American Political Biography

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,972 ratings
    • On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....

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    • The Legacy of Barack Obama
    • By: Matt Margolis, Mark Noonan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know....

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    • An American Abroad in a Post-American World
    • By: Suzy Hansen
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist....

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    • Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,754 ratings
    • Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency....

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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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    • 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 444 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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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • Four Speeches
    • By: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 956 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • The Essential American
    • By: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 30 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War....

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    • An American Journey
    • By: Kamala Harris
    • Narrated by: Kamala Harris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,176 ratings
    • The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in an Oakland, California, community that cared deeply about social justice. In The Truths We Hold, she reckons with the big challenges we face together.

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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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    • An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
    • By: Michael McFaul
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president....

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    • The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides
    • By: Rosalyn Schanzer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • George Washington and King George III of Britain had a great deal in common - aside from sharing the same first name....

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    • By: Vivian Gornick
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life....

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    • J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
    • By: Beverly Gage
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....

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    • An Account of the Trump Administration's Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health
    • By: Jack Hassard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus,...

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    • The Humble Humanitarian Who Changed the World
    • By: Russell Knight
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This ground-breaking fictional biography explores the life of a leader who redefined what it means to serve with honesty, compassion, and ...

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    • Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues
    • By: Donald T. Phillips
    • Narrated by: Donald T. Phillips
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • The author of the classic best seller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Find out....

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    • John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
    • By: William J. Cooper
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father, key to the fight against slavery? Find out....

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