American History Biographies

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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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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
    • Narrateur(s): Katherine Kellgren
    • Durée: 3 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to obtain a medical degree....

    Prix courant: 18,51$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

    • 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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    • Auteur(s): John F. Kennedy
    • Narrateur(s): John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy
    • Durée: 3 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition....

    Prix courant: 18,64$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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: 10,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 10,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
    • Auteur(s): Robert Whiting
    • Narrateur(s): Oliver Wyman
    • Durée: 12 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
    • Auteur(s): Lindsay M. Chervinsky
    • Narrateur(s): Lindsay M. Chervinsky
    • Durée: 14 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An authoritative account of the second president of the United States, Making The Presidency shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.

    Prix courant: 35,34$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America in the King Years 1954-63
    • Auteur(s): Taylor Branch
    • Narrateur(s): Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 45 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement....

    Prix courant: 49,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
    • Auteur(s): Grace Elizabeth Hale, John Grisham - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Nicole Swanson, Matt Godfrey
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the Greatest Prison Break in American History
    • Auteur(s): Michael Esslinger, David Widner
    • Narrateur(s): Dave Clark
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Under the cover of night on June 11, 1962, using only crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way out of Alcatraz....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
    • Auteur(s): Charles R. Morris
    • Narrateur(s): William Hughes
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-12-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 18 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • At five feet ten inches tall, running back Walter Payton was not the largest player in the NFL, but he developed a larger-than-life reputation for his strength, speed, and grit....

    Prix courant: 32,27$ 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

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    • A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia
    • Auteur(s): George Elliott Clarke
    • Narrateur(s): George Elliott Clarke
    • Durée: 15 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Where Beauty Survived is a vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centered in Halifax, Nova Scotia....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit