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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton Folsom, Jr., exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a vendetta against the business elite, Roosevelt created New Deal programs marked by inconsistent planning, wasteful spending, and opportunity for political gain---ultimately elevating public opinion of his administration but falling flat in achieving the economic revitalization that America needed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen!
- De Book and Movie Lover en 06-14-09
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The New Deal
- A Modern History
- De: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus.
In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Excellent New Deal History
- De R.S. en 12-19-11
De: Michael Hiltzik
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FDR's Folly
- How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
- De: Jim Powell
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 319
In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Scones for the Tea Party
- De Chiefkent en 06-11-12
De: Jim Powell
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All the Presidents' Bankers
- The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
- De: Nomi Prins
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 19 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Nomi Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how financiers have retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You better like history about the elite and rich
- De Victor en 01-12-15
De: Nomi Prins
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
In Great Society, Shlaes offers a powerful companion to her legendary history of the 1930s, The Forgotten Man, and shows that in fact there was scant difference between two presidents we consider opposites: Johnson and Nixon. Just as technocratic military planning by "the Best and the Brightest" made failure in Vietnam inevitable, so planning by a team of the domestic best and brightest guaranteed fiasco at home. At once history and biography, Great Society sketches moving portraits of the characters in this transformative period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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Superpower Showdown
- How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
- De: Bob Davis, Lingling Wei
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision-makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring. Waste of Time.
- De DING MING YING 丁明英 en 11-23-20
De: Bob Davis, y otros
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Private Empire
- ExxonMobil and American Power
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 24 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 753
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 625
Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s sway over politics and security is greater than that of the United States embassy. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the White House than almost any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence, it is a black box.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please no more accents!
- De Zak en 07-24-12
De: Steve Coll
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JFK and the Reagan Revolution
- A Secret History of American Prosperity
- De: Lawrence Kudlow, Brian Domitrovic
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Who invented supply-side economics - the idea that cutting tax rates can result in more growth, more prosperity at all income levels, and even more tax revenue flowing into the IRS? Most people would credit the economic team that advised Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But in fact supply-side economics came of age two decades earlier. And the first president who embraced it was one of the biggest icons of the Democratic Party - John F. Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Turn the speed up to 1 1/2 to 2 times
- De B. MIDDLETON en 09-15-16
De: Lawrence Kudlow, y otros
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Donald J. Trump
- A President like No Other
- De: Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson - foreword
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 268
Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the most provocative political books you are likely to listen to this year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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45th President of the United States of America
- De JEYCEE en 05-16-18
De: Conrad Black, y otros
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America's Bank
- The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
- De: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 353
A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in its financial system.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important and Intriguing
- De Jean en 11-02-15
De: Roger Lowenstein
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Herbert Hoover
- A Life
- De: Glen Jeansonne
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 229
Prize-winning historian Glen Jeansonne delves into the life of our most misunderstood president, offering up a surprising new portrait of Herbert Hoover - dismissing previous assumptions and revealing a political Progressive in the mold of Theodore Roosevelt and the most resourceful American since Benjamin Franklin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking
- De Jean en 10-26-16
De: Glen Jeansonne
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 706
It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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To Make Men Free
- A History of the Republican Party
- De: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 145
Acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Republican Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession. While progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln’s vision and expanded the government, their opponents appealed to Americans’ latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. In the modern era, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating read!
- De Marsha en 12-27-21
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The Deep State
- The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
- De: Mike Lofgren
- Narrado por: Brian O'Neill
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 339
Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign season, the politicians we elect have as little ability to shift policy as Communist party apparatchiks. Welcome to Mike Lofgren's Washington, DC - a This Town where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost good, but profoundly misunderstands economics and very biased towards Democrats
- De Nina Prevot en 04-08-16
De: Mike Lofgren
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The Year of Peril
- America in 1942
- De: Tracy Campbell
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning to splinter from within. Exploring this precarious moment, Campbell paints a portrait of the deep social, economic, and political fault lines that pitted factions of citizens against each other in the post-Pearl Harbor era....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De David S. en 06-08-20
De: Tracy Campbell
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The Party Is Over
- How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
- De: Mike Lofgren
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk - they are zombies, a party of the living dead. Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties - those halcyon, post-Nixonian glory days - for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great Analysis
- De Dan D en 09-04-12
De: Mike Lofgren
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The Trump Century
- How Our President Changed the Course of History Forever
- De: Lou Dobbs
- Narrado por: Lou Dobbs
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 114
In The Trump Century, the indomitable Lou Dobbs explains how Trump has steered the debate every day he has been in politics, greatly expanding what Washington thinks is possible. By 2016, the globalist elites demanded no one speak about limiting illegal immigration or securing our borders. The elites told you communist China would soon be like us, and the PC orthodoxy told you what you could or could not say. You were told America’s Middle Class could never grow again and wages would be stagnant into perpetuity. Trump reversed all of that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A dose of honest reality in the era of fake news.
- De Bobby K. Daugherty en 09-23-20
De: Lou Dobbs
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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous 1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery.
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Luther Standing Bear was seemingly everywhere in the course of his extraordinary life. He met Chief Crazy Horse on the eve of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was enrolled in the first class at the government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School, witnessed the Ghost Dance movement, toured the US and Europe with showman Buffalo Bill, and devoted his later years to Indian rights. His firsthand accounts of those experiences—and his reflections on Sioux culture, customs, and traditions—combine to make this narrative a landmark of Native American literature.
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The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out in the middle of the Pacific, teemed with five hundred pillboxes filled with artillery pieces and highly motivated Japanese soldiers. Their commanding officer encouraged his troops, saying, “It would take one million men one hundred years” to conquer Tarawa. They were convinced that the Americans would be slaughtered before they ever got ashore.
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War Is Hell
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Now here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited audiobook about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs, and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the teachers
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It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades, yet it is something else that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer whose name alone is enough to make them tremble with fear. The Quaker has killed another victim, snatching a young woman from a nightclub and dumping her body like trash in the back of a cold-water tenement. He leaves no clues, and the investigation has led police down one blind alley after another.
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A Great Listen!
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him - only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. Harold and Lois Jurgens, a middle-class, churchgoing couple in picturesque White Bear Lake, Minnesota, had adopted Dennis and five other foster children. To all appearances, they were a normal Midwestern family, but Jerry suspected that something sinister had happened in the Jurgens household. She demanded to know the truth about her son's death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really, really good book.
- De Danette en 12-23-20
De: Barry Siegel