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Nine Days
- The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's summary
Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, 31-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in at Rich's Department Store in Atlanta. That day would lead to the first night King had ever spent in jail - and the time that King's family most feared for his life.
While King's imprisonment was decried as a moral scandal in some quarters and celebrated in others, for the two presidential candidates - John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon - it was the ultimate October surprise: an emerging and controversial civil rights leader was languishing behind bars, and the two campaigns raced to decide whether, and how, to respond.
Based on fresh interviews, newspaper accounts, and extensive archival research, Nine Days is the first full recounting of an event that changed the course of one of the closest elections in American history. Much more than a political thriller, it is also the story of the first time King refused bail and came to terms with the dangerous course of his mission to change a nation. At once a story of electoral machinations, moral courage, and, ultimately, the triumph of a future president's better angels, Nine Days is a gripping tale with important lessons for our own time.
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Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents and more than 700 interviews with King's closest friends and enemies.
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great but long
- By Thomas on 04-29-10
By: David J. Garrow
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31 Days
- The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today
- By: Barry Werth
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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In 31 Days, Barry Werth takes listeners inside the White House during the tumultuous days following Nixon's resignation and the swearing-in of America's "accidental president", Gerald Ford. The congressional hearings, Nixon's increasing paranoia, and, finally, the devastating revelations of the White House tapes had torn the country apart. Within the White House and the Republican Party, Nixon's resignation produced new fissures and battle lines and new opportunities for political advancement.
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The politics of 1974
- By D. Littman on 11-27-06
By: Barry Werth
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years in the U.S. Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. "There is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro," says Publishers Weekly.
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Abridgement bad
- By Shelly Brisbin on 09-05-04
By: Robert A. Caro
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His Truth Is Marching On
- John Lewis and the Power of Hope
- By: Jon Meacham, John Lewis - afterword
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Jon Meacham
- Length: 10 hrs
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An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime US congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America.
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Absolutely remarkable!
- By Janie on 08-30-20
By: Jon Meacham, and others
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Lyndon
- An Oral Biography
- By: Merle Miller
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 32 hrs and 39 mins
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Best-selling presidential biographer Merle Miller has crafted a candid portrait of one of the most complex, fascinating, difficult, and colorful figures in American history. From his birth in 1908 to his death in 1973, the story of Lyndon B. Johnson is told with no sparing his personal excesses and contentious public image - while also highlighting the strength of his greatest accomplishments in Washington.
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Flawless
- By Jeffrey on 01-04-21
By: Merle Miller
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The Race Beat
- The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
- By: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
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Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen - first black reporters, then liberal Southern editors, then reporters and photographers from the national press and the broadcast media - revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.
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A fascinating inside look at history
- By Ron on 09-22-09
By: Gene Roberts, and others
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Freedom Riders
- 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice: Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- By: Raymond Arsenault
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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The saga of the Freedom Riders is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, 450 Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed and tautly written account.
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excellent book
- By test on 05-05-11
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Dewey Defeats Truman
- The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
- By: A. J. Baime
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.
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Excellent account of the 1948 election
- By A. Crystal on 07-15-20
By: A. J. Baime
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My Grandfather's Son
- A Memoir
- By: Clarence Thomas
- Narrated by: Clarence Thomas
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.
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Wonderful read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-17-21
By: Clarence Thomas
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Too Close to Call
- The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call - the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
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Wow......
- By Micah M. on 06-02-17
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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Justice on Trial
- The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
- By: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
- Narrated by: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a "national disgrace" and a "circus". Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than 100 key figures - including the president, justices, and senators - in that ferocious political drama.
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Politicians behaving badly!
- By Wayne on 07-13-19
By: Mollie Hemingway, and others
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Nixonland
- The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
- By: Rick Perlstein
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
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From one of America's most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide our nation today. Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.
