American Religious Biography

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    • The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
    • By: Spencer W. McBride
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Though Joseph Smith's run for president is now best remembered for its gruesome end, the renegade campaign was revolutionary. Smith called for the total abolition of slavery, the closure of the country's penitentiaries, and the reestablishment of a national bank to stabilize the economy....

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    • The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
    • By: Reza Aslan
    • Narrated by: Reza Aslan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy....

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    • Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Premier Edition
    • By: John G. Neihardt
    • Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,237 ratings
    • Widely hailed as a spiritual classic, this inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk....

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    • The Elusive American
    • By: Adam Begley
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
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    • From the prize-winning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist....

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    • An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
    • By: Lyn Millner
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Cyrus Teed was a charismatic and controversial guru who at the age of thirty had been "illuminated" by an angel in his electro-alchemical laboratory. At the turn of the 20th century, surrounded by the marvels of the Second Industrial Revolution, he proclaimed himself a prophet....

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    • My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
    • By: Huda Al-Marashi
    • Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Tender, honest, and irresistibly compelling, First Comes Marriage is the first Muslim American memoir dedicated to the themes of love and sexuality....

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    • The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
    • By: Tim Reiterman
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 29 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 597 ratings
    • Tim Reiterman's Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978....

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    • By: David Barton
    • Narrated by: Dean Jones
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
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    • Colonel George Washington's perilous experiences in the French and Indian War are chronicled in this riveting account of God's providence and protection....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
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    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • The Life of an American Visionary
    • By: Joe Jackson
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 675 ratings
    • Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West....

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    • Misguided Faith and Murder in the Life of One American Family
    • By: Mark Obbie
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
    • Through a searing and heartbreaking true-crime narrative, God’s Nobodies teaches profound lessons about tolerance and the human spirit's yearning for independence....

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    • The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
    • By: Stephan Talty
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire.

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    • The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
    • By: Alex Beam
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois....

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    • By: Catherine O'Donnell
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-18
    • Language: English
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    • In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the US in the Roman Catholic Church. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith....

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    • The Redemption of an American Icon
    • By: Greg Laurie, Marshall Terrill
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon dives deep into the singer’s inner demons, triumphs, and gradual return to faith. Laurie interviews Cash’s family, friends, and business associates to reveal how the singer’s true success came through God....

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    • An American Pilgrimage
    • By: Paul Elie
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-06
    • Language: English
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    • Called the School of the Holy Ghost, for three decades they exchanged letters....

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    • Preaching from the Bully Pulpit (Spiritual Lives)
    • By: Benjamin J. Wetzel
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
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    • While Theodore Roosevelt's life has been written about from many angles, no modern book probes deeply into his engagement with religious beliefs, practices, and controversies despite his lifelong church attendance and commentary on religious issues....

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    • Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes
    • By: Ali Master
    • Narrated by: Ali Master
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • It’s easy to talk about freedom. But unless someone has lived in a world that suffocates freedom, it’s difficult to appreciate the liberty found in America....

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