Disability History
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A Disability History of the United States
- By: Kim E. Nielsen
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first audiobook to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of US history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as
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A Disability History of the United States
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Series: ReVisioning History
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 24-07-18
- Language: English
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Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all....
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All Secure
- A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
- By: Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson
- Narrated by: Tom Satterly
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the US military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Tom is a legend even among other Tier One special operators. Yet the enemy that cost him three marriages, and ruined his health physically and psychologically, existed in his brain. Told through Satterly's firsthand experiences, it also weaves in the reasons for his career-long battle against the most insidious enemy of all: post-traumatic stress.
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Not an ordinary book
- By MATT HUNT on 23-07-20
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All Secure
- A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
- Narrated by: Tom Satterly
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-11-19
- Language: English
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One of the most highly regarded Tier One Delta Force operators in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD....
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Heroes
- By: Robert Cormier
- Narrated by: Zach Herries
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero. Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also received a Silver Star for bravery. A man who destroyed Francis's life.
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I have never had a book give me to tensing, nervousness in my stomach till now!
- By Ben on 29-01-16
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Heroes
- Narrated by: Zach Herries
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
- Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face.
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Unbreakable Bonds
- The Mighty Moms and Wounded Warriors of Walter Reed
- By: Dava Guerin, Kevin Ferris, Connie Morella - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Dina Pearlman, Mark Boyett
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Unbreakable Bonds tells 10 touching stories of mothers who spent years aiding the recovery of their children, US soldiers and Marines who suffered severe injuries during the War on Terror. The survival of these wounded warriors is a testament not only to the extraordinary efforts of military medical personnel and their own inner fortitude, but also to their mothers.
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Unbreakable Bonds
- The Mighty Moms and Wounded Warriors of Walter Reed
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Dina Pearlman, Mark Boyett
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-02-15
- Language: English
- Unbreakable Bonds tells 10 touching stories of mothers who spent years aiding the recovery of their children, US soldiers and Marines who suffered severe injuries....
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- By: Ashley Shew
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume they want—nor are they generally asked. In vibrant prose, Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community.
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Against Technoableism
- Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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Ashley Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community....
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Back in the Fight
- The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
- By: Joseph Kapacziewski, Charles W. Sasser
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner’s hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski’s right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm. He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn’t healing as he had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski chose to have it amputated.
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30% author content 70% padding
- By R. Wilson on 09-02-17
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Back in the Fight
- The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-05-13
- Language: English
- This is an inspiring and thrilling tale listeners will never forget. The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb....
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The Leper Spy
- The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
- By: Ben Montgomery
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was also destroying her: leprosy, which so horrified the Japanese they refused to search her.
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very inspirational woman , definitely recommend.
- By Bob on 29-05-23
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The Leper Spy
- The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-10-16
- Language: English
- The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications....
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The Door in the Wall
- By: Marguerite De Angeli
- Narrated by: Roger Rees
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs.
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Short & Sweet
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-23
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The Door in the Wall
- Narrated by: Roger Rees
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-09-08
- Language: English
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Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs....
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I Am Helen Keller
- Ordinary People Change the World Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
- Length: 17 mins
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When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan. With Miss Sullivan's help, Helen learned how to speak sign language and read Braille. Armed with the ability to express herself, Helen grew up to be come a social activist, leading the fight for people with disabilities and so many other causes.
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I Am Helen Keller
- Ordinary People Change the World Series
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
- Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....
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A Short History of Falling
- Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying
- By: Joe Hammond
- Narrated by: Russell Tovey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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In 2018, Joe Hammond, wrote a piece for the Guardian about the 33 birthday cards he was writing for his two sons. It was shared by thousands. In A Short History of Falling he tells the story behind that piece, about the experience of living with - and dying of - motor neurone disease (ALS). A Short History of Falling is not a lament. It is a deeply imaginative meditation on what it feels like to confront the fact that your family will persist through time without you.
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Awful awful
- By VRJust on 07-12-20
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A Short History of Falling
- Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying
- Narrated by: Russell Tovey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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In 2018, Joe Hammond, wrote a piece for the Guardian about the 33 birthday cards he was writing for his two sons....
