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The Presidents
- Noted Historians Rank America's Best - and Worst - Chief Executives
- Narrateur(s): Gary Tiedemann, Grace Angela Henry
- Durée: 19 h et 15 min
- Catégories: Sciences sociales et politiques, Politique
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Presidents in Crisis
- Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
- Auteur(s): Michael K. Bohn
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 12 h et 23 min
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In Presidents in Crisis, a former director of the Situation Room takes the listener inside the White House during 17 grave international emergencies handled by the presidents from Truman to Obama: from North Korea's invasion of South Korea to the revolutions of the Arab Spring, and from the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the taking of American diplomats hostage in Iran and George W. Bush's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
- The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- Auteur(s): Stephen Wynalda
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 15 h et 33 min
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For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old son, Willie, died.
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We Were There
- Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963
- Auteur(s): Allen Childs MD
- Narrateur(s): Robin Bloodworth
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
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A true collective account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Adding to the wealth of information about this tragic day is We Were There, a truly unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where JFK was immediately taken after he was shot.
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Roosevelt
- Auteur(s): Brett Harper
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
- Durée: 4 h et 18 min
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He was one of America's greatest presidents and certainly our most colorful. Theodore Roosevelt, known to all but his friends as Teddy, was born a sickly child but transformed himself into an outdoorsman, a cowboy, and a warrior who led his Rough Riders up the San Juan Heights of Cuba in a charge that still ranks among the world's military legends. But Roosevelt was also a man of letters who churned out some 40 books, a gifted politician who charmed the nation, and a statesman who could settle a war as well as wage one.
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American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914
- Auteur(s): Francis Russell
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 15 h et 37 min
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Here are the stories of political power struggles, reconstruction, western expansion, Ellis Island immigrants, the rise of American tycoons and labor unions, and the country's entry into World War I.
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Connecting with Life: Finding Nature in an Urban World
- Auteur(s): Martin Summer
- Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
- Durée: 5 h et 20 min
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In his debut book, Martin Summer aims to help listeners find nature in an urban world. He discusses how our modern lives differ from the lifestyles of our ancestors. He then proceeds to cover six big problems of urbanization and their destructive impact on our lives. Practical solutions follow each discussed danger. In the next part of the book, the author reveals what connecting with nature means in today's world and why it's possible to do so even in a big city. He discusses the tricky subject of finding a compromise between technology and nature.
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Presidents in Crisis
- Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
- Auteur(s): Michael K. Bohn
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
- Durée: 12 h et 23 min
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In Presidents in Crisis, a former director of the Situation Room takes the listener inside the White House during 17 grave international emergencies handled by the presidents from Truman to Obama: from North Korea's invasion of South Korea to the revolutions of the Arab Spring, and from the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the taking of American diplomats hostage in Iran and George W. Bush's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
- The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- Auteur(s): Stephen Wynalda
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 15 h et 33 min
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For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old son, Willie, died.
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We Were There
- Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963
- Auteur(s): Allen Childs MD
- Narrateur(s): Robin Bloodworth
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
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A true collective account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Adding to the wealth of information about this tragic day is We Were There, a truly unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where JFK was immediately taken after he was shot.
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Roosevelt
- Auteur(s): Brett Harper
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
- Durée: 4 h et 18 min
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He was one of America's greatest presidents and certainly our most colorful. Theodore Roosevelt, known to all but his friends as Teddy, was born a sickly child but transformed himself into an outdoorsman, a cowboy, and a warrior who led his Rough Riders up the San Juan Heights of Cuba in a charge that still ranks among the world's military legends. But Roosevelt was also a man of letters who churned out some 40 books, a gifted politician who charmed the nation, and a statesman who could settle a war as well as wage one.
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American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914
- Auteur(s): Francis Russell
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 15 h et 37 min
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Here are the stories of political power struggles, reconstruction, western expansion, Ellis Island immigrants, the rise of American tycoons and labor unions, and the country's entry into World War I.
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Connecting with Life: Finding Nature in an Urban World
- Auteur(s): Martin Summer
- Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
- Durée: 5 h et 20 min
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In his debut book, Martin Summer aims to help listeners find nature in an urban world. He discusses how our modern lives differ from the lifestyles of our ancestors. He then proceeds to cover six big problems of urbanization and their destructive impact on our lives. Practical solutions follow each discussed danger. In the next part of the book, the author reveals what connecting with nature means in today's world and why it's possible to do so even in a big city. He discusses the tricky subject of finding a compromise between technology and nature.
