American History Biographies

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    • Auteur(s): Jean Edward Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Durée: 29 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles conflicting assessments of Grant's life, arguing that Grant is greatly underrated as a president....

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    • The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
    • Auteur(s): Paul Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Maya Days
    • Durée: 11 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
    • Auteur(s): Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrateur(s): James Lurie
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life
    • Auteur(s): James McGrath Morris
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 10 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The author of 18 spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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): Edmund Morris
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Série: Theodore Roosevelt, Livre 3
    • Durée: 24 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-11-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize - and National Book Award - winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Confederate General Who Defied the South
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Varon
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 14 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there).

    Prix courant: 29,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
    • Auteur(s): Joshua Wolf Shenk
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Shetterly
    • Durée: 11 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies....

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    • A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Narrateur(s): Jamie Renell
    • Durée: 10 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon
    • Auteur(s): John Clayton
    • Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
    • Durée: 9 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • As the National Park system enters its second century, Wonderlandscape allows us to reflect on the values and heritage that Yellowstone alone has come to represent - how it will shape the America's relationship with her land for generations to come....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jimmy Carter
    • Narrateur(s): Jimmy Carter, Boyd Gaines
    • Durée: 23 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter - filled with insights into his presidency....

    Prix courant: 44,99$ 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....

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    • Auteur(s): Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 16 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s 12 years as manager of the New York Yankees. Joe Torre is the most successful - and most respected - baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships....

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    • Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback
    • Auteur(s): Mark Dent, Rustin Dodd
    • Narrateur(s): Kemet Coleman
    • Durée: 10 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd bring their deep connection to the city and football expertise to create a book about an entertaining subject—the rebirth of a city, a team’s triumph, and how Patrick Mahomes, and the team he led, were exactly what was needed to bring Kansas City back together again....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrateur(s): Channie Waites
    • Durée: 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
    • Auteur(s): Ronald C. White
    • Narrateur(s): Ronald C. White
    • Durée: 14 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Narrateur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Durée: 17 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • An important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today....

    Prix courant: 32,05$ ou 1 crédit

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