Great American Lives

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    • How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
    • By: Diane Ravitch
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • America's foremost historian of education renounces her support for reform policies implemented over the past decade that she says are wrecking America's cherished tradition of public education....

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    • Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It
    • By: Ed Linz
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-25
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed by a booming stock markets and ...

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    • My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed
    • By: Neal Pollack
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Beginning innocently enough in his 20s, Neal Pollack discovers that pot makes everything - food, music, sex - better. Getting married, having a kid, and enjoying professional success didn't tamp down Pollack's addiction....

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    • The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
    • By: Jeremy Beer
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

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    • A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist....

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    • The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick - How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life
    • By: Raymond Francis
    • Narrated by: Dan Gilvezan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In The Great American Health Hoax, Francis exposes the truth about how to stay healthy and introduces us to a way of life that can become a "highway to health", while he quite effectively demonstrates that we really don't have to be sick....

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    • The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
    • By: Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,452 ratings
    • When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly 60 years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history....

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    • Britain and the American Dream
    • By: Peter Moore
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the "American dream"....

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    • The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
    • By: Ronald C. White
    • Narrated by: Ronald C. White
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....

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    • The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
    • By: John Taliaferro
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 364 ratings
    • John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family.

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    • The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of - Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis zones around the world....

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    • The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
    • By: Liam Dale
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly ...

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    • The Life of the Great Escape Artist (American Graphic)
    • By: Agnieszka Biskup
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Harry Houdini never met a lock he didn’t like. Handcuffs, leg irons, and thumbscrews were child’s play for the world’s greatest escape artist. During his stunning career he invented some of the most mind-boggling escapes of all time....

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    • The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest
    • By: Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska....

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