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From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America.
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In this magisterial work of storytelling and scholarship, acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Anbinder reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation. Plentiful Country is a tour de force—a book that rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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“Anbinder details the human horrors of the potato famine in unadorned prose that only adds to its emotional impact… [and] weaves together individual immigrants’ stories with more general history to make this a remarkably perceptive and engaging portrait of American immigration history.”—Booklist
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The saga behind The Blues Brothers, as Daniel de Visé reveals, is epic, encompassing the colorful childhoods of Belushi and Aykroyd; the comedic revolution sparked by Harvard’s Lampoon and Chicago’s Second City; the birth and anecdote-rich, drug-filled early years of Saturday Night Live, where the Blues Brothers were born as an act amidst turmoil and rivalry; and, of course, the indelible behind-the-scenes narrative of how the film was made, scene by memorable scene.
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In my opinion, the best single book on Belushi.
- De Ron Phenicie en 04-19-24
De: Daniel De Visé
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LatinoLand
- A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
- De: Marie Arana
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 18 h y 3 m
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LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana’s life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise twenty percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.
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I'm so glad this exists.
- De O. Leyva en 05-25-24
De: Marie Arana
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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Great historical piece
- De Jim Braunstein en 08-19-19
De: Tyler Anbinder
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City of Dreams
- The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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Tyler Anbinder's story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs, all playing out against the powerful backdrop of New York City, at once ever changing and profoundly, permanently itself. City of Dreams provides a vivid sense of what New York looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and felt like over the centuries of its development and maturation into the city we know today.
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Even as a history, not engaging
- De Patrick Kelly en 12-03-16
De: Tyler Anbinder
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The Great Famine: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Great Hunger in Ireland from 1845 to 1849 and How the Irish Potato Famine Was Solved
- Exploring Europe’s Past
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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In this audiobook, you are invited on a journey back to the 1840s, to the heart of Ireland’s darkest hour. Witness the profound impact of the Great Famine, an event that reshaped not only Ireland but also the world.
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the 19th century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe.
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Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning
- De Carole T. en 08-22-12
De: John Kelly
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The Blues Brothers
- An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
- De: Daniel De Visé
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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The saga behind The Blues Brothers, as Daniel de Visé reveals, is epic, encompassing the colorful childhoods of Belushi and Aykroyd; the comedic revolution sparked by Harvard’s Lampoon and Chicago’s Second City; the birth and anecdote-rich, drug-filled early years of Saturday Night Live, where the Blues Brothers were born as an act amidst turmoil and rivalry; and, of course, the indelible behind-the-scenes narrative of how the film was made, scene by memorable scene.
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In my opinion, the best single book on Belushi.
- De Ron Phenicie en 04-19-24
De: Daniel De Visé
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LatinoLand
- A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
- De: Marie Arana
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 18 h y 3 m
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LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana’s life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise twenty percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.
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I'm so glad this exists.
- De O. Leyva en 05-25-24
De: Marie Arana
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The Gangs of New York
- An Informal History of the New York Underground
- De: Herbert Asbury
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and visitors to the city with thievery, fraud, and vice—in neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Bowery, Hells Kitchen, and the Water Front.
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Bueller Bueller Bueller
- De mockingbird en 01-20-24
De: Herbert Asbury
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Lost Fatherland
- Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
- De: Iryna Vushko
- Narrado por: Angela Juarez
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.
De: Iryna Vushko
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- De: James L. Swanson
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.
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repetitive and bloated
- De DLR en 04-01-24
De: James L. Swanson
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The Lie Detectives
- In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
- De: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies. The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years.
De: Sasha Issenberg
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Herod the Great
- Jewish King in a Roman World
- De: Martin Goodman
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 6 h
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A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution.
De: Martin Goodman
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Takeover
- Hitler's Final Rise to Power
- De: Timothy W. Ryback
- Narrado por: Richard Attlee
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von Hindenburg, an aging war hero and avowed monarchist, was a reluctant president bound by oath to uphold the constitution. The November elections offered Hitler the prospect of a Reichstag majority and the path to political power. But instead, the Nazis lost two million votes.
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Not Inevitable
- De Neil Gussman en 04-28-24
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An Emancipation of the Mind
- Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
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Powerful revisionist history on race, racism, and the American past (and present)
- De James H. McDonald en 07-14-24
De: Matthew Stewart
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- De: Dennis Romano
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 30 h y 45 m
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.
De: Dennis Romano
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- De: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
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How much she was able to accomplish.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-30-24
De: Natalie Dykstra
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Whale Fall
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth O'Connor
- Narrado por: Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyworth, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations.
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Compelling story, superbly performed
- De Laura M en 06-26-24
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A Great Improvisation
- Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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"In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling account of how Benjamin Franklin - 70 years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French - convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues....
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Exquisite book
- De Jose Antonio Gonzalez en 11-01-18
De: Stacy Schiff
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids…And Other Small Events That Changed History
- De: Phil Mason
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.
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They just throw the facts too fast
- De Concerned_llama en 12-11-20
De: Phil Mason
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Changing Perceptions on Immigrants
I have never read a book quite like this. The author brings to life the Irish famine immigrants of New York through bank records. It sounds impossibly boring, but it was fascinating and very well organized. And the stories bring about an important shift of the perception of the "poor and destitute." I am amazed at how hard most worked and how much they saved. I wish we had a record of all the immigrant groups so we could see how important they are to our country.
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