
Thirteen Days
A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
In a foreword to this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light from the former Soviet Union.
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- Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
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In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union — triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest....
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Important History
- De J. B. Evans en 06-12-21
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The End of the Cold War 1985-1991
- De: Robert Service
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 21 h y 58 m
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Drawing on new archival research, Robert Service's gripping new investigation of the final years of the Cold War - the first to give equal attention to the internal deliberations from both sides of the Iron Curtain - opens a window onto the dramatic years that would irrevocably alter the world's geopolitical landscape and the men at their fore.
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Behind the scenes look at a pivotal period of time
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-20-16
De: Robert Service
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Japan 1941
- Countdown to Infamy
- De: Eri Hotta
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 13 h y 16 m
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When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?
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Japanese viewpoint
- De Jean en 01-01-14
De: Eri Hotta
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How Wars End
- Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
- De: Gideon Rose
- Narrado por: Gideon Rose
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning victories both times, and yet still be woefully unprepared for the aftermath? Because Americans always forget the political aspects of war.
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- De Luis en 11-04-10
De: Gideon Rose
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Kissinger: Volume I
- 1923-1968: The Idealist
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 11 m
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No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super-K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama - he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every "telcon" for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial biography, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
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Riveting
- De Jean en 11-10-15
De: Niall Ferguson
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Known and Unknown
- A Memoir
- De: Donald Rumsfeld
- Narrado por: Donald Rumsfeld
- Duración: 30 h y 10 m
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A powerful memoir from the late former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. Both a fascinating narrative and an unprecedented glimpse into history, Known and Unknown captures the legacy of one of the most influential men in public service.
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Inside view of five decades in politics
- De Brooks en 02-19-11
De: Donald Rumsfeld
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II.
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A Vivid Dramatic Accounting
- De Jean en 11-11-16
De: H. W. Brands
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- De: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
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Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
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America's NATO problem
- De Jeffrey D en 03-24-22
De: M.E. Sarotte
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Duty
- Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- De: Robert M. Gates
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Duración: 25 h y 38 m
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
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The Fighting Season
- De Cynthia en 01-28-14
De: Robert M. Gates
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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One Minute to Midnight
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: Michael Dobbs
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.
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On the verge of annihilation.
- De MikeCG en 01-22-09
De: Michael Dobbs
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Profiles in Courage
- De: John F. Kennedy
- Narrado por: John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 - resounds with timeless lessons.
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Abridged
- De Tom R en 01-04-17
De: John F. Kennedy
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Thirteen Days in September
- Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.
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Lessons in Negotiation
- De David en 06-18-15
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Shadow of War
- A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Jeff Shaara
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962.
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- De Amazon Customer en 01-20-25
De: Jeff Shaara
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Nuclear Folly
- A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground.
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A Must Read
- De Robert from Brookline en 08-22-21
De: Serhii Plokhy
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A Letter to Liberals
- Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
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A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science.
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One-sided, interesting but biased
- De Dr. Ellingham en 06-07-23
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One Minute to Midnight
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
- De: Michael Dobbs
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis.
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- De MikeCG en 01-22-09
De: Michael Dobbs
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Profiles in Courage
- De: John F. Kennedy
- Narrado por: John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a US senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 - resounds with timeless lessons.
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- De Tom R en 01-04-17
De: John F. Kennedy
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Thirteen Days in September
- Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day.
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Lessons in Negotiation
- De David en 06-18-15
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Shadow of War
- A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Jeff Shaara
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962.
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disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 01-20-25
De: Jeff Shaara
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Nuclear Folly
- A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground.
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A Must Read
- De Robert from Brookline en 08-22-21
De: Serhii Plokhy
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A Letter to Liberals
- Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
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A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science.
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One-sided, interesting but biased
- De Dr. Ellingham en 06-07-23
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Framed
- Why Michael Skakel Spent over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also 15, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation, providing daily debates - and cruel, dinner table entertainment. Now, 40 years after Michael Skakel's conviction, his cousin, acclaimed activist and writer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has taken matters into his own hands to get the charges dropped and clear his cousin's name.
