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....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ 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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    • 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: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring
    • Auteur(s): Paul Beston
    • Narrateur(s): Alexander Cendese
    • Durée: 13 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • The Boxing Kings tells the story of the heavyweight title in the days when it was a defining institution in the United States....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ 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

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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....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): Dick Gregory, Dr. Christian Gregory - introduction, Robert Lipsyte
    • Narrateur(s): Prentice Onayemi, Dr. Christian Gregory
    • Durée: 6 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Autopsy
    • Auteur(s): Charlie LeDuff
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Martin
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ 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....

    Prix courant: 8,90$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • Auteur(s): Jeanne Marie Laskas
    • Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber
    • Durée: 9 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for GQ that would go on to inspire the movie Concussion....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
    • Auteur(s): Christian B. Keller
    • Narrateur(s): David de Vries
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-12-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relationships among senior leaders responsible for organizational survival....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hager
    • Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
    • Durée: 6 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It
    • Auteur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Narrateur(s): Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality.

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American B-24 Pilot in World War II
    • Auteur(s): James M. Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Woods
    • Série: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
    • Durée: 5 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • James "Jim" Davis lived what he considered "an impossible dream" as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly 30 missions in the European Theatre during World War II....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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