Modern American Memoirs

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment....

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

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    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,248 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw
    • By: Craig Glazer, Sal Manna
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • Craig Glazer was an ordinary college student when he planned and successfully executed his first fake sting to get back at some drug dealers who had robbed him.....

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    • The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: Joel Leffert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

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    • By: Chris Martin
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • An inside look at today's special operations sniper and an in depth look at the career of Chris Kyle from those who knew him and fought alongside him....

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    • The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
    • By: Katie Rogers
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray, Katie Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times....

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    • American Heretic
    • By: Robert Elder
    • Narrated by: Rick Perez
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession - the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today....

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    • Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology
    • By: Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness' forgotten final case - his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"....

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    • The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
    • By: Dan Schultz
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,015 ratings
    • On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times....

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    • The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism - From al Qa'ida to ISIS
    • By: Michael Morell, Bill Harlow
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • Called the "Bob Gates of his generation", Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all....

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    • A Love Story
    • By: John Kaag
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • By: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    • By: Brea Baker
    • Narrated by: Brea Baker
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth....

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    • How Faith in People and a Culture of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company
    • By: Cameron Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Barry G. Bernson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Cameron Mitchell’s “dish room to boardroom story” began when he was 16-years-old and started working as a dishwasher at a local steakhouse in Columbus, Ohio. Two years later, when Mitchell was working as a line cook during a chaotic shift change, he had an epiphany....

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    • A Blues Memoir
    • By: Adam Gussow
    • Narrated by: Adam Gussow
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • How does a white kid from the New York suburbs, harmonica in hand, end up earning himself a busker's spot on the Harlem sidewalks next to Mr. Satan, a Mississippi-born legend....

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