Land of Lincoln
Adventures in Abe's America
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Andrew Ferguson
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He attends a national conference of Lincoln impersonators; attends a leadership conference based on Lincoln's "management style"; drags his family across the three-state-long (and now defunct) Lincoln Heritage Trail; and even manages to hold one of five original copies of the Gettysburg Address. Along the way, he weaves in enough history to hook readers of presidential biographies and popular histories while providing the engaging voice and style of the best narrative journalism. This is an entertaining, unexpected, and big-hearted celebration of Lincoln and his enduring influence on the country he helped create.
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
- De: Sarah Vowell
- Narrado por: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,454
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,171
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,170
Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German Filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration. The result is an engrossing audiobook, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best surprises on AUDIBLE.COM!!
- De Doggy Bird en 04-14-04
De: Sarah Vowell
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Oracle Bones
- A Journey Through Time in China
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today, the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, except for the narration.
- De DMH en 11-09-10
De: Peter Hessler
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Downtown
- My Manhattan
- De: Pete Hamill
- Narrado por: Pete Hamill
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A frustrating read
- De David Ross en 09-09-05
De: Pete Hamill
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The Map Thief
- The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
- De: Michael Blanding
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 706
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 620
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 625
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers - both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.
Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief - until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Study of the Strangeness of People
- De Carole T. en 12-10-14
De: Michael Blanding
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Mark Twain
- A Life
- De: Ron Powers
- Narrado por: Ron Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Mark Twain founded the American voice. His works are a living national treasury: taught, quoted, and reprinted more than those of any writer except Shakespeare. His awestruck contemporaries saw him as the representative figure of his times, and his influence has deeply flavored the 20th and 21st centuries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Buy the Book
- De W.Denis en 10-22-05
De: Ron Powers
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Good Day!
- The Paul Harvey Story
- De: Paul J. Batura
- Narrado por: Paul J. Batura
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 192
In Good Day!: The Paul Harvey Story, author Paul J. Batura follows the remarkable life of one of the founding fathers of the news media. Paul Harvey started his career during the Great Depression and narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, consumer booms and eventual busts.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have been better
- De Royce Brown en 12-21-09
De: Paul J. Batura
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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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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Maphead
- Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
- De: Ken Jennings
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 196
It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Romp through Maps
- De Lynn en 01-27-12
De: Ken Jennings
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Rebel Souls
- Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
- De: Justin Martin
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists - regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan - rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand–up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Read with Vibrant Characters
- De A en 11-11-15
De: Justin Martin
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Lady Bird
- A Biography of Mrs. Johnson
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 16 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
A revealing biography of Lady Bird Johnson with startling new insights into her marriage to Lyndon Baines Johnson and her unexpectedly strong impact on his presidency. Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for LBJ, a man who suffered from extreme mood swings and desperately needed someone to help control his darker impulses.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do not waste an audible credit
- De Sandra B. en 10-15-23
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- De: Evan Osnos
- Narrado por: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,483
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,272
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Age of Ambition, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Come back when you have a warrant!
- De Neuron en 11-06-15
De: Evan Osnos
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Dreamers and Deceivers
- True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America
- De: Glenn Beck
- Narrado por: Jeremy Lowell
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 896
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 800
The new nonfiction from number-one best-selling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding History stories gather life
- De Gil en 11-13-14
De: Glenn Beck
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Land of Lincoln
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Jo Ann
- 01-15-25
Joyful irony with a dash of the profound.
The author has a unique ability to weave history and anecdote in a fun journey, that will leave you with a chuckle, and a tear in your eye
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