American Epic

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    • Reading the U.S. Constitution
    • By: Garrett Epps
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 1987, E. L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps disagrees. It's about 7,500 words....

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    • When Music Gave America Her Voice
    • By: Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Elijah Wald
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios in major cities in search of new styles and markets....

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    • The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
    • By: Nick Bilton
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19,635 ratings
    • In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything....

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    • The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
    • By: Peter Cozzens
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,137 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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    • The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in 19th-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy....

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    • The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion. After Mexico declared war on the United States, Kearny’s Army of the West was sent out....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,895 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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    • The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
    • By: Denise Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 989 ratings
    • The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States....

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    • Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 2
    • By: Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 2
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,567 ratings
    • In this thrilling sequel to Seventh Son, Alvin Maker summons all his powers to prevent the tragic war between Native Americans and the white settlers of North America....

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    • Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42,937 ratings
    • The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race....

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    • The Epic History of American Economic Power
    • By: John Steele Gordon
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States....

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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Snakehead offers an intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a exploration of how illegal immigration affects us all....

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    • By: Sue Harrison
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Series: Storyteller Trilogy, Book 3
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In the icy land of prehistoric Alaska, two heroic storytellers bring to life the final chapter of their ancestors: The star-crossed lovers Chakliux and Aqamdax....

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    • The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
    • By: Stephan Talty
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear....

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    • An American Epic of Discovery
    • By: Lewis, Clark
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts....

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