American Century

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    • Uprooting a Century of Miseducation
    • By: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Pete Hegseth, David Goodwin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,060 ratings
    • Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom.

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    • By: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the 21st century....

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    • Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
    • By: Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 554 ratings
    • By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War....

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    • Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 31 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,458 ratings
    • Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur....

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    • The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    • By: Maureen Callahan
    • Narrated by: Amy Landon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,700 ratings
    • Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history....

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    • J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
    • By: Beverly Gage
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 617 ratings
    • A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....

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    • 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
    • By: Noah Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Brian Telestai
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them.

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    • Henry Ford and the American Century
    • By: Steven Watts
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 29 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford's outsized genius been brought to life so vividly....

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    • By: Joseph S. Nye Jr.
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"-a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power-be it political, economic, or military-on the global stage.

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    • Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
    • By: Emily Conroy-Krutz
    • Narrated by: Tawnya Rollingson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy.

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    • Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements....

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    • McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
    • By: Scott Miller
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 339 ratings
    • In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence....

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    • A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
    • By: Susan Fair
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 623 ratings
    • American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history....

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    • Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson penned groundbreaking works as outrageous—and provocative—as the author himself....

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    • Dissenting Voice of the American Century
    • By: John Loughery, Blythe Randolph
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day - American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless - is “a vivid account of her political and religious development” (Karen Armstrong, The New York Times)....

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    • How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
    • By: Ronald Gruner
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 23 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Rather than a traditional presidential history, We the Presidents focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have shaped today's America, and the world.

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    • Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air....

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 249 ratings
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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