American History Biographies

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    • Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
    • Auteur(s): Jesse Wente
    • Narrateur(s): Jesse Wente
    • Durée: 6 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 245 évaluations
    • Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples....

    Prix courant: 30,30 $

    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • Auteur(s): Charles Murray
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Morris
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

    Prix courant: 21,89 $

    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • Auteur(s): Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrateur(s): Pearl Hewitt
    • Durée: 26 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

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    • The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War II
    • Auteur(s): Marcus A. Nannini
    • Narrateur(s): Shawn Compton
    • Durée: 7 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • When Metcalfe boarded the C-47 which would drop him at Groesbeek Heights, just outside of Nijmegen, Holland, he was handed a box of twelve dozen condoms by an overconfident British lieutenant. He was to be among the first to jump into what should have been a picture-book meadow....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
    • Auteur(s): Rich Cohen
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Taylorson
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • An American Biography
    • Auteur(s): Rackham Holt
    • Narrateur(s): Karl T. Wright aka K.T. Wright
    • Durée: 12 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • He educated tens of thousands. His life story inspired millions. Now, the only complete and authorized biography of George Washington Carver, a great American humanitarian, scientist, teacher, and conservationist is back to print after 60 years. Did you know that . . .Carver was born a slave?

    Prix courant: 31,27 $

    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • Auteur(s): Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrateur(s): Dave Courvoisier
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

    Prix courant: 33,01 $

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • Auteur(s): Howard Markel
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 16 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

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    • The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • Auteur(s): T.J. Stiles
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
    • Durée: 28 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 évaluations
    • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $

    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • Auteur(s): Barbara Ransby
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 21 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • My Life on a Special Team
    • Auteur(s): Steve Tasker, Scott Pitoniak, Jim Kelly - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lewis
    • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Steve Tasker was a huge contributor as the Bills strung together an unprecedented four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s....

    Prix courant: 19,77 $

    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 34 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • The Untold Story of the Greatest Prison Break in American History
    • Auteur(s): Michael Esslinger, David Widner
    • Narrateur(s): Dave Clark
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Under the cover of night on June 11, 1962, using only crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way out of Alcatraz....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
    • Auteur(s): Chris Tomlinson
    • Narrateur(s): David Drummond
    • Durée: 13 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A masterpiece of authentic American history, Tomlinson Hill traces the true and very revealing story of two families....

    Prix courant: 23,38 $

    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 évaluations
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • An Epic of the American West
    • Auteur(s): Hampton Sides
    • Narrateur(s): Don Leslie
    • Durée: 20 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 évaluations
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $