The Birth Of A Nation: Nat Turner And The Making Of A Movement
  • By Nate Parker
  • Duration: 1:59:49
  • Narrator: Nate Parker
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on...

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Parting The Waters: America In The King Years, Part I - 1954-63 [abridged]
  • By Taylor Branch
  • Duration: 6:41:28
  • Narrator: Joe Morton
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.Hailed as the most masterful...

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Lafayette In The Somewhat United States
  • By Alexis Denisof
  • Duration: 8:07:16
  • Narrator: John Slattery
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could...

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The Fall Of The House Of Bush: The Untold Story Of How A Band Of True Believers Seized The Executive Branch, Started The Iraq War, And Still Imperils America's Future [abridged]
  • By Craig Unger
  • Duration: 6:23:13
  • Narrator: James Naughton
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

How Did This Happen? The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy fiasco in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq....

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The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story Of The Nixon Appointment That Red
  • By John W. Dean
  • Duration: 10:24:08
  • Narrator: Michael Rafkin
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

In 1971, William Rehnquist seemed the perfect choice to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court. He was a young, well-polished lawyer who shared many of President Richard...

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The Catalogue Of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, And The Quest To Build The World's Greatest Library
  • By Edward Wilson-Lee
  • Duration: 11:06:30
  • Narrator: Richard Trinder
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest...

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Last Call: The Rise And Fall Of Prohibition [abridged]
  • By Daniel Okrent
  • Duration: 9:27:04
  • Narrator: Daniel Okrent
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of...

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The Bonanza King: John Mackay And The Battle Over The Greatest Fortune In The American West
  • By Gregory Crouch
  • Duration: 23:23:56
  • Narrator: John Keating
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street...

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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election Of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign [abridged]
  • By Edward J. Larson
  • Duration: 6:00:54
  • Narrator: John Dossett
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

"Pulitzer Prize-winner Larson vividly recounts America's first overtly partisan election.The colorful cast of Founders included Madison, Jay, Pinckney, Monroe and Samuel Adams;...

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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army From The Normandy Beaches To The Bulge To The Surrender Of Germany [abridged]
  • By Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Duration: 6:01:11
  • Narrator: Cotter Smith
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day...

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