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Mayday 1971
- A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington
They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it.
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Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived.
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Surrounded by Enemies
- What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?
- De: Bryce Zabel
- Narrado por: Edd Hall
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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If President John Kennedy had survived the ambush at Dealey Plaza in Dallas a half-century ago, what other twists might history have taken? In his meticulously researched novel, Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas, author Bryce Zabel delivers a supercharged but plausible alternative narrative of the turbulent 1960s after our charismatic president escapes unscathed on November 22, 1963.
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Makes a classic "alternate history" mistake
- De Norman en 11-16-14
De: Bryce Zabel
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Dewey Defeats Truman
- The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.
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Excellent account of the 1948 election
- De A. Crystal en 07-15-20
De: A. J. Baime
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31 Days
- The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today
- De: Barry Werth
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes listeners inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president", Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon's increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within the White House and the Republican Party, Nixon's resignation produced new fissures and battle lines and new opportunities for political advancement.
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The politics of 1974
- De D. Littman en 11-27-06
De: Barry Werth
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The Glory and the Dream
- A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
- De: William Manchester
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 57 h y 23 m
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This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the lively arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti...everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.
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Fabulous book, good narration, bad recording
- De Paula en 07-10-08
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Killing a King
- The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- De: Dan Ephron
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace - and the other plotted murder.
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Tragic history well presented.
- De Mmday en 02-28-16
De: Dan Ephron
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Pillar of Fire
- America in the King Years, 1963-65
- De: Taylor Branch
- Narrado por: Joe Morton, C.C.H. Pounder
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. Beginning with the Nation of Islam and conflict over racial separatism, Pillar of Fire takes the listener to Mississippi and Alabama: Birmingham, the murder of Medgar Evers, the "March on Washington," the Civil Rights Act, and more.
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the audio does not match with the book
- De Katie en 10-09-14
De: Taylor Branch
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City of Scoundrels
- The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World". But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city’s highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in the first place.
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Great History of a Great City
- De Cookie en 08-30-12
De: Gary Krist
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Parting the Waters
- America in the King Years 1954-63
- De: Taylor Branch
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 45 h y 10 m
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
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Excellent
- De Judith Princz en 05-15-19
De: Taylor Branch
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h
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Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.
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mind blowing
- De WILLIAM en 11-27-19
De: Howard Zinn
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Waging a Good War
- A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- De: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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Thomas E. Ricks offers an utterly new perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution—the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s—and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone, but through recruiting, training, discipline, and organization—the hallmarks of any successful military campaign.
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I was born and raised in Alabama. Jim Crow Era.
- De Moses Pitts en 10-06-22
De: Thomas E. Ricks
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The Man Without a Face
- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world.
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A Preview of Authoritarianism in the USA
- De Jimmy O en 06-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- De: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrado por: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed. For the first time, Erdogan Rising tells the inside story of how a democracy on the fringe of Europe has succumbed to dictatorship. Hannah Lucinda Smith, Turkey correspondent with The Times of London, has witnessed all that has befallen Turkey and the wider region since the onset of the Arab Spring.
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Overall fascinating profile of Erdogan’s Turkey
- De Saul M en 09-18-20
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Nixon's White House Wars
- The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
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From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency.
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Interesting
- De Jean en 06-15-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mayday 1971
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- Carolyn from Santa Cruz
- 12-31-20
Untold story of the Vietnam War era, told well
The definitive account of the largest mass arrest in American history. Not only has Lawrence Roberts uncovered lots of incredible episodes - like the extreme measures taken by the Nixon White House to squash the demonstrations - but he's written it like a political thriller. The narrator does a superb job, telling the story with energy. His imitation of Nixon's voice is spot on. Highly recommended.
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- Tim Butz
- 01-24-21
A great historical narrative
Though this historical accounting takes place in 1971, it holds valuable lessons for our current times. This is not a dry presentation of history, but a well written and narrated account of an important and under-reported piece of recent American history.
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