Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
    • By: Sean A. Mirski
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today....

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    • Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
    • By: Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires....

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    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

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    • A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II
    • By: John Strausbaugh
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • John Strausbaugh tells the story of New York City's war years with the same richness, depth, and nuance he brought to his previous books, providing listeners with a groundbreaking look into the greatest city on earth during the most transformative - and costliest - war in human history....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Katharine Graham
    • Narrated by: Katharine Graham
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling....

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    • How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
    • By: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah.

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    • Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940
    • By: Mark Wayne Nelson
    • Narrated by: Gavin Bruce
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Mark Wayne Nelson details the efforts of one of America’s most underappreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration....

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    • Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise', and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
    • By: Kevin Mattson
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he gave a speech that should have changed the country. Instead it led to his downfall....

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    • Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 31 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Catching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and a study of political morality....

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    • How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
    • By: John Oller
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with big business and Wall Street the center of the financial world....

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    • Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire
    • By: Deborah Davis
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In the early 1970s, Katharine Graham was one of the most powerful women on earth. As the publisher of the Washington Post, she published the Pentagon Papers, which shed light on the darkest corners of the war in Vietnam....

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    • How the Deep State, the Fed, the JFK, MLK, and RFK Assassinations, and Much More Led to Donald Trump’s Presidency
    • By: Steve Harris
    • Narrated by: Jamie Rennell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • America’s Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that disprove America’s history books been brought together in a cohesive historical context, all based on verifiable information.....

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    • The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
    • By: Richard Cohen
    • Narrated by: Richard Cohen
    • Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past....

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    • Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
    • By: Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command and accused of negligence and dereliction of duty....

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    • The White House Years
    • By: Jim Newton
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • If you think of our 34th president as little more than the babysitter-in-chief during the prosperous fifties, think again....

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    • America and World War II
    • By: Michael C. C. Adams
    • Narrated by: Alister Austin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the book, originally published in 1994, Adams challenges stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. The Best War Ever charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s....

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    • A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
    • By: Sally Mott Freeman
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments....

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