American Birth

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    • Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the 20th century....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: James Deary
    • Narrated by: James Deary
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • James Deary, a NYC healthcare organization cofounder and behavioral scientist, never wanted to be a psychic medium. This ability more or less “happened” to him. His first near-death experience occurred when he was two years old. At age eight, he saw his first apparition.

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    • Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 827 ratings
    • In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-17
    • Language: English
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    • The best-selling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the 20th century and beyond....

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    • Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
    • By: Michel Paradis
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo Michel Paradis provides a thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.

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    • From Birth to Reality
    • By: Laura Jana
    • Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • This best-selling guide on newborns is now fully revised and updated with the essential information new parents need. Written by pediatricians who are also parents....

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    • Blood, Wine, and the Birth of the American Mafia in New Orleans
    • By: Richard Robbins
    • Narrated by: Timothy G. Little
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • This fictionalized tale recounts the story of the true life Giacona family, who emigrated from Sicily to New Orleans in the 1890s. They came to the US to escape the influence of the mafia, only to be confronted by the same challenges in the New World....

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    • Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Master historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be....

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    • The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
    • By: Nathan Masters
    • Narrated by: David H Lawrence XVII
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film....

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    • Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air....

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    • E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
    • By: Michael Sims
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know"....

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    • A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
    • By: J. C. Hallman
    • Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health, Say Anarcha illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until now....

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    • Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
    • By: Dána-Ain Davis
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth....

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    • Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism
    • By: Joel Richard Paul
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • When the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn’t think of themselves as “Americans.” They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism....

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    • Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
    • By: Paul Youngquist
    • Narrated by: Flynn Earl Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet....

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    • The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
    • By: William L. Barney
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • Rebels in the Making is a narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this work, senior Civil War historian William L. Barney narrates the explosion of the sectional conflict into secession and civil war....

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    • The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
    • By: Angela C. Sutton
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America.

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    • W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
    • By: Aldon D. Morris
    • Narrated by: K. Todd Freeman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’ ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’ work in the founding of the discipline....

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    • Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • We have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding....

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