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Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players - friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies - and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition.
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Reliving my youth
- De PJ en 05-24-17
De: Michael Leahy
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The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- De: Benn Steil
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events.
Focusing on the critical years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s thrilling account brings to life the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the division of Germany. In each case, we see and understand like never before Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Plan and undermine American power in Europe.
Given current echoes of the Cold War, as Putin’s Russia rattles the world order, the tenuous balance of power and uncertain order of the late 1940s is as relevant as ever. The Marshall Plan provides critical context into understanding today’s international landscape. Bringing to bear fascinating new material from American, Russian, German, and other European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we see the Marshall Plan and the birth of the Cold War. A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, this is an instant classic of Cold War literature.
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A Deeply Researched Narrative
- De Jean en 10-18-18
De: Benn Steil
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Breakthrough
- Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
- De: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the 11-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment - starvation - whittles her down to 45 pounds, skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to identify and purify insulin from animal pancreases - a miracle soon marred by scientific jealousy, intense business competition, and fistfights.
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Good read
- De Lisa Parent en 02-07-25
De: Thea Cooper, y otros
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Less Than Human
- Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
- De: David Livingstone Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines.
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- De spot en 03-28-21
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Reckless in Texas
- Texas Rodeo Series, Book 1
- De: Kari Lynn Dell
- Narrado por: Johanna Parker
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that's what the cowboys she snatches from under the hooves of bucking horses think. Outside the ring, she's got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family's struggling rodeo. When she takes business into her own hands and hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus. She never expected Joe Cassidy. Joe came to Texas to escape a life spiraling out of control. He never planned on sticking around.
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Would have been a good book??
- De Nelda Wright en 08-23-17
De: Kari Lynn Dell
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The Modern Scholar
- World's First Superpower: From Empire to Commonwealth, 1901-Present
- De: Professor Denis Judd
- Narrado por: Denis Judd
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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This course will examine the development of the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, via its greatest territorial extent in 1919 to its eventual decline and end in the years after World War II, and its final transformation into the Commonwealth of independent nations.
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Despite his stylish shortcomings
- De Chi-Hung en 03-06-10
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The Silent Service in World War II
- The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived It
- De: Edward Monroe-Jones, Michael Green
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins, Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy had a total of 111 submarines. It was mostly a collection of aging boats. Fortunately, with the war in Europe was already two years old and friction with Japan ever increasing, help from what would become known as the Silent Service in the Pacific was on the way: there were 73 of the new fleet submarines under construction. The Silent Service in World War II tells the story of America's intrepid underwater warriors in the words of the men who lived the war in the Pacific against Japan.
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Disappointing
- De Chris en 09-17-18
De: Edward Monroe-Jones, y otros
The story is well organized and easy to follow. It probably helps to have some idea of the geography involved- could look at a map if you're not familiar with it. Note you get a pdf with the download that has additional background information that sheds even more light on the subject. I highly recommend.
Keep On Learning!
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The author/narrator does a great job.
The text is an easy read, yet not simplistic.
Great book. Did you know that Czechoslovakia 'stole' the Sudetenland from Austria, giving Hitler a pretext to invade them twenty years later? Fascinating.
Great Read
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Enjoyed it and leaned a great deal
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Highly recommended
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The class I wish I had growing up
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Wonderful, very well organized and digestible
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Excellent
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Would you listen to The Modern Scholar again? Why?
Margaret MacMillan's lectures, "Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919" are riveting. The author narrates this important 'story' in a captivating, articulate and understandable manner.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Modern Scholar?
Lectures sometimes close with a question to which Professor MacMillan responds. Her answers are clear, balanced and insightful.What does the narrator bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Listening to Professor MacMillan give this series of lectures based on her book was a special treat. I really enjoyed her presentation style. She is brilliant.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Once started I found every moment I could to listen - I didn't want to stop.The BEST history lesson in a nutshell
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wonderful gist of the Treaty of versailies
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Not the audiobook
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