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Spying on the South
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins, Tony Horwitz
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The New York Times best-selling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect.
In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.
For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman", the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect.
Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
“A tour is only as good as its guide, and Horwitz is a seasoned one - inquisitive, open-minded, and opting for observation over judgment, whether at a dive bar, monster truck rally, the Creation Museum, or a historical plantation. The book will appeal to fans of travelogue, Civil War-era history, and current events by way of Southern sensibilities.” (Booklist)
“With the keen eye and deft pen that he's long brought to telling the odd and wonderful and fascinating story of America, Tony Horwitz has returned to familiar territory - the South - to give us a unique piece of reportage from a region that tells us a whole lot more about the country than the country sometimes wants to admit. Like his classic Confederates in the Attic, this book will be read, remembered, and treasured.” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and author of The Soul of America)
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One of the Washington Post’s Notable Nonfiction Books of 2019
One of NPR's Best Books of 2019
“Timely.... A valuable work that combines biography, history and travelogue.... Horwitz is a smooth writer and an even better reporter (hardly surprising, given that he won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting at The Wall Street Journal), and he recounts his travels with insight interspersed with humor, as well as with an intermittent raising of the eyebrows at numerous oddities and occasional evils.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“In Horwitz’s writing, past and present collide and march together on almost every page, prying our minds open with the absurdity, hilarity and humanity we encounter. Olmsted spent nine months traveling 4,000 miles and then wrote hundreds of pages about it; Horwitz spent two years revisiting his paths, his ideas and his psyche, capturing the story in 414 pages of sparkling prose.” (David Blight, The Washington Post)
“A compelling report on the state of our present disunion.” (Wall Street Journal)
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Current events have deep roots, and the key to navigating today’s roiling policies lies in the events that started it all — the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath. Despite initial attempts to downplay the crisis as a local incident, what happened on Wall Street beginning in 2008 was, in fact, a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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A vaccine against substance free deceivers
- De Gary en 08-19-18
De: Adam Tooze
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
- De: David I. Kertzer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene - one that would haunt this family forever - David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping.
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Too much detail
- De L. WILLIAM en 03-03-24
De: David I. Kertzer
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- De: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security....
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- De Alfredo Ramirez en 11-22-14
De: Glenn Greenwald
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On the Trail of the Serpent
- The Epic Hunt for the Bikini Killer
- De: Richard Neville, Julie Clarke
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up deprived of a sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities.
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- De Jeffrey W. Rudisel en 05-01-21
De: Richard Neville, y otros
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Founding Brothers
- The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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Great!
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-10-16
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon
- Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series
- De: James Hibberd
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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It was supposed to be impossible. George R.R. Martin was a frustrated television writer who created his best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels to be an unfilmable saga bound only by the limits of his vast imagination. Then a pair of first-time TV writers teamed with HBO to try and adapt Martin's epic. We've all seen the eight seasons of the Emmy-winning fantasy series that came next. But there is one Game of Thrones tale that has yet to be told: the 13-year behind-the-scenes struggle to pull off this extraordinary phenomenon.
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a bit of a stretch
- De Anonymous User en 07-15-21
De: James Hibberd
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
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The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- De Rob en 03-23-06
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Empress of the Nile
- The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
- De: Lynne Olson
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples—including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir.
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Interesting but annoying
- De evan k pinto en 03-27-24
De: Lynne Olson
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Spearhead
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- De: Adam Makos
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
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Excellent
- De Msgr. John R. McGrath en 03-11-19
De: Adam Makos
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Ghostland
- An American History in Haunted Places
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes", Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places.
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A fluffed-up college essay writ large.
- De Gavin en 10-13-16
De: Colin Dickey
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Into the Bright Sunshine
- Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
- De: Samuel G. Freedman
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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Civil Rights for All not just limited segments of society.
- De Patricia A Gustafson en 06-02-24
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Revolution for Dummies
- De: Bassem Youssef
- Narrado por: Bassem Youssef
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Bassem Youssef's incendiary satirical news program, Al-Bernameg ( The Program), chronicled the events of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, and the rise of Mubarak's successor, Mohamed Morsi. Youssef not only captured his nation's dissent, but stamped it with his own brand of humorous political criticism, in which the Egyptian government became the prime laughing stock. In Revolution for Dummies, Youssef recounts his life and offers hysterical riffs on hypocrisy, instability, and corruption.
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The Jon Stewart of the Middle East
- De Rachel en 10-17-17
De: Bassem Youssef
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery - until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island
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It’s alright
- De B. Williams en 02-26-21
De: Angus Konstam
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Manhunt
- The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
- De: James L. Swanson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild 12-day chase through the streets of Washington, DC, across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness.
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Written by a Booth fanboy.
- De Alan en 08-18-16
De: James L. Swanson
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The Last Leonardo
- The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
- De: Ben Lewis
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the rarest thing on the planet.” Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world’s most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings of greatly varying quality had been executed by Leonardo’s assistants in the early 16th century.
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Definitely makes you think.
- De John Galt en 04-20-21
De: Ben Lewis
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Spying on the South
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- S. Garrett
- 06-18-19
I wish I could thank Tony Horwitz
In this book book the late Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horwitz interweaves firsthand observances of the antebellum South by famed landscape architect Frederick Olmsted with his own astute and often humorous observations on the same locales Olmsted visited. The narrator speaks clearly and varies his voice and accent just enough to help you keep track of who is speaking. Although the book is on the long side, it kept my interest from beginning to end. I learned a lot and was entertained. I feel saddened by Horwitz’s death. If he were still alive I would write him a word of thanks.
