Local History

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    • The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
    • Auteur(s): Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 16 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Author Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs....

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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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    • 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 28 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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    • The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
    • Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
    • Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
    • Durée: 14 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
    • Auteur(s): William McKeown
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Dunsworth
    • Durée: 7 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ 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'....

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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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    • The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
    • Auteur(s): Ian Frazier
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 20 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.

    Prix courant: 41,22$ 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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    • 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....

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    • The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
    • Auteur(s): Sean Flynn
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Walker
    • Durée: 4 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department....

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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 True Story of the South Canyon Fire
    • Auteur(s): John N. MacLean
    • Narrateur(s): John N. MacLean
    • Durée: 6 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2000-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded...

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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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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Feldman
    • Narrateur(s): Deborah Feldman
    • Série: Unorthodox, Livre 2
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • In 2009, at the age of 23, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of the United States
    • Auteur(s): Jill Lepore
    • Narrateur(s): Jill Lepore
    • Durée: 29 h
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee
    • Auteur(s): Katherine J. Ballantyne
    • Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Wiley
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
    • Auteur(s): Nelson Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Mantegna, Terence Winter (foreword)
    • Durée: 11 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
    • Auteur(s): Arnold R. Hirsch
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation....

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