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Bestsellers
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Reading the Constitution
- Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
- By: Stephen Breyer
- Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Reading the Constitution deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution....
By: Stephen Breyer
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- By S. Blakely on 06-22-17
By: David Grann
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Most important book I've ever read.
- By James m Finamore jr on 12-07-23
By: Liz Cheney
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race....
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- By Lynn on 08-04-14
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Prequel
- An American Fight Against Fascism
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century....
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The fight to keep democracy alive
- By Rex on 10-19-23
By: Rachel Maddow
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The Small and the Mighty
- Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Sharon McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
By: Sharon McMahon
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Reading the Constitution
- Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
- By: Stephen Breyer
- Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Reading the Constitution deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution....
By: Stephen Breyer
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- By S. Blakely on 06-22-17
By: David Grann
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Oath and Honor
- A Memoir and a Warning
- By: Liz Cheney
- Narrated by: Liz Cheney
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution....
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Most important book I've ever read.
- By James m Finamore jr on 12-07-23
By: Liz Cheney
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race....
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- By Lynn on 08-04-14
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Prequel
- An American Fight Against Fascism
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century....
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The fight to keep democracy alive
- By Rex on 10-19-23
By: Rachel Maddow
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The Small and the Mighty
- Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Sharon McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
By: Sharon McMahon
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Masters of the Air
- America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- By: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller....
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Incredible Listening
- By Sully Mountain Man on 12-05-23
By: Donald L. Miller
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....
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Difficult to endure narrator
- By fowler on 12-21-19
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Chaos
- Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- By: Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up....
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Don't fall for the negative reviews...
- By Visualverbs on 08-04-19
By: Tom O'Neill, and others
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Black AF History
- The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
- By: Michael Harriot
- Narrated by: Michael Harriot
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....
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LOVE It!
- By KMB on 09-29-23
By: Michael Harriot
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world....
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Color me grateful.
- By Angela on 11-19-20
By: Barack Obama
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times best-selling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty - his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts....
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Interesting Approach to a Well Known History
- By HistoryNerd on 09-24-21
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
- By: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters....
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History is wonderful
- By Marjo on 01-22-24
By: Steven Rinella, and others
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The Demon of Unrest
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....
By: Erik Larson
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
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Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....
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AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- By: John Berendt
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron, John Berendt
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen....
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LOVED IT!!!
- By Heidi on 07-11-10
By: John Berendt
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The Devil's Chessboard
- Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
- By: David Talbot
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington....
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Disturbing. Makes you question the company line.
- By KTS on 02-06-16
By: David Talbot
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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A family first made, then destroyed by wealth.
- By Barbara W. on 09-23-23
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....
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The Osenberg list
- By Jean on 08-07-14
By: Annie Jacobsen
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Grant
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 48 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant....
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Excellent Book (BUT WHERE IS THE PDF FILES)????
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-17
By: Ron Chernow
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Medgar and Myrlie
- Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- By: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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By MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.
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A must read!
- By Kenny Cook on 02-11-24
By: Joy-Ann Reid
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Area 51
- An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades....
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Disappointing
- By Mike From Mesa on 06-06-11
By: Annie Jacobsen
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A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them....
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This is a must read!
- By V. Richmond on 04-14-23
By: Timothy Egan
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Capote's Women
- A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers....
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You need to know a bit about the players
- By Etoile NEOhio on 12-30-21
By: Laurence Leamer
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Audible Masterpiece
- By Phoenician on 09-10-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....
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Good book, not crazy about the narrator
- By Cathi on 07-20-13
By: Walter Isaacson
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An Unfinished Love Story
- A Personal History of the 1960s
- By: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bryan Cranston
- Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband embarked upon in the last years of his life.
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin, and others
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Dodge City
- Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
- By: Tom Clavin
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs....
