Building America

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    • The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    • By: Jean H. Baker
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard....

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    • Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
    • By: Brett L. Markham
    • Narrated by: Christopher Solimene
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre....

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    • Building the Republic
    • By: David Barton, Tim Barton
    • Narrated by: David Fluitt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • America's Constitutional Republic is like no other. Most Americans recognize the names George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, but few can tell you their stories—much less that of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, or Andrew Jackson.

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    • A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past....

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    • The Mythology of Wealth in America
    • By: Nelson Aldrich
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This insider's look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American society....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,790 ratings
    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • Book 5 of the Stonemont Series
    • By: Steven Smith
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As the world continues to rebuild after the collapse, groups across the country are coming together to form new communities. Some just want to ...

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    • How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America
    • By: John Della Volpe, David Hogg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Since they were born, Generation Z (also known as "zoomers")—those born from the late 1990s to early 2000s—have been faced with an onslaught of turmoil, destruction, and instability unprecedented in modern history. But Gen Z has not buckled under this tremendous weight....

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    • The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
    • By: Todd James Pierce
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park: fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Here is the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth"....

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    • How America’s Financial Gurus Are Leading You Astray, and How to Get Back on Track
    • By: David McKnight
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Learn why retirement strategies recommended by America’s famous financial gurus are often inadequate—and discover a math-based plan for wringing the most efficiency out of your retirement savings.

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 691 ratings
    • First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge....

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    • How Rome Built - and America Is Building - a New World
    • By: Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • In Empires of Trust, Professor Thomas F. Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics....

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    • The Life and Buildings of America's Most Famous Architect
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Perhaps America's most innovative and prolific architect, the works of Frank Lloyd Wright are almost too vast and diverse to list....

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    • Thrilling Descriptions of Buffalo Hunting, Indian Fighting and Massacres, Cowboy Life and Home Building
    • By: Charles Goodnight
    • Narrated by: Tim Brown
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879 is an anthology of memoirs by pioneers of the region. The book contains accounts by Emanuel Dubbs, John A. Hart and Charles Goodnight, the famous cattle rancher who was also known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle”....

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    • The Building of America, 1735-1817
    • By: Myron Magnet
    • Narrated by: Myron Magnet
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success....

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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 31 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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    • Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
    • By: Gerard Koeppel
    • Narrated by: Dennis Stone
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects....

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