American History Biographies

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    • Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
    • Auteur(s): Kliph Nesteroff
    • Narrateur(s): Kliph Nesteroff
    • Durée: 15 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    • Prophet of Freedom
    • Auteur(s): David W. Blight
    • Narrateur(s): Prentice Onayemi
    • Durée: 36 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....

    Prix courant: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,96$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • Boys Will Be Boys immortalizes the most beloved - and despised - dynasty in NFL history....

    Prix courant: 35,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
    • Auteur(s): William J. Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall, William J. Burns
    • Durée: 17 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time. Here, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): David Herbert Donald
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Estell
    • Durée: 30 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography....

    Prix courant: 33,95$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,95$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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 Man and His Hour
    • Auteur(s): William C. Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Riggenbach
    • Durée: 30 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Life of Abraham Lincoln
    • Auteur(s): Richard Brookhiser
    • Narrateur(s): Norman Dietz
    • Durée: 12 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ulysses S. Grant
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Field
    • Durée: 29 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president....

    Prix courant: 39,34$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
    • Auteur(s): Maria Smilios
    • Narrateur(s): Gina Daniels
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life of an American Visionary
    • Auteur(s): Joe Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 22 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 évaluations
    • Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
    • Auteur(s): Casey Cep
    • Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
    • Durée: 11 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Slave
    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Raymond Hearn
    • Durée: 4 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 évaluations
    • This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    • The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March Through Georgia and the Carolinas
    • Auteur(s): Burke Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A New York Times best-selling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • How to Be True to You
    • Auteur(s): A'ja Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): A'ja Wilson
    • Durée: 3 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Dear Black Girls is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today—and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere....

    Prix courant: 10,67$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 10,67$ ou 1 crédit

    • J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
    • Auteur(s): Beverly Gage
    • Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 36 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....

    Prix courant: 41,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 41,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A provocative, lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first Black president and first Black presidency....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History...and Our Future!
    • Auteur(s): Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin, Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 1 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet - but instead of "A is for apple", A is for Angela - as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist....

    Prix courant: 9,20$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 9,20$ ou 1 crédit