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Reagan
- The Life
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 31 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 659
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 658
Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very little about Reagan
- De Jack Merritt en 07-30-15
- Reagan
- The Life
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
Nothing Intimate.
Revisado: 08-23-24
I am disappointed in the lack of personal details. The book is an overview of things going on/ politics/ history and Reagan was there. I would like to know more of what he was thinking and feeling and more personal details.
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- De: Madeline Miller
- Narrado por: Frazer Douglas
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38,890
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34,734
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,629
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- De susan en 06-11-14
- The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- De: Madeline Miller
- Narrado por: Frazer Douglas
It should have come with an LGBT label.
Revisado: 06-21-24
I was interested in hearing a story about Achilles and was sorely disappointed in this one.
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Polk
- The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
- De: Walter R. Borneman
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 397
This is a major political biography of a great American president - who won a war, transformed the government, and doubled the size of the United States...in four years. When Polk was sworn in as the 11th president, what followed was one of the most consequential presidencies in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Polk: One of our most important Preidents
- De Rik GNV en 10-12-08
- Polk
- The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
- De: Walter R. Borneman
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
The US during Polk’s presidency should have been the title.
Revisado: 03-28-24
I was disappointed in the lack of personal information. This book gave lots of details and factual numbers about governmental facts and figures. I was hoping for more personal information on President Polk. 
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American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 350
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing yet Reassuring
- De Sams95 en 11-18-22
- American Midnight
- The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
Hochschild has anger issues
Revisado: 06-05-23
I could not get through the book.
Hochschild is so negative and blatantly political that it distracted from the horrific events that were described in this book.
His aggressive anger toward the right makes his writing full of hate and despair. Chapter after chapter nothing positive at all.
I quit.
I wish I had read more reviews and that I could get my points back.
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Doc Holliday
- The Life and Legend
- De: Gary L. Roberts
- Narrado por: Arthur Flavell
- Duración: 19 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than 20 years of research - including new primary sources - in his quest to separate the life from the legend. Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies
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5 out of 5 stars
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“Watch Tombstone?” You are an idiot
- De Richard en 05-02-20
- Doc Holliday
- The Life and Legend
- De: Gary L. Roberts
- Narrado por: Arthur Flavell
Title should be : What I imagine Doc Holliday’s Life was like.
Revisado: 12-28-22
I was really disappointed, because I was very interested in learning about Doc Holliday. I would’ve never bought it if I had realized ahead of time that he did not have a memoir or letters. That all the information in the book is either quoted from other people, newspaper articles, or what the author imagines happened, or was said.
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Louisa
- The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
- De: Louisa Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her almost despite himself. Their often tempestuous but deeply close marriage lasted half a century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De Jean en 05-18-16
- Louisa
- The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
- De: Louisa Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
What was the point?
Revisado: 05-31-22
What a tragic life!
Her life was full of sorrow. Although she at times rose the the occasion of making a difference, I didn’t think it was worth an entire biography. I was bored and just wanted the tragedy to end.
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City Boy
- The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wanted the next adventure of Herbie Bookbinder!
- De Lucie Batte en 03-17-22
- City Boy
- The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
I wanted the next adventure of Herbie Bookbinder!
Revisado: 03-17-22
Laugh out loud at times.
I love that it is a clean and touching underdog story.
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The Daughters of Yalta
- The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
- De: Catherine Grace Katz
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 635
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 532
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 527
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-19-21
- The Daughters of Yalta
- The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
- De: Catherine Grace Katz
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
Well written and fascinating story!
Revisado: 09-28-21
The intimate details of these 3 amazing women during their time with their fathers in Yalta.
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And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- De: Nick Jones
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,521
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,902
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,877
Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn’t felt for the longest time: hope.
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3 out of 5 stars
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British or American?
- De Stanner en 06-28-21
- And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- De: Nick Jones
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
The American accent threw me off
Revisado: 09-18-21
Can’t figure out why this book was read with an American accent ?
I had to fast forward through the parts where the little girl was talking. It was annoying.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,014
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,142
Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress - until one wrong turn sends Sherman spiraling downward into a humiliating fall from grace. A car accident in the Bronx involving Sherman, his girlfriend, and two young lower-class Black men sets a match to the incendiary racial and social tensions of 1980s New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Big mistake
- De karen en 08-31-14
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
Performance was so crash that it hurt my ears. I could not stand to listen.
Revisado: 09-08-21
Disappointed because I was interested in the story.
The narration was annoying. I appreciate good inflection in an audio book, but this was overkill.
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