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Required Reading
- De Ben Brafford en 08-30-20
De: Colin Woodard
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Song in a Weary Throat
- Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
- De: Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott - Introduction by
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 19 h y 44 m
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Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. Now Murray is finally getting long-deserved recognition: The first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name graces one of the university's new colleges.
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great American shero
- De Coisge F Mccullough en 04-13-24
De: Pauli Murray, y otros
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On Juneteenth
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- De BK en 05-18-21
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Why They Marched
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
- De: Susan Ware
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.
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a needed history lesson
- De Jerseycookie en 05-14-22
De: Susan Ware
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His Truth Is Marching On
- John Lewis and the Power of Hope
- De: Jon Meacham, John Lewis - afterword
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Jon Meacham
- Duración: 10 h
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An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime US congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America.
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Absolutely remarkable!
- De Janie en 08-30-20
De: Jon Meacham, y otros
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The Fire Is upon Us
- James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
- De: Nicholas Buccola
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro", and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event.
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Sadly, the story is timeless.
- De Edward P. Cerne en 01-17-20
De: Nicholas Buccola
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The Trouble with White Women
- A Counterhistory of Feminism
- De: Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper - foreword
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice.
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Excellent read!
- De A. Robertson en 11-30-21
De: Kyla Schuller, y otros
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JFK
- Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- De: Fredrik Logevall
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 29 h y 27 m
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By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history.
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Excellent Portrait of JFK & His Times
- De John David en 12-14-20
De: Fredrik Logevall
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The Black Calhouns
- From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
- De: Gail Lumet Buckley
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War to civil rights. Beginning with her great-great-grandfather, Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in postwar Atlanta, Buckley follows her family's two branches: one that stayed in the South and the other that settled in Brooklyn.
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Required reading for all
- De WesternCOriver en 04-14-22
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The Devil You Know
- A Black Power Manifesto
- De: Charles M. Blow
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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From journalist and New York Times best-selling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action for Black Americans to amass political power and fight white supremacy.
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A radical plan for Black liberation
- De Elizabeth en 01-27-21
De: Charles M. Blow
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Eleanor
- De: David Michaelis
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.
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Stands apart from other biographies of ER
- De Debra Malone en 11-20-20
De: David Michaelis
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- De: Betty Reid-Soskin
- Narrado por: Betty Reid-Soskin
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for Black folk that followed.
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Everything Stood Out! It Left Me So Enlightened!
- De Judy H. en 01-31-24
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My Hijacking
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On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered.
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Childhood memories…a puzzle to solve.
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On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause was E. coli O157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.
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I really enjoyed how well the story is told
- De pet person en 11-23-23
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- De: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrado por: Hlonela Ngqwebo
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.
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Amazing. Horrifying. But true.
- De Daniel W. Fox, Jr. en 03-23-22
De: Chris Lockhart, y otros
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Shy
- The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
- De: Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
- Narrado por: Christine Baranski, Jesse Green
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“What am I, bologna?” Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened.
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What a fun book!
- De Erik B. Rinderle en 09-17-23
De: Mary Rodgers, y otros
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Confident Women
- Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
- De: Tori Telfer
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
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From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best - or worst.
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Fun stories of bad girls
- De Clive Hazell en 04-26-21
De: Tori Telfer
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The Hollywood Con Queen
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Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, Scott C. Johnson’s unique true crime narrative recounts the tale of the brilliantly cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction across the world. Gifted with a diabolical flair for impersonation, manipulation, and deception, the Con Queen used his skill with accents and deft psychological insight to sweep through the entertainment industry. Johnson traces the origins of this gender-bending criminal mastermind.
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Amazingly intriguing
- De angela r bailey en 08-17-23
De: Scott C. Johnson
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My Hijacking
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Childhood memories…a puzzle to solve.
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Poisoned
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On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause was E. coli O157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.
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I really enjoyed how well the story is told
- De pet person en 11-23-23
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- De: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.
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Amazing. Horrifying. But true.
- De Daniel W. Fox, Jr. en 03-23-22
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Shy
- The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
- De: Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
- Narrado por: Christine Baranski, Jesse Green
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“What am I, bologna?” Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened.
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What a fun book!
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Confident Women
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The Hollywood Con Queen
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Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, Scott C. Johnson’s unique true crime narrative recounts the tale of the brilliantly cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction across the world. Gifted with a diabolical flair for impersonation, manipulation, and deception, the Con Queen used his skill with accents and deft psychological insight to sweep through the entertainment industry. Johnson traces the origins of this gender-bending criminal mastermind.
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Amazingly intriguing
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Reach
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Arthur Smith is famous for his innovation and audacity, and as the man behind some of the longest-running unscripted series in television history. His groundbreaking hit Hell’s Kitchen forged the modern food competition reality genre, while his Emmy-nominated American Ninja Warrior has spawned a cultural movement, with Ninja-inspired gyms in every major American city. In Reach, Smith shares adventures, triumphs, and hard-won lessons from his astonishing career, beginning with his unprecedented ascension from the ranks of sports production to become the youngest-ever head of CBC Sports.
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Inspirational
- De Anonymous User en 08-31-23
De: Arthur Smith
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Necessary Trouble
- Americans in Revolt
- De: Sarah Jaffe
- Narrado por: Amy Melissa Bentley
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The 2008 financial crisis crystallized for people around the country the fact that something was wrong. Americans had already been losing faith in elites who had failed to protect them from crisis after crisis and disaster after disaster. After the collapse, we expected someone to have a solution but were inevitably disappointed. Instead, we got high and rising unemployment, foreclosures spiraling out of control, and, as the protest chant went, "banks got bailed out, we got sold out."
