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    • The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
    • By: Sarah Churchwell
    • Narrated by: Anne Twomey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of 20th-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases - the "American dream" and "America First" - that once embodied opposing visions for America....

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    • Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

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    • The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
    • By: Scott Weidensaul
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....

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    • From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....

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    • An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships....

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    • Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
    • By: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,451 ratings
    • In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley....

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    • Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
    • By: Kenneth C. C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Sam Freed, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny....

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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 942 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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    • The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
    • By: Lee Sandlin
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Isaac's Storm meets The Age of Wonder in Lee Sandlin's Storm Kings....

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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 702 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 View of the American Revolution
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • This compellingly written history presents a fresh, new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to American nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution....

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    • In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
    • By: J.M. Adovasio, Jake Page
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that J. M. Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited....

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    • Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
    • By: Edward Klein
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish, she would have been doubly horrified that, once again, America's first family was struck by the Kennedy Curse....

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    • The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
    • By: Richard Harris Smith
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services - America's first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA....

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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • By: Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president....

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    • The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March Through Georgia and the Carolinas
    • By: Burke Davis
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A New York Times best-selling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War....

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    • Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
    • By: Bruce Henderson
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War - America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with Captain Charles Hall's death....

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    • The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950....

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    • America’s First Women Soldiers
    • By: Elizabeth Cobbs
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army....

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