John Adams (Unabridged)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

John Adams (Unabridged)
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who thought, wrote, and spoke out for the "Great Cause" come what might; who traveled far and wide in all seasons and often at extreme risk; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was rightly celebrated for his integrity, and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.

Much about John Adams’s life will come as a surprise to many. His rocky relationship with friend and eventual archrival Thomas Jefferson, his courageous voyage on the frigate Boston tin the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits few would have dared and that few listeners will ever forget.

Like his masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough’s John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale — an audiobook about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, It is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Author: David McCullough
Narrator: Nelson Runger
ISBN: 0743550862
Normal Price: $100.00
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Chain of Command

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Chain of Command
Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers — and outraged the Bush Administration — with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?

Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he’s challenged America’s power elite by publishing the stories that others can’t or won’t tell.

In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush’s "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. With an introduction by The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.

Publisher: Harper Collins US
Author: Seymour M Hersh
Narrator: Peter Friedman
ISBN: 0 06 078056 8
Normal Price: $29.95
Download Price: $19.95

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Path Between the Seas, The

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of “John Adams”

Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.

Like his masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams, David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested in American history, international intrigue, and human drama.

Awards:
Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award (1978)
Cornelius Ryan Award (1978)
Francis Parkman Prize/Society of American Historians (1978)
National Book Award Winner
Samuel Eliot Morison Award (1978)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Author: David McCullough
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
ISBN: 0743549481
Normal Price: $39.95
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Distant Mirror, A: The Calamitous 14th Century

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“Beautifully written, careful, and thorough in its scholarship.What Ms. Tuchman does superbly
is to tell how it was.No one has ever done this better.”New York Review of Books

“Barbara Tuchman at the top of her powers.A beautiful, extraordinary book.She has done nothing
finer.”Wall Street Journal

“Wise, witty, and wonderful.A great book, in a great historical tradition.”Commentary

The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and
castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a
time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.

Barbara Tuchman reveals both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was
lived. Here are the guilty passions, loyalties and treacheries, political assassinations, sea battles and sieges,
corruption in high places and a yearning for reform, satire and humor, sorcery and demonology, and lust and
sadism on the stage. Here are proud cardinals, beggars, feminists, university scholars, grocers, bankers,
mercenaries, mystics, lawyers and tax collectors, and, dominating all, the knight in his valor and “furious follies,”
a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.”

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989), American historian, was born in New York City and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1933. She won the Pulitzer Prize for history twice, for The Guns of August (1962), and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971).

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5294-X
Normal Price: $59.95
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John Adams (Unabridged)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

John Adams (Unabridged)
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who thought, wrote, and spoke out for the "Great Cause" come what might; who traveled far and wide in all seasons and often at extreme risk; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was rightly celebrated for his integrity, and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.

Much about John Adams’s life will come as a surprise to many. His rocky relationship with friend and eventual archrival Thomas Jefferson, his courageous voyage on the frigate Boston tin the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits few would have dared and that few listeners will ever forget.

Like his masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough’s John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale — an audiobook about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, It is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Author: David McCullough
Narrator: Nelson Runger
ISBN: 0743550862
Normal Price: $100.00
Download Price: $60.95

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Tags: Abigail Adams, Adventurous Life, American Revolution, Audiobook, David Mccullough, Extreme Risk, Faith Virtue, Frigate, Human Nature, John Adams, Life Journey, Love Stories, Narrator, Nelson Runger, President Of The United States, Pulitzer Prize, Religious Faith, Rocky Relationship, Simon Schuster, Unnecessary War