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- Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- De: Simon Baatz
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just 16 years old, had recently moved to the city. White was 47. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity. She told no one that White raped her that night until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden.
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1 out of 5 stars
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"The Girl" is barely in this book
- De Polly L. Mccall en 07-12-18
De: Simon Baatz
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Bringing Down the Colonel
- A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
- De: Patricia Miller
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely 19th-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined”, Pollard brought the man - and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality - to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stay with it. It is amazing.
- De Living Downeast en 09-29-19
De: Patricia Miller
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
- De: Dan Abrams, David Fisher
- Narrado por: Adam Verner, Dan Abrams
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121
At the end of the summer of 1859, 22-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than 3,000 cases - including more than 25 murder trials - during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Courtroom Drama
- De Jean en 04-26-19
De: Dan Abrams, y otros
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House of Evil
- The Indiana Torture Slaying
- De: John Dean
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrific
- De Karri en 05-29-18
De: John Dean
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The Price of Justice
- A True Story of Greed and Corruption
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
This nonfiction legal thriller traces the 14-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history to justice. Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America’s electric power. But wealth and influence weren’t enough for Blankenship and his company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West Virginia judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards in the company’s mines - mines in which scores died unnecessarily.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good story
- De Mr. en 10-06-13
De: Laurence Leamer
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A Secret Life
- The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- De: Charles Lachman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States - Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that unfolds like a sordid romance novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Are the charges true?
- De Jean en 02-16-13
De: Charles Lachman
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The Girls of Murder City
- Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
- De: Douglas Perry
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some books should be read
- De zoomcity en 07-31-11
De: Douglas Perry
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,306
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,069
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,060
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and to cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve....
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5 out of 5 stars
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
De: Gilbert King
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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Emmett Till
- The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Devery S. Anderson
- Narrado por: Brandon Church
- Duración: 21 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 91
Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important story narrated with power and warmth
- De R. Nance en 10-04-16
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Contempt
- A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
- De: Ken Starr
- Narrado por: Ken Starr
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 315
Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of this period in American history. Now Starr finally shares his unique perspective on the investigation that began with the Whitewater land deal and spread to a wide range of President Clinton's actions, including accusations of sexual harassment and perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that have never before emerged as well as a new analysis from the perspective of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking and honest!
- De Sarah en 09-13-18
De: Ken Starr
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Root and Branch
- Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
- De: Rawn James Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led the fight from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court, and, in the process, laid the legal foundations of the civil rights movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb story
- De Philo-sophia en 01-26-12
De: Rawn James Jr.
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Class Action
- The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
- De: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn't think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paid job. What she hadn't considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resisted the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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infuriating
- De Ron en 05-20-06
De: Clara Bingham, y otros
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Satan's Circus
- Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New York, N.Y
- De Robert en 07-11-07
De: Mike Dash
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Tulia
- Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
- De: Nate Blakeslee
- Narrado por: James Boles
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Early one morning in the summer of 1999, authorities in the tiny West Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers. By the time the sweep was done, over 40 people had been arrested and one of every five black adults in town was behind bars, all accused of dealing cocaine to the same undercover officer, Tom Coleman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De JOHN en 03-23-08
De: Nate Blakeslee
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Anatomy of Injustice
- A Murder Case Gone Wrong
- De: Raymond Bonner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A miscarriage of justice if I've ever seen it
- De Education is KEY en 10-11-17
De: Raymond Bonner
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Alabama v. King
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
- De: David Fisher - contributor, Dan Abrams, Fred D. Gray
- Narrado por: Fred D. Gray, Korey Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
The forgotten story of a criminal trial that brought national attention to a young defendant named Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as told by Fred D. Gray, Dr. King’s lawyer and friend, along with New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher. The audiobook concludes with an exclusive conversation between Fred Gray and Dan Abrams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great History Lesson and Story
- De bnieman en 09-22-23
De: David Fisher - contributor, y otros