-
The Hamilton Scheme
- An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
- Narrado por: William Hogeland
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Compra ahora por US$20.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Resumen del Editor
Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements—as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.
Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamo—banking, public debt, manufacturing—for concentrating national wealth in the hands of a government-connected elite. Seeking American prosperity, he built American oligarchy. Hence his animus and mutual sense of betrayal with Jefferson and Madison—and his career-long fight to suppress a rowdy egalitarian movement little remembered today: the eighteenth-century white working class.
Marshaling an idiosyncratic cast of insiders and outsiders, vividly dramatizing backroom intrigues and literal street fights—and sharply dissenting from recent biographies—William Hogeland's The Hamilton Scheme brings to life Hamilton's vision and the struggles over democracy, wealth, and the meaning of America that drove the nation's creation and hold enduring significance today.
Más títulos del mismo
Relacionado con este tema
-
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
- De: Ramit Sethi
- Narrado por: Ramit Sethi
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances. This isn’t typical advice from a money expert. In this completely updated second edition, Ramit teaches you how to choose long-term investments and the right bank accounts. With his characteristic no-BS perspective, he shows how to squeeze every hidden benefit out of your credit cards.
-
-
Repetitive - should be retitled.
- De Truth en 06-20-19
De: Ramit Sethi
-
The Simple Path to Wealth
- Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- De: JL Collins
- Narrado por: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.
-
-
Misleading, heavily biased
- De Cody Peralta en 07-19-19
De: JL Collins
-
12 Months to $1 Million
- How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
- De: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Narrado por: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.
-
-
Good, but a Little Misleading
- De Chris Love en 11-28-20
-
The Creature from Jekyll Island
- A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- De: G. Edward Griffin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This classic expose of the Fed has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story - which it really is, but it's all true.
-
-
Lost confidence in author
- De Amazon Customer en 07-11-20
-
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- De: MJ DeMarco
- Narrado por: MJ DeMarco
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Since you were old enough to hold a job, you've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. I call this soul-sucking, dream-stealing dogma "The Slowlane" - an impotent financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less", there is an alternative.
-
-
Excellent!
- De Iray007 en 09-22-15
De: MJ DeMarco
-
Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire
- De: Rachel Rodgers
- Narrado por: Rachel Rodgers
- Duración: 2 h
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Plan Like a Millionaire is part of a riveting three-part series, and it's all about elevating your game and setting goals like a seven-figure earner. In this wealth-inspiring listening journey, Rachel reveals the secrets of how to set goals, manage time wisely, build essential support systems, break free from financial constraints, and make savvy money decisions.
-
-
Feel Good Book, only
- De Maggie en 01-06-24
De: Rachel Rodgers
-
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
- No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works (Second Edition)
- De: Ramit Sethi
- Narrado por: Ramit Sethi
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Buy as many lattes as you want. Spend extravagantly on the things you love. Live your rich life instead of tracking every last expense with Ramit Sethi’s simple, powerful, and effective six-week program for gaining control over your finances. This isn’t typical advice from a money expert. In this completely updated second edition, Ramit teaches you how to choose long-term investments and the right bank accounts. With his characteristic no-BS perspective, he shows how to squeeze every hidden benefit out of your credit cards.
-
-
Repetitive - should be retitled.
- De Truth en 06-20-19
De: Ramit Sethi
-
The Simple Path to Wealth
- Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- De: JL Collins
- Narrado por: JL Collins, Peter Adeney
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.
-
-
Misleading, heavily biased
- De Cody Peralta en 07-19-19
De: JL Collins
-
12 Months to $1 Million
- How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
- De: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Narrado por: Ryan Daniel Moran
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.
-
-
Good, but a Little Misleading
- De Chris Love en 11-28-20
-
The Creature from Jekyll Island
- A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
- De: G. Edward Griffin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This classic expose of the Fed has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story - which it really is, but it's all true.
-
-
Lost confidence in author
- De Amazon Customer en 07-11-20
-
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- De: MJ DeMarco
- Narrado por: MJ DeMarco
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Since you were old enough to hold a job, you've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. I call this soul-sucking, dream-stealing dogma "The Slowlane" - an impotent financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less", there is an alternative.
-
-
Excellent!
