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The March
- A Novel
- De: E.L. Doctorow
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 868
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 388
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncivil War
- De Jim E en 09-27-05
- The March
- A Novel
- De: E.L. Doctorow
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
Uncivil War
Revisado: 09-27-05
Authors and historians uniformly treat war as either an individual's experience or some combination of military strategies and conquests. Almost never does an author show that war is not either or, but both.
Doctorow walks the tightrope in this gripping story of battles, conquests, race, class and individuals....especially individuals, representing every stripe and type all swallowed by Sherman's multi-bodied beast and its inexorable march to the sea.
In covering Sherman's campaign, the author makes it emblematic of the whole Civil War. The casual cruelty is more than any planned offensive. The lives broken and reformed a kind of mirror of a ravaged and remade Union.
There's not a single slow passage in the whole narrative and the urge to listen to it from beginning to end in a single sitting nearly irresistable.
More than any tale in memory, this is the most compelling reconstruction of what Civil War really meant.
This is a must have!
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The Tender Bar
- A Memoir
- De: J.R. Moehringer
- Narrado por: J.R. Moehringer
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again, the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak, and eventually from reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Deal and a Good Deal More
- De Jim E en 09-15-05
- The Tender Bar
- A Memoir
- De: J.R. Moehringer
- Narrado por: J.R. Moehringer
A Good Deal and a Good Deal More
Revisado: 09-15-05
"The Tender Bar" is that most elusive item today, a wonderful tale lovingly told. For any guy who has been lost and found this story connects on levels seldom touched today. Alternately plaintive and hard-boiled the story never slows or lessens its grip on us. It is real writing by a real writer. JR as the narrator only makes the listening that much richer carrying the words lovingly on his tongue. This is a 'must have.'
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