American History Biographies

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,805 ratings
    • Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

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    • The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • By: David Grann
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22,516 ratings
    • In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe....

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    • By: Steve Wiegand
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The United States is undergoing a period of intense political and social change. From the rise of the Tea Party to social media's effect on American life and politics, this new edition fills in the gaps of this Nation's story....

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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 5,260 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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    • 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 696 ratings
    • The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII....

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    • How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
    • By: John Oller
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163 ratings
    • In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British southern campaign....

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    • An American History
    • By: Ada Ferrer
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Ada Ferrer - prologue
    • Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 962 ratings
    • An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba....

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    • By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Rachel McAdams
    • Series: Anne of Green Gables, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22,315 ratings
    • When an aging brother and sister adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative redheaded girl who is mistakenly brought to them....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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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 2,126 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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    • A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
    • By: James Higdon
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Jack Hurst
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America's most celebrated war....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
    • By: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician....

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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 111 ratings
    • In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
    • By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, Jim DeFelice
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32,020 ratings
    • Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell....

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