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    • Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

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    • An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
    • By: William Hogeland
    • Narrated by: William Hogeland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight?

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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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    • 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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    • Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
    • By: Naomi Wolf
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Wolf outlines in this citizen call to action - which is reminiscent of Thomas Paine's revered Common Sense - the real threats to our civil liberties that exist....

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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 42 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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    • 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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    • God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 454 ratings
    • In American Gospel, New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,249 ratings
    • In best selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us...

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    • Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
    • By: Daniel O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275 ratings
    • Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea....

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    • The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington
    • By: Gerard N. Magliocca
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years....

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    • Liberty Lessons from Those Who Risked All to Sign the Declaration of Independence
    • By: Douglas MacKinnon
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Hear why the historical account of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the story behind the Fourth of July are so critically important...before they and the Fourth of July are banned from American society....

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    • By: George F. Will
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times best seller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist)....

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    • A Life Reconsidered
    • By: Lynne Cheney
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 717 ratings
    • A major new biography of the fourth US president, from New York Times best-selling author Lynne Cheney. James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story....

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    • The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • A revealing biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush - fiery signer of the Declaration of Independence, prominent physician, ardent politician, zealous social reformer, passionate humanitarian, and dedicated educator....

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    • The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
    • By: Pauline Maier
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution....

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