5 Results for : assemblyman
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Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
New York state assemblyman, assistant secretary of the Navy, New York City police commissioner, governor of New York, vice president, and, at 42, the youngest president ever: in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt "rose like a rocket". He was also a cowboy, a soldier, an historian, an intrepid explorer, and an unsurpassed environmentalist - all in all, perhaps the most accomplished chief executive in our nation's history. Roosevelt built the Panama Canal and engaged the country in world affairs, putting a temporary end to American isolationism. And he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the only sitting president so honored. In Lion in the White House, historian Aida D. Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002381/bk_blak_002381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Manifest Destiny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 912min
A rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore Roosevelt. In 1884, Teddy Roosevelt’s political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by politics, he retires to the American West to ride, ranch, and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands. Nobody tells him that the buffalo are gone. He arrives in Dakota a greenhorn, awkward in the saddle and unused to Western clothes. But his aristocratic charm, natural intelligence, and love of nature impress the hardened frontiersmen, forming a bond that lasts the rest of their lives. When a wealthy French marquis threatens the pristine country he has fallen in love with, Roosevelt joins with the Dakotans to defend it. Before the presidency, before San Juan Hill, it was in Dakota that Theodore Roosevelt became a man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Prichard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006010/bk_adbl_006010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jacinda's Challenge: The Imperial Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 878min
Jotham is the king of the House of Protection. He was the youngest male ever to assume the position because of the sudden death of his father in Jotham's 20th cycle. In the last 40 cycles, he married his life mate, Lata, and lost her in a transport accident. He had two sons and lost one due to his son's own treachery. Now his first son, Barek, is interested in a woman, and Jotham is going to find out everything about her he can. Jacinda is from the House of Healing. She is the widow of an assemblyman for the House of Protection. Stephan was her life mate even though he was 20 cycles older than she. His sudden death devastated her, and if it weren't for her three children, she isn't sure she would have survived. In the years that have followed his death, she has learned to live with her loss and, more importantly, that life can still be good. She has healed. When Jotham summons Jacinda to the Palace, his only intent is for her to help him gather information on Amina, Jacinda's great-niece. That plan goes out the window when Jacinda refuses. She challenges not only his right to interfere in Barek's life but questions how he's lived his own since Lata's death. Two strong personalities come together after having loved and suffered loss. Can they find enough common ground and courage to chance a new love? Or are they destined to live the rest of their lives alone? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian Gordon, Jennifer Gill, Gary Gordon, Rebecca Haslam. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075585/bk_acx0_075585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: The History and Legacy of New York City's Deadliest Industrial Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
Word had spread through the East Side, by some magic of terror, that the plant of the Triangle Waist Company was on fire and that several hundred workers were trapped. Horrified and helpless, the crowds - I among them - looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened windows, pause for a terrified moment, and then leap to the pavement below, to land as mangled, bloody pulp. This went on for what seemed a ghastly eternity. Occasionally a girl who had hesitated too long was licked by pursuing flames and, screaming with clothing and hair ablaze, plunged like a living torch to the street. Life nets held by the firemen were torn by the impact of the falling bodies. The emotions of the crowd were indescribable. Women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept as, in paroxysms of frenzy, they hurled themselves against the police lines. (Louis Waldman, a New York State Assemblyman) During the afternoon of March 25, 1911, shortly before workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Asch Building left for the day, a fire broke out in a scrap bin on the eighth floor of the building. Fires were nothing new in such situations, and the industrial journal The Insurance Monitor noted that garment factories were, "[F]airly saturated with moral hazard." On this particular day, the spread of the fire to the main staircase made it impossible for workers still stuck on the ninth and 10th floors to escape. Furthermore, without today's labor regulations in place, an advanced warning of the fire never even made it to the ninth floor, despite the fire starting just one floor below, and the door to the only other stairway had been locked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Mansfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036133/bk_acx0_036133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Legends: The Life of Daniel Boone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
Analyzes some of the legends about Daniel Boone's life in an effort to separate fact from fiction. Explains how Daniel Boone's legacy was shaped and how he became a national icon. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man." (Daniel Boone) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The Wild West and the frontier have long held a special place in the narrative of American history, and all of the legends and folk heroes who lived in the 19th century owe their reputations to the original American frontier folk hero, Daniel Boone. Boone was literally a trailblazer: The legendary pioneer established his Wilderness Road by striking west into present-day Kentucky and establishing Boonesborough, one of the earliest white settlements west of the Appalachians. Hundreds of thousands of settlers would follow his path by the end of the 18th century. While that was an important and proud legacy for the former Revolutionary War militiaman and Virginia State assemblyman, Boone became known for the outsized tales and adventures associated with his foray into the frontier. Far and wide people spoke of Boone's expert marksmanship, his encounters with wild bears, and his hardscrabble frontier life, making him a living legend and the prototypical Western frontier folk hero in America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosie Wolf Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035252/bk_acx0_035252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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