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informative and optimistic
- De Patrick en 08-06-18
De: Sarah Jaffe
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Diamond Doris
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- De: Doris Payne, Zelda Lockhart - contributor
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Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor Black girls like her. Surrounded by people who sought to limit her potential, Doris vowed to turn the tables after the owner of a jewelry store threw her out when a White customer arrived. Neither racism nor poverty would hold her back; she would get what she wanted and help her mother escape an abusive relationship.
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5 Star Book; 2 Star Life
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De: Doris Payne, y otros
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The Diary Keepers
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Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.
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Superior work!
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Somewhere We Are Human
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- De: Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñansaca
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A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today.
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Voices of the new immigrants
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The Watchdog
- How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two
- De: Steve Drummond
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Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight—all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption.
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When Harry First Gave-Em Hell
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This Republic of Suffering
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During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives - equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and describes how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God.
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a unique civil war perspective
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Rising Star
- The Making of Barack Obama
- De: David Garrow
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
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Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted the little-known state senator from Illinois into the national spotlight. Three months later Obama would win election to the US Senate; four years later he would make history as America's first black president. Now, at the end of his second presidential term, David J. Garrow delivers the most compelling and comprehensive biography ever written of Obama in the years preceding his presidency.
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Refreshingly Objective Biography
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- De: Alan Cumming
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.
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Entertaining but a little Helter-Skelter
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De: Alan Cumming
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The Princess Spy
- The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
- De: Larry Loftis
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). As the United States enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes.
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Repeat of spy wore red
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De: Larry Loftis
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Lethal Tides
- Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Catherine Musemeche
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy’s success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs, and preparing for enemy fire was new ground for them, and with lives at stake it was ground that had to be covered quickly.
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fantastic story about an unsung hero
- De David Sajben en 09-16-22
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The Last Resort
- A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
- De: Sarah Stodola
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints, and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines.
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A fun splash.
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De: Sarah Stodola
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- HokiAddict
- 09-13-23
Tremendous and valuable, historical perspective!
Drew Faust was a kind observer and participant in probably the most important social upheaval in our nation’s history. She is a keen observer and excellent reporter on the 1960’s racial history to which I was more of an observer than a participant.
As a highly introspective young woman of the South with a growing awareness of the inequities of black-white racial societal norms, I give her enormous credit for her lifelong determination to help right those wrongs.
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- Em
- 05-02-24
A moving memoir that is also an amazing lesson in the fraught American history of the 1960s
Dr Faust does an incredible job of recounting her truly remarkable youth while weaving the historical relevance right into her story. As a historian of the American South, she is uniquely qualified to explore her own history in the context of the time. I learned so much not only about her own remarkable childhood, youth, and early adulthood but also about the experience of living in the segregated South of the mid-twentieth century as a brilliant, privileged, justice-minded white girl from an upperclass family. It would make an excellent addition to a high school American history course, providing students with the perspective of a young person living through the Civil Rights Era.
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- Richard
- 08-27-23
Challenging
Thoughtful, informative and challenging. I have a much better understanding of the era I grew up on with the author. More than anything it reminds me of the accountability I have for what I see, hear and experience-- and that what I do about it can make a difference.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-16-23
So much truth in history lived and retold.
My thanks to the author, for the history retold in the truth of the life that she has lived.
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- delilah devereaux
- 03-10-24
struggles and triumphs of mid century women
having grown up about 10 years after the author, so much of her story mirrors what my life was like still, despite the strides made by these courageous people. I felt a sisterhood with the author at every chapter and heard my voice in hers as she narrated her history - herstory.
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- Susan S. Heiner
- 09-30-23
Inspiring!
I am a 65 year old woman and this history of Drew Gilpin Faust, who is just a few years ahead of me on her journey, inspired, encouraged, and motivated me.
Sometimes we need to learn personal stories of the past to remember how much impact one person can have.
Excellent read! Well done!
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- Jeanne Virgilio
- 10-02-23
First hand memory
As a woman growing up in the 50s, I can relate to all parts of this story. I’m going to read it again at this time and listen for more details. I too got in my share of necessary trouble.
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- Robert B. Lamm
- 10-13-23
Left Me Wanting More (and Less)
A fascinating memoir of a fascinating woman whose commitment to equal rights is mightily impressive. I am Ms. Faust’s contemporary - about the same age, a member of a college class of 1968, etc., but my commitment looks pale in comparison. I just wish she had talked a bit about her life after the 1960s and a bit less about her civil rights struggle; not that it was bad or boring - quite the contrary - but her subsequent life must surely be equally interesting. Perhaps there will be a sequel….
Memoirs are so aptly suited to audiobooks, and I love the fact that Ms. Faust narrated her life. She’s not the best narrator, but I know it rings true.
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- Victoria T. Baker
- 12-23-23
Her upbringing mirrored mine her stepping out of that small sheltered life was courageous .
Drew is the true activist who jumped in and stayed in to slowly help bring about change one small step at a time. Thoroughly enjoyed, brought back so much on how women born in the mid 40’s evolved and changed life for all.
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- Jim Russo
- 09-23-23
Let’s not repeat our past mistakes
This is an important book that reminds us all to not forget our history of hate.
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