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Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet, and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world. Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology - a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination - and provides the definitive account of how the notorious organization was created.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Book, Awful Narration
- De Jessica en 04-28-21
De: Russell Miller
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The White Devil's Daughters
- The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
- De: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history - and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well researched
- De Qats reads en 08-05-19
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The Long Loneliness
- The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
- De: Dorothy Day
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality...founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than 50 years in numerous battles of social justice.” Here, in her own words, this remarkable woman tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920s, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common-law marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for any who work in poverty
- De marguerite allred-crawford en 11-16-20
De: Dorothy Day
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The Ground Breaking
- An American City and Its Search for Justice
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Over the course of less than 24 hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa’s infamous “Black Wall Street” was wiped off the map - and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than 50 years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- De BoxerBran en 09-29-22
De: Scott Ellsworth
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American Ghost
- A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A true American tale
- De Cleo Colorado en 05-29-15
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Oil!
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 867
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As he did so masterfully in The Jungle, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Upton Sinclair interweaves social criticism with human tragedy to create an unforgettable portrait of Southern California's early oil industry. Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an outstanding book
- De Gregory en 05-18-08
De: Upton Sinclair
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Furious Hours
- Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
- De: Casey Cep
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,388
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,195
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend. Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, needs a Southern narrator
- De Joseph Wu en 06-06-19
De: Casey Cep
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- De: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrado por: David Owen Nelson
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 348
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 296
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Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- De James Gamble en 03-06-21
De: Eric Nusbaum
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Eleanor
- De: David Michaelis
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 515
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Eleanor in the Village
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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A captivating blend of personal history detailing Eleanor’s struggle with issues of marriage, motherhood, financial independence, and femininity, and a vibrant portrait of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world, this unique work examines the ways that the sensibility, mood, and various inhabitants of the neighborhood influenced the First Lady’s perception of herself and shaped her political views over four decades, up to her death in 1962.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grabs your attention
- De Amanda Hodges en 05-13-21
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- De: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Approach to a Well Known History
- De HistoryNerd en 09-24-21
De: Anderson Cooper, y otros
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Travels with George
- In Search of Washington and His Legacy
- De: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrado por: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Does George Washington still matter? Best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all 13 former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun listen but too much about slavery
- De Paul W. Brazis en 09-19-21
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The Last Castle
- The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Denise Kiernan
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 834
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Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York's best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very factual
- De Jennifer en 11-28-17
De: Denise Kiernan
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"Our Crowd"
- The Great Jewish Families of New York
- De: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 19 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of "the 400," a register of New York's most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Finance heavy
- De Shayla en 03-28-21
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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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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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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Lady Bird
- A Biography of Mrs. Johnson
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 16 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency. Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for LBJ, a man who suffered from extreme mood swings and desperately needed someone to help control his darker impulses.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do not waste an audible credit
- De Sandra B. en 10-15-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Allure of Immortality
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- researchbiker
- 04-11-20
Old Florida history
Well researched and written. A fascinating chapter of old Florida history. Fascinating story not to be missed.
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- Terra
- 09-22-23
Wild History, Extremely well researched
I really enjoyed this book even though I listened to it at 1.5x speed (the narrator talks very slow). When looking for further research material, you'll find that this cult's Wikipedia page is barely a paragraph. So this book is really one of the only sources of information unless you want to go into the library of congress. If you enjoy books about spiritualism, religious revivals, and psychic con artists, you'll enjoy it.
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