American History Biographies

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    • Auteur(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Mia Ellis
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

    Prix courant: 38,57$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • Auteur(s): Gilbert King
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Francis James
    • Durée: 17 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

    Prix courant: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
    • Auteur(s): Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Durée: 10 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
    • Auteur(s): Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 évaluations
    • The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Forgotten War That Changed American History
    • Auteur(s): Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Kilmeade
    • Durée: 4 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): John Demos
    • Narrateur(s): Christina Moore
    • Durée: 2 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • John Demos brings to life the compelling story of Eunice Williams, a Puritan girl who was captured and adopted by Native Americans....

    Prix courant: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • ExxonMobil and American Power
    • Auteur(s): Steve Coll
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 24 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Michael Burlingame
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 49 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the first multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents....

    Prix courant: 49,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 49,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
    • Auteur(s): T. J. English
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 19 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....

    Prix courant: 43,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 43,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues
    • Auteur(s): Lonnie Wheeler
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • James “Cool Papa” Bell was a legend in Black baseball, a lightning-fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Experienced baseball writer and historian Lonnie Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Lincoln's War Secretary
    • Auteur(s): Walter Stahr
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 20 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Walter Stahr tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • American Liberator
    • Auteur(s): Marie Arana
    • Narrateur(s): David Crommett
    • Durée: 20 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • The definitive English-language biography of Simón Bolívar, the, "George Washington of South America," who remains strangely unknown in the United States....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    • Auteur(s): H. W. Brands
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 37 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Traitor to His Class brilliantly captures the qualities that have made FDR a beloved figure to millions of Americans....

    Prix courant: 43,71$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
    • Auteur(s): Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
    • Durée: 13 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness....

    Prix courant: 20,80$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,80$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • Auteur(s): Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
    • Durée: 12 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-07-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 évaluations
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • Auteur(s): Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 20 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 évaluations
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

    Prix courant: 43,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 43,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Personal Account of World War II
    • Auteur(s): Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 22 h
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A classic of World War II literature, Crusade in Europe is an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United States....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
    • Auteur(s): H. W. Brands
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 14 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
    • Auteur(s): Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Dontrell Piper
    • Durée: 19 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 évaluations
    • Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit