Founding Fathers

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    • The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it....

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    • A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 924 ratings
    • For listeners who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel - and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation....

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    • And Four Who Tried to Save Her
    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 424 ratings
    • 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that unabashedly places blame for our nation's current problems on the backs of nine very flawed men....

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    • Genius, Partisan, President
    • By: Noah Feldman
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 34 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political "lives"....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,701 ratings
    • 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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    • A Life
    • By: Tim McGrath
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • The extraordinary life of James Monroe: Soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform 13 colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic....

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    • Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the tale of our nation's most fascinating founding fathers, painting a vivid picture of the improbable events, bold ideas, and extraordinary characters who created the United States of America....

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    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jon Meacham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,630 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation....

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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,687 ratings
    • Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....

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    • Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights....

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    • The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • By pulling back the curtain on the political, shortsighted, and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers in passing the Bill of Rights, Carol Berkin reveals the inherent weakness....

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    • Architect of American Liberty
    • By: John B. Boles
    • Narrated by: Michael Johnson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father....

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    • By: Stacy Schiff
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • Stacy Schiff brings her masterful skill as historian and storyteller to the life of Samuel Adams, examining his transformation from the listless, failing son of a wealthy family into the tireless, silver-tongued revolutionary....

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    • Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
    • By: Stephen Fried
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general....

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    • By: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Adam Jortner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders - in their own time, in their own words...

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