- De Iray007 en 09-22-15
De: MJ DeMarco
-
Plan Your Year Like a Millionaire
- De: Rachel Rodgers
- Narrado por: Rachel Rodgers
- Duración: 2 h
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Plan Like a Millionaire is part of a riveting three-part series, and it's all about elevating your game and setting goals like a seven-figure earner. In this wealth-inspiring listening journey, Rachel reveals the secrets of how to set goals, manage time wisely, build essential support systems, break free from financial constraints, and make savvy money decisions.
-
-
Feel Good Book, only
- De Maggie en 01-06-24
De: Rachel Rodgers
-
Million-Dollar Habits
- De: Rachel Rodgers
- Narrado por: Rachel Rodgers
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Rachel Rodgers, personal finance expert and author of the best-selling We Should All Be Millionaires, delivers yet again in her three-part Audible Originals series. In Million Dollar Habits, Rodgers puts forward the habits you would do well to adopt in order to generate wealth. And before she gets to those habits, she first encourages you to raise your financial goals.
-
-
good over all content but too Racist
- De Alicia en 04-27-24
De: Rachel Rodgers
-
Emotional Investment
- De: Fresh Produce Media
- Narrado por: Amanda Clayman
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Emotional Investment, therapist-turned-financial coach Amanda Clayman works with a range of people and couples to unravel money dilemmas. Along the way, Clayman gives us practical tools—both financial and emotional—that we can all use in our own lives.
-
-
So honest and engaging to hear people’s money stories.
- De Jc en 04-12-24
-
How to Day Trade for a Living
- A Beginner's Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology
- De: Andrew Aziz
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Very few careers can offer you the freedom, flexibility, and income that day trading does. As a day trader, you can live and work anywhere in the world. You can decide when to work and when not to work. You only answer to yourself. That is the life of the successful day trader. Many people aspire to it, but very few succeed. In the audiobook, I describe the fundamentals of day trading, explain how day trading is different from other styles of trading and investment, and elaborate on important trading strategies that many traders use every day.
-
-
Its a sales pitch
- De Xavier Foley en 02-08-18
De: Andrew Aziz
-
Six-Figure Side Hustle
- De: Rachel Rodgers
- Narrado por: Rachel Rodgers
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Rachel Rodgers, financial maven and heralded author of We Should All Be Millionaires, has created a groundbreaking new Audible Original series with Six Figure Side Hustle. In this installment of a dynamic three-part audio journey, Rachel unveils the blueprint for turning spare time into a $100,000-per-year side hustle in just three months.
-
-
Not For YOU!
- De S. Seigel en 03-02-24
De: Rachel Rodgers
-
The Skeptic's Guide to Investing
- De: Ramon DeGennaro, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Ramon DeGennaro
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Satisfy the financial skeptic in you with The Skeptic’s Guide to Investing, a six-lecture Audible Original where you’ll learn how financial markets operate so you can become a wiser, savvier, safer investor. Along with a deep look at the inner workings of these powerful markets, Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro offers a wealth of insight into investment strategies, whether you’re already a stockholder or thinking of investing for the first time.
-
-
diverse information
- De Matthew M. en 05-21-24
De: Ramon DeGennaro, y otros
-
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
- Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
- De: Allan Dib
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn’t get done.
-
-
You Need to buy Book to get key info
- De Rosie's mom en 10-23-18
De: Allan Dib
-
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, 10th Anniversary Edition
- De: John C. Bogle
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.
-
-
One star for every point this 5 hour book makes.
- De Matt en 01-31-19
De: John C. Bogle
-
The New Market Wizards
- Conversations with America's Top Traders
- De: Jack D. Schwager
- Narrado por: DJ Holte
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In The New Market Wizards, successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success. Asking questions that listeners with an interest or involvement in the financial markets would love to pose to the financial superstars, Jack D. Schwager encourages these financial wizards to share their insights. Entertaining, informative, and invaluable, The New Market Wizards is destined to become another Schwager classic.
-
-
Good insight, even for experienced traders
- De josh en 09-27-16
De: Jack D. Schwager
-
Invisible Women
- Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- De: Caroline Criado Perez
- Narrado por: Caroline Criado Perez
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women.