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The Real Life Story of Dodge City
- By Jean on 03-26-17
By: Tom Clavin
New releases
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An Emancipation of the Mind
- Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
- By: Matthew Stewart
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
By: Matthew Stewart
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There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Reading the Constitution
- Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
- By: Stephen Breyer
- Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and statutes is to read the text carefully and examine the language as it was understood at the time the documents were written. This, however, is not Justice Breyer’s philosophy nor has it been the traditional way to interpret the Constitution since the time of Chief Justice John Marshall. Justice Breyer recalls Marshall’s exhortation that the Constitution must be a workable set of principles to be interpreted by subsequent generations.
By: Stephen Breyer
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Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie, Dave Cullen
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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So begins a new preface, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.
By: Dave Cullen
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
By: Natalie Dykstra
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods
- How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
- By: Rachel S. Gross
- Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping.
By: Rachel S. Gross
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An Emancipation of the Mind
- Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
- By: Matthew Stewart
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
By: Matthew Stewart
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There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Reading the Constitution
- Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
- By: Stephen Breyer
- Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and statutes is to read the text carefully and examine the language as it was understood at the time the documents were written. This, however, is not Justice Breyer’s philosophy nor has it been the traditional way to interpret the Constitution since the time of Chief Justice John Marshall. Justice Breyer recalls Marshall’s exhortation that the Constitution must be a workable set of principles to be interpreted by subsequent generations.
By: Stephen Breyer
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Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie, Dave Cullen
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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So begins a new preface, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.
By: Dave Cullen
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture.
By: Natalie Dykstra
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods
- How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
- By: Rachel S. Gross
- Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This is the irony of the American outdoor experience: visiting wild spaces supposedly untouched by capitalism first requires shopping.
By: Rachel S. Gross
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Strong Passions
- A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
- By: Barbara Weisberg
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage.
By: Barbara Weisberg
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Awakening to Justice
- Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
- By: The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project, Jemar Tisby, Christopher P. Momany, and others
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.
By: The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project, and others
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A Hard Rain
- America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
- By: Frye Gaillard
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests and movements against it.
By: Frye Gaillard
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Abolition
- Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, and speeches over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation.
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Dusty Booze
- In Search of Vintage Spirits
- By: Aaron Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a case or a few bottles lying around in the basement.
By: Aaron Goldfarb
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JFK and the Shadow Shooter
- By: Marduk Capella
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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This book is primarily about identifying the actual position of what I call the Shadow Shooter on the Zapruder film. The location I have chosen for the shadow shooter has been suggested before as the location of “a shooter” but without connection to the artifact on the Zapruder film. There are a few people who have noted the ideal location for a shooter at one of the windows of the Dal Tex Building, but they have been dismissed because no other evidence has been found to corroborate the suggestion. There is simply no way to know if this location is viable. I believe I have found that ...
By: Marduk Capella
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Short History of Firefighting
- The Story of the Firefighter and Fire House
- By: Paul R. Wonning
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the fascinating history of the firefighter, fire departments and fire towers when you read the Short History of Fire Fighting. The book includes historical information on fire engines, bunker gear and other equipment needed by a fire department. The book includes an extensive listing of firefighter museums in the United States as well as section on fire towers.
By: Paul R. Wonning
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Muslim Cool
- Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
- By: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
- Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S., as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
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Preserved
- A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
- By: Dean G. Lampros
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.
By: Dean G. Lampros
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The Last American Frontier
- By: Frederic Logan Paxton
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and well-understood meaning and to indicate those forces which have shaped the history of the country beyond the Mississippi.
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Before the Movement
- The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
- By: Dylan C. Penningroth
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Before the Movement, Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery.
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The Constitution of the United States of America, Declaration of Independence and the United States Bill of Rights
- By: Founding Fathers
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook offers an immersive journey into the foundational documents of the United States of America, masterfully narrated by Jason McCoy. Instead of merely presenting the text, McCoy brings to life the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights through his engaging and thoughtful narration. This unique auditory experience allows listeners to delve deep into the essence of these pivotal documents, which are the bedrock of American democracy and encapsulate the nation's ideals and aspirations.
By: Founding Fathers