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A 5-Star Book Injured by the Narrator
- By Frank on 08-12-09
By: Rick Perlstein
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Camelot's End
- Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party
- By: Jon Ward
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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The Carter presidency was on life support. The Democrats, desperate to keep power and yearning to resurrect former glory, turned to Ted Kennedy. Camelot's End details the incredible drama of Kennedy's challenge - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its lasting effects - with cinematic sweep. It is a story about what happened to the Democratic Party when the country's long string of successes, luck, and global dominance following World War II ran its course, and how, on a quest to recapture the magic of JFK, Democrats plunged themselves into an intra-party civil war.
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Does character count in political office?
- By marwalk on 07-29-19
By: Jon Ward
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- Rod Perlmutter
- 03-21-24
The real reason JFK beat Nixon?
This is a surprising chronology of a major October 1960 event that prevented MLK from dying in a violent state penitentiary. Also, the authors imply, this event may have pushed JFK past Nixon in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. Acclaimed voice actor Bill Andrew Quinn narrates an amazing, behind-the-scene story of how unknown campaign and party officials, black and white, Democrat and Republican, wrestled with how to protect King, and, maybe, win the election as well. The authors turned years of interviews, articles, editorials, and other research into a cohesive political thriller. Shouldn't this be a major motion picture?
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- D. Littman
- 01-29-21
a fascinating, detailed, blow-by-blow approach
This book exposes the detailed truths behind the superficially well-known imprisonment of MLK in the midst of the last days of the 1960 presidential election. This is a "journalistic" book, rather than a ponderous analytical/scholarly book. A journalistic approach is perfectly appropriate to the topic. I finished listening to it in 3 long sittings, the time passed quickly. Very worthy book, well written & well narrated.
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- Rick
- 04-07-23
How to thread the needle on a policy change
A great book about a lesser known event and its even less known long term implications. In the lead up to the 1960 election, Martin Luther King was sent to prison for a traffic violation that normally would not redult in a prison term. There was fear for his safety and how a prison murder of MLK may effect the election. At the time Democrats were still seen as the party for southern white segregationists and the Republicans more favorable to Black voters. The challenge faced by Nixon and Kennedy was how to react to the arrest and not alienate a key element of their voting base, The book shows how Kennedy threaded that needle for the 1960 election well and Nixon did not and in the long term how the response can be seen as a moment in the overall shift of black voters into the Democrats base and white southerners into the Republican base. The reader was excellent to listen to
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- Elizabeth W
- 11-29-21
Great story though
The narrator is clearly unfamiliar with Atlanta and how to pronounce DeKalb county. The book itself was excellent!
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- Margaret
- 01-28-21
Like a thriller
This book is a first-rate cliff-hanger, with suspense, action, last-minute saves, all with now- familiar characters in a little-known episode that still resonates today. It would make a great movie. Don't miss this. It was a hair-raising era, full of problems we thought we could solve in a decade; this will throw light on why we are still struggling with them today. You will enjoy this.
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- Lee M. Herman
- 01-16-21
History That Needs To Be Retold
This well written book recounts a decisive moment in our country when the Democratic Party won an election after candidate John F. Kennedy made a politically risky telephone call to the wife of jailed civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Placing human values first, the call made the difference to Black votors in critical states, whose new loyalty to the Democratic Party remains strong 60 years later.
A very good listen.
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- Jeff Harper
- 08-19-23
Interesting story of event I had not heard about
Good discussion of 1960 presidential politics and 9 days in life of Martin Luther King, Jr. I didn't realize that the 60s was a dramatic swing in black populace voting patterns prior to the civil rights bills passed under Johnson. I didn't know of this particular arrest and incarceration history. Overall a good book for anyone interested in politics and racial justice history topics.
I listed to this with Audible and felt I lost nothing in the format translation.
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- K. Moore
- 02-09-21
It’s pronounced “De-cab”!
If you’re going to narrate a book about Atlanta history, at least get the name of a major county right. DeKalb County was pronounced incorrectly the thousands of times it was referenced, which took me entirely out of the narrative and made the entire thing sound suspect. It’s not hard, it’s pronounced “dee-cab”!
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