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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.
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Needs a bit of editing
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-02-21
De: Susan Ronald
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- De: Scott Anderson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling their fascinating lives, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies. Despite their ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
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A Tragedy for One
- De Amazon Customer en 09-23-20
De: Scott Anderson
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The Brothers
- John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: David Cochran Heath
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the backdrop ofAmerican culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?
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A duel biography
- De Jean en 09-26-14
De: Stephen Kinzer
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America and Iran
- A History, 1720 to the Present
- De: John Ghazvinian
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 27 h y 11 m
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In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams - and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government.
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Distortions Galore
- De Chuck S. en 03-15-21
De: John Ghazvinian
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The Death of Democracy
- Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
- De: Benjamin Carter Hett
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In this dramatic audiobook, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. Benjamin Carter Hett is one of America’s leading scholars of 20th-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of the feckless politicians of the Weimar Republic show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it.
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I can't trust the author's account of these events
- De Example: Mark Twain en 11-10-19
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- De: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 18 h
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.
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Loved it, but wouldn't want to live it
- De Neil en 01-12-20
De: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, y otros
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 11 m
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No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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Riveting
- De Jean en 11-10-15
De: Niall Ferguson
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Our Man in Tokyo
- An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
- De: Steve Kemper
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.
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What a great inside look at Japan, before 1941!
- De Charlie Ortiz en 11-20-23
De: Steve Kemper
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A Covert Action
- Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
- De: Seth G. Jones
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the CIA's involvement in a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. In 1983, while Soviet- backed Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski worked to crush a budding opposition movement through martial law, the CIA launched a sophisticated intelligence campaign supporting dissident groups. With President Ronald Reagan's support, American funds bankrolled clandestine newspapers, broadcasting, and information warfare. This initiative, code-named QRHELPFUL, proved vital in establishing a free and democratic Poland.
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A passionate true story
- De Chris Cembrzynski en 02-15-19
De: Seth G. Jones
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Hitler's American Friends
- The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
- De: Bradley W. Hart
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Hitler's American Friends, by Bradley W. Hart, is an audiobook examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners, and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less-popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided.
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Excellent Information
- De Laura en 05-09-19
De: Bradley W. Hart
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Appeasement
- Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
- De: Tim Bouverie
- Narrado por: John Sessions
- Duración: 22 h y 3 m
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On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy, and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe.
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I cannot tolerate the narrator
- De DrBCFR en 06-05-19
De: Tim Bouverie
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- De: Eric LaRocca
- Narrado por: André Santana
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town’s idyllic community.
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Immensely dark. Don’t believe the negativity.
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100 Things Millionaires Do
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- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
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Author Nigel Cumberland distills all the wisdom and knowledge of a lifetime of starting and selling businesses and coaching hundreds of wealthy leaders into 100 short chapters of advice on building and retaining sustainable wealth. Every chapter features a habit, mindset, or technique that’s common to wealthy people and instructions for how to use them in your own life. 100 Things Millionaires Do unpacks the habits, tools, techniques, and mentality of self-made millionaires and shows you how to begin your own journey to a wealthy future.
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Vaccinated
- From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
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- Narrado por: Tim Dixon
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Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
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Must read for pediatric professionals and public health professional
- De laithejeilat en 04-15-24
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Curious Toys
- De: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the 14-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred.
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A period piece, but with a young, fun sensibility!
- De Eric Mochnacz en 02-13-20
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The Traitor Beside Her
- De: Mary Anna Evans
- Narrado por: Kimberly M. Wetherell
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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Inside the walls of Arlington Hall, a former women's college in Virginia that has been taken over by the United States Army, hundreds of men and women sit, bent over stacks of paper. Pencils in hand, they labor to decode countless pieces of communication coming from the Axis powers. Justine works among them, handling the most sensitive secrets of World War II. But she isn't there to decipher German codes. She's there to find a traitor.
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Another great one by Mary Anna Evans!
- De researchbiker en 07-22-23
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A Bakery in Paris
- A Novel
- De: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt, Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.
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Enjoyable AND Giftworthy
- De Syd Young en 08-02-23
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- Narrado por: André Santana
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After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town’s idyllic community.
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Immensely dark. Don’t believe the negativity.
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100 Things Millionaires Do
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- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Author Nigel Cumberland distills all the wisdom and knowledge of a lifetime of starting and selling businesses and coaching hundreds of wealthy leaders into 100 short chapters of advice on building and retaining sustainable wealth. Every chapter features a habit, mindset, or technique that’s common to wealthy people and instructions for how to use them in your own life. 100 Things Millionaires Do unpacks the habits, tools, techniques, and mentality of self-made millionaires and shows you how to begin your own journey to a wealthy future.
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Vaccinated
- From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
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Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
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Must read for pediatric professionals and public health professional
- De laithejeilat en 04-15-24
De: Paul A. Offit
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Curious Toys
- De: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the 14-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred.
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A period piece, but with a young, fun sensibility!
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The Traitor Beside Her
- De: Mary Anna Evans
- Narrado por: Kimberly M. Wetherell
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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Inside the walls of Arlington Hall, a former women's college in Virginia that has been taken over by the United States Army, hundreds of men and women sit, bent over stacks of paper. Pencils in hand, they labor to decode countless pieces of communication coming from the Axis powers. Justine works among them, handling the most sensitive secrets of World War II. But she isn't there to decipher German codes. She's there to find a traitor.
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Another great one by Mary Anna Evans!
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A Bakery in Paris
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