Four Famous Americans: Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and George Washington

Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

• ORIGINAL (13 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Grover Gardner, David Zinn, Johnny Heller, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Spanning Lincoln's life - from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign during one of America's most troubled historical periods, to his assassination in 1865 - these essays, developed from original C-SPAN interviews, provide a compelling, composite portrait of Lincoln, one that offers up new stories and fresh insights on a defining leader.

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Eric Foner
• Narrated By Norman Dietz
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Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.

Sterling Biographies: Abraham Lincoln: From Pioneer to President

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ellen Blue Phillips
• Narrated By Roscoe Orman

"Honest Abe", "The Great Emancipator", "The Martyr": Abraham Lincoln was perhaps America's greatest president. He is also deeply beloved by many, who are inspired by Lincoln's unwavering sense of justice and willingness to fight for his beliefs.

Young listeners will marvel at Lincoln's path to greatness, from his humble beginnings as a poor Illinois rail splitter up through his election as America's 16th president, and into the dark days of the Civil War - leading to his tragic assassination.

Abraham Lincoln

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Brand Whitlock
• Narrated By Jim Killavey

Brand Whitlock was an American attorney, author, elected official and diplomat in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote this excellent little life of Lincoln but recognized that his book could serve only as an introduction to the great man's life when he wrote, "To compress between the covers of a little book like this the whole story of AbrahamLincoln, to present within such limitations a life so epical, a character so original and yet so universal, is obviously impossible."

Sterling Biographies: Benjamin Franklin

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Maria Mihalik Higgins
• Narrated By Emilio Delgado

What do libraries, streetlights, and fire stations have in common? What about bifocal lenses and the odometer? Sayings like "haste makes waste?" Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents: a scientist who experimented with electricity; a diplomat who served as envoy to France and negotiated peace with England; a mapmaker, printer, and writer famous for his Poor Richard's Almanack.