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Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
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Rod Tienken
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Alan Axelrod
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Calling all Dapper Dans and Oomph Girls - take a ride through the American lexicon at its most inventive.
The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems explores the rich vocabulary of gangsters, hipsters, jazz musicians, and military personnel of the 1930s and ’40s. Entries include definitions, etymology, and examples of usage. This delightful compendium celebrates the linguistic gems cut and polished during the Great Depression, World War I, and the postwar '50s - now forgotten or in danger of being forgotten.
©2011 Alan Axelrod (P)2012 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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Mere Anarchy
- De: Woody Allen
- Narrado por: Woody Allen
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 355
For the first time ever, hear Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy in the author’s own distinctive and hilarious voice. Here, in his first short-story collection since his three classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Allen has managed to write a book that answers the most profound questions of human existence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What can I say…?
- De Diane en 07-03-12
De: Woody Allen
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Made in America
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,549
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bryson Not Reading Makes For a Rare Fail
- De John en 02-28-14
De: Bill Bryson
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The United States of Absurdity
- Untold Stories from American History
- De: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, Patton Oswalt - foreword
- Narrado por: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 579
The creators of the podcast The Dollop present profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun With Useless Facts
- De Keith en 05-21-17
De: Dave Anthony, y otros
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Paddy Whacked
- The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 538
In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" Bulger, the ruthless and seemingly untouchable Southie legend.
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4 out of 5 stars
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First Half - 4 Stars - Second Half - 2 Stars
- De Lulu en 08-29-16
De: T. J. English
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Gangsters vs. Nazis
- How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
- De: Michael Benson
- Narrado por: Gabriel Vaughan
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst. Gangland-style.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What, you couldn’t find one culturally Jewish narrator?
- De Deborah Bancroft en 12-29-22
De: Michael Benson
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City of Devils
- The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
- De: Paul French
- Narrado por: Paul Chan
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Shanghai, 1930s; it was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, and fortunes made - and lost. “Lucky” Jack Riley was the most notorious of those outlaws. An ex-US Navy boxing champion, he escaped from prison and rose to become the Slots King of Shanghai. “Dapper” Joe Farren - a Jewish boy who fled Vienna’s ghetto - ruled the nightclubs. This is the story of their rise to power, their downfall, and the trail of destruction left in their wake.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very hard to listen to
- De Terrance D. Harps en 07-26-18
De: Paul French
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400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons From a Veteran Patrolman
- De: Adam Plantinga
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,039
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,707
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,706
400 Things Cops Know shows police work on the inside, from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat - a profession that can range from rewarding to bizarre to terrifying, all within the course of an eight-hour shift. Written by veteran police sergeant Adam Plantinga, 400 Things Cops Know brings the listener into life the way cops experience it - a life of danger, frustration, occasional triumph, and plenty of grindingly hard routine work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Between Good and Evil is Where I Walk
- De Cynthia en 05-26-16
De: Adam Plantinga
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Bop Apocalypse
- Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
- De: Martin Torgoff
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Martin Torgoff details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new segment of the American fabric. Channeling his decades of writing experience, Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, the Savoy Ballroom, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the launch of heroin in Harlem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating read
- De Ryan en 06-27-17
De: Martin Torgoff
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,332
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,173
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
- De: Tom Wolfe
- Narrado por: Harold N. Cropp
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 299
In "Radical Chic", Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein’s duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen of the Black Panther Party. He re-creates the incongruous scene - and its astonishing repercussions - with high fidelity. In the companion essay, Wolfe travels west to San Francisco to survey another meeting-ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" deals with the newly emerging art of confrontation, as practiced by San Francisco’s militant minorities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De michael en 01-05-14
De: Tom Wolfe
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St. Marks Is Dead
- The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
- De: Ada Calhoun
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful history of a wonderful place.
- De Liza B. en 11-07-15
De: Ada Calhoun
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Canada
- De: Mike Myers
- Narrado por: Mike Myers
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,873
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,719
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,717
Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But, as he says, "No description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian". He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful and perfect for any X-Pat from Canada
- De Hugh Burnham en 05-02-17
De: Mike Myers
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Street Poison
- The Biography of Iceberg Slim
- De: Justin Gifford
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for all Robert Beck fans.
- De JMKIII58 en 09-15-16
De: Justin Gifford
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,159
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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A Flame of Pure Fire
- Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
- De: Roger Kahn
- Narrado por: Kevin Yon
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Through most of the Roaring '20s, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to his time. In A Flame of Pure Fire, renowned sports writer Roger Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the Manassa Mauler, but also illustrates how the tumultuous 1920s shaped Dempsey - and how the champ, in turn, left an indelible mark on sports and American history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ambitious but poorly executed
- De Keith en 10-02-19
De: Roger Kahn
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A Mouse Divided
- How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt
- De: Jeff Ryan
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 156
Almost everything you know about Mickey Mouse is wrong: He wasn’t Disney’s first star; Steamboat Willie wasn’t his first movie; Mickey wasn’t a nice guy - and Walt Disney didn’t invent him. In 1928, two very different best friends invented Mickey Mouse. And the success tore them apart. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks’ friendship is a story of betrayal, love, war, money, power, tragedy, intrigue, humor, despair, and hope. You’ll love them both - when you don’t want to drop anvils on their heads.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wasted money and wasted time
- De E. Johnson en 12-27-18
De: Jeff Ryan
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The Murder of Sonny Liston
- Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
- De: Shaun Assael
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home - of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Diane Dodge en 09-14-19
De: Shaun Assael