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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 66 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,667
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,105
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,109
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING read
- De jeff en 09-15-11
- The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Favorite nonfiction narration/book
Revisado: 06-23-23
Favorite nonfiction book, though it almost reads like a novel because of Caro’s impressively elaborate but tactful prose. The narration is a biting, sardonic, and disdainful provocation on and of Moses from a-z, while at the same time, inherently explaining the real calculus of power neatly threaded with an eloquent commentary on the foolishness of man.
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The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon
- De: John Joseph
- Narrado por: John Joseph
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 600
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 549
The long awaited republishing of NYHC Legend, John Bloodclot Joseph's raw and unfiltered autobiography. As real as it gets! Updated with new chapters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing
- De Amazon Customer en 09-08-17
- The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon
- De: John Joseph
- Narrado por: John Joseph
Violently Bleeding with Honesty and Sincerity
Revisado: 04-24-23
This is easily one of the most honest and sincere memoirs that I’ve ever read or listened to. It is pregnant with general wisdom, hilarious and harrowing anecdotes, and driven by compassion. It’s true to NYC. As great a motivational tale within the beautiful chaos that gripped NYC for so many years.
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Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- De: Bruce Cook
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
A central figure in the Hollywood Ten and one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Trumbo epitomized the spirit of American capitalism, yet he went to jail refusing to talk about his membership in the Communist party.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull
- De M. S. Cohen en 02-29-16
- Trumbo
- A Biography of the Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist
- De: Bruce Cook
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
Cook lays it down; Trumbo was true salt of the earth
Revisado: 02-20-23
Throughout Cook’s examination of Trumbo, there’s a lingering question about whether Trumbo could have been more prolific in his work had he played some of his cards differently. The question even seems to nag a bit for someone like me, being fairly familiar with, and fond of, Trumbo’s work. Although never specifically addressed by Cook, in an organic fashion that may not have been intended, I think that Cook’s talent shines through in vailing the entire story with an implicit rebuke to this explicit underlying question—Sure, Trumbo could have been a more prolific novelist or he could have been an excellent press secretary or an excellent journalist, and so on, with no real end in sight—Trumbo was an exceptionally dynamic man...he was brilliant, cunning, and calculating…but he lived a meaningful life, an examined life, as far as any person may so understand. That’s the rebuke. We should all be so fortunate; we should all be so aspirational and driven. In my view, the penned perspective of Trumbo’s life herein is the only compendium needed to “Johnny Got His Gun” and the catalogue of Trumbo’s professional output, rendering the proliferation question moot. Trumbo is an American icon and shouldn’t be forgotten or neglected. Yet, if you’ve checked out some of the writing credits for various “black list” films of the time on Wikipedia, it appears that that’s exactly what’s happening. And that’s all the more reason why I felt compelled to write this review.
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