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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one.
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Amazing work with dull oratory
- By Alexander W on 18-01-25
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-25
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea
- One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024 A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death On July 12th, 1776, Captain...
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Incredible bravery and skill by Cook and crew
- By Richard Lewis on 09-12-25
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The Wide Wide Sea
- One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Che Guevara
- The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, from the critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist
- By: Jon Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Armando Duran
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an...
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Not for the faint hearted but worth it.
- By Mr T J Colley on 03-06-21
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Che Guevara
- The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, from the critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist
- Narrated by: Armando Duran
- Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters
- Social Climbing in London and New York
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive firsthand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.
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Husband Hunters
- By NanaRose on 27-11-17
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The Husband Hunters
- Social Climbing in London and New York
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book of the Dead
- Obituaries of Extraordinary People
- By: William McDonald - editor
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Gemma Dawson, Allyson Johnson, and others
- Length: 54 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking audiobook includes 300 obits of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but...
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The New York Times Book of the Dead
- Obituaries of Extraordinary People
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Gemma Dawson, Allyson Johnson, Lauren Fortgang, Suzanne Toren, Graeme Malcolm, Robert Fass, L.J. Ganser, Peter Ganim, Joe Barrett, Dan Woren, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Rick Zieff
- Length: 54 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-11-16
- Language: English
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Newcomers
- The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
- By: Alan Mikhail
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth–century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings. A man thought to be Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid are hardly the image we have of America's founders...
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Newcomers
- The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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Trotsky in New York, 1917
- A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
- By: Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the 20th century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York.
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A Liberals view of Trotsky
- By Amazon Customer on 04-04-18
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Trotsky in New York, 1917
- A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-09-16
- Language: English
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Empire's Orphan
- From Habsburg Austria to New York
- By: Bernard F. Herberick, D. Herberick
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Albertina Zimmerman, known affectionately as “Oma” by her loving grandson, Bernard, was an endless source of fascination and narrator of true stories, whose protagonists were leading figures from music, politics, and the Viennese opera.
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Empire's Orphan
- From Habsburg Austria to New York
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-05-23
- Language: English
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Boss Tweed
- The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- By: Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Narrated by: Scott Ellis
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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William Magear Tweed, America's most corrupt politician ever, ruled New York City in the 1860s and 1870s. He rigged the votes, bribed the legislature, and stole on a massive scale. But even in prison, even after escaping, being recaptured, and confessing it all, people still loved and admired him. Tweed's is a stunning tale of pride, fall, and redemption.
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Boss Tweed
- The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Narrated by: Scott Ellis
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-07-20
- Language: English
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
- By: Brad Ricca
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing 18-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD.
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Fascinating
- By Wendy Jones on 01-04-19
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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Die furchtlose Mrs. Mandelbaum
- Vom Aufstieg und Fall einer berühmt-berüchtigten Frau im New York der Gangs und Ganoven
- By: Margalit Fox, Elisabeth Liebl - Übersetzerin
- Narrated by: Ursula Berlinghof
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Im Jahr 1850 erreicht die 25-jährige Fredericka Mandelbaum aus Kassel wie Zigtausende andere bettelarm und nur mit dem Traum von einem besseren Leben im Gepäck das gelobte New York. In den Straßen von Lower Manhattan schlägt sie sich anfangs als Hausiererin durch – 20 Jahre später ist Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum geschätztes Mitglied der New Yorker High Society. Wie hat sie es in dieser Zeit zu einer der einflussreichsten Frauen der Stadt gebracht?
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Die furchtlose Mrs. Mandelbaum
- Vom Aufstieg und Fall einer berühmt-berüchtigten Frau im New York der Gangs und Ganoven
- Narrated by: Ursula Berlinghof
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-01-25
- Language: German
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Mike Burke: Of the New York Yankees
- By: William A. Cook
- Narrated by: Bill Hemberger
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Mike Burke arguably led one of the most interesting lives in twentieth century America. It seems that it was his destiny to have a rendezvous with history at every turn in his seventy years. The people that became his friends, associates and adversaries read like a who’s – who of America in the middle years of the twentieth century.
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Mike Burke: Of the New York Yankees
- Narrated by: Bill Hemberger
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 14-04-25
- Language: English
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String of Pearls
- On the News Beat in New York and Paris
- By: Priscilla L. Buckley
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Priscilla Buckley is probably known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother, William F. Buckley, Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla, young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, eager for the next step up from the college paper to "real" journalism.
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String of Pearls
- On the News Beat in New York and Paris
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-09-05
- Language: English
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One-Legged Mongoose
- Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
- By: Marc J. Straus
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s June 1953, and 10-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother’s car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva, and Marc needs tutoring. His parents haven’t said why they’re transferring - the family isn’t religious. All Marc knows is he’ll have to protect his brother. Stephen’s a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marc’s a street fighter who knows how to wall off pain.
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New York Stories
- By UK reader on 05-10-21
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One-Legged Mongoose
- Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Gunfighter in Gotham
- Bat Masterson's New York City Years
- By: Robert K. DeArment
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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William Barclay "Bat" Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West, planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then Colorado. In Denver, his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing about the sport.
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Gunfighter in Gotham
- Bat Masterson's New York City Years
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-06-16
- Language: English
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The Color of Beauty
- The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
- By: Alina Mitchell, Audrey Smaltz - foreword
- Narrated by: LaQuita James
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first Black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage. Being the first black graduate of the Vogue Modeling School, she eventually became a powerful business mogul, an exuberant entrepreneur, and a respected leader in her field. Her story is unique because she redefined "beauty" in America. Throughout her life, she sought to prove to the world beauty could be found in every shade of color.
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The Color of Beauty
- The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
- Narrated by: LaQuita James
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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