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Dreams of El Dorado
- A History of the American West
- ナレーター: Matt Kugler
- 再生時間: 17 時間 11 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 冒険家・探検家・サバイバル
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 16 時間 40 分
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Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln - two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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The Age of Gold
- The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
- 著者: H.W. Brands
- ナレーター: Grover Gardner
- 再生時間: 17 時間 54 分
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When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California. Hundreds of thousands of people sped to California by any means possible, and small cities sprung up to service their needs as they sought the precious metal. By 1850, California had become a state; it had also become a symbol of where the nation was going.
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 14 時間 55 分
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In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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Lone Star Nation
- How a Ragged Army of Courageous Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence
- 著者: H.W. Brands
- ナレーター: Don Leslie
- 再生時間: 17 時間 31 分
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Lone Star Nation is the gripping story of Texas' precarious journey to statehood, from its early colonization in the 1820s to the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad by the Mexican army, from its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches to its day of liberation as an upstart republic.
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Traitor to His Class
- The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Mark Deakins
- 再生時間: 37 時間 9 分
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A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the 20th century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years; his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised; and his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 15 時間 22 分
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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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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 16 時間 40 分
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Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln - two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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The Age of Gold
- The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
- 著者: H.W. Brands
- ナレーター: Grover Gardner
- 再生時間: 17 時間 54 分
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When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California. Hundreds of thousands of people sped to California by any means possible, and small cities sprung up to service their needs as they sought the precious metal. By 1850, California had become a state; it had also become a symbol of where the nation was going.
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 14 時間 55 分
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In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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Lone Star Nation
- How a Ragged Army of Courageous Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence
- 著者: H.W. Brands
- ナレーター: Don Leslie
- 再生時間: 17 時間 31 分
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Lone Star Nation is the gripping story of Texas' precarious journey to statehood, from its early colonization in the 1820s to the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad by the Mexican army, from its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches to its day of liberation as an upstart republic.
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Traitor to His Class
- The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Mark Deakins
- 再生時間: 37 時間 9 分
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A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the 20th century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years; his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised; and his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II.
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 15 時間 22 分
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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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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- 著者: S. C. Gwynne
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff
- 再生時間: 14 時間 29 分
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The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives, defining the nation and one of history’s great turning points. Now, S.C. Gwynne’s Hymns of the Republic addresses the time Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. He breathes new life into the epic battle between Lee and Grant; the advent of 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army; Sherman’s March to the Sea; the rise of Clara Barton; and much more.
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Andrew Jackson
- His Life and Times
- 著者: H.W. Brands
- ナレーター: John H. Mayer
- 再生時間: 25 時間 57 分
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The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. With the sweep, passion, and attention to detail that made The First American a Pulitzer Prize finalist, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that's as fast-paced and compelling as the best fiction.
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The British Are Coming
- The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
- 著者: Rick Atkinson
- ナレーター: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson
- 再生時間: 26 時間 2 分
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Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now, he turns his attention to a new war, and in this book about the American Revolution recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force.
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The Virginia Dynasty
- Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
- 著者: Lynne Cheney
- ナレーター: Nan McNamara
- 再生時間: 10 時間 40 分
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A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe - from the best-selling historian and author of James Madison.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
- In the Service of My Country: A Life
- 著者: James Lee McDonough
- ナレーター: David Drummond
- 再生時間: 28 時間 32 分
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General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family.
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Butch Cassidy
- The True Story of an American Outlaw
- 著者: Charles Leerhsen
- ナレーター: Pete Simonelli
- 再生時間: 8 時間 35 分
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For more than a century the life and death of Butch Cassidy have been the subject of legend, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. But who was Butch Cassidy, really? Charles Leerhsen, bestselling author of Ty Cobb, sorts out facts from folklore and paints a brilliant portrait of the celebrated outlaw of the American West.
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The Moth and the Mountain
- A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
- 著者: Ed Caesar
- ナレーター: James Langton
- 再生時間: 7 時間 19 分
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In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: He will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone.
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Hellhound on His Trail
- The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- 著者: Hampton Sides
- ナレーター: Hampton Sides
- 再生時間: 15 時間 9 分
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On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man - whose real name was James Earl Ray -drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel.
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The Outlaw Ocean
- Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
- 著者: Ian Urbina
- ナレーター: Jason Culp, Ian Urbina
- 再生時間: 17 時間 50 分
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There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways....