-
-
A statistical fire hose
- De B. Andresen en 09-11-19
-
Do Epic Shit
- De: Ankur Warikoo
- Narrado por: Ankur Warikoo
- Duración: 3 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Ankur Warikoo is an entrepreneur and content creator whose deep, witty, and brutally honest thoughts on success and failure, money and investing, self-awareness and personal relationships have made him one of India’s top personal brands. In his first book, Ankur puts together the key ideas that have fuelled his journey—one that began with him wanting to be a space engineer and ended with him creating content that has been seen and read and heard by millions. His thoughts range from the importance of creating habits for long-term success to the foundations of money management.
-
-
Epicly Sh*t
- De Anonymous User en 09-30-22
De: Ankur Warikoo
-
The Road Less Stupid
- De: Keith J. Cunningham
- Narrado por: Keith J. Cunningham
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Years ago, after suffering a humiliatingly large dumb tax, it dawned on me that I have a seemingly unlimited ability to hit unforced errors and sabotage my business and financial success. I suspect you do, too. It turns out that the key to getting rich (and staying that way) is to avoid doing stupid things. I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to make fewer dumb mistakes. The vast majority of our dumb tax is a direct result of emotional, overly optimistic, and poorly thought out decisions.
-
-
Couldn't finish it
- De Paul en 08-04-18
-
How to Outsmart the Credit Bureaus
- De: Corey P Smith
- Narrado por: Dave Wright
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
This book is full of unknown information that has never been released to the public. It contains detailed information about the credit bureaus and how their database operates. Anyone who has good or bad credit should listen to this book. This book takes an inside look at the tactics that can be used for individuals seeking to get ahead in life without the use of credit repair or debt consolidation companies. If you ever wanted to know about the secrets of the credit bureaus, I stress that you listen to this book.
-
-
helpful!!
- De Karen kennedy en 01-10-19
De: Corey P Smith
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Combee
- Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
- De: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 25 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants: Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats.
-
American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
De: Alan Taylor
-
Breaking the Mold
- India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity
- De: Raghuram G. Rajan, Rohit Lamba
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic.
De: Raghuram G. Rajan, y otros
-
Default
- The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
- De: Gregory Makoff, Lee C. Buchheit - foreword
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Default is the riveting story of Argentina's sovereign debt drama, which reveals the obscure inner workings of sovereign debt restructuring. This detailed case study describes the intense fight over the role of the IMF in Argentina's 2005 debt restructuring and the ensuing bitter decade of litigation with holdout creditors, demonstrating that outcomes for sovereign debt are determined by a complex interplay between financial markets, governments, the IMF, the press, and the courts.
De: Gregory Makoff, y otros
-
The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- De: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrado por: Austin Yang
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded US protection. The specter of conflict has loomed ever since.
-
Vanishing Act
- The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was not invincible. Their bold plan? Bomb Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s, known as the Doolittle Raiders, hit targets across Japan before escaping to China. The eighth plane, however, did not follow the other raiders. Instead, Plane 8's pilots, Captain Edward "Ski" York and Lieutenant Bob Emmens, never attacked Tokyo, but headed across Japan to the Soviet Union, supposedly due to low fuel.
De: Dan Hampton
-
Combee
- Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
- De: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black
- Narrado por: Machelle Williams
- Duración: 25 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants: Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats.
-
American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
De: Alan Taylor
-
Breaking the Mold
- India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity
- De: Raghuram G. Rajan, Rohit Lamba
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic.
De: Raghuram G. Rajan, y otros
-
Default
- The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
- De: Gregory Makoff, Lee C. Buchheit - foreword
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Default is the riveting story of Argentina's sovereign debt drama, which reveals the obscure inner workings of sovereign debt restructuring. This detailed case study describes the intense fight over the role of the IMF in Argentina's 2005 debt restructuring and the ensuing bitter decade of litigation with holdout creditors, demonstrating that outcomes for sovereign debt are determined by a complex interplay between financial markets, governments, the IMF, the press, and the courts.
De: Gregory Makoff, y otros
-
The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- De: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrado por: Austin Yang
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded US protection. The specter of conflict has loomed ever since.
