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    • FDR at War and at Peace
    • By: David B. Woolner
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency are justly famous, viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history. Yet as historian David B. Woolner reveals....

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    • How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
    • By: Ronald Gruner
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 23 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Rather than a traditional presidential history, We the Presidents focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have shaped today's America, and the world.

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    • How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don’t fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and outlines the impact that it has had on America....

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    • A Millennium in North America
    • By: Kathleen DuVal
    • Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Barbara Bush
    • Narrated by: Barbara Bush
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 368 ratings
    • In her memoir, Mrs. Bush for the first time gives listeners a very private look at a life lived in the public eye for more than 25 years....

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    • By: Jeff Webb
    • Narrated by: Jeff Webb
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Revered as a consummate statesman who cemented America’s place on the global stage, Franklin Delano Roosevelt affected tremendous change in the United States in course of his career. To understand his life is to understand how the nation claimed world leadership....

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    • Abridged Selections
    • By: Ronald Reagan
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Reagan Diaries provides a striking insight into one of this nation's most important presidencies and sheds new light on the character of a true American leader....

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    • Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
    • By: Samuel G. Freedman
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • During one week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform....

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    • By: Frederick Jackson Turner
    • Narrated by: Franklin Benjamin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) presented an essay at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", that would ultimately be published with 12 supporting articles in the book The Frontier in American History....

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    • By: John Hope Franklin
    • Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
    • By: Nick Tabor
    • Narrated by: Chris Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa....

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    • The Iridium Story
    • By: John Bloom
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • The story of Iridium - the most complex satellite system ever built, the cell phone of the future, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history - and one man's race to save it....

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    • The Man Behind the Myths
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates’ unique exploration of America’s 16th president in reality and memory....

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    • By: George M. Marsden
    • Narrated by: Jim Denison
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared...

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    • A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.

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    • Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
    • By: Peter Dale Scott
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts....

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    • Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
    • By: Fergus M. Bordewich
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Klan War tells the stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan....

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    • Native America from 1890 to the Present
    • By: David Treuer
    • Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 441 ratings
    • A sweeping history - and counter-narrative - of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present....

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    • Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
    • By: Jeff Shesol
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins....

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