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The Day the Bubble Burst
- A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 34 m
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The New York Times best seller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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The Plaza is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't need your politics, Julie
- De Debra Noe en 03-29-20
De: Julie Satow
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Fall
- The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
- De: John Preston
- Narrado por: Simon Bubb
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph, and patrons of the hottest restaurant in Manhattan gave him a standing ovation while he dined. Ten months later, Maxwell disappeared off that same yacht in the middle of the night and was later found dead in the water. As John Preston reveals in this revealing biography, Maxwell’s death was as mysterious as his remarkable life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't make men like this anymore
- De Sylvia en 04-06-21
De: John Preston
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: Maury Klein
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Plenty of fine detail, especially of the 1920s
- De Philo en 04-18-13
De: Maury Klein
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The House of Morgan
- An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 34 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,246
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,818
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,794
A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P.Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The construction of the House of Morgan
- De Darwin8u en 10-22-18
De: Ron Chernow
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Only Yesterday
- An Informal History of the 1920s
- De: Frederick Lewis Allen
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 291
In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels, but they were also bringing about major changes in the social and political structure of their country. Only Yesterday is a fond, witty, penetrating biography of this restless decade, a delightful reminiscence for those who can remember and a fascinating firsthand look for those who've only heard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book
- De Matthew M. Kayes en 06-11-07
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The Big Rich
- The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
- De: Bryan Burrough
- Narrado por: James Jenner
- Duración: 22 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 513
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 512
Best-selling author Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend of the swaggering Texas oilman with island hideaways and sprawling ranches.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Big, Sordid, Fascinating, PoliticallyCorrect
- De Darkcoffee en 11-09-09
De: Bryan Burrough
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The Chief
- The Life of William Randolph Hearst
- De: David Nasaw
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 30 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 132
William Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the "Chief", was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including 28 newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He quickly learned how to use this media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power. In The Chief, David Nasaw presents an intimate portrait of the man famously characterized in the classic film Citizen Kane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating but
- De Michael en 02-17-22
De: David Nasaw
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The Hour of Fate
- Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- De: Susan Berfield
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-08-20
De: Susan Berfield
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Since Yesterday
- The 1930s in America
- De: Frederick Lewis Allen
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
In this panorama, subtitled The 1930s in America, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, "a talent for terse and telling resume which is the envy of any historian."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Solid View of 1930s America
- De Jason Hutchens en 09-28-16
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Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
- The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
- De: Richard Hack
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 17 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 684
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 373
In "the most exciting bio of the year," Richard Hack uses recently uncovered (and in some cases, recently declassified) personal letters, court testimony, FBI files, autopsy reports and exclusive interviews to reveal the man who was a legendary lover, record-setting aviator, award-winning film producer, talented inventor, ultimate eccentric, and, for much of his lifetime, the richest man in the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GOOD READ
- De Randall en 04-25-09
De: Richard Hack
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The Money Culture
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Alexander Cendese
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 232
The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade. In these trenchant, often hilarious true tales we meet the colorful movers and shakers who commanded the headlines and rewrote the rules.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the normal great Michael Lewis
- De Me en 05-12-12
De: Michael Lewis
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 35 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,823
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,760
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,735
Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He makes Bill Gates look like a Pauper!
- De Rick en 11-04-13
De: Ron Chernow
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How Money Became Dangerous
- The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance
- De: Christopher Varelas, Dan Stone
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- De Craig M. Stratton en 02-08-20
De: Christopher Varelas, y otros
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- De: David Hoffman
- Narrado por: Steve Coulter
- Duración: 22 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 263
A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for
The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Supreme Chronicle of Murky Times
- De ivan en 03-01-14
De: David Hoffman
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Barbarians at the Gate
- The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- De: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Narrado por: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,392
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,108
Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time, the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough's and John Helyer's account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 gives us not only a detailed look at financial operations at the highest levels but a richly textured social history of wealth in the twilight of the Reagan era.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Abridged and Poorly Read
- De Jake en 01-24-13
De: Bryan Burrough, y otros
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The Last Lone Inventor
- A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
- De: Evan I. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title "father of television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Driven by his obsession to demonstrate his idea, by the age of 20 Farnsworth was operating his own laboratory above a garage in San Francisco and filing for patents. The resulting publicity caught the attention of RCA tycoon David Sarnoff, who became determined to control television in the same way he monopolized radio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you, Philo.
