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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 19 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished, Pulitzer Prize–winning study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson's life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state; his retirement to Monticello; his assumption of the... Read more
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Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize–winning work recounts Thomas Jefferson's eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson's first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the administrations of Washington and Adams. During this term he... Read more
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The Sword and the Shield
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on unprecedented access to a secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign... Read more
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The Sage of Monticello
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more
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Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 24 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Jefferson series completes the story of his presidency, carrying him through his troubled second term but also to the end of an official career that spanned some forty years. Although Jefferson remained the major unifying factor in his party, the government, and the country, he was confronted by a... Read more
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The Gift of Valor
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham's brave act that saved fellow Marines and earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting hand-to-hand in the dirt, Dunham saw his... Read more
General George Washington
By: Edward G. Lengel
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 20 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and "father of his country." Less often discussed is Washington's military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has... Read more
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Douglas Brinkley
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Theseare the men who took the cliffs. These are thechampions who helped free a continent. Theseare the heroes who helped end a war."—Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984,Normandy, FranceAcclaimed historian and author of the "New York Times" bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the riveting account of the... Read more
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The Gift of Valor - Abridged
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: Yes
Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more
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1776
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more
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Conduct Under Fire
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
God's Politics - Abridged
By: Jim Wallis
Narrated by: Jim Wallis & Sam Freed
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich, and solely pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?God's Politics offers a clarion call to make... Read more
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1776 - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more
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Soldiers and Slaves
By: Roger Cohen
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned... Read more
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Conduct Under Fire - Abridged
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
One Ranger
By: H. Joaquin Jackson & David Marion Wilkinson
Narrated by: Rex Linn
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When his picture appeared on the cover ofTexas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. He was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movieExtreme Prejudice, and he even had a speaking part of his own inThe Good Old Boyswith Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of... Read more
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Soldiers and Slaves - Abridged
By: Roger Cohen
Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned... Read more
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The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
By: Byron York
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
“We have to fight back.” —Al Franken
The Left is angry—angry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the “right-wing media,” and more. And as National Review investigative writer Byron York reveals in this stunning, meticulously reported book, liberal activists have harnessed that anger to build the biggest, richest, and best organized... Read more
A Million Thanks - Abridged
By: Shauna Fleming
Narrated by: Shauna Fleming
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
In March 2004, high school freshman Shauna Fleming invited 1,100 schoolmates to join her in “A Million Thanks,” a campaign to collect and distribute one million letters of appreciation to current and past military men and women at home and overseas. Within six months, she received the one millionth letter. Since then, she has raised her goal to... Read more
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One Soldier's Story - Abridged
By: Bob Dole
Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more
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The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy - Abridged
By: Byron York
Narrated by: Byron York
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“We have to fight back.” —Al Franken
The Left is angry—angry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the “right-wing media,” and more. And as National Review investigative writer Byron York reveals in this stunning, meticulously reported book, liberal activists have harnessed that anger to build the biggest, richest, and best organized... Read more
Assassination Vacation - Abridged
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more
Nothing's Sacred
By: Lewis Black
Narrated by: Lewis Black
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian Lewis Black unleashes his trademark subversive wit while recounting his own life story in his New York Times bestselling memoir.
You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy... Read more
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Audiobook) - Abridged
By: Jon Stewart
Narrated by: Jon Stewart & Cast of the Daily Show with Jon S...
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A hilarious, mega-bestseller from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show-anchoring Jon Stewart that finally answers the question -- what is American democracy?
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government . . . Termed a "political... Read more