Union Biography

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    • A Child and a Country at the End of History
    • By: Lea Ypi
    • Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party....

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    • How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
    • By: Steve Inskeep
    • Narrated by: Steve Inskeep
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple....

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    • Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
    • By: Gabrielle Union
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22,966 ratings
    • In this moving collection of thought-provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union tells personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame....

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    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

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    • The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
    • By: A. J. Langguth
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years....

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    • Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
    • By: Alice Rains Trulock
    • Narrated by: Tom Parker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 475 ratings
    • Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged a remarkable career during the Civil War....

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    • The Last Years
    • By: Charles Bracelen Flood
    • Narrated by: Michael Anthony
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • Robert E. Lee, one of the most famous figures in American history, vanished after his dramatic surrender....

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

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    • Stories
    • By: Gabrielle Union
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,410 ratings
    • Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided we’re going to need more wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, you got anything stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this round, the stakes get higher....

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    • 1613-1918
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Simon Beale
    • Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,314 ratings
    • This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....

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    • The Prairie Years and The War Years
    • By: Carl Sandburg
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 44 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,680 ratings
    • Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation....

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    • Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 499 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice....

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    • The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
    • By: Whitney Alyse Webb
    • Narrated by: Grace Noble
    • Series: One Nation Under Blackmail, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Volume two of One Nation Under Blackmail examines the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and his closest associates, such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell, and contextualizes them within the organized crime-intelligence networks detailed in-depth in volume one....

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    • By: Johnny Sexton
    • Narrated by: Sam O'Mahoney, Johnny Sexton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike, than Johnny Sexton. All of this would have seemed highly unlikely as late as May 2009, when – aged 24 – he was nowhere near first choice at Leinster, and still uncapped by Ireland.

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    • A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
    • By: Ronald C. White
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 27 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,453 ratings
    • The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant....

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    • By: Philip Short
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Philip Short’s comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years, gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.

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