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A Promised Land
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 29 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 55,239
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47,709
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 47,360
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Color me grateful.
- De Angela en 11-19-20
- A Promised Land
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
Leadership and Courage
Revisado: 03-16-25
Hearing his words in his voice, President Obama reminds us of what true leadership in the face of scrutiny in every corner was refreshing and sadly a nostalgic journey. Worth the read.
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Richard A. McKay
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great revisionist history book
- De Maria José Celis en 05-04-23
- Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Richard A. McKay
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
Dismisses GDs role too completely
Revisado: 06-11-24
While I do not believe a patient zero exists and is certainly not GD, his behaviors and willful disregard for what was going on shouldn’t be minimized, though he should not be singularly villainized, either. But despite being presented with mounting evidence of how the virus spread he had such a devil-may-care attitude about it.
This piece also undermines the good that happened as a result of And the Band Played On. While the portrayal of GD in that book wasn’t fair, books are written based on what is known at the time. And recent pandemics show we are always in search of who is to blame. Unfortunately for ATBPO that person was GD.
There’s fault with both and so many more. The real villain, which I hope is written about more in depth in the future, is the horrendous president Reagan and his administration which did nothing. Thats what happens when a pandemic is killing all the right people.
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The Storm
- One Voice from the AIDS Generation
- De: Christopher Zyda
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
An unflinching and, at times, raw memoir, The Storm is filled with heart, optimism, and love, interspersed with Los Angeles history, gay and lesbian history, AIDS history, and the backdrop of the 1980s and 1990s.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Zyda is Brilliant (Just ask him.)
- De Your Average Gay Consumer en 06-27-21
- The Storm
- One Voice from the AIDS Generation
- De: Christopher Zyda
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
AIDS storytelling with a unique lens
Revisado: 05-23-24
This was terrific. Finally a love story that doesn’t completely end in tragedy and sadness. There are so many serodiscordant couples and this helps shed light on the early years of what that meant.
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All the Young Men
- A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
- De: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary
- Narrado por: Ruth Coker Burks
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 319
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 273
In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth is visiting a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient inside, all of them reluctant to enter the room. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and immediately begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the last moments of his life. Before she can even process what she’s done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you listen to one book this year. THIS IS IT.
- De Labs4life en 12-04-20
- All the Young Men
- A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
- De: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary
- Narrado por: Ruth Coker Burks
Amazing, Sad, Horrific
Revisado: 01-21-23
I have read many books on the subject of HIV and AIDS but none that humanized the experience as well as this.
As a gay man, I know I’d be dead had I been a 20 something in the 1980s. Knowing there were people like Ruth there to hold the hands of countless men who unnecessarily died from an epidemic that could have easily been stopped had we had a president who cared brings some comfort. I can picture “her guys” as she vividly recalls them and what they endured - the hate, the pain, all of it.
Gay or not, read this. Their voices need to be heard.
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An American Life
- De: Ronald Reagan
- Narrado por: Ronald Reagan
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,046
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 872
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 868
Ronald Reagan is an American success story. From modest beginnings in a small midwestern town to a distinguished career in films and television, he lived the American dream; as governor of California and as the centurys most popular president, he embodied and revitalized the American spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Restored my hope that American can again be great!
- De Greg en 07-31-12
- An American Life
- De: Ronald Reagan
- Narrado por: Ronald Reagan
An unAmerican Life
Revisado: 01-21-23
Reagan is often looked so favorably as a president but when you take a closer look under the hood, I hope history regards him as one who allowed a virus to spread and become an epidemic when it could have been stopped. One who allowed thousands to die and ignored them. He loves himself and believes himself to be some great American and he made contributions, sure. But this book just tells his story as he sees it and based on his dementia, how he remembers it which must be questioned.
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Martin and John
- De: Dale Peck
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 8
Dale Peck’s debut is a tour de force in which Martin and John find each other again and again: in a trailer park, a high-end jewelry store, a Kansas barn, and later, in New York City, living under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Though their names remain the same, their identities are constantly shifting, creating a fractured view of loss and desire in the early years of the AIDS crisis. Vaulting through self and history, Martin and John is one of the most remarkable novels to emerge from an America ravaged by disease.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Confusing
- De Pgparks en 12-30-19
- Martin and John
- De: Dale Peck
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
Average
Revisado: 01-21-23
I found the narration to be a bit over the top and the story to be too winding. It didn’t tell a compelling story of living with AIDS and finding love or any sort of relationship, good or bad. Read it twice and felt the same both times.
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 31 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 912
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The subtitle says it all!
- De January Johnson en 03-19-13
- And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
Stunning
Revisado: 11-22-22
Warning. This will anger any reasonable persons. So much could’ve been done that wasn’t. Sadly it was killing all the right people for the Reagan administration.
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