Ellis Island
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From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals with those who live on in history: Fiorello La Guardia, Lee Iacocca, and other American leaders whose paths led them to the island for various reasons.
Award-winning journalist Małgorzata Szejnert draws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs, archival photographs, and correspondence from many internees and immigrants. But also brought to life are the Ellis Island employees: the doctors, nurses, commissioners, interpreters, social care workers, and even chaperones who controlled the fates of these emigres - often basing their decisions on pseudoscientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Sometimes families were broken up, and new arrivals were detained and quarantined for days, weeks, or even months.
All told, the island compound spent longer as an internment camp than as a migration way-point - in addition to filling other roles through the years, including that of rescue station in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Now brought back to life by a master storyteller, this is a story of a place and its people, steeped in politics and history, that reshaped the United States.
©2009 Malgorzata Szejnert; English translation copyright 2020 by Sean Gasper Bye (P)2021 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 44
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening and eye-opening
- De Amee Arledge en 07-21-22
De: Anthony DePalma
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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The Unanswered Letter
- One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help
- De: Faris Cassell
- Narrado por: Kate Mulligan
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 445
In August 1939, just days before World War II broke out in Europe, a Jewish man in Vienna named Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to a stranger in America who shared his last name. Decades later, journalist Faris Cassell stumbled upon the stunning letter and became determined to uncover the story behind it. How did the American Bergers respond? Did Alfred and his family escape Nazi Germany?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow, what a story and excellent new author!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-20
De: Faris Cassell
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,833
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,832
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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McCullough takes it to the next level
- De gregory m loyd en 07-12-11
De: David McCullough
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 419
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary story well told!
- De Marc W Rhoades en 01-19-23
De: Ilyon Woo
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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The Boy Between Worlds
- A Biography
- De: Annejet van der Zijl, Kristen Gehrman - translator
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could have not been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What unfolds is more than the astonishing story of a love that prevailed over convention. It’s also the quest of a young boy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should Be Required Reading
- De Pam Pearson en 08-20-19
De: Annejet van der Zijl, y otros
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The White Devil's Daughters
- The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
- De: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history - and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well researched
- De Qats reads en 08-05-19
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Hong Kong
- De: Jan Morris
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. Through firsthand reportage, world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris takes us through the crowded streets of this enigmatic city, offering the most insightful and comprehensive study of Hong Kong thus far. She reviews Hong Kong’s early days as a British opium port controlled by pirates, cutthroats, and scoundrel tycoons, and looks ahead to the city’s future.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An interesting but mild disappointment
- De Jeanette Finan en 06-11-14
De: Jan Morris
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The Sugar King of Havana
- The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
- De: John Paul Rathbone
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swaths of the island's sugar interests.
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4 out of 5 stars
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VERY INFORMATIVE
- De Terry en 03-26-12
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Black Diamonds
- The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
- De: Catherine Bailey
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in 20th-century England, valued at more than three billion dollars in today's money - a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the family's coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind four sons, and the family line seemed assured. But was it?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could use a good editor...
- De Phyllis en 04-30-18
De: Catherine Bailey
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The S.S. Officer's Armchair
- Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
- De: Daniel Lee
- Narrado por: Alex Wyndham
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he was repairing. They belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labor in Nazi-occupied Prague during the war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book; strange voice...
- De S. Hall en 11-15-20
De: Daniel Lee
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The Train to Crystal City
- FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families - many US citizens - were incarcerated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't know...
- De Graham Emslie en 02-27-17
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American Ghost
- A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A true American tale
- De Cleo Colorado en 05-29-15
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Chief Engineer
- Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: Erica Wagner
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become one of American's most iconic structures - as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognizable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten - and his life is of interest far beyond his chosen field. It is the story of immigrants, of the frontier, of the greatest crisis in American history, and of the making of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Monumental
- De charles mueller en 07-09-19
De: Erica Wagner
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ellis Island
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Karen G
- 02-08-24
Excellent narration of various languages
I liked the very complete history, which told me much more than when I visited the island last year. Now I want to go back again!
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- Diana
- 05-15-23
Imminently boring
Too many facts, timeline disjointed and characters not expanded. Narrator: good voice but some English words oddly pronounced
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