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- Paul Frandano
- 06-11-19
Lovely finale for intrepid journalist/historian
All such works - retracing the steps of a traveler-journalist and, a decade after his long trek, celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and trying to make sense of the people and places he encounters - result in long sequences of, essentially, anecdotes, from which the author/traveler/investigator seeks to draw larger generalizations. The story of Olmsted's mounting animosity toward slavery runs through Horwitz's narrative, as does the author's indefatigable curiosity about "what makes things tick here?" and "who might I talk to that will help me understand?" Horwitz's generous treatment of a region that, to many, has been on the wrong side of history since 1619, or 1787, makes familiar sense of the state's, cities, and towns he passes through: with some exceptions, conservative, individualistic, religious, tribal, history-minded. Mining Olmsted's trilogy that comprises his The Cotton Kingdom enables Horwitz to resurrect history that few nonspecialists who read this book will have known about - for example, the antebellum experience of German 1848ers in Texan exile - and will send readers running back to the original texts. Horwitz does an excellent job following up on such stories and, where possible, bringing them up to date. He's also strong on detailing the horrors of slavery and the wrongs of Jim Crow. He draws unsurprising conclusions about political tribalism that is nearly analogous to the great national divide in the run-up to civil war. He is, however, generous to a near fault in writing about people with whom he disagrees. Horwitz concludes his trip by spending two days in Olmsted's greatest and best known work, NYC's Central Park, a monument to the artist's thoughts on Democracy as well as our first "park," to which the author adds a paean to beautiful open spaces and their place in our history. Tony Horwitz's untimely death, at age 60, in late May 2019, while touring this book, deprives us of an essential observer, commentator, and author.
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- Cedric Miller
- 10-02-19
RIP Tony Horwitz
Another excellent book by Mr. Horwitz. His humor and keen insights will be greatly missed.
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- Nancy
- 04-24-20
Another superb look at life!
I adore Tony Horwitz's writing! If I ever leave my husband, it will be to run off with Tony for a ramble through history and the world we inhabit! Every one of his books seems to be his best . . . and remains so the second or third time around. He's one of our greatest contemporary writers. Should be required reading before one is allowed to register to vote!
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- Ericka
- 06-29-19
Great final story from a talented author
Tony Horwitz was at his best when he blended history and journalism to tell us of our country’s past and present. He excels at in his final journey: “Spying on the South,” which was published just weeks before his death. The book is a mix of history lesson and travelogue as Horwitz follows in the path of landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted’s journeys through antebellum south. Each chapter includes part of Olmsted’s trip followed by Horwitz’ 21st-century journalism. There are plenty of interesting characters he meets across the south, particularly in Texas, which accounts for the second half of the book.
I am sad this is Horwitz’ final journey but think it was a fitting finale for the talented author. I thought the narrator did a great job of capturing Horwitz' personality during the first-person travelogue accounts.
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- David
- 06-12-24
It's All My Fault
I decided some months ago to read up on the intelligence community; that sector responsible for gathering actionable information for various clients. For example, the alphabet people like CIA, DOD, FBI, MI6, NSA - sometimes their work is called "Spying". My first mistake was thinking this book had anything to do with spying or official intelligence gathering. It does not. It is a story of a contemporary writer who wants to retrace the routes of an antebellum character through the southern US. The reader therefore moves back and forth between the mid-19th century and the 21st century. Fair enough. Could be good. But it's not.
The primary reason the book becomes a slog is because the author visits and reports on the least interesting places, not only in America but perhaps on the planet; worn out, tired out, fizzled out, abandoned, broken, isolated, depopulated, poor, addled, uneducated, overlooked, desperate and nearing hopelessness. My second mistake was expecting the author's Grandma had given him the same stern advice my Grandma gave me, "Never criticize someone else's house when they invite you to visit and compliment their cooking if they feed you."
I feel like I took an excessively long trip with a spoiled teenager who complained the whole way about e v e r y t h i n g and was just one paragraph away from writing, "....clinging to their guns and their Bibles..."
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- Whit Porter
- 09-02-19
A good listen, lots to think about!
Horwitz was a good observer and had a keen eye for the things that make the mundane interesting. One suspects Olmstead and he would have enjoyed each other's company.
Narrator Deakens keeps things lively, but his accents are weak and seem repetitive as the long book goes on..
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- Sondra Olmsted
- 07-14-19
Travel log
Frederick Law Olmsted and Tony Horowitz separated by almost 170 years but undertook a similar journey. Similarities are remarkable .
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- Sandra
- 11-21-20
Interesting, but...
I thought the book would be more about Olmsted than it was, although the last chapter does tie the two stories -- Horowitz's and Olmsted's -- together. As for learning about slavery and the effects on future generations, The Warmth of Other Suns is by far the more informative and more effective, in my opinion. What I found to be the most informative were the insights into Horowitz's interviewees' political viewpoints. They helped me to understand the "two nations in one country" circumstance we are now experiencing.
The reader was fine for the content, but not the most compelling of the various readers I've heard over the years.
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- Lacey
- 06-21-19
excellent
such a great book. I learned so much! I highly recommend this especially to my fellow southerners.
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