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Bestsellers
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
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This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness....
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.
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Great book; highly recommended
- De Eric Moore Schneider en 02-21-24
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- De: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- De Kindle Customer en 04-26-22
De: Jeremy D. Popkin
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Loved everyone minute!
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-12
De: Robert K. Massie
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Narración:
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Historia
This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness....
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 22 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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You don't know the whole story.
- De Justin Sluyter en 05-01-19
De: Peter FitzSimons
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General
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Historia
The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.
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Great book; highly recommended
- De Eric Moore Schneider en 02-21-24
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- De: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Narration
- De Kindle Customer en 04-26-22
De: Jeremy D. Popkin
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Loved everyone minute!
- De Elizabeth en 02-05-12
De: Robert K. Massie
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- De: Antonia Fraser
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 20 h y 27 m
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France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....
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Annoying Narration
- De LaFemmeRouge en 10-28-06
De: Antonia Fraser
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Tom Reiss
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers....
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The story behind the greatest novelist of all time
- De Melinda en 01-13-13
De: Tom Reiss
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Every Living Thing
- The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- De: Jason Roberts
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories....
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Fascinating history of scientific thought
- De Candy Dan en 06-10-24
De: Jason Roberts
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The Duchess
- De: Amanda Foreman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....
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Captivating Biography with Outstanding Narration
- De Johanna en 05-15-16
De: Amanda Foreman
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 36 h y 48 m
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution....
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Audio Skips!!
- De Joseph M. Arnold en 07-02-15
De: Simon Schama
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The Courtiers
- Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II....
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Annoying narrator
- De Heather en 04-11-24
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: Andrew J. Andersen
- Duración: 21 h
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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Terrible reading
- De michael w hirschorn en 07-08-24
De: Robert Darnton
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1774
- The Long Year of Revolution
- De: Mary Beth Norton
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....
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The US revolutionary war was baked in by 1775
- De Randall Parker en 04-18-20
De: Mary Beth Norton
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: David Monteath
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.
De: Angus Konstam
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A Colony Sprung from Hell
- Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
- De: Daniel P. Barr
- Narrado por: Michael Kazalski
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests....
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These places have names.
- De Scott A. Yerecic en 01-13-17
De: Daniel P. Barr
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
De: Robert Darnton
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- De: Peter Stark
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation....
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Loved learning how a greater leader became one!
- De Will en 11-01-18
De: Peter Stark
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Heart of American Darkness
- Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
- De: Robert G. Parkinson
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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Acclaimed historian Robert Parkinson captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation.
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- De: Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....
De: Lesley Adkins, y otros
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James Madison
- America's First Politician
- De: Jay Cost
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent....
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Good listen
- De James Shannon en 06-27-22
De: Jay Cost
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- De: Marcus Rediker
- Narrado por: Cornell Womack
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....
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The details
- De Dorothy en 04-26-24
De: Marcus Rediker
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War Along the Wabash
- The Ohio Indian Confederacy’s Destruction of the U.S. Army, 1791
- De: Steven P. Locke
- Narrado por: Steven P. Locke
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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The result of 30 years of study, this book is an examination of the battle of the Wabash from both the Indian and American points of view....
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Fantastic!
- De Anonymous User en 10-12-23
De: Steven P. Locke
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Thomas Paine Classic Collection
- Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man
- De: Thomas Paine
- Narrado por: Russell Newton
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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This Thomas Paine Classic Collection contains three of Thomas Paine's most notable books: Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man....
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As it was then, so it is today.
- De Jason Lehne en 10-28-20
De: Thomas Paine
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The Pirate King
- The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
- De: Graham A. Thomas
- Narrado por: Alex Hyde White
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
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The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy....
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Pirate Morgan as fictionally told by himself
- De prc en 03-25-21
De: Graham A. Thomas
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Dr. Johnson's London
- De: Liza Picard
- Narrado por: Fiona Shaw
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
- Versión resumida
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....
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charming
- De Panda Pandersson en 11-29-18
De: Liza Picard
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- De: Jay Winik
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution....
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I was crazy addicted to this book.
- De Daniel R McCloy en 12-06-17
De: Jay Winik
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Phantom Terror
- Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
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For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety....
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Amazing
- De Mike Johnson en 07-14-15
De: Adam Zamoyski
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- De: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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An author with an idea but not the skills
- De chris loomis en 08-07-15
De: Henrik O. Lunde
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Thomas Jefferson: A Life from Beginning to End
- One Hour History: US Presidents, Book 4
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Derek Jeck
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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Thomas Jefferson's opposition to tyranny and his advocacy of freedom have inspired generations to believe that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right....
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a slice of history in an hour
- De CF en 06-13-19
De: Hourly History