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A pause-resisting middle-grade adaptation of the New York Times best seller about how a newly independent nation was challenged by foreign powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation.
When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa routinely captured American sailors and held them as captives demanding ransom and tribute far beyond what the new country could afford.
Jefferson found it impossible to negotiate a truce, and decided to move beyond diplomacy. He sent the US Navy and Marines to blockade Tripoli - launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America's journey toward future superpower status.
This vivid and accessible young readers adaptation of the New York Times best seller features an exclusive new introduction. Chronicling a crucial moment in American history, this historical thriller will excite and inspire the next generation of patriots.
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
- The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
- De: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,651
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,645
When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling their former colony. Capturing the city of New Orleans and stopping trade up the river sounded like a simple task - New Orleans was far away from Washington, out of sight and out of mind for the politicians. What the British didn't count on was the power of General Andrew Jackson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was new to me War 1812
- De Suz en 10-27-17
De: Brian Kilmeade, y otros
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George Washington's Secret Six
- The Spy Ring That Saved America
- De: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,819
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2,513
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,517
From the cohost of Fox & Friends, the true story of the anonymous spies who helped win the Revolutionary War. Among the pantheon of heroes of the American Revolution, six names are missing. First and foremost, Robert Townsend, an unassuming and respected businessman from Long Island, who spearheaded the spy ring that covertly brought down the British
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
- De Thomas en 09-24-15
De: Brian Kilmeade, y otros
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Teddy and Booker T.
- How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
- De: Brian Kilmeade
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 136
When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country’s most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if newly freed citizens were condemned to lives as share croppers, how much improvement would their lives really see?
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5 out of 5 stars
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the similarities of these men
- De jeanette falker en 03-09-25
De: Brian Kilmeade
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 24 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,965
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,860
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,827
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, not crazy about the narrator
- De Cathi en 07-20-13
De: Walter Isaacson
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Alexander Hamilton
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 35 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24,684
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21,391
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21,261
Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding & Riveting Book!
- De Kevin en 03-04-05
De: Ron Chernow