Nothin' But Blue Skies
The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
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The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy" - the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II, thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots, strikes, burning rivers, and oil embargoes. A vibrant, quintessentially American character bloomed in the region's cities, suburbs, and backwaters.
But the innovation and industry that defined the Rust Belt also helped to hasten its demise. An air conditioner invented in Upstate New York transformed the South from a sweaty backwoods to a non-unionized industrial competitor. Japan and Germany recovered from their defeat to build fuel-efficient cars in the stagnant 1970s. The tentpole factories that paid workers so well also filled the air with soot, and poisoned waters and soil. The jobs drifted elsewhere, and many of the people soon followed suit.
Nothin' but Blue Skies tells the story of how the country's industrial heartland grew, boomed, bottomed, and hopes to be reborn. Through a propulsive blend of storytelling and reportage, celebrated writer Edward McClelland delivers the rise, fall, and revival of the Rust Belt and its people.
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Can't understand the low ratings!
- De Janet Pittman Henley en 05-27-13
De: George Packer
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cabrini was my home
- De George Dorsey en 10-13-20
De: Ben Austen
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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Glass House
- The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
- De: Brian Alexander
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st century, and wrecked the company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What really happened to the American Dream?
- De Bill en 05-10-17
De: Brian Alexander
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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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Supreme City
- How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Frangione Jim
- Duración: 29 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age. Radio, tabloid newspapers, and movies with sound appeared. The silver screen took over Times Square as Broadway became America's movie mecca. Tremendous new skyscrapers were built in Midtown in one of the greatest building booms in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the background to the NYC we now live in
- De MARCIE D. TERMAN en 03-05-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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Levittown
- Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
- De: David Kushner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In the decade after World War II , one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home. The Levitts, William, Alfred, and their father, Abe, pooled their talents to create storybook towns with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat - but not to everyone. Levittown had a Whites-only policy.
De: David Kushner
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- De: Nick Reding
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 882
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 468
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but insubstantial
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 02-10-10
De: Nick Reding
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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 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- De: Nathan Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,331
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
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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Fins
- Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
- De: William Knoedelseder
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
This audiobook chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed, and even imagined. Harleys Earl’s story qualifies as a bona fide American family saga. It began in the Michigan pine forest in the years after the Civil War, traveled across the Great Plains on the wheels of a covered wagon, and eventually settled in Hollywood, California.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great report of amazing history but could do without the WOKE lean..
- De joshua Shaw en 07-02-22
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Oh, Florida!
- How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
- De: Craig Pittman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Oh, Florida! To some people it's a paradise. To others it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these, and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground" - you get the idea.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A book about the author's political views - boring
- De L. Burney en 03-03-17
De: Craig Pittman
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Vanishing New York
- How a Great City Lost Its Soul
- De: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone. Blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss leads us on a colorful guided tour of the most changed parts of town lovingly eulogizing iconic institutions as they're replaced with soulless upscale boutiques, luxury condo towers, and suburban chains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A compelling story, but the narration???
- De S. McGee en 11-30-17
De: Jeremiah Moss
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Strangers in Their Own Land
- Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- De: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,635
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,619
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance undercuts thesis
- De married, one tall dog, one smelly dog en 01-02-17
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30 Days a Black Man
- The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
- De: Bill Steigerwald, Juan Williams - foreword
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous White journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a Black man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South's parallel Black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic Black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local Black leaders, and families of lynching victims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review review
- De bill steigerwald en 12-13-20
De: Bill Steigerwald, y otros
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Country Driving
- A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 365
In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pass the white rice please
- De Nick en 02-18-10
De: Peter Hessler
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Fulfillment
- Winning and Losing in One-Click America
- De: Alec MacGillis
- Narrado por: Danny Gavigan
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 173
Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis