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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
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The American Experiment
- De: James MacGregor Burns
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 88 h y 27 m
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James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history.
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American History ABCs
- De Michael en 06-16-15
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1
- From Washington to Taft
- De: Larry Schweikart
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of the topics every American needs to know. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1 profiles America’s early presidents, from George Washington to William Howard Taft.
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Ruining History to Own the Libs
- De Dee en 11-11-20
De: Larry Schweikart
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Founders' Son
- A Life of Abraham Lincoln
- De: Richard Brookhiser
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller, wit, lover of ribald jokes; depressive, poet, friend, visionary. And he shows that despite his many roles and his varied life, Lincoln returned time and time again to the Founders.
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Excellent Research and Evenhanded Work
- De Amazon Customer en 09-26-15
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Black Reconstruction in America
- De: W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 37 h y 26 m
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This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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The textbook you should have had in high school.
- De Saleh en 05-06-18
De: W. E. B. Du Bois, y otros
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America Aflame
- How the Civil War Created a Nation
- De: David Goldfield
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 27 h y 45 m
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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have interpreted the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere.
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Great and indepth
- De Kindle Customer en 06-02-14
De: David Goldfield
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Lincoln on Leadership for Today
- Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
- De: Donald T. Phillips
- Narrado por: Donald T. Phillips
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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The author of the classic best seller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Abraham Lincoln is recognized as one of history's finest leaders, a great president when the United States was under tremendous strain. But suppose he were alive today. How would Lincoln deal with today's high-pressure issues, from politics to business?
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Leveraging Lincoln to drive a personal agenda
- De J en 07-18-17
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The American Political Tradition
- And the Men Who Made It
- De: Richard Hofstadter, Christopher Lasch - foreword
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics", Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
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The Birth of Modern Politics
- Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
- De: Lynn Hudson Parson
- Narrado por: Milton Bagby
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly defeated a New England "aristocrat" whose education and political resume were as impressive as any ever seen in American public life.
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a very good popular history book
- De D. Littman en 01-29-10
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A Self-Made Man
- The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- De: Sidney Blumenthal
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave", to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.
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I Can't Wait for Volume II!
- De NC-N-NC en 06-14-16
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