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  • The Great Depression: A Diary

    de Benjamin Roth ...
    A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good—until the stock market crash of 1929. After ... Leer más

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  • One Nation Under Gold

    How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

    One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America—whether gold should be a repository of hope, or a damaging delusion that has long since derailed the rational investor.Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has historically influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an often outsized influence on the national ... Leer más

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    The Great Depression: A Diary

    de Benjamin Roth ...
    Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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    12 hora 25 minutos

    A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good—until the stock market crash of 1929. After ... Leer más

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    One Nation Under Gold

    How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    14 hora 21 minutos

    Worshiped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted an irrational influence on the national psyche for centuries. It is an existential quest that extends to today, as millions of investors remain entranced by the metal, and as right-wing presidential candidates present it as the antidote to our economic woes. Acclaimed ... Leer más

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    How Do We Look

    The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

    de Mary Beard ...
    Narrado por Mary Beard ...

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    2 hora 51 minutos

    From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity.Conceived as an accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec ... Leer más

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    Driving While Black

    African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

    Narrado por Gretchen Sorin, Janina Edwards ...

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    9 hora 8 minutos

    How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life—the true history beyond the Best Picture–winning movie.The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many ... Leer más

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    A Furious Sky

    The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

    Narrado por Bob Souer ...

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    10 hora 50 minutos

    With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the ... Leer más

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    This America

    The Case for the Nation

    de Jill Lepore ...
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    2 hora 36 minutos

    From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the ... Leer más

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    Dancing in the Dark

    A Cultural History of the Great Depression

    Narrado por Malcolm Hillgartner ...

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    23 hora 31 minutos

    Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans during the Great Depression.Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called "one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature," has brought together a ... Leer más

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  • Business Adventures

    Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

    de John Brooks ...
    " Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." —Bill Gates, The Wall Street JournalWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or ... Leer más

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  • Orphan Train

    A Novel

    #1 New York Times BestsellerAvailable in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline’s smash bestseller, a captivating historical novel that is “a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history” (Ann Packer).Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the ... Leer más

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