Political Founding

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    • Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
    • By: Thomas G. West
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas....

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    • How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time....

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    • Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
    • By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,106 ratings
    • Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, builds his case point by point, comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy....

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    • The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings
    • An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington....

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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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    • 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 700 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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    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

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    • A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
    • By: Danielle Allen
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In just 1,337 words, the Declaration of Independence changed the world, but curiously it is now rarely read from start to finish, much less understood....

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    • The Making of the American Constitution
    • By: Richard Beeman
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government....

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    • George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
    • By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries - Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph - for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet....

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    • Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
    • By: Winston Groom
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the tale of our nation's most fascinating founding fathers, painting a vivid picture of the improbable events, bold ideas, and extraordinary characters who created the United States of America....

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    • Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage. The acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently....

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    • By: David O Stewart
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • David O. Stewart presents this well-researched account of the U.S. Constitution's creation not as a dry analysis of events, but as a high-powered narrative....

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    • The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • By pulling back the curtain on the political, shortsighted, and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers in passing the Bill of Rights, Carol Berkin reveals the inherent weakness....

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    • By: Woody Holton
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate....

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    • The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism
    • By: J. D. Dickey
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • A New York Times best-selling historian examines how demagoguery and the populism it inspires - for good and ill - is embedded in the very soul of our nation....

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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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