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The Hour of Fate
- Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- ナレーター: Jennifer Woodward
- 再生時間: 11 時間 59 分
- カテゴリー: 自伝・回顧録, 政治・行動主義
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- 著者: Scott Anderson
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- 再生時間: 22 時間 1 分
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA.
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- 著者: Serena Zabin
- ナレーター: Andrea Gallo
- 再生時間: 8 時間 40 分
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.
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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 Tycoons
- How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
- 著者: Charles R. Morris
- ナレーター: William Hughes
- 再生時間: 14 時間 34 分
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Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and verve, they built an industrial behemoth - and a country of middle-class consumers.
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Pappyland
- A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
- 著者: Wright Thompson
- ナレーター: Chris Abernathy
- 再生時間: 5 時間 36 分
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The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply.
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The Man Who Ran Washington
- The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
- 著者: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- ナレーター: Michael Quinlan
- 再生時間: 26 時間 35 分
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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The Quiet Americans
- Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts
- 著者: Scott Anderson
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson
- 再生時間: 22 時間 1 分
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At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA.
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The Boston Massacre
- A Family History
- 著者: Serena Zabin
- ナレーター: Andrea Gallo
- 再生時間: 8 時間 40 分
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The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.
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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 Tycoons
- How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
- 著者: Charles R. Morris
- ナレーター: William Hughes
- 再生時間: 14 時間 34 分
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Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and verve, they built an industrial behemoth - and a country of middle-class consumers.
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Pappyland
- A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
- 著者: Wright Thompson
- ナレーター: Chris Abernathy
- 再生時間: 5 時間 36 分
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The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply.
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The Man Who Ran Washington
- The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
- 著者: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- ナレーター: Michael Quinlan
- 再生時間: 26 時間 35 分
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For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a pause-resisting portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- 著者: Simon Winchester
- ナレーター: Simon Winchester
- 再生時間: 13 時間 46 分
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Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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Wilmington's Lie
- The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
- 著者: David Zucchino
- ナレーター: Victor Bevine
- 再生時間: 11 時間 26 分
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By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state - and the South - white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.
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The Crooked Path to Abolition
- Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
- 著者: James Oakes
- ナレーター: Bob Souer
- 再生時間: 6 時間 38 分
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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies.
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James Monroe
- A Life
- 著者: Tim McGrath
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 28 時間 54 分
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: Soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform 13 colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic.
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Fire in Paradise
- 著者: Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
- ナレーター: T. Ryder Smith
- 再生時間: 7 時間 38 分
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There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. Fire in Paradise is a dramatic and moving narrative of the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts.
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Abe
- Abraham Lincoln in His Times
- 著者: David S. Reynolds
- ナレーター: Leon Nixon
- 再生時間: 33 時間 33 分
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Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life will always be part of our American education.
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Agent Sonya
- Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- 著者: Ben Macintyre
- ナレーター: Ben Macintyre
- 再生時間: 14 時間 14 分
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In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.
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Philip and Alexander
- Kings and Conquerors
- 著者: Adrian Goldsworthy
- ナレーター: Neil Dickson
- 再生時間: 20 時間 36 分
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This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power.
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Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- 著者: Edward J. Larson
- ナレーター: Andrew Tell
- 再生時間: 11 時間
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Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago - the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college - as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- 著者: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- ナレーター: Edward Herrmann
- 再生時間: 36 時間 42 分
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the "muckraking" press, Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. The rupture led Roosevelt to run against Taft for president, an ultimately futile race that gave power away to the Democrats.
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Empires of the Sky
- Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
- 著者: Alexander Rose
- ナレーター: Jason Culp
- 再生時間: 22 時間 43 分
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At the dawn of the 20th century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements. And it was the airship - not the airplane - that led the way.
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Money for Nothing
- The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich
- 著者: Thomas Levenson
- ナレーター: Dan Bittner
- 再生時間: 12 時間 12 分
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The sweeping story of how the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution applied their new ideas to people, money, and markets - and along the way, invented modern finance. Money for Nothing chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided. It's about how the Scientific Revolution intertwined with finance to set England - and the world - off in an entirely new direction.
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"Susan Berfield has written the rare book that makes you look at both the past and present in a new light. Deeply researched and beautifully written, The Hour of Fate tells the gripping tale of how a clash between the most powerful force in the history of Wall Street and a young, popular president set the stage for our current debates over the role and limits of wealth in a democracy." (David K. Randall, New York Times best-selling author of Black Death at the Golden Gate)
"The Hour of Fate is narrative nonfiction at its best. Susan Berfield brings to life the conflict between two of America's most powerful men, J.P. Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt, and reveals how their battle over democracy and corporate power reshaped America." (Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations)
"Susan Berfield has captured a critical moment in American history with a ripping good yarn. Written with verve and a perceptive eye for detail, The Hour of Fate artfully brings to life two of our nation’s most celebrated personalities, caught in an astonishing drama even larger than themselves. It is impossible to read Berfield’s fast-paced and entertaining account of events a century ago without gaining deeper insight into the momentous events we wrestle with today." (Scott Miller, author of The President and the Assassin and Agent 110 )
あらすじ・解説
Bloomsbury presents The Hour of Fate by Susan Berfield, read by Jennifer Woodward.
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality.
It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan’s drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America’s most important industry — the railroads.
Then, a bullet from an anarchist’s gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners’ union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan’s trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt’s citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve.
Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.
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- Jean
- 2020/06/08
Engaging
I found this book fascinating particularly considering our current situation. The first part of the book is a brief biography of both men (J.P. Morgan 1837-1913 and Theodore Roosevelt-1858-1919) with particular emphasis on where they intercepted each other physically and ideologically.
The book is well written and meticulously researched. The author remained neutral through-out and was more like a reporter stating the known facts. I have read many biographies of both men but this book focused on these two men and their different ideology. The main question was who would control the economy of the United States? Would it be giant corporations or the federal government? I found a comment by President Cleveland during a deadly heat wave in 1896 most interesting. (I have read several biographies of Cleveland and don’t remember reading this quote). Roosevelt was police commissioner of NYC. He was personally handing out free ice to the poor. Cleveland said “While the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people” I think we have changed since that time. At that time the only thing between government/big business and the people was Theodore Roosevelt with his “Square Deal for everyman big or small, rich or poor.” I highly recommend this book.
The book is eleven hours and fifty-nine minutes. Jennifer Woodward does a good job narrating the book. Woodward is an actress, voice artist and audiobook narrator.
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- D. Littman
- 2020/06/01
Very entertaining, good intro to the period
A breezy, well-narrated story of the sometimes intertwined lives of Teddy Roosevelt & JP Morgan (& many other "secondary," in the approach of this story, players). The strength of the book is that it provides a rapid cover of the bios of these two individuals (& again, of many secondary players, notably Mark Hanna), and provides a nice introduction to such business conflicts between the two protagonists as the national coal strike & the Northern Securities case. There are better, much longer, bios of TR & Morgan, for those who want to dig deeper (the TR bio literature is particularly vast). And there are better, more focused monographs on the Sherman Antitrust Act, the coal strike & Northern Securities. This book provides a good introduction that can lead the reader to deeper mining of this literature.
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- John Cashman
- 2020/05/26
Wonderful book
Great book, and perfect as an audiobook. The author has done a very good job on research, and writes a compelling narrative. Highly recommended.
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- Richard
- 2020/07/13
Very good book for history nerds of this era
DKG’s “Leadership” piqued my interest in the interesting story of the coal strike settlement. This book shed tons more perspective on the complex relationship between JPM and TR, which was extremely interesting and revealing of an era that was a turning point in the relationship between capital, labor and government