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A Promised Land
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The truth is always stronger than the lie.
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Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation....
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Endurance
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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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The Fourth Turning
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William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy....
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An interesting perspective.... But!
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One Summer
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Failure Is Not an Option
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Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....
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Brings back so many memories!
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Disloyal: A Memoir
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The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorney and personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the oval office....
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Confirms what we’ve previously heard/read
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Fire and Fury
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A Whirl of Staff and Ideas
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
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Each lecture will give you a refreshing new understanding of what made the British Empire both great in its achievements and vulnerable to its eventual downfall....
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A pleasure to listen to.
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One of the best books I've ever read
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Area 51
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It is the most famous military installation in the world....
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fascinating listen - great narration
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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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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Highly recommended
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By: Walter Isaacson
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The Nineties
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader....
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Enjoyable and informative refresh
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The Looming Tower
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Much more than a history of technology
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa....
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Great Read!
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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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The Vietnam War
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A vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart....
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audio book better than documentary film
- By Mr. Alan R. Jenkins on 01-11-17
By: Geoffrey C. Ward, and others
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Ain't I a Woman
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A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....
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The Reality of Intersectionality
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13 Hours
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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound....
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Great book.
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By: Mitchell Zuckoff, and others
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The Quiet Americans
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At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom....
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Brilliant; A must Listen
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How to Listen to Jazz
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians....
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Did exactly what I wanted it to do
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This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the importance of wilderness, and the need to protect habitats, marine ecosystems, and plant life to redefine the Everglades. Using these ideas, the Everglades began to be recognized as an ecologically valuable and fragile wetland.
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On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail. Plans to find and raise the Titanic began almost immediately. Yet seven decades passed before it was found. Why? And of some three million shipwrecks that litter the ocean floor, why is the world still so fascinated with this one?
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Martin & Malcolm & America (20th Anniversary Edition)
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This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as "essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. James Cone cuts through superficial assessments of King and Malcolm as polar opposites to reveal two men whose visions are complementary and moving toward convergence.
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Child
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Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves.
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Washington's Heir
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In Washington's Heir, Gerard N. Magliocca gives us the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. Born in 1762, Justice Washington fought in the Revolutionary War, served in Virginia's ratifying convention for the Constitution, and was Chief Justice John Marshall's partner in establishing the authority of the Supreme Court.
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The term "emerging market" refers to a country where incomes are currently low but that is likely to experience rapid growth and increasing economic competitiveness. Yet many of the characteristics of emerging markets—including demographic shifts, rising educational attainment, and growing urbanization—are also found closer to home, in communities that have been underserved by the existing financial-services system. Gregory Fairchild introduces listeners to the entrepreneurs whose efforts to reach marginalized groups are reshaping the emerging markets of the United States.
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Accounting for Slavery
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The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and incentive strategies comprised of rewards and brutal punishment.
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The Real Ambassadors
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Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
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Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689
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The importance of the volume in the American Nation series is that it includes colonies of the three types which persisted down to the Revolution—the crown colonies, the proprietary colonies, and the three New England charter colonies. On one side the volume emphasizes the variety of conditions and experiments in government. On the other side, it brings out that characteristic that gives the volume its name, the steady determination of the colonists in all three types of colonies to enjoy self-government in internal affairs.
By: Charles Mclean Andrews, and others
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Modern American History
- A Captivating Guide to the Modern History of the United States of America (U.S. History)
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting during the renowned 1920s, we’re going to look at what life in the United States was like back then and even find some remarkable mirror images that are a reflection of what life is like during this day and age. We’ll look at the importance of alcohol and at how much one decade could be the driving force for the next. We’ll take a look at how small inventions made a big difference in America and the idea of whether a nation should use its power to look after itself or make a mark internationally.
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Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion
- An American Story
- By: Daniel Bullen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Salkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot at a peaceful demonstration of 1,200 farmers approaching the federal arsenal. The shots killed four and wounded 20, marking the climax of five months of civil disobedience in Massachusetts, where farmers challenged the state’s authority to seize their farms for flagrantly unjust taxes. But this widely accepted narrative is just a legend: the “rebellion” was almost entirely nonviolent, and retired war hero Daniel Shays was only one of many leaders.
By: Daniel Bullen
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Operation Northwoods
- The History of the Controversial Government Plan to Stage False Flag Attacks on Americans and Blame Cuba
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout the history of warfare, the practice of placing blame on innocent parties in order to justify attacking them has been a constant feature. In the 20th century, this practice began to be commonly referred to as a “false flag” operation. The essence of a false flag scenario is that it is conducted by one party or government and “made to appear as though another party sponsored it".
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
- The 1970's Edition
- By: Paragon Publishing
- Narrated by: Keith Cruden
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The '70s was a time when movies and music changed in ways that had never before seemed possible. Special effects and rock and roll excess only added to the explosive nature of one of history's most important decades. Among the chaos came monumental breakthroughs in technology, freedom, and science. But just underneath all this wonder, the Yorkshire Ripper was striking fear into the public’s hearts. In this book, we will take a stroll through the period of time that gave us punk, disco, Star Wars, Jaws, and the VHS tape.
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Not Without Peril (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
- 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire
- By: Nicholas S. Howe
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Among the most beautiful and deadly mountains in the world, Mount Washington has challenged adventurers for centuries with its severe weather. From the days when gentlefolk ascended the heights in hoop skirts and wool suits to today’s high-tech assaults on wintry summits, this audiobook offers extensive and intimate profiles of people who found trouble on New Hampshire’s Presidential Range, from the 19th century through the present day.
By: Nicholas S. Howe
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Life on the Mississippi
- An Epic American Adventure
- By: Rinker Buck
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Seven years ago, readers and listeners around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
By: Rinker Buck
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Vampires, Gators, and Wackos
- A Florida Newspaperman's Life
- By: Frank Stanfield
- Narrated by: Rob Morse
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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During his decades-long crime coverage in Central Florida, journalist Frank Stanfield covered every atrocity that man or nature could unleash. Vampires, Gators, and Wackos: A Florida Newspaperman’s Life recounts some of the frequently craven, and at times downright stupid, crimes Stanfield covered during his time in the field. He somehow made it through without winding up more mental than the crackpots he tracked. However, his unvarnished, no-holds-barred account of news events reveals just how crazy-making a case can be when you are dead set on nailing the truth.
By: Frank Stanfield
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The Tuskegee Strangler
- By: Linda Lou Long
- Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer. After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late 1970s, author Linda Lou Long spent years corresponding with him. The Tuskegee Strangler gives an inside look into the workings of a man who is not your typical serial killer.
By: Linda Lou Long