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De: Robert A. Caro
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Lady Bird and Lyndon
- The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President
- De: Betty Boyd Caroli
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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A fresh look at Lady Bird Johnson that upends her image as a plain Jane who was married for her money and mistreated by Lyndon. This Lady Bird worked quietly behind the scenes through every campaign, every illness, and a trying presidency as a key strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and indispensable therapist.
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Lady Bird & btw Lyndon
- De Richard en 11-27-15
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1920
- The Year of Six Presidents
- De: David Pietrusza
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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The presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents--Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt--jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America.
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A fascinating view into the US at the end of WWI
- De D. Littman en 12-31-09
De: David Pietrusza
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Lincoln's Boys
- John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h
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Lincoln's official secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president's immediate family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers of the Lincoln legacy. They read poetry and attendeded the theater with the president, commiserated with him over Union army setbacks, and plotted electoral strategy.
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Best Publicists since Mathew, Mark, Luke, & John
- De James en 04-06-15
De: Joshua Zeitz
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Frank and Al
- FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
- De: Terry Golway
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Just before the Roaring Twenties, Al Smith, a proud son of the Tammany Hall political machine, and Franklin Roosevelt, a country squire, formed an unlikely alliance that transformed the Democratic Party. Smith and FDR dominated politics in the most-powerful state in the union for a quarter-century, and in 1932, they ran against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination, setting off one of the great feuds in American history. The relationship between Smith and Roosevelt, portrayed here, is one of the most dramatic untold stories of early 20th-century American politics.
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Solid and important history
- De J&L Hely en 08-27-23
De: Terry Golway
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Stephen Lang
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years in the U.S. Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. "There is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro," says Publishers Weekly.
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- De Shelly Brisbin en 09-05-04
De: Robert A. Caro
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A Woman in Charge
- The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- De: Carl Bernstein
- Narrado por: Dick Rodstein
- Duración: 24 h y 39 m
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Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career, with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account of Hilary Rodham Clinton yet.
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in depth and well-written
- De Katherine en 07-20-07
De: Carl Bernstein
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Volume I, 1884-1933
- De: Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 22 h y 8 m
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and women of her time.
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One of the Great Americans I knew too little about
- De Ray M en 07-19-20
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Leadership
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied most closely - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights) - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized by others as leaders.
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What makes a president great?
- De tru britty en 09-25-18
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Living History
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrado por: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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You've probably heard clips from Senator Clinton's interview with Barbara Walters. But now you can listen to her full account of her years in the White House. Hillary Clinton vividly describes her pain over her husband's betrayal with Monica Lewinky saying that former President Bill Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted the nature of it to a grand jury.
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Dare To Read - She Will Dare To Compete in 2008
- De Michael en 06-17-03
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Guest of Honor
- Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner that Shocked a Nation
- De: Deborah Davis
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a Black man-and former slave-sent shock waves through the nation. Although African Americans had helped build the White House and had worked for most of the presidents, not a single one had ever been invited to dine there. Fueled by inflammatory newspaper articles, political cartoons, and even vulgar songs, the scandal escalated.
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Great So
- De Maureen Monahan en 04-11-21
De: Deborah Davis
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Senator Hattie Caraway
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The first women elected to US Senate
I knew nothing about Caraway until I listened to this book. The book is full in interesting information and appears to be well researched, even includes an interview with Caraway's granddaughter Betsy Hill. I did not give it five stars because the book needs to be better edited and tighten up to reduce the amount of repetition. Hattie Caraway was the first women elected to the U.S. Senate she was in office from 1931 to 1944. Hendricks corrected the misinformation about Caraway such as the common belief she did nothing and voted against going into WWII. She did vote to go into the war and she voted for the lean lease plan. Silent Hattie only gave 14 speeches while in the Senate but was very active on committee and in her second term chaired the agriculture committee and several others. She apparently was very effective working in small groups and one on one to get work done. Hendricks states that the higher institutions of education in Arkansas were about to go under when Caraway stepped in and got contracts for Military training schools on the campuses which saved the institutions. During the depression she brought work programs to Arkansas to repair or build infrastructures that was needed. Loved the description Hendricks provided about Huey Long and Caraway campaigning together for her first election run. Caraway was very helpful to individuals and their problems and helped many. She was active with veterans' affairs and supported the military. Her three soon went to West Point the youngest died while at The Point. The other two went on to become Generals. When Will Roger visited the Senate he had his picture taken with Caraway and signed for her addressing it to Senatoress Hattie, she kept the picture in her office. Caraway was elected to a second term but did not campaign in 1944 for her third term and was defeated. I laughed at some of the old fashion Southern homespun maxims used by Caraway I could just picture her as a typical Southern lady dealing with a room full of cigar smoking men. They say she would get discussed with some of the Senators that gave long speeches about a problem instead of just getting down to business and solve the problem. If you are interested in women's history or government history you will enjoy this book.
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