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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-15
- Language: English
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Written by: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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Great reading of the essays
- By Anonymous User on 2019-09-16
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 49 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-20
- Language: English
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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- Written by: T. J. Stiles
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.
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Excellent Narration. Very easy to listen to.
- By Jack on 2024-04-17
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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-01
- Language: English
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I Want My MTV
- The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
- Written by: Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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It was a pretty radical idea - a channel for teenagers, showing nothing but music videos. It was such a radical idea that almost no one thought it would actually succeed, much less become a force in the worlds of music, television, film, fashion, sports, and even politics. But it did work. MTV became more than anyone had ever imagined. I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTV's programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands, learn about new music, and have something to talk about at parties.
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Im an 80s kid.
- By affleck on 2017-10-06
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I Want My MTV
- The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-25
- Language: English
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Brothers
- The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
- Written by: David Talbot
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
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For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged - until now. In Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, David Talbot sheds a dramatic new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its stunning aftermath. Talbot has written a gripping political history.
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Exceptional.
- By Jane Hargrow on 2023-07-05
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Brothers
- The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-23
- Language: English
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The Untold History of the United States
- Written by: Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 36 hrs and 25 mins
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Aided by the latest archival findings and recently declassified documents and building on the research of the world’s best scholars, Stone and Kuznick construct an often shocking but meticulously documented "people’s history" of the American empire that challenges the notion of American exceptionalism. Stone and Kuznick will introduce listeners to a pantheon of heroes and villains as they show not only how far the United States has drifted from its democratic traditions but the powerful forces that have struggled to get us back on track.
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The Untold History of the United States
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 36 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-31
- Language: English
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- Written by: Ed West
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance of her young son, not yet fully grown but already a sadist who takes delight in watching executions.
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An enjoyable listen
- By Nikki Small on 2020-08-22
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-09
- Language: English
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Grunt
- The Curious Science of Humans at War
- Written by: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries - panic, exhaustion, heat, noise - and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper.
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Sample it first!
- By Chris on 2022-03-14
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Grunt
- The Curious Science of Humans at War
- Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- Language: English
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The Curse of Oak Island
- The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- Written by: Randall Sullivan
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan takes listeners along to follow their quest firsthand.
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Long anticlimactic listen
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-04-06
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The Curse of Oak Island
- The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-19
- Language: English
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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Better read than listened to
- By Mike Reiter on 2018-01-02
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2011-10-04
- Language: English
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In Danger's Path
- The Corps, Book 8
- Written by: W. E. B. Griffin
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
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Desperate to find someone to unite the battling interests of General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and OSS Chief "Wild Bill" Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt puts Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS’s Pacific operations. Immediately, two urgent missions fall into his lap: to contact and rescue a band of former American servicemen and their dependents on the run from the Japanese in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia; and at the same time, to set up a weather station in the Gobi to help direct planned aerial attacks against Japan.
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Another great listen!!!
- By Anonymous User on 2023-10-18
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In Danger's Path
- The Corps, Book 8
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Series: Corps, Book 8
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-17
- Language: English
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Starkweather
- The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
- Written by: Harry N. MacLean
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed. When Starkweather’s car broke down, the teenagers who stopped to help were murdered and jammed into a storm cellar. By the time the dust settled, ten innocent people were dead and the city of Lincoln was in a state of terror.
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Starkweather
- The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-28
- Language: English
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Written by: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Meant for reading not listening
- By Christine Tan on 2019-01-26
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-26
- Language: English
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The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Written by: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.
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Very Detailed
- By Gerald Demooy on 2019-07-31
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The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-01
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Prairie Years and The War Years
- Written by: Carl Sandburg
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 44 hrs and 12 mins
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Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.
Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Prairie Years and The War Years
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 44 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-22
- Language: English
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- Written by: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church.-
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not what I thought
- By Tina on 2022-12-29
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-13
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Written by: Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, and others
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 37 hrs
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The basis for the film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception.
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The Pentagon Papers
- The Secret History of the Vietnam War
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 37 hrs
- Release date: 2018-01-16
- Language: English
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A Problem From Hell
- America and the Age of Genocide
- Written by: Samantha Power
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
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In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power - a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow “never again” repeatedly fail to stop genocide?
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Chilling
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-10-27
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A Problem From Hell
- America and the Age of Genocide
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-06
- Language: English
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The Boys of Summer
- The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since
- Written by: Roger Kahn
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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This is a story about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a story by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.
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Nice story - no connection to author.
- By D Butcher on 2021-07-29
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The Boys of Summer
- The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2009-03-16
- Language: English
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Donald J. Trump
- A President like No Other
- Written by: Conrad Black, Victor Davis Hanson - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the most provocative political books you are likely to listen to this year.
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A series in the making.
- By Albert La Penna on 2018-09-22
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Donald J. Trump
- A President like No Other
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-14
- Language: English
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