Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Lynne Olson
• Narrated By Robert Fass

At the center of the debate over American intervention in World War II stood the two most famous men in America: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who championed the interventionist cause, and aviator Charles Lindbergh, who as unofficial leader and spokesman for America's isolationists emerged as the president's most formidable adversary. Their contest of wills personified the divisions within the country at large, and Lynne Olson makes masterly use of their dramatic personal stories to create a poignant and riveting narrative.

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs)
• By David Nasaw
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy - whose life spanned the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War - was the patriarch of America’s greatest political dynasty. The father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, 'Joe' Kennedy was an indomitable and elusive figure whose dreams of advancement for his nine children were matched only by his extraordinary personal ambition and shrewd financial skills.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Joseph J. Ellis
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.

Revolutionary Summer tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling.

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume 3: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

• UNABRIDGED (53 hrs and 27 mins)
• By William Manchester, Paul Reid
• Narrated By Clive Chafer, Paul Reid
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Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, Defender of the Realm, the third volume of William Manchester’s The Last Lion, picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister - when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill portrayed by Manchester and Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning-fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Jon Meacham
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
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In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.