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  • An Underground Education

    The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields

    de Richard Zacks ...
    The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge.Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that Remembrance of Things Past has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American countries when we feel like it. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Island of Vice

    Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

    de Richard Zacks ...
    A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICEIn the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, glittering casinos, and all-night ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Pirate Coast

    Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

    de Richard Zacks ...
    A real-life thriller—the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees."It is a tale of high ideals, derring-do, [and] extraordinary courage." — New York TimesIn an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Pirate Hunter

    The True Story of Captain Kidd

    de Richard Zacks ...
    A gripping look at the life of the seventeenth-century sea captain and the never-before-told story of his hunt for the ruthless pirate Robert Culliford."A richly detailed nautical thriller . . . combines exciting escapism with thought-provoking history." —James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of SecretsA Time Magazine Best Book of the YearCaptain Kidd has gone down in history ... ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Chasing the Last Laugh

    Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

    de Richard Zacks ...
    From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humorMark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation’s worst investors. “There are two times in a man’s life ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    The Pirate Coast

    Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

    de Richard Zacks ...
    Narrado por Raymond Todd ...

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    13 hora 19 minutos

    A real-life thriller—the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their kneesAfter Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured three hundred US sailors and marines. President Jefferson sent out navy squadrons, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    The Pirate Hunter

    The True Story of Captain Kidd

    de Richard Zacks ...
    Narrado por Michael Prichard ...

    Completo

    18 hora 44 minutos

    Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates in the 1690s. His three-year odyssey ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    An Underground Education

    The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge

    de Richard Zacks ...
    Narrado por Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Completo

    17 hora 27 minutos

    Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of the cocktail party, or the loser spending forty-five minutes examining the host's bookshelves?Wouldn't you rather learn things like how the invention of the bicycle affected the evolution of underwear? Or that the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a doctor ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Island of Vice

    Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York

    de Richard Zacks ...
    Narrado por Joe Ochman ...

    Completo

    15 hora 24 minutos

    A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICEIn the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, glittering casinos, and all-night ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Chasing the Last Laugh

    Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

    de Richard Zacks ...
    Narrado por George Guidall ...

    Completo

    16 hora 37 minutos

    From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humorMark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation’s worst investors. “There are two times in a man’s life ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    The Strategy of Victory

    How General George Washington Won the American Revolution

    de Thomas Fleming ...
    Narrado por Michael Johnson ...

    Completo

    10 hora 42 minutos

    A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US ArmyLed by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory in 1775 at Bunker Hill, patriot leaders were convinced that the key to victory was ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    This is Berlin

    Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany

    de William Shirer ...
    Narrado por Grover Gardner ...

    Completo

    21 hora 41 minutos

    Legendary CBS news journalist’s iconic radio broadcasts from Europe during WWIIThis collection of William L. Shirer’s radio broadcasts tells the vivid story of WWII and brings the suspense of the times to life for today’s audience.As the first journalist hired by CBS to cover the war in Europe, Shirer compiled two and a half years’ worth of wartime broadcasts including Hitler’s invasion of Austria ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook