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Enlightening, entertaining and exceptionally done
- De Karol Heim en 02-09-24
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Fiend
- The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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When 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Graphic descriptions of child torture
- De mobius_spider en 11-13-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Me the People
- One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
- De: Kevin Bleyer
- Narrado por: Kevin Bleyer
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Skip it.
- De Fifty-One en 01-04-13
De: Kevin Bleyer
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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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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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Blood on the Leaves
- De: Jeff Stetson
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Jeff Stetson has received eight NAACP Theater Image Awards for his play The Meeting, which aired on American Playhouse on PBS. He offers a thought-provoking work of fiction with Blood on the Leaves. Old white men - alleged perpetrators of racial killings during the civil rights struggle - are being brutally murdered in the South. Now it's up to the only black deputy district attorney to prosecute these racially motivated crimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Boss Suggested It! Glad I Read It!
- De AlTonya en 07-29-14
De: Jeff Stetson
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QB VII
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 731
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In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust - born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's extermination - Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris' riveting courtroom drama - one of the great fictional trials of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Revisit to a Dark Era
- De Craig en 06-01-14
De: Leon Uris
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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 2,305
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,068
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,059
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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Ultimate Punishment
- A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
- De: Scott Turow
- Narrado por: Scott Turow
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Scott Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment. Along the way, he provides a brief history of America's relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois' state-of-the art 'super-max' prison and the execution chamber.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking book
- De Susan B. en 11-01-05
De: Scott Turow
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The Lynching
- The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found 19-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable
- De Jean en 06-10-16
De: Laurence Leamer
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The Nuremberg Trials
- The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
- De: Paul Roland
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
The Nuremberg Trials were the most important criminal proceedings ever held. They established the principle that individuals will always be held responsible for their actions under international law, and brought closure to World War II, allowing the reconstruction of Europe to begin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Historically Inaccurate
- De Susan Kuebler en 04-23-21
De: Paul Roland
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Dreamers and Deceivers
- True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Jeremy Lowell
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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The new nonfiction from number-one best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding History stories gather life
- De Gil en 11-13-14
De: Glenn Beck
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The Devil's Gentleman
- Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 167
The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- De Carolina en 02-27-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Duel with the Devil
- The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
- De: Paul Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Peckham
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Trial of the Century
- De Jean en 09-06-15
De: Paul Collins
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
- Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
- De: Jack El-Hai
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,336
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,184
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by 16 suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $100,000,000 in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Joining Göring in the detention center were the elite of the captured Nazi regime....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Don't Understand The Complaints...
- De Douglas en 01-03-14
De: Jack El-Hai
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Outrage
- The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
- De: Vincent Bugliosi
- Narrado por: Joseph Campanella
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 296
What went wrong in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial? Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi dares to lay bare the bungling he perceived in the case. Incriminating evidence was never presented and lapses in strategy left prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden at a disadvantage. These are just a few of the fatal errors that led to a victory for the defense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rip-off
- De Andrew Kelly en 05-21-19
De: Vincent Bugliosi
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My Life Among the Serial Killers
- Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
- De: Helen Morrison M.D., Harold Goldberg
- Narrado por: Helen Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 445
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 181
Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring reader,boring writing
- De P. Minor en 02-03-08
De: Helen Morrison M.D., y otros
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- 10-17-22
very good
Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall
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