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Hank
- The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of 29, Hank Williams - a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star - instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression, and tainted love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death a template for the rock generation to follow.
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Hank
- The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-22
- Language: English
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The Last Cowboy
- A Life of Tom Landry
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
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As the coach during professional football’s most storied era, Tom Landry transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, he was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding “America’s Team” from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles.
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The Last Cowboy
- A Life of Tom Landry
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-24
- Language: English
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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
- The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than 30 Top 10 hits, 26 Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame - and he's not finished yet. On the verge of turning 60, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world.
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Fascinating but wordy
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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
- The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-03
- Language: English
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Shula
- The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect of the Dolphins dynasty, Shula was a hardworking kid selling fish on the banks of Lake Erie. As acclaimed sports biographer Mark Ribowsky shows, Shula met serious resistance at home when he asked to play high school football, but when his parents finally relented, they discovered that their son had an unmatched mind for the game's strategy and a stomach for its brutality.
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Shula
- The Coach of the NFL's Greatest Generation
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-27
- Language: English
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Howard Cosell
- The Man the Myth and the Transformation of America
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
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deeply misunderstood sports legend, once the most hated and loved man in America, gets his due in this absorbing, revelatory biography. Howard Cosell was one of the most recognizable and controversial figures in American sports history. His colorful bombast, fearless reporting, and courageous stance on civil rights soon captured the attention of listeners everywhere. No mere jock turned "pretty-boy" broadcaster, the Brooklyn-born Cosell began as a lawyer before becoming a radio commentator. "Telling it like it is", he covered nearly every major sports story for three decades, from the travails of Muhammad Ali to the tragedy at Munich.
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Howard Cosell
- The Man the Myth and the Transformation of America
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-27
- Language: English
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Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars
- The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits, with uncertain artistic objectives, clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n' roll world. It also offers a greater appreciation for a band whose legacy, in the aftermath of their last plane ride, has since descended into self-caricature.
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Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars
- The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-01
- Language: English
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as "My Girl" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone". From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized their onstage triumphs to the personal failings and psycho-dramas that played out behind the scenes, Ain't Too Proud to Beg tells the complete story of this most popular - and tragic - of all Motown super groups. Based on in-depth research and interviews with founding Temptations member Otis Williams and many others, the book reveals the highly individual nature of the group's members.
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-19
- Language: English
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In the Name of the Father
- Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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No family in the history of American sports has ascended to the storybook level of greatness and royal succession quite like the Mannings. This talented trio of quarterbacks is enshrined in American culture, epitomizing once-proud but dying nostrums of Southern Christian manhood. With remarkable nuance, "outstanding biographer" (Dallas Morning News) Mark Ribowsky traces their roots from red-clay Mississippi. Drawing on dozens of new interviews, Ribowsky tells us that the path to football immortality has not always been smooth, nor completely glorious.
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In the Name of the Father
- Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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Dreams to Remember
- Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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When he died suddenly at the age of 26, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of music. Sure, Berry Gordy might have built the first black-owned music empire at Motown, but Redding was doing something as historic: mainstreaming black music within the whitest bastions of the post-Confederate south. As a result, the Redding story - still largely untold - is one of great conquest but, sadly, grand tragedy.
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Dreams to Remember
- Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-01
- Language: English
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