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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
By: Richard Brookhiser
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Brookhiser has won a wide and loyal following for his stylish, pointed, and elegant biographies of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. In America's First Dynasty, Brookhiser tells the story of America's longest and still greatest dynasty -- the Adamses, the only family in our history to play a leading role in American affairs for... Read more
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Robert E. Lee
By: Roy Blount, Jr.
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, a complex soul, and a Southerner to the core. Tapped by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army in the Civil War, his Virginian roots led him to command the Confederates instead. A charismatic though reluctant leader, his military audacity and tactical genius were combined with a genuine and sorrowful... Read more
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My Turn at the Bully Pulpit
By: Greta Van Susteren & Elaine Lafferty
Narrated by: Greta Van Susteren
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to the bully pulpit where opinions fly but common sense rules. Here’s where you’ll find straight talk about the most pressing issues of the day, all delivered in the trademark commonsense style of one of America’s most popular and admired television news anchors. Always resisting the political label that attempts to place people in one... Read more
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Like No Other Time
By: Tom Daschle
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.
The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... Read more
The Soul of Capitalism - Abridged
By: William Greider
Narrated by: Peter Johnson
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Soul of Capitalism William Greider shows how to reinvent capitalism so that it works not only for profits but for people, too. Greider contends that the recent contagion of financial fraud and corporate bankruptcies confirms what is wrong with capitalism. Our discontents are not just with dishonest CEOs, but with what our affluence costs... Read more
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Darby's Rangers - Abridged
By: William O. Darby
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
The exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words
From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby’s Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II—the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and... Read more
The Pirate Hunter
By: Richard Zacks
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to... Read more
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The Age of Sacred Terror
By: Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam... Read more
Conversation with Dorothy Height
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorothy Height has been fighting for racial equality for more than six decades. Gwen Ifill talked to her recently about her new memoir, Open Wide the Freedom Gates. Read more
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The Death of Right and Wrong - Abridged
By: Tammy Bruce
Narrated by: Tammy Bruce
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.
But if you’ve always... Read more
Sleeping With the Devil - Abridged
By: Robert Baer
Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and... Read more
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There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere
By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile... Read more
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Franklin and Winston
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
“Intense and compelling... Read more
Benjamin Franklin - Abridged
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more
Treason - Abridged
By: Ann Coulter
Narrated by: Ann Coulter
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”
In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more
Bushwhacked
By: Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A simultaneously rollicking and sobering indictment of the policies of President George W. Bush, Bushwhacked chronicles the destructive impact of the Bush administration on the very people who put him in the White House in the first place. Here are the ties that connected Bush to Enron, yes, but here, too, is the story of the woman who walks six... Read more
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I Am Alive! - Abridged
By: Charles Jackson & Major Bruce H. Norton
Narrated by: John Henry Cox
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a prisoner... Read more
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General Ike - Abridged
By: John Eisenhower
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.
General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more
Adventure Capitalist - Abridged
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Jim Rogers
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In AdventureCapitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more
The Hill Fights - Abridged
By: Edward F. Murphy
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more
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Breaking Ranks: Dignity for All
By: Robert Fuller, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Rank-based abuse, or rankism, is as old as time, and takes its toll on everyone, some much more than others. In personal relationships, rankism takes the form of disrespect, disregard, insult and humiliation. When one nation pulls rank on another, demanding subservience or surrender, the result is often war. This is a timely and long suppressed... Read more
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Of Paradise and Power
By: Robert Kagan
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Kagan forces both sides to see... Read more
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The Majesty of the Law - Abridged
By: Sandra Day O'Connor
Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more
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What Kind of Nation
By: James F. Simon
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than 150 years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic... Read more
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