Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    • The Rise of Hitler and FDR - Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny
    • By: David Pietrusza
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president....

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    • A World War II Thriller
    • By: William Martin
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree....

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    • The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
    • By: Jeffrey Frank
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan....

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    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Anne Twomey
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 7
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America....

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    • By: T. Harry Williams
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 31 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history, a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico....

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    • Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    • By: Michael Wolraich
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters....

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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Len Cariou
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II....

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    • The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
    • By: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
    • Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
    • Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 868 ratings
    • From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world....

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    • Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan, a “timely, riveting” (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—one that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.

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    • The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor
    • By: Paul Dickson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II....

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    • The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Stephen Lang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods...

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    • John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

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    • By: Amity Shlaes
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford
    • Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 918 ratings
    • Calvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression....

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    • The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
    • By: James Bradley
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Ian Temple
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This remarkable piece of history will change the way you look at American politics. It shows that the corruption of American "conservatism" began long before George W. Bush ballooned the budget and asserted dictatorial rights. The American Right long ago slid into the abyss....

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    • An Extraordinary Marriage
    • By: Hazel Rowley
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history....

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    • John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
    • By: Robert Dallek
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty...

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    • The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold
    • By: Sebastian Edwards
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold....

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    • The Price of Peace
    • By: S. M. Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought....

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    • FDR Leads the Nation into War
    • By: Steven M. Gillon
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct....

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