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Today, Lipton means tea. However, in his time, Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams. he built a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. And his colorful pursuit of the America's Cup trophy made him a beloved figure on both sides of the Atlantic.
In A Full Cup, Michael D'Antonio tells the tale of this larger-than-life figure. Beginning with a journey across the United States just after the Civil War, Thomas J. Lipton developed the ambition and learned the business techniques that helped him create the first chain of grocery stores. Wealthy before age 30, he set his sights on the tea trade, and soon his name became synonymous with the product.
Lipton's great business success makes for a compelling story of innovation and achievement. Moreover, though, Lipton's most intriguing creation was a public persona - one of the first formed with the help of a modern mass media - that appealed to millions of ordinary people, as well as the elites in America and Europe.
Concocting simple stunts like elephant parades, Lipton mastered the new art of obtaining free publicity. With shameless self-promotion, he became one of the world's most eligible bachelors and a patron of the poor, and he ultimately reached legendary heights when he revived the competition for the America's Cup. With one losing attempt after another, the gallant Lipton, who didn't even know how to sail his own yacht, became ever more popular. D'Antonio's biography brings to vivid life this remarkable figure.
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When the United States was young, importing luxury goods from China was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business - one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market. Barons of the Sea tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lost at sea
- De Steve en 07-24-18
De: Steven Ujifusa
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A Man and His Ship
- America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
- De: Steven Ujifusa
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the S.S. United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when "made in America" meant the best.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good read and lots of great history on naval engineering history in the 20th century
- De Amzbuyer en 01-03-24
De: Steven Ujifusa
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Eiffel's Tower
- And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris
- De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Reminiscent of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, this fascinating account from acclaimed author Jill Jonnes recaptures the 1889 Paris World's Fair. Casting vehement criticism aside, Gustave Eiffel built his tower to be the fair's centerpiece. Perched at the top all summer, he hosted a string of dignitaries.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just read the first half
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Dr. Jill Jonnes
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- De: Michael D'Antonio
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Benchmark for Chartiable, Rich Men
- De Boyd Tschaggeny en 01-30-19
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Supreme City
- How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Frangione Jim
- Duración: 29 h y 39 m
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In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age. Radio, tabloid newspapers, and movies with sound appeared. The silver screen took over Times Square as Broadway became America's movie mecca. Tremendous new skyscrapers were built in Midtown in one of the greatest building booms in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the background to the NYC we now live in
- De Marcie en 03-05-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rich Read!
- De D en 09-18-03
De: Erik Larson
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The President and the Assassin
- McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
- De: Scott Miller
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Ideal History Book for the Audio Format
- De Nelson Alexander en 09-30-11
De: Scott Miller
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Eighty Days
- Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
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On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who knew?
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 03-18-13
De: Matthew Goodman
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Hong Kong
- De: Jan Morris
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. Through firsthand reportage, world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris takes us through the crowded streets of this enigmatic city, offering the most insightful and comprehensive study of Hong Kong thus far. She reviews Hong Kong’s early days as a British opium port controlled by pirates, cutthroats, and scoundrel tycoons, and looks ahead to the city’s future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An interesting but mild disappointment
- De Jeanette Finan en 06-11-14
De: Jan Morris
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 31 h y 36 m
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The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No Stone Unturned
- De Tim en 06-25-13
De: David McCullough
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Conquering Gotham
- The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
- De: Jill Jonnes
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats: the construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. Now, in this gripping narrative, Jill Jonnes tells this fascinating story - a high-stakes drama that pitted the money and will of the nation's mightiest railroad against the corruption of Tammany Hall, the unruly forces of nature, and the machinations of labor agitators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good tale of the times
- De Edouard en 02-08-08
De: Jill Jonnes
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Breaking Rockefeller
- The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
- De: Peter B. Doran
- Narrado por: Peter B. Doran
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889 John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the US government is wary of challenging the great "anaconda" of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses - that is, until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tale of business, cultures, dances as it teaches
- De Philo en 05-25-16
De: Peter B. Doran
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One Summer
- America, 1927
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Bill Bryson
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country - a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge). It was the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things and came of age in a big, brawling manner. What a country. What a summer. And what a writer to bring it all so vividly alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why 1927?
- De Mark en 10-18-13
De: Bill Bryson
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Thunderstruck
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Bob Balaban
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication. Their lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Reader cannot read
- De Bob en 12-08-07
De: Erik Larson
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Fordlandia
- The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
- De: Greg Grandin
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eye-opening account of an arrogant man's folly
- De Melissa en 09-17-13
De: Greg Grandin
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Voyagers of the Titanic
- Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
- De: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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Late in the night of April 14, 1912, the mighty Titanic, a passenger liner traveling from Southampton, England, to New York City, struck an iceberg four hundred miles south of Newfoundland. Its sinking over the next two and a half hours brought the ship—mythological in name and size—100 years of infamy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thorough, panoramic
- De Tad Davis en 04-10-12
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The Black Russian
- De: Vladimir Alexandrov
- Narrado por: Peter Marinker
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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The Black Russian is the incredible story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. After leaving the South and working as a waiter and valet in Chicago and Brooklyn, Frederick sought greater freedom in London, then crisscrossed Europe, and - in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time - went to Russia in 1899. Because he found no color line there, Frederick made Moscow his home. He renamed himself Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas, married twice, acquired a mistress, and took Russian citizenship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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US Born African Descendant 2 Russian Citizenship
- De Sheila Gibson en 03-14-15
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When America First Met China
- An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: A. T. Chandler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior book! Excellent read!
- De melissa c. en 01-28-23
De: Eric Jay Dolin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Full Cup
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- Mark
- 02-13-12
Who knew?
Would you listen to A Full Cup again? Why?
Sir Thomas Lipton was a fascinating character! I work in Newport, RI where the Cup races were held for decades, so this may have added to the enjoyment of this book. I had never heard of Sir Lipton's tremendous rise to riches before reading this autobiography. A true Rags to Riches story. I also happen to love tea! Well written, well read.
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- Thomas P.
- 10-13-20
An excellent account of a life well lived.
An amazing story of an amazing man who rose from rags to riches. A fascinating story of good sportsmanship and morality.
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- Edie Felix
- 01-23-15
Great history lesson
More than just a story about the America's Cup race. A rich story about the growth of commerce in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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- 08-12-18
Too bad
Great story. It’s just a shame that the author had to create the idea that Sir Lipton May have been gay with no real evidence to support the notion. Even if he was, why taint his reputation? What difference, other than promoting homosexuality, would it make?
Homosexuality, albeit wrong regardless of era, was a very serious offense during Lipton’s time therefore I feel that the author’s opinion could and should have been omitted.
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