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When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging. But Paulson had no idea that a year later, he would find himself at the very epicenter of the world's most cataclysmic financial crisis since the Great Depression. Major institutions...
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No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or explores the ambition behind his rise.Those familiar with Obama's own best-selling memoiror his campaign speeches know the touchstones and details that he chooses to e...
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The bestselling author of "Family of Spies" and "The Hot House" delivers the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russias post-Cold War spy program in America: Comrade J. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from academics to eccentri...
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from t...
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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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In this inspired, timely follow-up to the New York Times bestseller From Baghdad, With Love-Jay Kopelman's moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava-the author credits his canine best friend with keeping him sane after he returned home from the war.
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In this dazzling debut, a bright, young historian presents the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful woman's overwhelming determination to be a star. Unabridged. 13 CDs.
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Told with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s.
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A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years.
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A biography of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the de...
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In April 1982, Argentina surprised the world by invading the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The tiny islands had long been the subject of a fierce territorial dispute between Argentina and the UK, and the occupation escalated into a full-blown conflict between the two countries. This audio book presents the history of the Falklands War.
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From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. To each other, they were always "Missie" and "Colonel" To the rest of the world, they were cultural icons, sett
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The definitive account of the little-known 1920s Palestinian leader who allied himself with Hitler and forms the hidden link between the fascism of the twentieth century and the new fascism of the twenty-first.
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In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.
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"George Washington on Leadership" looks at Washington's three spectacularly successful careers as an executive: general, president, and tycoon. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and ...
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In this inspired, timely follow-up to the New York Times bestseller From Baghdad, With Love-Jay Kopelman's moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava-the author credits his canine best friend with keeping him sane after he returned home from the war.
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Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. This riveting memoir from the Navy doctor earned him praise as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of "Newsweek." Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. This new biography separates myth from reality and presents an unforgettable portrait of this brief and violent life.
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In a masterly narrative, historian and novelist Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Abraham Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the final campaigns of the Civil War, was re-elected president, and laid out his vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West.
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In this brilliant book, Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Wheen shows that, far from being a dry economic treatise, Das Kapital is like a vast Gothic novel whose heroes are enslaved by the monster they created: capitalism.
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In the nation's varied memory, Robert Kennedy is a contradictory figure, a hard-bullying McCarthyite obsessed with Hoffa and Castro but also a gentle, poetry-reading herald of a new age bent on stopping the Vietnam War and lifting up the poor. As Evan Thomas ( The Wise Men and Man to See ) writes, both liberals and conservatives have their own spin on his legacy, with predictably different visions
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Award-winning historian Woody Holton reveals that the perennially popular "Founding Mother" has been woefully underestimated and that, although staunchly traditional in some areas, she was surprisingly modern, particularly when it came to questions of women's rights.
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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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From one of the bravest and most experienced correspondents in the Middle East, this is the first biography of the formidable Shiite resistance leader destined to shape the future of post-occupation Iraq. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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This is the exceptional story of the sharpshooting markswoman whom Will Rogers once called "the finest and truest of American women."
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A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era, written by the grandson of one of them.
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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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Tony Benn was born in a house on the Embankment which - ironically - later became the site of the Millbank Tower, centre of Labour spin. Next door lived Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and politics were Tony's life-blood from the very beginning (his father was a Cabinet minister). This warm, affectionate, brilliantly funny account reveals how he developed his ideas and ideals from the extraordinary late...
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"New York Times"-bestselling author Dean and the son of conservative icon Barry Goldwater come together to show why Goldwater matters. Unabridged. 13 CDs.
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An unprecedented personal portrait of one of the great leaders of our time, in his own words
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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography-released simultaneously with the feature-length film of the same name-chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
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Unabridged, 30 CDs, 39 hours Read by TBA From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington.
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Susan Jacoby, the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, examines the trial and imprisonment of Alger Hiss and the reactions of commentators on both ends of the political spectrum in the years since.
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From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. To each other, they were always "Missie" and "Colonel" To the rest of the world, they were cultural icons, sett
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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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In the tradition of "Jarhead" and "Band of Brothers," this is the extraordinary story of one Marine platoon's brotherhood, honor, and sacrifice during the battle of Ramadi--arguably the most intense conflict of the Iraq War.
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A former CIA director offers a riveting glimpse into the complicated relationship between U.S. Presidents and their chiefs of intelligence.In never before told anecdotes, Admiral Turner takes the reader inside the White House, into closed door meetings and tense discussions, showing the workings of the US government with a kind of understanding that comes from being an intimate of many high-level
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Susan Jacoby, the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, examines the trial and imprisonment of Alger Hiss and the reactions of commentators on both ends of the political spectrum in the years since.
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A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father" from Grammy(R) award-winning author, Barack Obama. The Audacity of Hope In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that...
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Offering a gripping insider's look at the first post-9/11 CIA training class--the most elite and secretive espionage training program in the country--this work provides a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary group of Americans with the courage and resolve to make a difference in the war on terror. Unabridged. 10 CDs.
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Don Mann offers an indispensable, ground-breaking narrative of what it takes to make a SEAL and to break a man - very close to the same thing. Pushing himself and his men to extremes, Mann suffered intensely for country and here he'll describe his life in the SEALS and SEAL Team 6, his training and the training he conducted and the operations that took him within an inch of his life. This will be ...
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