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    • By: Stacy Schiff
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 475 ratings
    • This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.

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    • What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
    • By: Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation....

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    • Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights....

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    • Architect of American Liberty
    • By: John B. Boles
    • Narrated by: Michael Johnson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father....

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    • The Constitutional Convention of 1787
    • By: James Collier, Christopher Collier
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution....

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    • The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • By pulling back the curtain on the political, shortsighted, and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers in passing the Bill of Rights, Carol Berkin reveals the inherent weakness....

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    • The Clash of the Two Americas, Volume 1
    • By: Matthew Ehret, Cynthia Chung
    • Narrated by: Hugh Trudeau
    • Series: The Clash of the Two Americas, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This volume will showcase the international grand design led by Benjamin Franklin that manifested in the establishment of the American republic and trace the next 130 years of world history....

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    • George Washington
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 926 ratings
    • From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand as the definitive biography of the greatest American icon....

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    • The Real Story of His Life, His Loves, and His Death
    • By: Mark Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Jim Johnston
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • This is the story of one of America's great founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. The book is a detailed account of this very important but controversial figure in American history....

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    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,405 ratings
    • >He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War....

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    • One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
    • By: A.J. Jacobs
    • Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution....

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    • A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
    • By: Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • In this succinct volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding....

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    • How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America
    • By: Thomas J. Craughwell
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, 19-year-old James Hemings....

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    • The Disillusionment of America's Founders
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident, particularly by the end of their lives....

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    • Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Master historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be....

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    • Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew....

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