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  • New York, New York, New York

    Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

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    Series series Must-Read American History
    A New York Times Notable BookA lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the ... Leer más

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  • Walter White

    The Dilemma of Black Identity in America

    de Thomas Dyja ...
    Series series Library of African American Biography
    The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem ... Leer más

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  • Play for A Kingdom

    A Novel

    de Thomas Dyja ...
    In this "brilliantly imagined and neatly plotted" Civil War novel (Boston Globe), two battle-scarred companies-one Union, one Confederate-embark on a series of baseball games amid the carnage at Spotsylvania. "Wonderfully conceived and eloquently executed" (Caleb Carr). Maps. ... Leer más

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    The Third Coast

    When Chicago Built the American Dream

    de Thomas Dyja ...
    Narrado por David Drummond ...

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    17 hora 47 minutos

    A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, and actors who helped shape modern AmericaThough today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every ... Leer más

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    New York, New York, New York

    Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

    de Thomas Dyja ...
    Narrado por Jacques Roy ...
    Series series Must-Read American History

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    17 hora 23 minutos

    A New York Times Notable BookA lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the ... Leer más

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    Play for a Kingdom

    de Thomas Dyja ...
    Narrado por Ian Esmo ...

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    13 hora 22 minutos

    May, 1864. In a moment of quiet during the endgame between Grant and Lee, a Union and a Confederate company meet, not entirely by accident. The Union soldiers are a motley company of Irish, English, and German stock, all ragged and worn from the Battle of the Wilderness. Left behind to guard their army’s flank, they decide to relax with a baseball and bat when, as if by magic, a company of Alabama ... Leer más

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  • Only Connect

    The Way to Save Our Schools

    An inspiring new vision for America's public schools from one of the nation's top educatorsAmerican fourth graders score twelfth in the world in math skills, after Latvia and Hungary. Our eighth graders are fifteenth, below Malaysia and Slovakia. And by the time they're fifteen years old, our students have slipped off the map—to twenty-fourth place internationally.If these stats don't make you ... Leer más

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  • The Third Coast

    When Chicago Built the American Dream

    **Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland PrizeA critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture**Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous ... Leer más

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    America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line—the first American railroad—in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and ... Leer más

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than ... Leer más

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    The Gods of New York

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    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation—from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning“A rip-roaring, sweeping, essential work of history . . . a deeply reported and brilliantly observed account of how the modern ... Leer más

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  • Babel

    Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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