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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 3
    • Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,304 ratings
    • This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize - and National Book Award - winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive....

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    • A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
    • By: Richard Overy PhD
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory....

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    • America and China in Southeast Asia
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, David Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia....

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    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified...

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    • The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
    • By: Walter Scheidel
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 21 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world....

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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: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 983 ratings
    • For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is not the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else....

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    • The War Years and After, 1939-1962
    • By: Blanche Wiesen Cook
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Series: Eleanor Roosevelt, Book 3
    • Length: 26 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future....

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    • By: Patricia O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson....

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    • How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering
    • By: Hal Weitzman
    • Narrated by: Chris Kaiser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The mistakes the United States has made in Latin America - and the high price it will pay for them....

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    • Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
    • By: Thomas de Waal
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I....

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    • How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire
    • By: Lawrence J. Haas
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy....

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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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    • How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey, Art Carden
    • Narrated by: Kim Niemi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment....

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    • How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • McCloskey summarizes modern economics and modern economic history with verve and lucidity yet sees through to the really big scientific conclusion....

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    • FDR at War, 1941–1942
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Brad Sanders
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 1
    • Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort....

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    • Countdown to Infamy
    • By: Eri Hotta
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose....

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    • FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
    • By: Nigel Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: FDR at War, Book 3
    • Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy....

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    • How Neoconservatives Hijacked the Bush Presidency
    • By: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Patrick J. Buchanan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • American Empire is at its apex. We are the sole superpower, with no potential challenger for a generation....

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

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