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The Oregon Trail
- A New American Journey
- 著者: Rinker Buck
- ナレーター: Rinker Buck
- 再生時間: 16 時間 42 分
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In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the entire 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules - which hasn't been done in a century - that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- 著者: Joan Druett
- ナレーター: David Colacci
- 再生時間: 8 時間 35 分
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave inspires his men to take action.
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The Republic for Which It Stands
- The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
- 著者: Richard White
- ナレーター: Noah Michael Levine
- 再生時間: 34 時間 41 分
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At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both Black and White. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive but also more diverse.
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"A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. He is of the American West and grew up in its myths, which may explain why he writes about it with such passion and clarity." (S. C. Gwynne, New York Times best-selling author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell)
"The 'winning' of the American West is that biggest and most daunting of subjects, so big that most historians have found it necessary to bite off small corners of this grand and sordid tale of empire-building. But here H. W. Brands endeavors to tell it all, from Texas to California, from beaver pelts to buffalo robes, from the hoofbeats of horses to the steam blasts of the first transcontinental trains. Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." (Hampton Sides, best-selling author of Blood and Thunder)
"The expansion of the United States across what would become the American West is the sort of sprawling, tumultuous epic that is best told by a calm and concentrated mind. Fortunately the author of this book is H. W. Brands, who has the vision and supreme narrative skill to braid the chaotic tendrils that make up the past into a story that is almost as exciting for its coherence as it is for the heroic and heartbreaking events it so vividly renders. Dreams of El Dorado is the latest reason to think of Brands as America's go-to historian." (Stephen Harrigan, author of Big Wonderful Thing and The Gates of the Alamo)
あらすじ・解説
From a New York Times best-selling author, a sweeping history of the American West
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame - and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.
Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Fredmo
- 2019/12/09
Dreadful narration
The poor narration made this book unlistenable for me. Every sentence is read as though it was the most profound thing ever said.
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- Fred Mellender
- 2020/10/28
Superb
This includes most all topics: Indian relations/wars/personalities, mountain men, Mormons, the gold rush, the Oregon Trail, cattle drives, buffalo men, Mexican War, the continental railroad, and more. I was looking for a book like this for a long time. The writing is very fine as is the choice of what to include on each topic. Once I got used to the narrators voice I did not find it objectionable at all: he clearly enunciated and I did not find his emphasis as bad as some reviewers did.
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- Kico M
- 2020/08/06
Great and pleasant book
The book guides to the formation of the west of the United States. With an amazing written, the author build a perfect timeline that explain the rise of states, moving of people, changes in history etc. All these with a friendly, but almost scholar and unbiased approach. One of the best books I read this year. Highly recommended for those who like history.
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- Valorie Joyner
- 2020/02/19
Just misses the mark, sadly.
Good story! that we all should know. Just not expressed in an exciting manner. The reader tries, but not up to the audio book standard.
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- BJ Johnson
- 2019/12/04
A better narrator could have made it 5 stars
The story is marvelous, well written and the analysis of the various stages of development of the West was insightful. Disturbing were the various mispronunciations on the part of the narrator of Indian tribes and most of all the Willamette River and Valley. Emphasis is on the “a” and you should not just guess at that. I also felt he rushed his delivery. Some areas needed more gravity, deliberation. But well worth the listen.
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- Daniel
- 2021/04/07
Dreadful narration
Pretty good book on the history of the American West. Especially the first few chapters were great and very engaging. However, the narration was awful, It sounded like the guy that narrates movie trailers. He als mispronounced many names.
Other than that, pretty good book.
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- Jim J.
- 2021/03/09
Go West Young Man
Appreciate the fortitude of all the men and women who ventured west in this great country.
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- F. Reeves
- 2020/12/07
Both entertaining and enlightening
This book gives a very good overall account of the stages in which the United States acquired, explored, exploited, and developed the Trans-Mississippi West and, what is more entertaining and sometimes saddening, more detailed accounts of significant incidents and individuals, admirable and otherwise, involved in each stage.
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- Susan Frasier
- 2020/05/06
Generally good, but...
Unfortunate that the reader learned how to pronounce “Tualatin” but couldn’t be bothered with the correct pronunciation of “Willamette” or “The Dalles”. Quite distracting.
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- Dudley Volcansek
- 2020/05/05
Attention Keeper
You'll love hearing accounts of history you never knew..... leaving you wanting more and more.
The reader is outstanding.