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    • An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” 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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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career.....

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    • Ethics for an Age of Commerce
    • By: Deirdre N. McCloskey
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, and a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism....

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    • Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
    • By: George Packer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Giulio Boccaletti
    • Narrated by: Giulio Boccaletti
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    • By: David S. Landes
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance....

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    • Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882-1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940-1945)
    • By: James MacGregor Burns
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 58 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure....

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    • The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
    • By: Ian Morris
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed....

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    • The Man and the Statesman
    • By: A.J.P. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s....

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    • The Great War in the Middle East
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,506 ratings
    • In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....

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    • By: Fareed Zakaria
    • Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • Here is the New York Times best seller, revised and expanded with a new afterword - an essential update of Fareed Zakaria's analysis of America and its shifting position in world affairs....

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    • America in World War I
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period....

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    • The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
    • By: David Nasaw
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 701 ratings
    • Historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers....

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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
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    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • A Brief Introduction
    • By: Richard Haass
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders....

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