American History Biographies

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • Auteur(s): Charles Murray
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Morris
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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    • In the Service of My Country: A Life
    • Auteur(s): James Lee McDonough
    • Narrateur(s): David Drummond
    • Durée: 28 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal....

    Prix courant: 31,73$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • Auteur(s): David Grann
    • Narrateur(s): Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
    • Durée: 9 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 évaluations
    • In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
    • Auteur(s): John Mack Faragher
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parker
    • Durée: 12 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-12-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • Award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero while illuminating the American hero-making process itself....

    Prix courant: 30,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Walter Isaacson
    • Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
    • Durée: 24 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 évaluations
    • Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

    Prix courant: 39,09$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
    • Auteur(s): Jim McLamore
    • Narrateur(s): BJ Harrison
    • Durée: 11 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A rags-to-$9-billion-riches story. A crash course in Burger King history and fast food in America, The Burger King is McLamore's candid and conversational memoir. Written before his death in 1996, he talks of his life, the birth of the Whopper, and the rise of Burger King....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar
    • Narrateur(s): John Pruden
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Sweeping from frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets, and everything in between, this is the gripping and deeply personal account of an elite Ranger who nearly lost his life "leading the way" in America's secretive global wars....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
    • Auteur(s): Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
    • Durée: 10 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • An intimate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, arguably the most interesting figure to emerge from the Civil War - widely admired as a military genius....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • By Any Means Necessary
    • Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Allen
    • Durée: 4 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • As a 14-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. . At 19, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): John Temple
    • Narrateur(s): Charlie Thurston
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Soldier, Realist, American
    • Auteur(s): B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 17 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A biography of William T. Sherman by the military theorist and author of Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
    • Auteur(s): Hans Massaquoi
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Durée: 19 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
    • Auteur(s): James Campion
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Borne
    • Durée: 16 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Shout It Out Loud is a serious examination of the circumstance and serendipity that fused the creation of the band's seminal work, Destroyer....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Family
    • Auteur(s): Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrateur(s): Karen White
    • Durée: 30 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
    • Auteur(s): Ted Gioia
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Abernathy
    • Durée: 17 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Tracing the history of the Delta blues from the field hollers and plantation music of the 19th century to the exploits of modern-day musicians in the Delta tradition, Delta Blues tells the full story of this timeless and unforgettable music....

    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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    • The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
    • Auteur(s): Colin G. Calloway
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 23 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Colin Calloway's biography offers a fresh portrait of the most-revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told. It invites us to look again at the history of America's beginnings and see the country in a whole new light....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • Auteur(s): Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 2 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Durée: 28 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit