John on 26-09-14
By: Solomon Northup
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The Innovators
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- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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I like it, but ...
- By VTS on 22-04-17
By: Walter Isaacson
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Watergate
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
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From bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate—exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of the modern era.
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Turns out we didn't need another Watergate book
- By B. Morrell on 04-01-23
By: Garrett M. Graff
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The Looming Tower
- Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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This is a sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas that culminated in the assault on America....
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Astounding
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Vanderbilt
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- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....
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Gloria
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By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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The Teachings of Don Juan
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- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....
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Altered States and Strange Encounters in a Shamans World
- By Jim Vaughan on 15-02-15
By: Carlos Castaneda
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The Cold War
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- By: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
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As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945, there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict....
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Full picture
- By Joe Welte on 23-05-18
By: Odd Arne Westad
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Astor
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- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....
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An inspiring story of a polymath
- By Kirstine on 29-12-13
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa....
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Extremely over hyped, and in no way a science book
- By Philip on 25-02-11
By: Rebecca Skloot
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Russians Among Us
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Russians Among Us describes for the first time the story of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and riveting detail, it reveals new information about today's spies as well as those trying to catch them and those trying to kill them....
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that's how books should be written
- By Anonymous User on 13-07-20
By: Gordon Corera
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JFK and the Unspeakable
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At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history....
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Devastatingly convincing!
- By Tom Hanna on 23-09-19
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
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- By: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....
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The wonderful meanderings of Nick was pleasant and delightful
- By Dan on 12-05-23
By: Nick Offerman
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Command and Control
- By: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation....
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Gripping and insightful
- By Kate on 13-11-13
By: Eric Schlosser
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Kissinger
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- Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
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By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination....
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A full account of Kissinger
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The Passage of Power
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964....
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Fascinating insight into a pivotal decade
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All That Is Wicked
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- By: Kate Winkler Dawson
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The thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called 'too intelligent to be killed'—and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind....
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East West Street
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When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences....
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I never write reviews....
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Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from France and first explorations? Some people thought it cost too much and was too much land, while others saw it as the future of the United States. Who was right? Did France even have the right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US? How did the Louisiana Territory go from being a vast wilderness to the central states? How did things end up the way they are today?
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On February 2, 1963, a tanker with 39 men aboard departed Beaumont and never returned. In the mid-spring of 1882, Billy the Kid's friend, foe, and equal escaped Huntsville Penitentiary and vanished. On December 9, 1961, a young boy in Wichita Falls disappeared without a trace. On November 18, 1936, a father and son were swallowed by a Walled Kingdom. On December 23, 1974, three girls went to a Fort Worth mall and were never seen or heard from again. This collection explores 20 baffling disappearances that investigators have studied for decades, to no avail.
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Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from France and first explorations? Some people thought it cost too much and was too much land, while others saw it as the future of the United States. Who was right? Did France even have the right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US? How did the Louisiana Territory go from being a vast wilderness to the central states? How did things end up the way they are today?
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Dive into a captivating journey through American history with A Short Story of America: A Glimpse through the Pages of Time. This concise yet comprehensive guide provides a curated exploration of the pivotal moments and influential figures that have shaped the United States. From colonial settlements to modern challenges, this book captures the essence of the American spirit and its evolution through time.
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Molly’s story is a memoir. It is an account of a first-generation immigrant who came from Eastern Europe through Paris to America. We see the world, lovingly and playfully through the eyes of an innocent child, and then more reflective as an older adult. Her story is intermingled with those of her aunts and uncles who remained in Paris, and witnessed the horrors of Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Astor
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From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic.
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.
By: Michael Harriot
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- In Defense of Black Studies
- By: Colin Kaepernick - editor, Robin D.G. Kelley - editor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - editor
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States.
By: Colin Kaepernick - editor, and others
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Building a House Divided
- Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
- By: Stephen G. Hyslop
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation’s foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists like Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Douglas, until the house they built upon it could no longer stand for two opposite ideas at once.
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Historically Black Phrases
- From "I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends" to "Who All Gon' Be There?"
- By: jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson
- Narrated by: jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Black vernacular doesn’t often get its due—despite its enormous influence on mainstream culture—but Historically Black Phrases is here to give Black language its flowers. A celebration of more than two hundred staples of Black conversation—from church sayings and units of measure to compliments and reprimands—this sharp and witty guide explores the unique importance of Black expression and communication.
By: jarrett hill, and others
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Living Hell
- The Dark Side of the Civil War
- By: Michael C.C. Adams
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. In Living Hell, Adams tries a different tack, clustering the voices of myriad actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Neither film nor reenactment can fully capture the hard truth of the four-year conflict. Living Hell presents a stark portrait of the human costs of the Civil War and gives listeners a more accurate appreciation of its lasting consequences.
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Wild Women of Boston
- Mettle and Moxie in the Hub
- By: Dina Vargo
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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The sons of liberty are celebrated in the rebellious history of Boston—but what of their sisters? An audacious and determined procession of reformers, socialites, criminals, and madams made the city what it is today. One hundred years before Rosa Parks, African American abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond refused to give up her seat while attending a play in Boston. Fiery activists Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall led a boycott against bird plumage in ladies' dress and brought the fashion industry to its knees.
By: Dina Vargo
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Gettysburg
- By: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrated by: Jaime Renell
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle—even on single charges—or on the daily lives of the soldiers. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume.
By: Stephen W. Sears
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The Electoral College
- A Biography of America's Peculiar Creation Through the Eyes of the People Who Shaped It
- By: Thomas E. Weaver
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Told through the lenses of specific people who both influenced the process and were impacted by the results, The Electoral College looks at how the Electoral College has changed US history and why it endures.
By: Thomas E. Weaver
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Dispossessing the Wilderness
- Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
- By: Mark David Spence
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal.