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    • Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Patrick Egan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters....

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    • Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
    • By: Mark K. Updegrove
    • Narrated by: Milton Jeffers
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • A historian's revealing and intimate portrait of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush that explores their relationship as presidents and as father and son....

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    • Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 777 ratings
    • An epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten electoral crisis that nearly fractured a reunited nation, To Rescue the Republic dramatically reveals Ulysses S. Grant’s essential yet underappreciated role....

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    • The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Series: The Penguin History of the United States, Book 3
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th century....

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    • By: Cassidy Hutchinson
    • Narrated by: Cassidy Hutchinson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,112 ratings
    • Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college....

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    • From Radical to Unifier
    • By: CW Goodyear
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so....

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    • Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula
    • By: Wilfred Reilly
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.

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    • American Heretic
    • By: Robert Elder
    • Narrated by: Rick Perez
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession - the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today....

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    • By: Michael Beschloss
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 26 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 818 ratings
    • Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions....

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    • The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
    • By: Douglas A. Blackmon
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,993 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history.....

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    • By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,068 ratings
    • Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey...

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    • The Myth of the Religious Founding
    • By: Steven K. Green
    • Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian of religion and politics, explores the historical record that is purported to support the popular belief in America's religious founding and status as a Christian nation....

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    • By: Laura Bush
    • Narrated by: Laura Bush
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 637 ratings
    • In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.....

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    • America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
    • By: Michael B. Oren
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 27 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 313 ratings
    • From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines, the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East....

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    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 88 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War....

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    • The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
    • By: David S. Reynolds
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history....

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    • The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria....

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