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The Day Wall Street Exploded

A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror

de Beverly Gage ...

Narrado por Pam Ward ...

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15 hora 39 minutos

In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also takes listeners back into the decades-long but ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also takes listeners back into the decades-long but
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American Reich

A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

de Eric Lichtblau ...

Narrado por Gary Tiedemann ...

Completo

10 hora 35 minutos

From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next Door, a deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California—“ground zero” for racial extremism—and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.One night in early 2018, ... Leer más

$25.19 USD

From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next Door, a deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California—“ground zero” for racial extremism—and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.One night in early 2018,
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Searching for Harry Chapin's America

de Pat Fenton ...

Narrado por David Amram ...

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3 hora 55 minutos

In "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music," journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known ... Leer más

$8.63 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In "Searching for Harry Chapin’s America: Remember When the Music," journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people that inspired Harry Chapin’s most renowned songs. While Fenton’s account includes exclusive interviews with Chapin’s family and associates, and an excerpt from Chapin’s unpublished writings, the audio adaptation includes actual cuts from Chapin's best-known
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Yellowstone's Most Shocking Mishaps and Misadventures

"Dive into Yellowstone! Hear astounding mishaps and misadventures in our compelling audiobook."

de Dexter Harlow ...

Narrado por Nick Porter ...

Completo

2 hora 24 minutos

Yellowstone's Most Shocking Mishaps and Misadventures⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide with Explanations ⭐⭐Are you eager to delve into Yellowstone's most astonishing tales of survival and adventure?Seeking a detailed guide that encapsulates all the thrilling elements?Your search ends here!This audiobook is your definitive companion for understanding incredible escapades, app... ... Leer más

$3.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Yellowstone's Most Shocking Mishaps and Misadventures⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide with Explanations ⭐⭐Are you eager to delve into Yellowstone's most astonishing tales of survival and adventure?Seeking a detailed guide that encapsulates all the thrilling elements?Your search ends here!This audiobook is your definitive companion for understanding incredible escapades, app...
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Oberlin Wellington Trial, The

The Court of Abomination Part 1

de Herbert Addison Burns ...

Narrado por Herbert Addison Burns ...

Series Audiolibro 1 - The Oberlin Wellington Trial
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1 horas 43 minutos

This audiobook is a continuation of The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. Circumventing the Ohio statues to punish participants in a slave rescue mission is the theme of this astonishing narration. Based on the actual trial from the Oberlin Wellington Rescue, courtroom corruption will be brought to light. Confirmed historical documentation characterized in this audiobook contradicts a major theory ... Leer más

$5.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook is a continuation of The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. Circumventing the Ohio statues to punish participants in a slave rescue mission is the theme of this astonishing narration. Based on the actual trial from the Oberlin Wellington Rescue, courtroom corruption will be brought to light. Confirmed historical documentation characterized in this audiobook contradicts a major theory
... Leer más
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Secrets and Scandals: The Untold Era of Glamour and Betrayal

Discover "Secrets and Scandals": Audio Lessons Unveil Glamorous Betrayal Tales!

de Landon Aurelius ...

Narrado por Nick Porter ...

Completo

2 hora 21 minutos

Secrets and Scandals: The Untold Era of Glamour and Betrayal⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you eager to dive deep into a world of glitz, intrigue, and betrayed trusts?Looking for an engaging guide that encompasses every element to unravel the hidden stories of glamour and untold betrayal?Your quest stops here!This audiobook is your comprehens... ... Leer más

$3.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Secrets and Scandals: The Untold Era of Glamour and Betrayal⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you eager to dive deep into a world of glitz, intrigue, and betrayed trusts?Looking for an engaging guide that encompasses every element to unravel the hidden stories of glamour and untold betrayal?Your quest stops here!This audiobook is your comprehens...
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Lewis and Clark

de Ralph K. Andrist ...

Narrado por Joe Barrett ...

Series series American Heritage
Completo

3 hora 11 minutos

On May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men of the Corps of Discovery would cross the continent and into history. ... Leer más

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On May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men of the Corps of Discovery would cross the continent and into history.
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Dust Bowl Girls

The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

de Lydia Reeder ...

Narrado por Virginia Wolf ...

Completo

8 hora 27 minutos

At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals.
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Defiance of the Patriots

The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

de Benjamin L. Carp ...

Narrado por Joe Barrett ...

