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The Devil's Best Trick
- How the Face of Evil Disappeared
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How we explain the evils of the world, and the darkest parts of ourselves, has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil’s Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt to understand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is a profound rumination on crime, violence, and the darkness in all of us.
In The Devil’s Best Trick, Randall Sullivan travels to Catemaco, Mexico, to participate in the “Hour of the Witches,” an annual ceremony in which hundreds of people congregate in the jungle south of Vera Cruz to negotiate terms with El Diablo. He takes us through the most famous and best-documented exorcism in American history, which lasted four months. And, woven throughout, he delivers original reporting on the shocking story of a small town in Texas that, one summer in 1988, unraveled into paranoia and panic after a seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from the branch of a horse apple tree and rumors about Satanic worship and cults spread throughout the wider community.
Sullivan also brilliantly melds historical, religious, and cultural conceptions of evil: from the Book of Job to the New Testament to the witch hunts in Europe in the 15th through 17th centuries to the history of the devil-worshipping “Black Mass” ceremony and its depictions in 19th-century French literature. He brings us through to the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s and the story of one brutal serial killer, pondering the psychology of evil. He weaves in writings by John Milton, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and many more, among them Charles Baudelaire, from whose work Sullivan took the title of the book.
Nimble and expertly researched, The Devil’s Best Trick brilliantly melds cultural and historical commentary and a suspenseful true-crime narrative. Randall Sullivan, whose reportage and narrative skill has been called “extraordinary” and “enthralling” by Rolling Stone, takes on a bold task in this book that is both biography of the Devil and a look at how evil manifests in the world.
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The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers―geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual―that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
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Weaves American philosophy and history magnificently. Another tour de force from John Kaag .
- De James P. Oliver en 05-29-24
De: John Kaag
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Paradise of the Damned
- The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic.
De: Keith Thomson
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Ballyhoo!
- The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture)
- De: Jon Langmead
- Narrado por: Kirk Winkler
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation.
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Informative
- De James D. Dunn en 05-27-24
De: Jon Langmead
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Museum Worthy
- Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
- De: Elizabeth Campbell
- Narrado por: Holly Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well-publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners?
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- De: Alexandra Stark
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
De: Alexandra Stark
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Steven Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Steven Johnson’s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries—from Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.
De: Steven Johnson
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Bathsheba Spooner
- A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy
- De: Andrew Noone
- Narrado por: Scott R. McKinley
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband at the midpoint of the American Revolution? The story of Bathsheba Spooner has alternately fascinated and baffled residents of Worcester County for centuries. Beyond central Massachusetts, the tale is largely unknown.
De: Andrew Noone
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- De: Mike Rapport
- Narrado por: Paul Daintry
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siècle Paris was a city at war with itself. In City of Light, City of Shadows, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism.
De: Mike Rapport
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- De: Gregg Herken
- Narrado por: Perry Daniels
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
De: Gregg Herken
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Massacre in the Clouds
- An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
- De: Kim A. Wagner
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called ‘Battle of Bud Dajo’ was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a “brilliant feat of arms” according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story.
De: Kim A. Wagner
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Charleston
- Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
- De: Susan Crawford, Annette Gordon-Reed - foreword
- Narrado por: Carrie Coello
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now stands at the intersection of climate and race.
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Beyond 1619
- The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery
- De: Paul J. Polgar - editor, Marc H. Lerner - editor, Jesse Cromwell - editor
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.
De: Paul J. Polgar - editor, y otros
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