American History Biographies

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    • Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
    • Auteur(s): Jamie Smith
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Gurner
    • Durée: 15 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • In this unprecedented audiobook, a paramilitary contractor with more than two decades of experience gives us a firsthand look into the secret lives of America's private warriors....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • Auteur(s): Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Anna Perrin
    • Durée: 11 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart
    • Auteur(s): Jeffry D. Wert
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 17 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Mortally wounded in battle when he was only 31, the dashing J. E. B. Stuart, the South's "plumed warrior knight", stands as one of the Confederacy's most revered martyrs....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • Auteur(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

    Prix courant: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

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    • American Liberator
    • Auteur(s): Marie Arana
    • Narrateur(s): David Crommett
    • Durée: 20 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • The definitive English-language biography of Simón Bolívar, the, "George Washington of South America," who remains strangely unknown in the United States....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
    • Auteur(s): Jon Krakauer
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 13 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 évaluations
    • Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army....

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    • Prophet of Freedom
    • Auteur(s): David W. Blight
    • Narrateur(s): Prentice Onayemi
    • Durée: 36 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....

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    • How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
    • Auteur(s): John Eisenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Thomas May
    • Durée: 11 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America....

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    • The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
    • Auteur(s): Dan Charnas, Jeff Peretz - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Charnas
    • Durée: 14 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 évaluations
    • He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He died at the age of 32, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit....

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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
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    • 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....

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    • Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
    • Auteur(s): Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 29 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War....

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    • John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
    • Auteur(s): Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 17 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon....

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    • Auteur(s): Andrew Porwancher
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 6 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish....

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • Auteur(s): T.J. Stiles
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 28 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

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    • An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
    • Auteur(s): Adam Makos
    • Narrateur(s): Johnathan McClain
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 évaluations
    • From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy....

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    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 évaluations
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Ilyon Woo
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 12 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history.

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    • Lessons I Learned from My Family
    • Auteur(s): Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 15 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today....

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    • A History of the American Mafia
    • Auteur(s): Louis Ferrante
    • Narrateur(s): Louis Ferrante
    • Durée: 12 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Historians have previously glazed over the Mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores....

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