- De JPALJ en 03-29-20
De: Evan I. Schwartz
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- De: Murray N. Rothbard
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The Great Crash 1929
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In this timely new P.I . Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure it. Shattering myths and politically correct lies, he tells why World War II didn't help the economy or get us out of the Great Depression; why it took FDR to make the Depression "Great"; and why Herbert Hoover was more like Obama and less like Bush than the liberal media would have you believe.
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The Great Depression
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This title offers a first-person diary account of living through the Great Depression, with haunting parallels to our own time. Benjamin Roth was born in New York City in 1894. When the stock market crashed in 1929, he had been practicing law for approximately ten years, largely representing local businesses. After nearly two years, he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, and he began writing down his impressions in a diary that he maintained intermittently until he died in 1978.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Instructive and enjoyable
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The Day the World Ended
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The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression That Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Crash, FDR's New Deal, Hitler’s Rise and More
- De: Captivating History
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The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting point to the greatest economic disaster of the 20th century. On that dark day in October 1929, fortunes were lost, and fear of financial insecurity rose throughout the United States and the world. In 1932, the low point of the Depression, as much as a third of Americans were out of work, and even more people were unemployed in other countries. The stock market reached its lowest point ever and wouldn’t rise to its pre-Depression levels for almost 20 years.
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too focused on political correctness.
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Boom and Bust
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"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the heartbreaking words of a 17-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. Minutes later, her head was struck from her body with a single stroke of a heavy ax. Her death for high treason sent shock waves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to a crown that the ax could fall at any time.
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Brilliantly Compelling
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Step back in time to the tiny farm community of Osage Bend, Missouri, circa 1930-1945… Part memoir, part how-to manual, The Bumpy Road paints a vivid picture of life on the farm during the Great Depression. The author, recounting stories from his boyhood, brings to life the everyday trials and tribulations of his family and neighbors as they struggle to survive under daunting economic conditions. The hard work they put in was a given (to them), and their solutions to everyday problems were ingenious by necessity. And yet, they still found time to socialize and make the church the center ...
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The transcontinental railroads of the late 19th century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the US economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, and remade the landscape of the West. As wheel and rail, car and coal, they opened new worlds of work and ways of life.
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Correcting the Myth of the Transcontinentals
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This book is a meticulous reconstruction of a tragic episode in the history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The SS. St. Louis left Hamburg in May of 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees on board who thought they had bought visas to enter Cuba. Refused entry in Cuba and the United States the ship eventually had to turn around and return to Europe. The voyage to freedom was in the end nothing more than a roundabout journey to the concentration camps.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No propaganda more damning than the truth
- De Buretto en 10-29-20
De: Max Morgan Witts, y otros
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The Approaching Fury
- Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
- De: Stephen B. Oates
- Narrado por: David Colacci, Susan Ericksen, David Sadzin
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of 13 principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that pushed the United States irreversibly toward a national calamity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Straight From The Horse's Mouth
- De jamie21 en 08-18-21
De: Stephen B. Oates
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,103
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- De: Martin Gilbert
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 33 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also saw the creation of new technologies of destruction: tanks, planes, and submarines; machine guns and field artillery; poison gas and chemical warfare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- De troy a myers en 07-27-20
De: Martin Gilbert
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21st Century Monetary Policy
- The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
- De: Ben S. Bernanke
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 84
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A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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don't buy, horrible narration
- De Mr. Incognito en 05-18-22
De: Ben S. Bernanke
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Gideon's Spies
- The Secret History of the Mossad
- De: Gordon Thomas
- Narrado por: Theodore Bikel
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 243
In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad. Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, Mossad is responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination. To some, Mossad is the precise and at times lethal instrument of Israel's will, a fiercely dedicated group of men and women: an elite intelligence arm.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hatchet Job?
- De despinne en 07-02-03
De: Gordon Thomas
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Day the Bubble Burst
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- MCS
- 07-13-22
One of my Audible favorites
If you like history, this book is a winner. It is engaging, well-written, and fascinating. The author weaves stories of real people with events. I often jumped from one audiobook to another, this one I listened to from beginning to end without switching to another audio book. I also added many of the characters to my Wikipedia page so I could do further research on them. Well recommended.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Bowen Florsheim
- 04-23-21
Thorough and fascinating
Fascinating book. Well researched, detailed and broad in scope. Reads like a novel and hard to stop listening. Narration is excellent.
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