Tragic History

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

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    • The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
    • By: Reza Aslan
    • Narrated by: Reza Aslan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy....

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    • The Tragic History and Spectacular Future of Everything According to Jesus of Nazareth
    • By: Blaine Eldredge
    • Narrated by: Blaine Eldredge
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The Bible is a piercing drama, a tale of prophets and wandering spirits, heroic mothers and flashing swords, cosmic mountains, and a dry, shadowy Sheol. It is a true story that defines the nature and purpose of reality, and its claims are astonishing....

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    • The Tragic Story of the Donner Party
    • By: David Lavender
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The prosperous Donnoer brothers and their friend are leading their numerous children and grandchildren on a treacherous 2,500-mile trek to California....

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    • The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
    • By: Anthony Brandt
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of 19th-century British exploration....

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    • The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
    • By: Buddy Levy
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,121 ratings
    • Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration....

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    • The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
    • By: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American Buffalo.

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    • A Book about the Mysteries of History; Empires, the Dawn of Civilization, Epic Conflict and Tragic Collapses of Societies, Cultures, and Kingdoms. (Epic History)
    • By: Bo Carson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Echo of Ancient Civilizations, a Book by Bo Carson, is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to walk in the path of the ancient world. With...

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    • A Spine-Chilling Maritime Chronicle from the Mid-19th to Early 20th Century Along America's Treacherous Northeastern Shores
    • By: Russell Evans
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Historical Nonfiction book set in Cape Cod, New England during the mid-19th to early 20th century. *Tragic Shipwrecks of Cape Cod* whisks readers...

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    • The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship....

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    • The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
    • By: Barbara Leaming
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin"....

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    • Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    • By: John D. Fair
    • Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For most of the 20th century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next 30 years....

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    • The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
    • By: John Mack Faragher
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it....

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    • A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
    • By: Carl Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in remote New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world, and even Michael's powerful, influential family, guessing for years....

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    • The Tragic Failure of the M16 in Vietnam
    • By: Bob Orkand, Lyman Duryea
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War and, indeed, as the US military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story....

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    • The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor
    • By: Andrew Kirtzman
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • What happened to Rudy Giuliani? Andrew Kirtzman, who has been following Giuliani since the 1990s, answers that question in this biography.

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    • The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
    • By: Julia Fox
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn....

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