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The American Experiment
- Auteur(s): James MacGregor Burns
- Narrateur(s): Mark Ashby
- Durée: 88 h et 27 min
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James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history.
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- Auteur(s): W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
- Durée: 7 h et 52 min
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In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.
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1000 Days on the River Kwai
- The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant
- Auteur(s): H. C. Owtram
- Narrateur(s): Trevor Winslow
- Durée: 5 h et 52 min
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After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway, Colonel Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps. Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage that he showed protecting POWs from the worst excesses of their captors. Of course his account does not admit to this, but what is clear is that in addition to the deprivation and hardship suffered by all POWs, the author bore heavy responsibility for those under his charge and the daily trauma of dealing with the unpredictable Japanese.
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Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- Auteur(s): Edward J. Larson
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Tell
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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In Franklin & Washington, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson delivers a masterful, overdue joint biography of our two most legendary Founding Fathers. As Larson relates, Franklin and Washington, though divided by a twenty-six-year age gap and vastly different life experiences, underwent a similarly dramatic transformation from loyal British colonists to American nationalists, and found a shared purpose in their efforts to prepare the United States for independence.
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Before Wallis
- Edward VIII's Other Women
- Auteur(s): Rachel Trethewey
- Narrateur(s): Charlotte Strevens
- Durée: 10 h et 5 min
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Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love. Before Wallis dominated his life, he adored three other women: Rosemary Leveson Gower, the girl he wanted to marry; Freda Dudley Ward, the Prince's long-term mistress; and Thelma Furness, his twice-married American lover. Each one of the three women in this book could have changed the course of history. In examining their lives and impact on the heir to the throne, Rachel Trethewey questions whether he ever really wanted to be king....
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Beatleness
- How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
- Auteur(s): Candy Leonard
- Narrateur(s): Tamara Marston
- Durée: 11 h et 10 min
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Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives, creating a relationship that was historically unique. Looking at that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, and other events of those tumultuous years, the audiobook critically examines the often-heard assertion that the Beatles changed everything.
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The Bite in the Apple
- A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
- Auteur(s): Chrisann Brennan
- Narrateur(s): Coleen Marlo
- Durée: 10 h et 52 min
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Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach. The Bite in the Apple is the very human tale of Jobs's ascent and the toll it took.
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Better than Isaacson
- Écrit par Shane le 2019-03-02
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World War II: Desert War
- American Heritage
- Auteur(s): Stephen W. Sears
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 3 h et 35 min
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The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who changed the course of the war.
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The Byzantine World War
- Auteur(s): Nick Holmes
- Narrateur(s): Martin Carroll
- Durée: 5 h et 18 min
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The Crusades shook the world. But why did they happen? Their origins are revealed in a new light. As part of a medieval world war that stretched from Asia to Europe. At its center was an ancient empire Byzantium. Told for the first time as a single, linked narrative are three great events that changed history: The fall of Byzantium in the 11th century, the epic campaign of the First Crusade and the origins of modern Turkey. Nick Holmes not only presents the First Crusade in a wider global context but he also puts forwards new interpretations of the original sources.
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Lincoln and Churchill
- Statesmen at War
- Auteur(s): Lewis E. Lehrman
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 17 h et 4 min
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Acclaimed historian Lewis Lehrman, in his path-breaking comparison of both statesmen, finds that Lincoln and Churchill - with very different upbringings and contrasting personalities - led their war efforts, to some extent, in similar ways. As supreme war lords, they were guided not only by principles of honor, duty, freedom, but also by the practical wisdom to know when, where, and how to apply these principles. They made mistakes which Lehrman considers carefully. But the author emphasizes that, despite setbacks, they never gave up.
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
- Auteur(s): Gary W. Gallagher - editor, Alan T. Nolan - editor
- Narrateur(s): Keith McCarthy
- Durée: 8 h et 28 min
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Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own.
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The Nuremberg Trial
- Auteur(s): John Tusa, Ann Tusa
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Cosham
- Durée: 25 h et 45 min
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Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn.
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A good book with a few flaws
- Écrit par Dave Raynould le 2020-09-04
Description
The complete rankings of our best - and worst - presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.
Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories - their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst leaders in our national history, along with everyone in between.
Based on interviews conducted over the years with a variety of presidential biographers, this book provides not just a complete ranking of our presidents, but stories and analyses that capture the character of the men who held the office. From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader - and what does not.
As America looks ahead to our next election, this book offers perspective and criteria to help us choose our next leader wisely.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.