The Last American Hero
The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
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Alice L. George
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On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator - and returned to space at the age of 77. The Last American Hero is a stunning examination of the layers that formed the man: a hero of the Cold War, a two-time astronaut, a veteran senator, a devoted husband and father, and much more. At a time when an increasingly cynical world needs heroes, John Glenn's aura burns brightly in American memory.
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Chasing the Moon
- The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
- De: Robert Stone, Alan Andres
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend $20 billion to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material, Chasing the Moon reveals the unknown stories of the fascinating individuals whose imaginative work across decades culminated in America’s momentous achievement. More than a story of engineers and astronauts, the moon landing - now celebrating its 50th anniversary - grew out of the dreams of science fiction writers, filmmakers, military geniuses, and rule-breaking scientists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fifty years ago...
- De GraceAgnes en 06-14-19
De: Robert Stone, y otros
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American Moonshot
- John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This narrator sounds like a frikkin robot! 👎👎👎
- De Timothy Anderson en 04-04-19
De: Douglas Brinkley
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- De: James R. Hansen
- Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this "magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not really 'unabridged'
- De A Reader en 06-06-18
De: James R. Hansen
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LeMay
- De: Warren Kozak
- Narrado por: Grainger Hines
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
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The firebombing of Tokyo. Strategic Air Command. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Strangelove. George Wallace. All of these have one man in common—General Curtis LeMay, who remains as enigmatic and controversial as he was in life. Until now. Warren Kozak traces the trajectory of America’s most infamous general, from his troubled background and heroic service in Europe to his firebombing of Tokyo, guardianship of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in the Cold War, frustrated career in government, and short-lived political run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definition.....Leader.....General Curtis Le May
- De Nj-Mike en 01-04-15
De: Warren Kozak
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The Women with Silver Wings
- The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
- De: Katherine Sharp Landdeck
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At 22, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of a lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground. Still, when the US Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To Remember
- De erica skipton en 05-11-20
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Countdown 1945
- The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- De: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrado por: Chris Wallace
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,208
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April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents—and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chris Wallace killed it!
- De Gaming Pancakes en 06-11-20
De: Chris Wallace, y otros
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In the Shadow of the Moon
- A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
- De: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrado por: Gary L. Willprecht
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age of spaceflight as both an intimate human experience and a rollicking global adventure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book for space afficionados
- De Leslie F. en 04-21-16
De: Francis French, y otros
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Soaring to Glory
- A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II
- De: Philip Handleman, Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr.
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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He had to sit in a segregated rail car on the journey to army basic training in Mississippi in 1943. But two years later, the 20-year-old African American from New York was at the controls of a P-51, prowling for Luftwaffe aircraft at 5,000 feet over the Austrian countryside. This is the remarkable true story of Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Award-winning aviation writer Philip Handleman re-creates the harrowing action and heart-pounding drama of Stewart's combat missions....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed these extraordinary Men...
- De Damian en 04-20-20
De: Philip Handleman, y otros
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- De: Stephen Walker
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 240
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable story on many levels
- De Dipam en 03-22-22
De: Stephen Walker
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Above and Beyond
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Maxwell Hamilton
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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From the authors of the best-selling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program. On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s mispronunciations detracted from the story
- De Stephen E. Smith en 08-01-18
De: Casey Sherman
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Inferno
- De: Joe Pappalardo
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen I
- De Amazon Customer en 06-21-21
De: Joe Pappalardo
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Rocket Men
- The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
- De: Robert Kurson
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Robert Kurson
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the moon by President Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline and to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the first men in history to the moon - in just four months.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Men Who Saved 1968
- De Gillian en 04-04-18
De: Robert Kurson
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The Burning Blue
- The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
- De: Kevin Cook
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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On January 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space", was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember. Kevin Cook tells us what really happened on that ill-fated, unforgettable day. He traces the pressures - leading from NASA to the White House - that triggered the fatal order to launch on an ice-cold Florida morning.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not bad, but not much new either
- De Dave en 07-27-22
De: Kevin Cook
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
- Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
- De: Neil Sheehan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Schriever rhymes with beaver.
- De John Gardner en 11-13-09
De: Neil Sheehan
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- De: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrado por: Charles Stransky
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- De Thomas en 06-25-09
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- De: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- De Cynthia en 09-18-16
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: Thomas Kessner
- Narrado por: Bob McGraw
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Worthwhile
- De Ray Daniels en 11-11-22
De: Thomas Kessner
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The Mercury 13
- The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
- De: Martha Ackmann
- Narrado por: Julie Eickhoff
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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For fans of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- De Chilli Dog en 01-26-15
De: Martha Ackmann
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Last American Hero
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- Elliott Locklair
- 12-11-21
Real Life Hero
Great portrayal of a real life for times such as these. If America continues to destroy our hero’s because they are human, this generation will never attempt to overcome failure much less strive to achieve their dreams.
God speed, John Glenn.
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- ROBERT
- 03-07-24
Repetitive
ultra boring. no technical details. the same hero idea started a little differently 80 million times.
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