American History Biographies

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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....

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    • Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
    • Auteur(s): Yunte Huang
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lam
    • Durée: 13 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress. Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • Auteur(s): Philippe Girard
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
    • Durée: 10 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • Auteur(s): Jon Meacham
    • Narrateur(s): Richard McGonagle
    • Durée: 17 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • Auteur(s): Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 7 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise.

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
    • Auteur(s): Tim Reiterman
    • Narrateur(s): Mitch Horowitz
    • Durée: 29 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • Tim Reiterman's Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ulysses S. Grant
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 29 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this epic 1885 work, General Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and staunch supporter of the Union cause, set the record straight on his storied life and career. At its heart is Grant, victor and eyewitness to the defining moments of the Civil War....

    Prix courant: 41,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
    • Auteur(s): T. J. English
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 21 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Last Rebel of the Civil War
    • Auteur(s): T. J. Stiles
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
    • Durée: 18 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts....

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    • The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
    • Auteur(s): Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Ferrone
    • Durée: 20 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the US 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle....

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    • 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....

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    • A Black Woman's Story
    • Auteur(s): Elaine Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Elaine Brown
    • Durée: 17 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

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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: 39,89$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Own Story
    • Auteur(s): John Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Reese
    • Durée: 2 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown. Here is Smith's own account of his adventures there and his relationship with Pocahontas....

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    • A History of the American Mafia
    • Auteur(s): Louis Ferrante
    • Narrateur(s): Louis Ferrante
    • Durée: 12 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Historians have previously glazed over the Mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • Auteur(s): Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Anna Perrin
    • Durée: 11 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Readings from the Wreck
    • Auteur(s): Dionne Brand
    • Narrateur(s): Dionne Brand
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of non-fiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck of empire.

    Prix courant: 30,86$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
    • Auteur(s): Douglas K. Miller, Joy Harjo - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Kaipo Schwab
    • Durée: 14 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Weaving together more than a hundred interviews with Davis's bandmates, family members, friends, and peers, this book powerfully reconstructs Davis's extraordinary life and career.

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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