-
Vanishing Act
- The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was not invincible. Their bold plan? Bomb Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s, known as the Doolittle Raiders, hit targets across Japan before escaping to China. The eighth plane, however, did not follow the other raiders. Instead, Plane 8's pilots, Captain Edward "Ski" York and Lieutenant Bob Emmens, never attacked Tokyo, but headed across Japan to the Soviet Union, supposedly due to low fuel.
De: Dan Hampton
-
Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Duración: 18 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler’s People, he brings us back to the original site of the Nazi movement: namely, the lives of its most important members. Working in concentric circles out from Hitler and his closest allies, Evans forms a typological framework of Germany society under Nazi rule from the top down.
De: Richard J. Evans
-
Throne of Grace
- A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
- De: Tom Clavin, Bob Drury
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse.
-
-
Great story and research; quit early on
- De G. Wayne Tilman en 05-23-24
De: Tom Clavin, y otros
-
Autumn of the Black Snake
- The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
- De: William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In 1783, with the signing of the Peace of Paris, the American Revolution was complete. And yet even as the newly independent United States secured peace with Great Britain, it found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. The enemy was the indigenous people of the Ohio Valley, who rightly saw the new nation as a threat to their existence.
-
-
HISS-story, Not History
- De N/A en 11-11-21
De: William Hogeland
-
Patton's Prayer
- A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
- De: Alex Kershaw
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. Patton seethed, desperate for some change, any change, in the weather.
-
-
Terrific listen
- De JP en 05-29-24
De: Alex Kershaw
-
The Whiskey Rebellion
- De: William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across the Appalachians. Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians, William Hogeland brings to startling life the rebellion that decisively contributed to the establishment of federal authority.
-
-
Great story and narration
- De Kismet en 08-12-06
De: William Hogeland
-
Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.
-
-
The Challenges of Human and Political Folly
- De Curious en 05-22-24
-
Kingfish
- The Reign of Huey P. Long
- De: Richard D. White Jr.
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Long did more good for the state’s poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary?
-
-
Intriguing and sobering
- De Larry L. Booker en 05-22-24
-
Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Duración: 15 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In 1925, hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the “trial of the century,” where a young schoolteacher named John T. Scopes was charged with teaching evolution to his biology class. Darwin’s theory that species evolved over time through natural selection was viewed as a threat to the nation. Two legendary attorneys, Clarence Darrow for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution, drew massive crowds in a trial that quickly became a circus-like media sensation—but it was much more than that.
De: Brenda Wineapple
-
The Midnight Kingdom
- A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
- De: Jared Yates Sexton
- Narrado por: Jared Yates Sexton
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
To fully understand these strange and dangerous times, Jared Yates Sexton takes a hard look at our nation’s history: namely, the abuses committed by those in power and the comforting stories that shaped the way the West has viewed itself up to the present. As reactionaries and authoritarians cling to myths about “Western civilization,” The Midnight Kingdom exposes how political power, religious indoctrination, and economic dominance have been repeatedly weaponized to oppress and exploit, sounding an alarm for what lies ahead as the current order frays.
-
-
Important read to prevent history from repeating itself
- De Jessica Janda en 03-06-23
-
The Code
- Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- De: Margaret O'Mara
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There, she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government - and always had been - and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was.
-
-
Mostly good, but also irrating
- De Rodney en 12-20-20
De: Margaret O'Mara
-
Targeted: Beirut
- The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
- De: Jack Carr, James M. Scott
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day.
De: Jack Carr, y otros
-
American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.
-
-
Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- De Peter Stephens en 11-16-16
De: Alan Taylor
¿Te gustan los libros? Te encantará Audible.
Transforma tu día
Cambia el scrolling interminable por la escucha interminable. Los quehaceres pueden ser divertidos.
Escucha en dónde sea
No puedes darle vuelta a la página mientras conduces, pero puedes escuchar
Lleva toda tu biblioteca contigo
Tus historias van a donde tú vayas. Los audiolibros viajan ligero.
Escucha y aprende
Descubre historias que pueden renovar tu mente, tu bienestar y tu vida.
Alcanza tus objetivos de lectura
Descarga títulos para escucharlos sin conexión, en cualquier parte del mundo.
Encuentra tu nicho
Con miles de títulos para explorar, hay algo para todos.