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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    • 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 1,108 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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    • 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 356 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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    • 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 639 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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    • 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 904 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Disillusionment of America's Founders
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident, particularly by the end of their lives....

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    • By: Forrest McDonald
    • Narrated by: Daniel Laurence
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • The title translated means "a new order for the ages" and, it being the motto on the Great Seal of the United States, is seen on the reverse side of the dollar bill....

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    • Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election that Saved a Nation
    • By: Chris DeRose
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress -t he only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat.....

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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: 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 96 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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    • Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Master historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands crafts a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be....

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    • How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
    • By: Fergus M. Bordewich
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function....

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    • The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender
    • By: Richard W. Painter, Peter Golenbock
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Richard Painter and Peter Golenbock present a clear description of rule of law - arguably the single most important principle underlying our civilization. They also describe the abuses of power that have occurred throughout our nation's history....

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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 Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,022 ratings
    • The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell....

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    • James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,049 ratings
    • In this lively and compelling biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation....

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