American Political Biography

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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 447 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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    • 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 10,985 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 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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    • 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 1,755 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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    • The Life of True American Patriot J.D. Vance
    • By: Roy Chimes
    • Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Join author Roy Chimes as he uncovers the life story of J.D. Vance—a compelling tale of personal triumph and political impact, offering an insightful look into one of today's most influential voices for change in American society.

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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 5,215 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 48 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 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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    • 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 957 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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    • 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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    • By: Andrew Porwancher
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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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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    • 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 311 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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    • 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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    • John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
    • By: Mark Zwonitzer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • John Hay, Lincoln's private secretary and later secretary of state, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous as "Mark Twain", grew up 50 miles apart....

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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 704 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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