The Lowells of Massachusetts
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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s.
Though no strangers to controversy, the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who planted the roots of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, who some say was founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, American Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard's most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the twentieth century poet who lived openly in a Boston marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell.
The Lowells realized the promise of America as the land of opportunity by uniting Puritan values of hard work, community service, and individual responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family trait. Long before the Kennedys put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells claimed the bedrock.
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- De J B Tipton en 04-22-09
De: Joe Wheeler
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Heaven’s Ditch
- God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
- De: Jack Kelly
- Narrado por: Andrew Reilly
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An under told story of the United States.
- De JayHey en 08-28-16
De: Jack Kelly
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A Warrior of the People
- How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
- De: Joe Starita
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice and then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Remarkable Woman
- De Jean en 11-27-16
De: Joe Starita
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Marmee and Louisa
- The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
- De: Eve LaPlante
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Biographers have consistently credited her father, Bronson Alcott, for Louisa May Alcott's professional success, assuming that this outspoken idealist was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence. But in this riveting dual biography, Eve LaPlante explodes those myths, drawing on unknown and unexplored letters and journals to show that Louisa's "Marmee", Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world. It was Abigail who urged Louisa to write, who inspired many of her stories, and who gave her the support and courage she needed to pursue her path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hardworking women and the man they supported
- De Chris en 04-26-13
De: Eve LaPlante
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Trail of Tears
- The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
- De: John Ehle
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard to imagine
- De Amazon Customer en 12-04-17
De: John Ehle
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The Pioneers
- The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5,076
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,383
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4,355
The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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i would prefer david reading it
- De hooterwah en 05-07-19
De: David McCullough
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Bury the Chains
- Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
- De: Adam Hochschild
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 93
In early 1787, 12 men - a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery - came together in a London printing shop and began a remarkable grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Eye-Opener
- De Carl Thompson en 01-06-19
De: Adam Hochschild
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Slaves in the Family
- De: Edward Ball
- Narrado por: Edward Ball
- Duración: 20 h y 16 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 159
The Ball family hails from South Carolina - Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to 4,000 Black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gives a good insight for moving forward today
- De Wendy Wood en 05-05-19
De: Edward Ball
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They Were Christians
- The Inspiring Faith of Men and Women Who Changed the World
- De: Cristobal Krusen
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
What do Abraham Lincoln, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louis Pasteur, Frederick Douglass, Florence Nightingale, and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., all have in common? They all changed the world - and they were all Christians. Now the little-known stories of faith behind 12 influential people of history are available in one inspiring volume. They Were Christians reveals the faith-filled motivations behind some of the most outstanding political, scientific, and humanitarian contributions of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Amazon Customer en 12-10-18
De: Cristobal Krusen
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A House Full of Females
- Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
- De: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 19 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-century diaries, letters, albums, minute books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage", whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-behaved women seldom write in diaries
- De Darwin8u en 01-13-17
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
- De: Jared A. Brock
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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This sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials. The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson - a dynamic, driven man with exceptional intelligence and unyielding principles, who overcame incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book and very informative
- De plcd22 en 07-04-18
De: Jared A. Brock
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
- A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: David Rapkin
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism. Working from 19th-century letters and diaries, Sims charts Henry’s course from his time at Harvard through the years he spent living in a cabin beside Walden Pond. Sims uncovers a previously hidden Thoreau - the rowdy boy reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, the sarcastic college iconoclast, the devoted son who kept imitating his beloved older brother’s choices in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pleasant surprise
- De Norman Wendth en 10-21-14
De: Michael Sims
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The Lincolns
- Portrait of a Marriage
- De: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 21 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
In 1974 the historian Fawn Brodie predicted that a "sensitive study of the Lincoln marriage will not always defy biographers". Until now, it has. The only book-length treatment of the marriage was published in 1953, when scholars lacked today's resources and were still struggling with deep-seated prejudices about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Now Daniel Mark Epstein has produced an incisive and balanced portrait of the Lincolns.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De F. Elizabeth Hauser en 12-14-08
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Pearl Buck in China
- Journey to The Good Earth
- De: Hilary Spurling
- Narrado por: Hilary Spurling
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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The author of the much honored two-volume biography of Henri Matisse unearths the life and work of the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels in the 1930's and 40's were the first written for a Western audience to describe ordinary life in the still secret China of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De M. Brandman en 06-15-10
De: Hilary Spurling
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My Thoughts Be Bloody
- The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth
- De: Nora Titone, Doris Kearns Goodwin - introduction/notes
- Narrado por: John B. Lloyd
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- De Tad Davis en 11-30-10
De: Nora Titone, y otros
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American Rebels
- How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
- De: Nina Sankovitch
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. American Rebels explores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing them -rebels versus loyalists - as they pursued commonly held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitch's new audiobook is a fresh history of our revolution that makes listeners look more closely at Massachusetts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- De John H en 06-22-20
De: Nina Sankovitch
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Louisa
- The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
- De: Louisa Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her almost despite himself. Their often tempestuous but deeply close marriage lasted half a century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De Jean en 05-18-16
De: Louisa Thomas
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Lowells of Massachusetts
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- Ted Theodore Logan
- 06-25-17
What an amazing family
This was an incredible narrative. I was enthralled by most of this. I annoy imagine a curious reader not loving a great deal of this book. To find out how much poetry meant to soldiers, to suffer through unexpected deaths and losses, to overcome or be overwhelmed. Remarkable.
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- F. Lowell
- 09-14-21
I'm proud to bear the Lowell name!
I'm proud to be descended, albeit distantly, and to bear the last name of this amazing family! Nina Sankovitch has written a superb history of the Lowells from 1639 to 1925. Her account reads like a novel and Jo Anna Perrin's reading does it full justice. I highly recommend this!
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- Gary
- 10-26-22
worth your time
Interesting story of a dymamic family who kept it going for generations. Story and narrator are excellent. I love biographies.You get the interresting lives of the Lowell's and a 300 year linear timeline of our early colonial period to 1925. The author had to do an incredible amount of research to put the book together. The narrator was clear and concise. Perfect pace. Best thing I've done in a while was subscribe to audible!
PJ
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