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- De Dewey en 08-13-16
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RFK
- His Words for Our Times
- De: C. Richard Allen, Edwin O. Guthman, Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrado por: James Lurie, Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: His Words for Our Times, a celebration of Kennedy’s life and legacy, was published to enormous acclaim. Now, a quarter century later, this classic volume has been thoroughly edited and updated. Through his own words we get a direct and intimate perspective on Kennedy’s views on civil rights, social justice, the war in Vietnam, foreign policy, the desirability of peace, the need to eliminate poverty, and the role of hope in American politics.
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- De Colleen Mooney en 10-21-24
De: C. Richard Allen, y otros
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History From Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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The Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment on either side could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot with an exchange of nuclear weapons. On many occasions, tensions between the countries increased, but the prospect of all-out nuclear war between America and Russia was never closer than during a two-week period in October of 1962.
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Excellent Book
- De Demarcus brooks en 04-17-20
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American Values
- Lessons I Learned from My Family
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. This powerful book combines the best aspects of memoir and political history. The third child of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of JFK takes us on a journey through his life, including watershed moments in the history of our nation.
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- De Lori Hanson en 08-06-18
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- De: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrado por: Joel Richards - foreword
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.
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Very important exposé of corporate greed.
- De Carl Howard en 02-09-18
De: Dick Russell, y otros
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Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak
- The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury - a Known Neurotoxin - from Vaccines
- De: Robert F. Kennedy - editor
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
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From New York Times best-selling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., comes a science-based call for the immediate removal of the dangerous mercury-containing preservative Thimerosal from vaccines. Over a decade ago, following a sharp rise in developmental disorders such as autism and ADHD, the mercury-containing preservative Thimerosal was widely believed to have been eliminated from vaccine supplies in the United States and abroad.
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- De GP en 10-03-15
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Watergate
- De: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy, Garrett M. Graff
- Duración: 25 h y 25 m
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In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills enters six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that will change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors; call police. The subsequent arrests of five men seeking to bug and burgle the Democratic National Committee offices—three of them Cuban exiles, two of them former intelligence operatives—quickly unravels a web of scandal that ultimately ends a presidency and forever alters views of moral authority and leadership.
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Elucidating
- De J.B. en 02-23-22
De: Garrett M. Graff
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Deception
- The Great COVID Cover-Up
- De: Rand Paul
- Narrado por: Joe Louis
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COVID-19 was deadly, but the real killer was the coverup, led by America’s most durable medical bureaucrat—a man for whom the truth was too often expendable. Senator Paul makes a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness.
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Not so much a book for today...
- De Mermaid en 10-15-23
De: Rand Paul
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The Wuhan Cover-Up
- And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race
- De: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrado por: Bruce Wagner
- Duración: 22 h y 9 m
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From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
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More Important than The Real Anthony Fauci
- De A Reviewer en 12-20-23
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The Guns of August
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.
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Wonderful
- De Mike From Mesa en 10-28-08
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- De NH en 03-21-19
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JFK and the Unspeakable
- Why He Died and Why It Matters
- De: James W. Douglass
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 22 h y 20 m
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At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy's change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence.
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One Book EVERY AMERICAN Needs to Read
- De Peter en 06-09-12
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Thirteen Days
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- Michael D. Russcher
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Not as good as the movie
A but dry but still informative. I'd recommend the movie if you want something more entertaining
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- Larry A. Jasek
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Historical Terror
Historical Terror at a time when there was so much unknown. This gives a good look at what else was going on from a Soviet perspective. I didn't know we had missiles right outside their back door. No wonder they wanted to place them outside our back door. Once again, the United States won the gamble.
