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The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him.
August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre. Two of the plays became successful films, Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Fences won the Tony Award for Best Play, and years after Wilson’s death in 2005, Jitney earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
Through his brilliant use of vernacular speech, Wilson developed unforgettable characters who epitomized the trials and triumphs of the African American experience. He said that he didn’t research his plays but wrote from “the blood’s memory,” a sense of racial history that he believed African Americans shared. Author and theater critic Patti Hartigan traced his ancestry back to slavery, and his plays echo with uncanny similarities to the history of his ancestors. She interviewed Wilson many times before his death and traces his life from his childhood in Pittsburgh (where nine of the plays take place) to Broadway. She also interviewed scores of friends, theater colleagues and family members, and conducted extensive research to tell the story of a writer who left an indelible imprint on American theater and opened the door for future playwrights of color.
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Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much new here
- De Lucy D en 06-21-23
De: Michael Smith
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A First-Rate Madness
- Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
- De: S. Nassir Ghaemi
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent read.
- De TvK en 07-12-24
De: S. Nassir Ghaemi
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The Confidence Men
- How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
- De: Margalit Fox
- Narrado por: Richard Elfyn
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day, an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby?
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5 out of 5 stars
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home run as usual
- De thaichicken en 01-17-23
De: Margalit Fox
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A Light in the Dark
- A History of Movie Directors
- De: David Thomson
- Narrado por: David Thomson
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Directors operate behind the scenes managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions onscreen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production - to say nothing of their having marshaled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking read on great filmmakers
- De Boxing Fan en 06-17-23
De: David Thomson
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
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2020
- One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
- De: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller, Eric Klinenberg
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. This riveting and affecting book is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers—including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide—whose experiences illuminate how Americans, and people across the globe, reckoned with 2020.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Does this reflect 2020 to me?
- De Donald Bullard en 05-26-24
De: Eric Klinenberg
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Madam
- The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
- De: Debby Applegate
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 20 h y 25 m
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Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring '20s became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld - and had a good time doing it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story of 20 through the eyes of a madam
- De HMY en 12-12-21
De: Debby Applegate
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Showdown
- Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
- De: Wil Haygood
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
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Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past 100 years.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Haygood is master of the ticktock narrative
- De Jean en 12-12-15
De: Wil Haygood
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Veritas
- A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife”. The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”, had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Dorothy en 08-23-20
De: Ariel Sabar
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- De: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd - editor
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis, Alice Walker, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 22 h y 28 m
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From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read for any creative artist!!
- De amazonluver en 04-30-22
De: Alice Walker, y otros
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Boom Town
- The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
- De: Sam Anderson
- Narrado por: Sam Anderson
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsize ambitions and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OKC’s Past & Present Weaved Together
- De dan en 09-09-18
De: Sam Anderson
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Accidental Presidents
- Eight Men Who Changed America
- De: Jared Cohen
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
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The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE LOVE LOVE this book
- De Samuel Stephen Ross en 05-03-19
De: Jared Cohen
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Differ We Must
- How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
- De: Steve Inskeep
- Narrado por: Steve Inskeep
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyer Abraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a Kentucky slaveowner. Lincoln rebuked his friend for failing to oppose slavery. But he added: “If for this you and I must differ, differ we must,” and said they would be friends forever. Throughout his life and political career, Lincoln often agreed to disagree.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The excellent level of detail, both in the written and spoken language of Lincoln and his associates.
- De Amazon Customer en 01-23-24
De: Steve Inskeep
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My Life on the Road
- De: Gloria Steinem
- Narrado por: Debra Winger, Gloria Steinem
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Gloria Steinem - writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world - now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. She reveals the story of her own growth in tandem with the growth of an ongoing movement for equality. This is the story at the heart of My Life on the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Completely Changed Me
- De Angel Adams en 11-05-15
De: Gloria Steinem
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Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- De: Luke Barr
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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In early August 1889, César Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come at the request of Richard D'Oyly Carte, the financier of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had modernized theater and was now looking to create the world's best hotel. D'Oyly Carte soon seduced Ritz to move to London with his team, which included Auguste Escoffier, the chef de cuisine known for his elevated, original dishes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like Cesar Ritz, a real dandy
- De BenYL en 04-24-18
De: Luke Barr
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The Last Palace
- Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
- De: Norman Eisen
- Narrado por: Jeff Goldblum
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book despite goldblum’s narration
- De Fernando Ferrante en 01-19-19
De: Norman Eisen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre August Wilson
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- Nykki L. Starr
- 01-24-24
Truly inspiring...
Very informative, loaded with insight and nuances that make you appreciate this amazing Artist even more! August Wilson was truly a blessing, and with out him, many of us might have never found our song...
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- Bmac
- 04-02-24
An icon
Amazingly researched , amazing narration, such ambitious and creative life. August Wilson’s plays will live on and it’s great finding out the gnome about the genius behind them .
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-24
Written by a White writer and it shows
Well read but too much of same stories. Obviously written by White privileged person. Even code switching did not work. Wonder about truth of Black community. Too bad since Mr. Wilson was so very talented to bring his community to all.
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