Darren mentone
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
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Don't fall for the negative reviews...
- By Visualverbs on 08-04-19
- Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Outstanding!
Reviewed: 09-15-19
Great book! Totally reframed my understanding of Charles Manson and the murders. This is a must read.
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The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles
- By: Ken Kuhlken
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1926, musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching that the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers that the Negro victim was an old friend. When his neighbor, an LAPD detective, confirms that, officially, the lynching didn’t occur, Hickey decides to investigate the murder, earning himself beatings, gunfire meant to dissuade him, and warnings from a Klansman that he’s made some formidable enemies.
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SO GOOD!!!
- By Darren mentone on 03-22-18
- The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles
- By: Ken Kuhlken
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
SO GOOD!!!
Reviewed: 03-22-18
I just finished this book and am still breathless. It's gripping detective novel set in 1920's Los Angeles. Ken Kuhlken is a master at weaving emotions and edge of your seat mysteries into stories that make you ponder big questions and look inward. SO GOOD!!!
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
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Masterful Essayist
- By Andre on 09-30-16
- Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
Exceptional
Reviewed: 03-26-17
James Baldwin is a genius. His insights and descriptions are both timeless and timely - given the current state of race relations in the US. Every American should read this.
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- By Joel on 03-27-17
- Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Outstanding
Reviewed: 02-20-17
The book is, of course, exceptional. Tim Robbins is a master narrator. I highly recommended.
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