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One Life Is Not Enough
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The persistent mispronunciations of Hebrew and Yiddish words ruined this performance
- De YH-O en 12-30-18
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Counselor
- A Life at the Edge of History
- De: Ted Sorensen
- Narrado por: Ted Sorensen
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor, recounts in full, for the first time, his experience counseling Kennedy through some of the most dramatic moments in American history. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor, the young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book Profiles in Courage. Sorensen encouraged the junior senator's political ambitions and was later named special counsel to the president.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rare Insight
- De Robert en 05-10-08
De: Ted Sorensen
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Going Home to Glory
- A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
- De: David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower’s closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an intimate chronicle of the elder statesman’s final years and a coming of age story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow - Living History - Right Before Our Eyes
- De Amazon Customer en 12-16-11
De: David Eisenhower, y otros
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The Wise Men
- Six Friends and the World They Made
- De: Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Reese
- Duración: 33 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 317
Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day. In April 1945, they converged to advise an untutored new president, Harry Truman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dull with poor narration
- De KD6161 en 03-31-17
De: Evan Thomas, y otros
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Queen of the World
- Elizabeth II: Sovereign and Stateswoman
- De: Robert Hardman
- Narrado por: Robert Hardman
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. The iconic monarch never ventured further than the Isle of Wight until the age of 20 but since then has now visited over 130 countries across the globe in the line of duty, acting as diplomat, hostess, and dignitary as the world stage has changed beyond recognition.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misleading
- De Teddy hall en 04-01-19
De: Robert Hardman
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Hitler
- Ascent 1889-1939
- De: Volker Ullrich
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 34 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 681
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 589
For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worthwhile if you haven't read a Hitler biography
- De Joshua en 11-03-16
De: Volker Ullrich
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Gandhi
- The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
- De: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 36 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades. In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions, and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched and heart touching
- De M Umar Khan en 02-01-21
De: Ramachandra Guha
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Nixon and Mao
- The Week That Changed the World
- De: Margaret MacMillan
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Margaret MacMillan brings her extraordinary gifts to two of the most important countries today, the United States and China, and one of the most significant moments in modern history: Richard Nixon's week in China in February 1972, which opened relations between America and China (closed since the communists came to power in 1949).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Incisive
- De Roy en 08-23-10
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Ike and Dick
- Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
- De: Jeffrey Frank
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Richard Nixon was a young Navy officer when he first saw Dwight D. Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the end of the war in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's running mate on the Republican presidential ticket-the beginning of a political and personal relationship that lasted for nearly twenty years. Despite a gulf that separated them by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political ideology.
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4 out of 5 stars
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He's against NIxon
- De James A. Bretney en 01-20-14
De: Jeffrey Frank
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Woodrow Wilson
- A Biography
- De: John Milton Cooper
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 35 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 226
John Milton Cooper, Jr., is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s preeminent Woodrow Wilson biographers. This thoroughly researched profile of America’s 28th president is universally hailed for its scholarship and insight into the life and career ofone of the nation’s most polarizing leaders.
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2 out of 5 stars
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On the outside looking in
- De Doris en 09-02-13
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The Netanyahu Years
- Translated by Ora Cummings
- De: Ben Caspit
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
A portrait of the current Israeli prime minister, one of Israel's more noticeable leaders in recent decades. Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as prime minister of Israel, the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.
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2 out of 5 stars
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weak
- De kay en 06-11-18
De: Ben Caspit
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
- A Political Marriage
- De: Nicholas Wapshott
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
It is well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years in office, the U.S. president and the U.K. prime minister worked together to promote lower taxes, deregulation, free trade, and an aggressive stance against the Soviet Union. But according to Nicholas Wapshott, the Reagan/Thatcher relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Better Half
- De peter en 06-01-11
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Indian Summer
- The Secret History of the End of an Empire
- De: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, igniting the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through the most prominent figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such an interesting piece of History made easy
- De Diego en 01-23-12
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JFK's Last Hundred Days
- The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
- De: Thurston Clarke
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been. Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: The Cold War, Civil Rights, and Vietnam, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Depth and Beautifully Written
- De grace en 06-03-23
De: Thurston Clarke
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De Gaulle
- De: Julian Jackson
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 41 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
In a definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures this titanic figure as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he reveals how this volatile visionary put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Extremely British approach to de Gaulle
- De Keith en 05-31-19
De: Julian Jackson
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The General
- Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
- De: Jonathan Fenby
- Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth
- Duración: 28 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as "carrying France on [his] shoulders." In his 20s, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler's Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary displays of leadership, political acumen, daring, and bluff, heading off civil war and leaving a heritage adopted by his successors of right and left.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book Great Read. Narrator Horrible-slow dead voice
- De marigoyle en 10-23-13
De: Jonathan Fenby
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Munich, 1938
- Appeasement and World War II
- De: David Faber
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German chancellor Adolf Hitler and was greeted with a hero's welcome. As he paused on the aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper, bearing both his and the Fuhrer's signatures, that contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with each other again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight into the events of 1938
- De Carolyn en 05-18-13
De: David Faber