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Benjamin Franklin
- An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 24 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's troubled relationship with his son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the 21st century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Better read than this recording
- De Ellen en 08-23-10
- Benjamin Franklin
- An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
Better read than this recording
Revisado: 08-23-10
Very interesting and informative book (5 stars for it), but this narrator's sing-song interpretation of Franklin's voice is unbearable in long stretches (no stars for that). Read the book instead.
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The Defining Moment
- FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 780
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 778
In this dramatic and fascinating account, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very infomative, and also refreshingly honest
- De Andy en 02-19-09
- The Defining Moment
- FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
Great book, another annoying narrator
Revisado: 07-04-09
I wish Jonathan Alter had narrated his own book. This narrator's voice often makes an insight sound like a snide remark. I had to think of Alter reading this in his own voice, which does come through in the writing usually despite the narrator, in order to guess at the real meaning of a sentence. It seems the narrator is listening to his own voice and concerned more with vocal intonation than with content. With Alter's voice I'd have given it 5 stars.
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Cry Havoc!
- The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
- De: Nelson D. Lankford
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
In early March 1861, civil war loomed. By late April, Americans had begun to kill their fellow citizens. Cry Havoc! recounts the events that divided the states and reveals how quirks of timing, character, and place all conspired to transform the nation into a battlefield. Nelson Lankford chronicles the eight critical weeks that began with Lincoln's inauguration through the explosion at Fort Sumpter and the president's fateful response to it.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book, poor narrator
- De Ellen en 04-13-09
- Cry Havoc!
- The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
- De: Nelson D. Lankford
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
Good book, poor narrator
Revisado: 04-13-09
This book would be better read than listened to. There are parallels to our own time, but the narration is so stiff and poorly down that it is a difficult listen.
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