Great Depression Biography

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 507 ratings
    • The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

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    • A Life of John Steinbeck
    • By: William Souder
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy....

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    • FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
    • By: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120 ratings
    • Instead of becoming the dictator so many wanted in those first days, FDR rescued banks, put men to work immediately....

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    • Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
    • By: James Rickards
    • Narrated by: James Rickards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237 ratings
    • The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it....

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    • By: Tom Brokaw
    • Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 899 ratings
    • In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation...

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    • The Triumph of the American Imagination
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 33 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,418 ratings
    • Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination, and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi.

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    • Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837
    • By: Alasdair Roberts
    • Narrated by: Kevin Young
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837....

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    • How I'm Overcoming, on a Daily Basis, at Least a Million Addictions and Disfunctions and Finding a Spiritual (Sometimes) Life
    • By: Richard Lewis
    • Narrated by: Richard Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Richard Lewis finds himself on a gurney in the ER at the age of 44, hallucinating from excess cocaine use and his body poisoned by acute alcoholism. The same dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best material had, it seemed, turned on him....

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    • The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
    • By: Susan Quinn
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives....

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    • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 39 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,333 ratings
    • No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt....

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    • How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
    • By: Jim Powell
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Think FDR was a great president? Think again....

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    • By: David Von Drehle
    • Narrated by: David Von Drehle
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • One of our nation’s most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door.

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    • By: Russell Baker
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia....

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    • How to Prosper in the Crash That Follows the Greatest Boom in History
    • By: Harry S. Dent
    • Narrated by: Harry S. Dent
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Roaring 2000s guides listeners through the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression....

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    • By: Douglas Thayer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West--fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to...

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    • The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
    • By: Brian Hicks
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • Brian Hicks tells the explosive story of the Morro Castle &3150; the elegant luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Eric Rauchway
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures....

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