Jean F. M.
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
- The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
- By: Charlotte Gray
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated much of their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicenter of political power on two continents.
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Dreadful reader
- By M.Beiny H. on 10-08-24
- Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
- The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
- By: Charlotte Gray
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
A very readable profile of these two women
Reviewed: 04-01-24
I loved this book. Very informative and thorough, I found the reader’s performance distracting though. She mispronounced words, and the flow was a bit stilted.
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- By Leslie Rathjens on 03-05-20
- The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: John Lee, Erik Larson
The narrator was unbearable
Reviewed: 09-28-20
I almost always listen to a sample of the audio before I buy a book, but in this case I was so eager to read it that I forgot. Mistake. This narrator’s reading of The Splendid and the Vile was horrible. His breathy and overly-dramatic reading was really annoying and distracting. He also had this weird way of sort of tailing off at the end of sentences that drove me nuts.
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