Historical Memoirs
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A Tokyo Romance
- A Memoir
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a...
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A Tokyo Romance
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2018
- Language: English
- A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a...
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Galileo's Daughter
- A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Fritz Weaver
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Abridged
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Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was...
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Galileo's Daughter
- A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
- Narrated by: Fritz Weaver
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2012
- Language: English
- Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was...
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,247
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Performance1,130
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Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.
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Kept me listening
- By Daniel D on 26-07-2021
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2021
- Language: English
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Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand....
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Mistresses with Jameela Jamil & Dr Kate Lister
- By: Jameela Jamil, Kate Lister
- Narrated by: Jameela Jamil, Kate Lister, Katie Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall25
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Performance24
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Story24
From the bedrooms of powerful men, we're bringing you the secret histories of their mistresses, concubines and courtesans. In this funny, fascinating, and scandal-filled podcast, Jameela Jamil and historian Dr Kate Lister pore over the stories of six astonishing "other women". Women who have been shamed, disparaged and underestimated. Some have been cheated out of the history books altogether. Now Jameela and Kate are placing their stories in the spotlight – to see what history looks like through the eyes of the so-called side-chick.
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Amazing history of women!
- By Anonymous on 24-09-2025
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Mistresses with Jameela Jamil & Dr Kate Lister
- Narrated by: Jameela Jamil, Kate Lister, Katie Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2025
- Language: English
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From the bedrooms of powerful men, we're bringing you the secret histories of their mistresses, concubines and courtesans. Prepare for a wild, gossip-fuelled ride through real history – sex, scandal, murder, betrayal, poisoning, witchcraft and much more.
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The Debutante
- Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall135
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Performance126
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Story126
Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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Not sure there’s a story here
- By Robert on 19-04-2023
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The Debutante
- Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2023
- Language: English
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This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....
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Crime Scenes
- By: Vespucci
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance71
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Story71
Crime Scenes takes you behind the police tape and immerses you in the stories of astonishing crimes from around the world. A town created by Disney, a luxury yacht in the Caribbean, an impenetrable Australian forest, the backstreets of Liverpool and a bungalow in Wales all provide settings for a series of sinister, and at times unbelievable, true crimes.
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Well polished & presented
- By Anonymous on 22-03-2026
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Crime Scenes
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2025
- Language: English
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Crime Scenes takes you behind the police tape and immerses you in the stories of astonishing crimes from around the world.
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Memoir
- By: John McGahern
- Narrated by: John Cormack
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of John McGahern's childhood - of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and of his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer. At the heart of the book is an unembarrassed homage by a loving son to a woman who protected him and his sisters from his father's unpredictable moods. His joy in her presence is recovered with great lyrical tact.
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Memoir
- Narrated by: John Cormack
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2007
- Language: English
- This is the story of John McGahern's childhood - of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and of his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer....
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Galileo
- By: James Reston Jr.
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story10
The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. In this biography, James Reston Jr. provides a lively, vivid portrait of Galileo, taking the listener to the heart of this passionate, embattled, arrogant, and brilliant man.
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really entertaining and inciteful read
- By Farai on 16-11-2022
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Galileo
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-12-1999
- Language: English
- The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...
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Memoirs
- By: David Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with...
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2017
- Language: English
- Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with...
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story23
In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.
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What a life!!!
- By The Lorax on 23-09-2021
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2012
- Language: English
- A gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials....
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The Parole Room
- By: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ben Austen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s 20th parole hearing—after 19 rejections.
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informative and great listening.
- By Kindle Customer on 25-11-2025
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The Parole Room
- Narrated by: Ben Austen
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2024
- Language: English
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Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?
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Josephine
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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Story29
Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.
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Fascinating.
- By Anonymous on 20-03-2023
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Josephine
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2005
- Language: English
- Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- By: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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Unbelievable story
- By Anonymous on 13-04-2022
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2013
- Language: English
- Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family....
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Memoirs of Hadrian
- By: Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick - translator
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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For the first time in audio, Marguerite Yourcenar's masterpiece—an extraordinary novel based on the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, this work is as extraordinary for its...
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Memoirs of Hadrian
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-2026
- Language: English
- For the first time in audio, Marguerite Yourcenar's masterpiece—an extraordinary novel based on the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, this work is as extraordinary for its...
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- By: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 50 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history. With intelligence and passion she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her.
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 50 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2025
- Language: English
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Eminent historian C. Vann Woodward's Mary Chesnut’s Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of the incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall463
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Performance417
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Story411
Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended.
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Well worth the listen
- By Michael Flanagan on 20-05-2015
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Napoleon the Great
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2015
- Language: English
- Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- By: Frank Blaichman
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.
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A great memoir
- By Rachael M on 04-06-2023
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2013
- Language: English
- This a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II....
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall224
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Performance195
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Story195
Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
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Amazing story of rags to icon
- By Arthur Wilson on 10-12-2016
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2012
- Language: English
- Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby?
- By: Blanchard House
- Narrated by: Joe Nocera
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Just before the small-time bootlegger Max Gerlach died, he tried to reveal his secret: he was the inspiration for the mysterious Jay Gatsby. It’s a nice story, but was he telling the truth? Veteran reporter Joe Nocera and producer Poppy Damon investigate this century-old literary mystery and uncover untold secrets about the Great American Novel.
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American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby?
- Narrated by: Joe Nocera
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2024
- Language: English
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Just before the small-time bootlegger Max Gerlach died, he tried to reveal his secret: he was the inspiration for the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
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Patton
- By: Alan Axelrod
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command.
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An informative account of Pattons role in the various wars that still have an influence today
- By Tina Binder on 08-01-2026
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Patton
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2006
- Language: English
- George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature....
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