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There Plant Eyes
- A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
- By: M. Leona Godin
- Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind”. For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil).
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There Plant Eyes
- A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
- Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight...
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Understanding Autism
- Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
- By: Chloe Silverman
- Narrated by: Margie Lenhart
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion - specifically, of parental love - in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism.
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Understanding Autism
- Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
- Narrated by: Margie Lenhart
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-03-14
- Language: English
- Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation....
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Victorian Freaks
- The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
- By: Marlene Tromp
- Narrated by: Fred Humberstone
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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While "freaks" have captivated our imagination since well before the 19th century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, "missing links", and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of "consolidation" for freakery: an era of social change, enormously popular freak shows, and taxonomic frenzy. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, turns to that rich nexus, examining the struggle over definitions of "freakery".
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Dreadful narrator ruins a good book
- By Bird on 30-08-18
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Victorian Freaks
- The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
- Narrated by: Fred Humberstone
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-06-17
- Language: English
- While "freaks" have captivated our imagination since well before the 19th century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, "missing links", and six-legged sheep....
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Hiroshima Maidens
- By: Rodney Barker
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged, 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic. Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb. Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves. This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.
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a monumental book on the second world war
- By a re-kindled reader on 10-11-21
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Hiroshima Maidens
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged - 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic....
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Elaine, What Happened?
- A History
- By: Zelda Emerson, Arthur Johnson
- Narrated by: Oona Maya, Gary Noon
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Elaine, What Happened? A History follows the thirty year life of Elaine who was born without eyes and had other deformities. Besides trying to find out what caused her defects, it is a history of the changes that took place in the medical field, in public education and most notably in society's customs and attitudes regarding people with disabilities.
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Elaine, What Happened?
- A History
- Narrated by: Oona Maya, Gary Noon
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 29-05-24
- Language: English
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Elaine, What Happened? A History follows the thirty year life of Elaine who was born without eyes and had other deformities.
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Chang and Eng Reconnected
- The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture
- By: Cynthia Wu
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker have fascinated the world since the 19th century. In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture, showing how their inseparability underscored tensions between individuality and collectivity in the American popular imagination.
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Chang and Eng Reconnected
- The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-04-16
- Language: English
- In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture....
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- By: Amy S.F. Lutz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism.
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-11-23
- Language: English
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In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism....
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The Power of Potential
- How a Nontraditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business Better
- By: Thomas D'Eri
- Narrated by: Thomas D’Eri
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way. When Tom D’Eri and his father John bought the location in 2013, it was struggling. Now it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida. Its employee retention rate is five times that of its competitors. It has spun off into two additional locations that have been immediately successful, and the business is absurdly profitable.
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The Power of Potential
- How a Nontraditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business Better
- Narrated by: Thomas D’Eri
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way. When Tom D’Eri and his father John bought the location in 2013, it was struggling. Now it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida....
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The Lives of Dwarfs
- Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation
- By: Betty M. Adelson
- Narrated by: Susan Shalhoub Larkin
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Historically, they have borne the labels "freaks" and "oddities"; they have been collected as pets, displayed as spectacles, and treated as comic relief. Now, for the first time, in this comprehensive volume, the lives of dwarfs are explored in all their fullness and humanity. Spanning the centuries from ancient Egypt to the present, this unique social history chronicles the various ways this population has been exploited, describes their strategies for coping, and notes the persistent influence of mythology upon perceptions of them by others.
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The Lives of Dwarfs
- Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation
- Narrated by: Susan Shalhoub Larkin
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Historically, they have borne the labels "freaks" and "oddities"; they have been collected as pets, displayed as spectacles, and treated as comic relief. Now, for the first time, in this comprehensive volume, the lives of dwarfs are explored in all their fullness and humanity....
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The Lives of Chang and Eng
- Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
- By: Joseph Andrew Orser
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature". More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered 21 children between them. More than a biography of the twins, this is a study of 19th-century American culture and society that reveals how Americans projected onto the twins their own hopes and fears.
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Great story, boring narration
- By Alida Dite-Elliott on 07-10-21
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The Lives of Chang and Eng
- Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-11-14
- Language: English
- Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit....
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