Founding Fathers

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    • Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race....

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    • One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
    • By: A.J. Jacobs
    • Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution....

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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 460 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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    • Merchant King and American Patriot
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion....

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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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    • George Washington
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 920 ratings
    • From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand as the definitive biography of the greatest American icon....

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    • What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
    • By: Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 677 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation....

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    • A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
    • By: Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In this succinct volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding....

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    • The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • A revealing biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush - fiery signer of the Declaration of Independence, prominent physician, ardent politician, zealous social reformer, passionate humanitarian, and dedicated educator....

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    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Thomas Rosenfeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the 10-dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers. But do you really know Alexander Hamilton? Find out....

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    • Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
    • By: Naomi Wolf
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Wolf outlines in this citizen call to action - which is reminiscent of Thomas Paine's revered Common Sense - the real threats to our civil liberties that exist....

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    • The Constitutional Convention of 1787
    • By: James Collier, Christopher Collier
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,992 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...

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    • By: Michael Farquhar
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Following on the heels of his national best seller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home....

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    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,398 ratings
    • >He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War....

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    • Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

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