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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 66 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,625
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,064
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,068
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses—and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING read
- De jeff en 09-15-11
- The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
Lessons to be learned, Fascinating reading.
Revisado: 01-27-25
Caro never disappoints. This is an extremely engaging book. I have lived in New York as an adult nearly 60 years. I didn’t realize how unaware I was of the shaping of 20th century New York and the one man responsible for it. But you need not be a New Yorker, in my opinion, to enjoy and learn how power can be exercised and abused.
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,014
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,285
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,206
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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4 out of 5 stars
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
- The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
A Great Book about THE Great Man
Revisado: 04-29-20
Wonderful book , marvelously narrated. This was my first experience with an Audible Book. No more am I a skeptic. I had always looked upon audio books as somehow inferior to the written page. I decided to try “just this one” as an 80th birthday present to myself. Now, having just finished this excellent book, I’m about to order another.
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