One Minute After Sunrise
The Story of the Standard Oil Refinery Fire of 1955
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John Hmurovic
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Whiting, Indiana Saturday, August 27, 1955 Sunrise, 6:11 a.m. Its 80 degrees in the shade, and most of the city's residents are still trying to sleep off an airless, oppressive night. But inside the plant at Whiting's biggest employer (and one of the worlds largest oil refineries), something has gone horribly wrong, something that threatens to destroy the entire community.
The clock changes. 6:12 a.m.
This is the story of what happened at one minute after sunrise on that cataclysmic day in 1955, spoken in the words of the people who lived through it. Its the story of how, in the passing of a single instant, their lives and their community were changed forever.
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The incredible story of a flood of near-Biblical proportions - its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America’s natural-disaster policies for the next century. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It was the nation’s most widespread flood ever - more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I love these historical narratives
- De Kim Hamacher en 07-28-15
De: Geoff Williams
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This Is Chance!
- The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
- De: Jon Mooallem
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis - the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. This Is Chance! is the thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.
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4 out of 5 stars
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amazing story
- De Dani L en 02-07-21
De: Jon Mooallem
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Ordinary Heroes
- A Memoir of 9/11
- De: Joseph Pfeifer
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 360
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 318
When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched as the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Pfeifer, the closest FDNY chief to the scene, spearheaded rescue efforts on one of the darkest days in American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing account
- De Anonymous User en 09-09-21
De: Joseph Pfeifer
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Chicago's Great Fire
- The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
- De: Carl Smith
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it. Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good read
- De Lori en 11-23-24
De: Carl Smith
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The Ground Breaking
- An American City and Its Search for Justice
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Over the course of less than 24 hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa’s infamous “Black Wall Street” was wiped off the map - and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than 50 years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book on the Tulsa Massacre
- De vivabooks en 08-15-21
De: Scott Ellsworth
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The Great Halifax Explosion
- A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 319
From best-selling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much hostility towards Americans
- De bigdaddyKT en 12-14-19
De: John U. Bacon
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- De: Willie Drye
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935, is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than I expected
- De Jennifer Camp en 07-23-24
De: Willie Drye
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Report from Ground Zero
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 168
Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Intersting choice of narrator
- De Sara Roltgen en 09-24-18
De: Dennis Smith
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening and eye-opening
- De Amee Arledge en 07-21-22
De: Anthony DePalma
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Chasing Catastrophe
- My 35 Years Covering Wars, Hurricanes, Terror Attacks, and Other Breaking News
- De: Rick Leventhal
- Narrado por: Rick Leventhal
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he’s covered in his thirty-five years as a news reporter, anchor, and Senior Correspondent—with some life lessons thrown in along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insights on catastrophes from a journalistic perspective
- De Laura N. Rains en 05-18-23
De: Rick Leventhal
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- De: Jon Wilkman
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story
- De C. Jackson en 04-07-21
De: Jon Wilkman
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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The Great Hurricane
- 1938
- De: Cherie Burns
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 389
On the night of September 20, 1938, the news on the radio was full of Hitler's pending invasion of Czechoslovakia. Severe weather wasn't mentioned; only light rain was forecast for the following day. In a matter of hours, however, a hurricane of unprecedented force would tear through one of the wealthiest and most populated stretches of coastline in America, obliterating communities from Long Island to Providence, destroying entire fishing fleets from Montauk to Narragansett Bay.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizing book!
- De Tracey en 04-23-13
De: Cherie Burns
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,311
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,292
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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The Storm of the Century
- Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
- De: Al Roker, William Hogeland
- Narrado por: Byron Wagner
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas' Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that had existed just hours before was gone. Shattered, grief-stricken survivors emerged to witness a level of destruction never before seen: 8,000 corpses littered the streets and were buried under the massive wreckage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of "The Storm of the Century "
- De S. Noe en 09-04-15
De: Al Roker, y otros
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Hiroshima
- De: John Hersey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 988
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 855
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 859
A journalistic masterpiece. John Hersey transports us back to the streets of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 - the day the city was destroyed by the first atomic bomb. Told through the memories of six survivors, Hiroshima is a timeless, powerful classic that will awaken your heart and your compassion. In this new edition, Hersey returns to Hiroshima to find the survivors - and to tell their fates in an eloquent and moving final chapter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hiroshima, the days and years that followed
- De Julia en 04-15-15
De: John Hersey
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre One Minute After Sunrise
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Sara Landon
- 01-17-21
Interesting Story Expertly Narrated
The subject of this book was brand new to me, but interesting as I live 2 hours away from Whiting, Indiana. I like that the author covered all aspects of this explosion including the history of Standard Oil in the area, what led up to the explosion as well as all aspects of life and rebuilding after the explosion. The memories shared of those that lived through the explosion and the many ways that this affected their lives was, to me, the most interesting part of this story. Highly recommended listen!
Even though this narrator is new to audible, the narration of this story was perfect and easy to listen to. I would listen to anything he narrates.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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