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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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    • Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
    • By: Stephen Fried
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general....

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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 Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
    • By: Eric Metaxas
    • Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,104 ratings
    • If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we understand what our founding fathers meant....

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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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    • 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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    • How Money Shaped the Birth of America
    • By: Willard Sterne Randall
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about....

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    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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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 927 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,406 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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    • 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 747 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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    • 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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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,003 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...

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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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