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Norman Cantor provides an illuminating psychological rendering of this legendary figure whose puzzling personality greatly fueled his military accomplishments.
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The bestselling author of Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart offers a new look at Ronald Reagan's neglected and misunderstood career in Hollywood, shining a spotlight on how it took him from leading man to world leader.
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Susan Butler has recreated a remarkably vivid and multifaceted portrait of the enigmatic Amelia Earhart. Listeners will experience Amelia in all her permutations: not just as a pilot, but also as an educator, a social worker, a lecturer, a businesswoman, and a tireless promoter of womens rights.
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Award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the life of Patrick Henry, a colorful, bold, brilliant and complex man who rose from Virginias backwoods to become one of the most important of the Founding Fathers and the steadfast champion of individual and states rights.
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From the New York Times bestselling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illuminating examination of the complex racial issues surrounding presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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Bestselling historian John Ferling draws on his unsurpassed knowledge of the Founding Fathers to provide a fresh and provocative new portrait of the greatest of them all, George Washington.
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Award-winning journalist Joshua Kendall presents the extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary thesaurus.
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The rousing story of Samuel Adams, the Founding Father who has been undeservedly overlooked by history but who, in Thomas Jefferson's words, was "truly the Man of the Revolution."
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Beck revisited Thomas Paine's famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Glenn Beck's Common Sense." Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation of "The Federalist Papers."
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The nation's most revered president gets an informative, entertaining, and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent--and most unusual and surprising--questions asked about Abraham Lincoln. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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THE RUNAWAY "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER AND AUDIE AWARD WINNER "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Fr...
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In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
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John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."
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Drawing on interviews with those closest to them, as well as on hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, Nicholas Wapshott depicts a complex, personal, and sometimes argumentative relationship between two unlikely political soulmates.
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When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is Donald Rumsfeld. His great fear was a second Pearl Harbor. When it happened on September 11, 2001, he led th
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history. This book presents a detailed portrait of the last days of this one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
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In the spirit of bold restoration, "Lee: A Life of Virtue" reveals the true Lee--passionate patriot, caring son, devoted husband, doting father, don't-tread-on-me Virginian, Godfearing Christian.
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* An extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore
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In this autobiography of the former slave who became a major figure in the struggle for equal rights, Booker T. Washington recounts his triumph over the legacy of slavery, his founding of the Tuskegee Institute, and his emergence as a national spokesperson for his race.
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Esteemed psychologist John D. Gartner examines the life of our forty-second president in an effort to answer the question: What makes Bill Clinton tick?
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The renowned, bestselling author of God's Secretaries and Seize the Fire explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion witnessed through the life and times of one of England's richest and most influential families.
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In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
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Historian Paul Lockhart writes the dramatic story of a forgotten founding father-Baron de Steuben-who whipped the Continental Army into shape to make victory against the British possible.
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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
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The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration between Charles Lindbergh and Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, who shared the goal of finding a scientific path to life without death. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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The first volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography covers Jeffersons drafting of the Declaration of Independence and Notes on Virginia; his fruitful legislative career, and his highly controversial governorship.
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Fighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds. He was a "triple ace" with a combined total of 16victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general and died in 2007.
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Legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett uses the master storytelling abilities that made him a dynamic political campaigner to record this narrative of his life.
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The remarkable story of Sir William Temple and Dorothy Osborne's life together offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history.
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Drawing on interviews with those closest to them, as well as on hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, Wapshott depicts a complex, personal, and sometimes argumentative relationship between two unlikely political soulmates. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his w...
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Fleming offers a compelling, intimate look at the foundersGeorge Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madisonand the women who played essential roles in their lives
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Award-winning journalist Kendall presents the extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary thesaurus. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a diary in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.
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This first full portrait of one of the most enduringly mysterious public figures of the modern era sheds light on Mark Felt's role as a spy, the culture of the FBI, and the internal political struggles of mid-20th-century America. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here is his account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this is a "biography" rather than a history. This part covers the districts and suburbs of London.
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In Land of Lincoln, Ferguson embarks on a curiosity-fueled coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation, encountering everything from hatred to adoration to opportunism and all manner of reaction in between. Land of Lincoln is an entertaining, unexpected, and big-hearted celebration of Lincoln and his enduring influence on the country he helped create.
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From ABC White House correspondent Raddatz comes the story of a brutal 48-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back home. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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The secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten-by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.
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Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America's Naturalist President. The author argues that it was Theodore Roosevelt--by setting aside 230 million acres of Wild America for posterity--who turned conservationism into a universal endeavor.
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In his struggle to hold on to hope during his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl developed a remarkable new perspective on the psychology of survival.
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From his unique perspective, Robert Shrum gives us an epic and personal story of the struggle for power in America during the past four decades. With wit and humor, rare candor, and a wealth of detail, Shrum vividly recounts the real personalities and real forces that shaped the outcome of the closest and most important elections of our time.
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A young soldier's personal account of the United States' involvement in Iraq.John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition-it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating, and newly married, he was called to active duty-to serve in Kuwait, then on the front li
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Enter the life and remarkable times of the lovable Samuel Pepys. Born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor, he began keeping a diary on January 1, 1660, and continued for nine years, faithfully recording the rich and varied details of 17th-century London life. This is one of the most celebrated journals of all time, read by renowned actor and director Kenneth Branagh. 6 casssettes.
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Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers""Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there""were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japane
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Deemed "irreplaceable" by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall's leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died in 1863.
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