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- mr kieran j murphy
- 11-28-19
an insight into a point in history
this is an insight intoa point of history from someone who was in the room where it happened. history as it happened
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- Rick B
- 10-09-20
Nearly Armageddon
The Late Robert F. Kennedy's memoirs about the 13 days in October 1962 in my opinion should be introduced to our High Schools across America. You will, by listening to this excellent audio book come to the conclusion just how close the real Armageddon crossed the worlds path in just 13 days. During this time President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby faced a challenge that no man or men in history have ever faced. The two greatest powers on the planet, with the capability to destroy all life as we know it debated between their leaders, both in America & the USSR on the fate of the Cuban people and the rest of the world during this "Cuban Missile Crisis". Kurt Elftmann does an excellent job expressing the emotions of both leaders. What I appreciated allot about this book was it's references to the actual letters between President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev and their direct correspondence during the 13 days. All this knowledge of course has been out of reach from the general public or forgotten as in the past. Americans who were either children or not even born during this stressful time can begin to appreciate the historical challenges and how the military pushed for an all out invasion of Cuba which the President choose not to do. His choice, and only one man could make the final decision, the President chose instead a Naval Blockade at a perimeter of 500 miles around Cuba preventing Soviet ships from delivering addition missiles and Bombers. The CIA was directly involved and U2 reconnaissance flights over Cuba occurred throughout the 13 days, One U2 was shot down and the pilot was killed. The CIA estimated 10,000 soviet troops in Cuba. In reality over 43,000 troop's and support personnel were on the island. The CIA estimated incorrectly the amount of missiles being readied for launch down to the very last day. They never confirmed that those 32 missiles were actually nuclear and could easily hit any city both in the North and South Americas within 1000 miles or more.
I also recommend further reading of the Audible book Red November by W. Craig Reed which expands on the submarine actions not discussed in 13 days that truly bring to fact that the Soviet Navy's B-59, B-4, B-36 & B-130 Foxtrot diesel-electric powered submarines equipped with a T-5 Nuclear torpedo's called the "Special Weapon", lay in wait for launch at our major Eastern Cities in the bottom of the ocean. Boston was only 1,500 miles away and Mexico City just over 1,300 miles. The power of this "Special Weapon would be equivalent to the Hiroshima bomb dropped on August 6th 1945 on Japan. The name forgotten to history, Vasili Arkhipov indeed saved the planet. One false move by either side and this review would not have been possible. I rate this 5 stars all the way as I also did with Red November!
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- David
- 08-06-15
An good inside look
I saw the film adaptation long before I read the book. The book is interesting but I'm suspicious to a degree since "Bobbie" is a central character, and the main character is his own brother. However, given whatever flaws it may have based on those relationships, it is still an important story of one of the most frightening events of the 20th Century. RFK's original work is quite brief, but the supplementary notes are as interesting and as important as the main work. It's is interesting to note the impact of a single book, Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August had on the President, and the results that had for the outcome of the crisis. The whole approach used by the President is useful in ways far beyond nuclear diplomacy.
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- A. Logan
- 11-19-22
interesting.
This is a very interesting listen and people are being too harsh on the narrator.
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- Lindsay
- 10-05-18
Great story, terrible narrator
Fascinating read that sheds insight into an important event in our history. To be honest, the book is a bit dry, but the material is still interesting. Also makes me wonder how much of this is a biased summary, given that JFK's brother wrote the book. All that aside, worthwhile read. Sort of makes you look at global politics a little differently.
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- Max & Lucy
- 02-24-19
IF YOU LOVE HISTORY"""
Robert Kennedy Lived it. I was a young republican then, but I think JFK handled this the best way possible.
In 1968, I planned to vote for RFK , Anybody to replace LBJ. Anyway, If you like history I believe you will enjoy
this book.
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- Paul Izzi
- 08-06-17
Exceptional look at near world annihilation
It brought back vivid memories of living in a home of 7 children and parents who were essentially dealing with the fear of total world destruction.
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- Casey
- 12-17-19
Excellent
RFK’s personal account is fast-paced and sobering. His style is very enjoyable and doesn’t bog down. I do wish his account was longer, it was so interesting.
The afterword was too long-winded, taking a full two hours of the listening time.
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