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For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other "for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health" for periods of 30 or 40 - sometimes as many as 50 - years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any husband and wife. In Outlaw Marriages, cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter reveals how some of these unions didn’t merely improve the quality of life for the two people involved but also enriched the American culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sames Sex Couples Through History
- De Susie en 12-11-12
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50 Fearless Women Who Made American History
- An American History Book for Kids
- De: Jenifer Bazzit
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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50 women who shaped American history - how will they inspire you? Women have always been at the forefront of American history - and now it's time to hear their stories! This look into American history for kids is bursting with engaging biographies that explore the lives of these inspiring women from different backgrounds and a wide array of fields.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Have At Home Book!!!!!
- De Debora Joseph-Splatt en 09-24-20
De: Jenifer Bazzit
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First Ladies
- The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
- De: Betty Boyd Caroli
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 20 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop to substantive world figure. This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president. Caroli here contributes a new preface and updated chapters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Thorough
- De Kindle Customer en 10-11-20
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Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Duke Holm
- Duración: 1 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Without a doubt, the name Jacqueline Kennedy draws multiple thoughts to mind. She is, perhaps, most well-known for her service as the first lady of the United States when her husband, John F. Kennedy, took office as the president, and for her role in restoring the White House. While she made major impacts on the White House, Jackie was much more than her title of first lady.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book. Love the Kennedys
- De Leroy en 09-29-17
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Toksvig's Almanac 2021
- An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig
- De: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrado por: Sandi Toksvig
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 58
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Let Sandi Toksvig guide you on an eclectic meander through the calendar, illuminating neglected corners of history to tell tales of the fascinating figures you didn't learn about at school. From popes who gave birth during papal processions, to the inventor of Scrabble, to pioneering civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, who refused to give up her seat on a train decades before Rosa Parks was born. As witty and entertaining as it is instructive, this is an essential companion to each day of the year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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simply one of my favorite people
- De Rae en 06-05-22
De: Sandi Toksvig
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Emily Post
- Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
- De: Laura Claridge
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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From the excesses of the late 19th-century Gilded Age, through the horrors of World War I, to the transformations of the Roaring 20s that gave birth to her magisterial Etiquette, Emily Post unfailingly took the measure of her era. A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, she helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book, which has been continuously in print for over 85 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Typical for Emily Post
- De Stephanie en 01-07-19
De: Laura Claridge
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Philip Roth
- The Biography
- De: Blake Bailey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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moved
- De Michael en 08-18-21
De: Blake Bailey
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Author in Chief
- The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
- De: Craig Fehrman
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, Author in Chief, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. From volumes lost to history - Calvin Coolidge’s Autobiography, which was one of the most widely discussed titles of 1929 - to ones we know and love - Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, which was very nearly never published - Fehrman unearths countless insights about the presidents through their literary works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 03-12-20
De: Craig Fehrman
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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Shakespeare's Library
- Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
- De: Stuart Kells
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces, and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens, and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the Bard's manuscripts, books, or letters has ever been found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dismissed Mary Sidney Herbert without explanation
- De Lisa en 07-30-19
De: Stuart Kells
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heyer as a person
- De Jerri C en 06-15-15
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Alexander Hamilton: One of the Most Influential Founding Fathers. The Entire Life Story
- Great Biographies
- De: The History Hour
- Narrado por: Jerry Beebe
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Alexander Hamilton started his life in the British West Indies. His story seems like a classic tale from rags to riches, of a poor boy whose hard work and perseverance allowed him to become one of the greatest historical figures of a nation. Alexander Hamilton left behind an impressive legacy, in no small part due to his success in defining the economic and political systems of the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good book 10/10
- De Anonymous User en 04-03-20
De: The History Hour
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J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Making of a Legend
- De: Colin Duriez
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbade him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in love with, and he went through the horrors of the First World War. An intensely private and brilliant scholar, he spent over 50 years working on the languages, history, peoples, and geography of Middle-earth,
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful
- De Luke B. en 10-27-20
De: Colin Duriez
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Mobituaries
- De: Mo Rocca
- Narrado por: Mo Rocca
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his number one hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries, the audiobook, he has gone much further, with all new essays on artists, entertainers, sports stars, political pioneers, founding fathers, and more. Even if you know the names, you’ve never understood why they matter...until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but.....
- De Christopher en 11-15-19
De: Mo Rocca
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
De: Gerald Martin
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Afterlives of the Rich and Famous
- De: Sylvia Browne
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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For decades—on television, in consultations,and in packed auditoriums across the country—renowned psychic Sylvia Browne has beenasked one question again and again: “What ismy favorite celebrity doing on the Other Side?” Now, for the first time, you can follow the redcarpet into the heart of the spirit world. Browne reveals intimate details of how some of our most cherished actors, musicians, and public figures have fared since their deaths, giving us one more glimpse into the personalities we loved and lost.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very entertaining book!
- De Crusader en 11-06-11
De: Sylvia Browne
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange - they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- De JK en 10-28-21
De: Orlando Figes