Local History

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    • Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
    • Auteur(s): Walter Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself....

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    • Auteur(s): Fran Lebowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Fran Lebowitz
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Trade Politics in America
    • Auteur(s): C. Donald Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): David Stifel
    • Durée: 27 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    • Auteur(s): Chalmers Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
    • Durée: 11 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....

    Prix courant: 21,16$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
    • Auteur(s): Lee H. Whittlesey
    • Narrateur(s): Jim Seybert
    • Durée: 14 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years.

    Prix courant: 18,69$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Sammye J. Meadows, Jana Prewitt
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Abernathy
    • Durée: 14 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group's journals and maps and more....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • Auteur(s): Nick Estes
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
    • Auteur(s): S. M. Barrett
    • Narrateur(s): Pat Bottino
    • Durée: 3 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Here is one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history: the authentic testament of a remarkable "war shaman"....

    Prix courant: 12,07$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of New York City to 1898
    • Auteur(s): Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Série: Gotham, Livre 1
    • Durée: 67 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Chicago and the Great West
    • Auteur(s): William Cronon
    • Narrateur(s): Jonah Cummings
    • Durée: 18 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of a Fire
    • Auteur(s): David Cowan, John Kuenster
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago more than 50 years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • Auteur(s): David McCullough
    • Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
    • Durée: 27 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

    Prix courant: 38,84$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
    • Auteur(s): Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
    • Durée: 10 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

    Prix courant: 48,03$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 14 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • The United States Football League was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL but also to cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, featured as many as 18 teams, secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans, and launched the careers of legends....

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    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • Auteur(s): Mike Royko
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 7 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Kyle Longley
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
    • Durée: 11 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales. In the US, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President LBJ. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrateur(s): Norman Dietz
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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