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A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America: not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined and redefined by those who clean the hotel rooms, tend the beet fields, endure disasters both natural and manmade. As the name of the president changed from Bush to Obama to Trump, Barry was crisscrossing the country, filing deeply moving stories from the tiniest dot on the American map to the city that calls itself the Capital of the World.
Complemented by the select images of award-winning Times photographers, these narrative and visual snapshots of American life create a majestic tapestry of our shared experience, capturing how our nation is at once flawed and exceptional, paralyzed and ascendant, as cruel and violent as it can be gentle and benevolent.
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"Story to story, this collection of reportage from Dan Barry for The New York Times might appear to be what it is—old journalism. And yet, what is actually here, a decade of stories about crumbling traditions, breaks in trust and flickers of grace, is the most comprehensive single-book portrait of the United States (circa 2007-2016) in a long time. The accumulated power of these pieces—angry, corny, inspiring, mournful and insane—takes on the shape of a salute to durable, keenly observed newspaper writing."—The Chicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of 2018
"Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck."—Colum McCann
"Dan Barry is an American treasure, and This Land is a beautifully conceived, essential book on American lives and places. His understanding and love of the American experience-small towns, fractured lives, beauty, suffering, and the physical landscape—is unparalleled. I'm grateful to him, and for him, for chronicling our lives, honoring our history and recognizing our connection to each other."—Rosanne Cash
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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Humboldt
- Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
- De: Emily Brady
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Sonny Warner, Erin Bennett, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture - one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous, and yet the place, and its inhabitants, have been nearly impenetrable. Until now. Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De David en 02-26-15
De: Emily Brady
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- De: Peter Godwin
- Narrado por: Peter Godwin
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 76
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the listen.
- De SEE en 09-06-21
De: Peter Godwin
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Street of Eternal Happiness
- Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
- De: Rob Schmitz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city's sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Deserving of better audio
- De Rachael en 02-19-18
De: Rob Schmitz
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13,561
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,978
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11,920
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- De: Michael Meyer
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.
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1 out of 5 stars
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If you liked the Wonder Years...?
- De Judas Mallory en 05-19-15
De: Michael Meyer
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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Breaking Blue
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! Highly Recommended.
- De R. Smith en 02-25-17
De: Timothy Egan
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- De: Philip Caputo
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 122
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Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-18
De: Philip Caputo
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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Full Body Burden
- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- De: Kristen Iversen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Kristen Iversen
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that no one else wanted to tell.
- De Carol en 01-28-13
De: Kristen Iversen
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Levittown
- Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
- De: David Kushner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. The Levitts, William, Alfred, and their father, Abe, pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat - but not to everyone. Levittown had a Whites-only policy.
De: David Kushner
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This Love Is Not for Cowards
- Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
- De: Robert Andrew Powell
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state - one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking - the border city of Jurez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Jurez." Nothing exemplifies the spirit and hope of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city's beloved but hard-luck soccer team.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Nathan & Kira Huggins en 04-14-15
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Pure Land
- A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth
- De: Annette McGivney
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand Canyon, and into the ugliest aspects of human behavior, Pure Land offers proof of the healing power of nature and of the resiliency of the human spirit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling story about Tomomi, too much personal
- De Chester Chellman en 02-02-18
De: Annette McGivney
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- De: Nick Reding
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 883
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 476
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but insubstantial
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 02-10-10
De: Nick Reding
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Great Human Stories
I really enjoyed the various short vignettes of people from around the country. Great narrations.
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