American History Biographies

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    • And Four Who Tried to Save Her
    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that unabashedly places blame for our nation's current problems on the backs of nine very flawed men....

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    • By: Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country....

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    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,602 ratings
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

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    • A Narrative
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Series: Winning of America, Book 1
    • Length: 30 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,748 ratings
    • The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • By: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task....

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    • The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
    • By: Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 759 ratings
    • The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII....

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    • John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
    • By: Michael Kauffman
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel....

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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 3,401 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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    • Clara Barton and the Civil War
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a 39-year-old woman who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • A Biography
    • By: William E. Gienapp
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, William Gienapp provides an up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life....

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    • Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
    • By: David O. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • A spellbinding storyteller, historian David O. Stewart traces the canny and charismatic Aaron Burr from the threshold of the presidency in 1800 to his duel with Alexander Hamilton....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Jon Meacham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,649 ratings
    • Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....

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    • True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
    • By: Jonathan Hunt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. ...

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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

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    • James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
    • By: Robert W. Merry
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 564 ratings
    • When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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