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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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West Like Lightning
- The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
- De: Jim DeFelice
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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The thrilling narrative history of one of the most enduring icons of the American West, the Pony Express, from the number-one New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper - an exciting tale of daring young men pushing limits to the extremes across the vast, rugged, and unsettled American West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Picture of Wild West Life and the Pony
- De Pierre C. en 08-07-18
De: Jim DeFelice
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30,098
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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 Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition - starving, battered, and nearly naked - they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Parallels
- De Bruce McClenahan en 01-25-19
De: John F. Ross
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre
- De Mona en 11-04-20
De: Timothy Egan
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
- America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force. In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of towns to its north-northwest and the south-southeast were overcome by an enormous shaking that was compounded by the violent shocks of an earthquake, registering 8.25 on the Richter scale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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7 Hours and 45 minutes . . .
- De Tim en 12-09-05
De: Simon Winchester
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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The Race Underground
- Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
- De: Doug Most
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 154
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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers - Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City - pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative Cobbled Telling of an Important Story
- De Lynn en 05-21-14
De: Doug Most
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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Lasso the Wind
- Away to the New West
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator mispronounces everything
- De Catherine en 01-27-22
De: Timothy Egan
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Jungle of Stone
- The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
- De: William Carlsen
- Narrado por: Paul Michael Garcia
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unsung Explorers at the Heart of History
- De thomas en 01-10-17
De: William Carlsen
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Del Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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The paths of the great American robber barons were paved with riches, and though ordinary citizens paid for them, they also profited. Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Roy en 04-05-09
De: Les Standiford
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Jack London
- An American Life
- De: Earle Labor
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast - an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed best-selling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad I chose this
- De SherryH en 04-14-19
De: Earle Labor
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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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Frontier Grit
- The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
- De: Marianne Monson
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Discover the stories of 12 women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journeys. As a slave Clara watched helplessly as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter as a free woman six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver who ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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only ok
- De Jane Orr en 06-14-21
De: Marianne Monson
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Train
- Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
- De: Tom Zoellner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new audiobook he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid Trans-Siberian Railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic maglev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains. Zoellner examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The world history of trains up to the present
- De matthew en 03-06-14
De: Tom Zoellner
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Heaven’s Ditch
- God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
- De: Jack Kelly
- Narrado por: Andrew Reilly
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An under told story of the United States.
- De JayHey en 08-28-16
De: Jack Kelly
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre King and Queen of Malibu
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- Janna Wong Healy
- 08-04-20
Compelling Story about Malibu
An informative and entertaining history of the city of Malibu, California. It would be particularly compelling to those who live in Southern California (as I do). The author scrupulously offers little-known but critical details about how the tony beachside town got its start and offers compelling research into the fights and legal battles that beset Frederick and Mae Rindge as they tried to keep Malibu private, for use only by their family.
The narration was fine, easy to understand and well-spoken.
It's an engaging piece of nonfiction.
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- Trent Brady
- 02-01-22
Incredible.
I loved learned about the history of Malibu. Looking forward to becoming part of it. 🌟🌊
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- ian
- 09-09-16
Utterly fascinating
This is a great untold story. Malibu, Los Angeles, Cambridge MA, west Adams, and other things are explored in this book about two forgotten people who changed the face of Southern California. Great and kind of moving.
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- Kristen M.
- 03-24-16
Great book!!
Excellent historical narrative detailing the forgotten history of beautiful Malibu, California. At the same time a poignant tale of the battle between a private landowner and the U.S. Government. A 'must read' for anyone who lives in or loves Malibu!
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- B. Michel
- 03-09-20
Awesome Read about History of Malibu
As a past resident in the late 60's and early '70s, it was great to understand and know the history of Malibu. This book clearly outlays the story of the Rindge family and their impact in that beautiful area. Great story and a well worth your time read.
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- Monte
- 01-27-18
Interesting history of Malibu
I enjoyed the book and very much enjoyed learning the history of Malibu. I specially like the way we got to learn about things through the eyes of different people and throughout the course of history. It was interesting to see how Los Angeles and surrounding areas developed and why
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- Mike R Morgan
- 03-23-23
Fascinating story!
This was a very interesting story. Well researched and well told. I am happy that I purchased and listened to it.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-25-23
Great Listen!
Read the book now revisited with the audio listen and what a great Los Angeles story. As a surfer from the area, a must read / listen. Highly recommended!
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