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Not in my backyard - that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens.
- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their places? Show Me a Hero explores the answer.
- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground.
- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.
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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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The Mayor of Castro Street
- The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical perspective of an activist.
- De Chris en 04-14-15
De: Randy Shilts
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The Politician
- An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal that Brought Him Down
- De: Andrew Young
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 259
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Like a nonfiction version of All the King's Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking, perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Politician Phony. A must listen!!!
- De Sherman en 02-09-10
De: Andrew Young
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A Mighty Long Way
- My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
- De: Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page, Bill Clinton - foreword
- Narrado por: Carlotta Walls LaNier
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other Black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine”, as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De SWF in Minneapolis en 04-27-24
De: Carlotta Walls LaNier, y otros
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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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Just Like Us
- The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
- De: Helen Thorpe
- Narrado por: Paula Christensen
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all four want to live the American dream, but only two have documents. As the girls attempt to make it into college, they discover that only the legal pair see a clear path forward. A coming-of-age story about girlhood and friendship, as well as the resilience required to transcend poverty, Just Like Us is also a book about identity.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to listen but...
- De PurpleSage en 03-22-14
De: Helen Thorpe
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Paradise Falls
- The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
- De: Keith O'Brien
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. In the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly-sweet smell of chemicals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible work of everyday people
- De J. C. Edens en 11-20-24
De: Keith O'Brien
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The Wind in My Hair
- My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
- De: Masih Alinejad
- Narrado por: Linda Henning
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in Iran. This is the self-portrait that sparked "My Stealthy Freedom", a social media campaign that went viral. But Masih is so much more than the arresting face that sparked a campaign inspiring women to find their voices. She's also a world-class journalist whose personal story, told in her unforgettably bold and spirited voice, is emotional and inspiring.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An inspiring journey
- De Krishna Teja Rekapalli en 01-06-19
De: Masih Alinejad
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
De: Chris Gardner
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Shortest Way Home
- One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
- De: Pete Buttigieg
- Narrado por: Pete Buttigieg
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,116
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,595
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,572
Once described by The Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of", Pete Buttigieg, the 36-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city", and transformed it into a shining model of urban reinvention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reveals a Person Wise & Experienced & Literate
- De dbbks3 en 03-17-19
De: Pete Buttigieg
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Love Wins
- The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
- De: Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 80
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges, and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important national civil rights victories in decades - the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book of Renewal
- De Jaycie en 06-19-16
De: Debbie Cenziper, y otros
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Claudette Colvin
- Twice Toward Justice
- De: Phillip Hoose
- Narrado por: Channie Waites
- Duración: 3 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The funny yet touching story of women leders!
- De Talia en 02-06-12
De: Phillip Hoose
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Wilde Lake
- A Novel
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney, Nicole Poole
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 578
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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides.
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2 out of 5 stars
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In a word saccharine and boring
- De Rena en 05-12-16
De: Laura Lippman
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The Soloist
- A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
- De: Steve Lopez
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 740
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 494
When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than 30 years ago, Ayers was a promising classical bass student at Juilliard - ambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americans there - until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia.
Over time, the two men form a bond and Lopez imagines that he might be able to change Ayers' life. The Soloist is a beautifully told story of devotion in the face of seemingly unbeatable challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Audiobook
- De reggie p en 06-26-08
De: Steve Lopez
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The Submission
- A Novel
- De: Amy Waldman
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the 9/11 widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some books were meant to be read...
- De Barbara en 02-24-12
De: Amy Waldman
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Raven
- The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
- De: Tim Reiterman
- Narrado por: Mitch Horowitz
- Duración: 29 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 532
Tim Reiterman's Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978. This PEN Award-winning work explores the ideals gone wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a very thoroughly written book!
- De Traci P. en 04-22-17
De: Tim Reiterman
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 506
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Show Me a Hero
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- Jack
- 06-29-16
very sad what happened to the mayor.
this story is very eye-opening because it deals with government over step and how people believe that integration should be forced it should not be forced it should be something that comes natural and if you work hard to live somewhere and buy a nice house and live in a nice neighborhood no matter what color you are you should be able to live in that place without being forced to live with others who do not put as much work and who do not put as much money into the system as you do
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