American History Biographies

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    • Lincoln's Vital Rival
    • Auteur(s): Walter Stahr
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 27 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades....

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    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • Auteur(s): Adam Makos
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
    • Durée: 14 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
    • Auteur(s): Steve Inskeep
    • Narrateur(s): Steve Inskeep
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present.

    Prix courant: 26,22$ 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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    • 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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    • The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
    • Auteur(s): David S. Reynolds
    • Narrateur(s): P.J. Ochlan
    • Durée: 25 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history....

    Prix courant: 37,88$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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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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    • 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....

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    • The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp
    • Auteur(s): Travis Atria
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 8 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Better Days Will Come Again, based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an entirely original tale of survival....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
    • Auteur(s): Darrin Lunde
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The surprising story of intrepid naturalist Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement....

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    • The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
    • Auteur(s): Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors. In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan....

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    • Ayn Rand and the American Right
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
    • Durée: 13 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-12-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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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    • The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
    • Auteur(s): Natalie Dykstra
    • Narrateur(s): Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Durée: 15 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Its Rise to Power
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Reppetto
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Costanzo
    • Durée: 12 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • American Mafia is a fascinating look at America's most compelling criminal subculture from an author who is intimately acquainted with both sides of the street....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ 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).

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    • From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II - One American Officer's Riveting True Story
    • Auteur(s): George Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Keeler
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • George Wilson has garnered much acclaim for this shattering and enlightening memoir....

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    • The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
    • Auteur(s): Tom Clavin
    • Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
    • Série: Frontier Lawmen
    • Durée: 8 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when Jack McCall famously put a bullet through his head during a card game. Best-selling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of Western lore to bring Hickock fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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