Completo

9 hora 31 minutos

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It set the stage for war and cemented certain values in the American psyche that many still cherish today. But why did the Tea Party happen? Whom ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It set the stage for war and cemented certain values in the American psyche that many still cherish today. But why did the Tea Party happen? Whom
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Confederate Reckoning

Power and Politics in the Civil War South

de Stephanie McCurry ...

Narrado por Teri Schnaubelt ...

Completo

16 hora 30 minutos

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises,
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A New History of the American South

Narrado por Terrence Kidd ...

Completo

25 hora 40 minutos

For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways, and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This ... Leer más

$31.49 USD

For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways, and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present. This
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City of Quartz

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

de Mike Davis ...

Narrado por Tim Campbell ...

Completo

15 hora 39 minutos

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for
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Lone Star

A History Of Texas And The Texans

de T. R. Fehrenbach ...

Narrado por John McLain ...

Completo

39 hora 17 minutos

Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He
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Family Secrets

The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

de Jeff Coen ...

Narrado por Matthew Boston ...

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14 hora 43 minutos

Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.Painting a vivid ... Leer más

$19.79 USD

Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.Painting a vivid
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L.A. Noir

The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

de John Buntin ...

Narrado por Kirby Heyborne ...

Completo

17 hora

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on ... Leer más

$21.14 USD

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on
... Leer más
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The Great New York Fire of 1776

A Lost Story of the American Revolution

de Benjamin L. Carp ...

Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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9 hora 50 minutos

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after
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Cold Water Crossing

An Account of the Murders at the Isles of Shoals

de David Faxon ...

Narrado por Keith Sellon-Wright ...

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7 hora 23 minutos

Sometimes a murder story lingers for years after the event. This one has lingered for more than a century, especially in New England. The setting is winter, 1873 on a small, obscure island ten miles off the coast of Maine. Three women await the return of their men the following morning. A killer, who learns they are alone for one night, is rowing to their island, across ten miles of open sea.The ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

Sometimes a murder story lingers for years after the event. This one has lingered for more than a century, especially in New England. The setting is winter, 1873 on a small, obscure island ten miles off the coast of Maine. Three women await the return of their men the following morning. A killer, who learns they are alone for one night, is rowing to their island, across ten miles of open sea.The
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Death in the Haymarket

A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

de James Green ...

Narrado por Joel Richards ...

Completo

12 hora 40 minutos

On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover.Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover.Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement
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A Midwife’s Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

de Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...

Narrado por Susan Ericksen ...

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15 hora 42 minutos

Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in ... Leer más

$18.89 USD

Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in
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Tong Wars

The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

de Scott D. Seligman ...

Narrado por David Shih ...

Completo

11 hora 2 minutos

Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas, and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets to automatic weapons and even bombs. Welcome to New York City's Chinatown in 1925.The Chinese in turn ... Leer más

$15.29 USD

Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas, and more people were dying every day as the weapons of choice evolved from hatchets to automatic weapons and even bombs. Welcome to New York City's Chinatown in 1925.The Chinese in turn
... Leer más
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The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera

An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast

de Harvey H. Jackson III ...

Narrado por Perry Daniels ...

Completo

11 hora 51 minutos

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.Harvey H. Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to ... Leer más

$22.49 USD

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.Harvey H. Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to
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The Last Ride: Murder, Money, and the Sensational Trial That Captivated Nashville

de Martha Smith Tate ...

Narrado por Adam Barr ...

Completo

11 hora 59 minutos

The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Haynie Gourley on May 24, 1968, and the heart-stopping, controversial trial that riveted the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and caused a sensation during the summer of 1969.Set primarily amid the racial turmoil following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 The Last Ride ... Leer más

$22.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Haynie Gourley on May 24, 1968, and the heart-stopping, controversial trial that riveted the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and caused a sensation during the summer of 1969.Set primarily amid the racial turmoil following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 The Last Ride
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Michigan's Strychnine Saint

The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight

de Tobin T. Buhk ...

Narrado por Will Tulin ...

Completo

4 hora 34 minutos

"A historically accurate picture of the characters involved in the complicated frontier-era poisoning investigation" (MLive.com).The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the grave ... Leer más

$14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"A historically accurate picture of the characters involved in the complicated frontier-era poisoning investigation" (MLive.com).The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the grave
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The Vice President's Black Wife

The Untold Life of Julia Chinn

de Amrita Chakrabarti Myers ...

Narrado por Janina Edwards ...

Completo

10 hora 11 minutos

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the ... Leer más

$23.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the
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