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The dramatic and moving untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers.
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In this deeply moving account, Conant reveals an enigmatic man, who served his country at tremendous personal cost.
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
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Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attack Upon the United States.
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A must-read for all Americans!
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The story of the Donner Party is very much the story of James F. Reed's family. The adopted daughter of Reed, Virginia Reed Murphy's memoir is a noteworthy recounting of the Donner party disaster.
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Traces the life of Confederate General John B. Hood
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This collection of letters reveals the Civil War for many who lived it, overwhelming and ultimately tragic, viewed through the eyes of a courageous youth and an unforgettable young woman.
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Inside America's War on Terror. The disturbing truth about the war on terror, written and read by Richard A. Clarke.
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Story of the famed Confederate Warship and scourge of the Union shipping fleet
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Spectacular epic production of one of the worlds most famous battles
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A selection of Alistair Cooke’s finest radio Letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts.
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No American car carries the mystique of the Corvette, and early in 1997, General Motors unveiled the stunning fifth-generation Corvette to universal acclaim. But GM’s triumph was hard-won. The legendary sports car had nearly fallen victim to internal company politics and a squeeze on profits....
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A devoted husband, father, and American, his missives include: a love letter to Barbara; a letter to his mother about missing his daughter Robin after her death from leukemia.
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General Franks retraces his journey from a small-town boyhood through a lifetime of military service -- including his heroic tour as an Artillery officer in Vietnam, where he was wounded three times.
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A journey retraced from small-town boyhood through a lifetime of military service.
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Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
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In this dramatic and revealing memoir, Ronald Reagan recounts both his life and his beliefs with uncompromising candor and his familiar wit.
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The first single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades.
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Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart's cava...
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Full-cast tale of espionage, betrayal and romance set against the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
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Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit...
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The story of a remarkable scientist, statesman and diplomat and one of the founding fathers of America.
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Written in his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation.
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Band of Brothers is the account of the men of this remarkable unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 % casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office.
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Carson's full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the factors which shaped this nation.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord dramatized in this accurate portrayal
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This is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington, D.C.
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A Jules Verne adaptation about an English Blockade Runner in the American Civil War
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An audio anthology of the most dramatic moments in American history.
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In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire.
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An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.
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The true, but little known story of Red Clouds War, along the Bozeman Trail in Montana in 1868
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Tom A. Coburn, a congressional maverick who kept his promise to serve three terms and then leave Washington, offers a candid look at the inner workings of Congress.
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The Revolutionary War's bloodiest battle comes to vivid life in this action packed epic
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Jacob Weisberg crafts a wide-ranging portrait that is both balanced and insightful.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, " Eulogy for the Young Victims of the 16th St Baptist Church Bombing" is Dr King's eulogy at the funeral service.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, " I've Been to the Mountaintop" is Dr King's speech the night before his assassination.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, "The Birth of a New Nation" ignited the modern civil rights movement. Introduction written and read by Rev Leon H Sullivan.
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Featuring Never-Before-Collected, Original Recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, "Where Do We Go From Here ?", delivered in August of 1967at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta Georgia.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, "The Address to the First MIA Mass Meeting" took place in in December 1955 shortly after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
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This marvelous reading of Mary Rownlandson's account of the Narragansett Indian siege, descriptive and mindful of the will of God, this is a very powerful audiobook.
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With arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed America and the World would be changed forever and for the better.
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A cluster of five countries—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, & Cost Rica—are commonly referred to as Central America. Although these nations differ in their histories and politics, they...
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In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq.
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Chancellorsville is the fourth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. After Will and Mac Brannon return to their units, the Confederate caus...
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This is the seventh book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. While two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and Cory was a...
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Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches...
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A Union General's battle stories. In a truly remarkable personal diary, this singular Union General details his commission, the formation of the army he commanded, and the battles he fought.
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All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally imp...
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The Army of the Potomac attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker makes yet another attempt, but Stonewall Jackson turns his flank at Chancellorsville. In ...
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Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the battlefield, which finally decided the fate of this nation.
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From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
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From April 1861 to April 1865, America was caught in the convulsions of war - The Civil War. No historical even, short of the American Revolution itself, has so deeply affected the United States. T...
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"The story of the war needs retelling because it helped to change the future of the human race," wrote Bruce Catton. According to the New York Times, this work is "scholarly, judicious, clear, and ...
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Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism.
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The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War.
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion
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This island was once a clearinghouse for importing slaves into the New World. It later became one of the world's few remaining bastions of Marxism, proclaiming socio-economic equality. In both form...
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The Curran case framed an era, from 1965 to 1990, and left behind unresolved questions about authority and freedom in the Catholic Church today. Through biography, history, theology, and courtroom ...
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The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns, the War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.
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Rodriguez portrays Mexico and the United States as moral rivals for California. Tragic Mexico and the comedic United States, ironically, have traded roles by the end of the twentieth century. Rodrigue
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They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits...
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A stirring performance of the foundation document of American liberty...
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As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home.
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Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
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Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves - Manhattan.
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Jorge Ramos recounts the events of the worst immigrant tragedy in United States history.
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President Abraham Lincoln's famous words, emancipating all slaves in the territories of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, are brought to life through an engaging performance...
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Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud ada the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals were sent to Alcatraz Island—"The Rock". Also referred to as "Hellcatraz...
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The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration.
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An unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.
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The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future.
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The story of William Fly, New England's most notorious pirate.
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The never-before-told story of the American pilots - idealists, adventurers, romantics - who helped save Britain in its darkest hour.
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Firehouse is journalism-as-history at its best. The story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in apocalyptic day, it is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time.
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A true and moving story of American courage.
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Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation.
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General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father.
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Gettysburg is the sixth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. As the armies clash at Gettysburg, Will and Mac Brannon are swallowed up in t...
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A stunning historical production covering the three days of Gettysburg
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The second part of the stunning Gettysburg trilogy from Colonial Radio.
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The second part of the stunning Gettysburg trilogy from Colonial Radio
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Rosin’s account follows America's most ambitious young evangelicals who, since 2000, have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, where they are groomed to become the Christian elite of tomorrow, waging battle on the frontlines of politics, entertainment, and science.
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John Jakes, "the godfather of the historical novel" (Los Angeles Times), leaves the South to travel North for an epic tale of scandalous doings in the world's most famous resort ...
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First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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As reported at the time. Accounts from 1871 of one of American history's most famous fire.
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With only bare hands and crude tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored uniforms and clothes. A split-second operation as delic...
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From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis
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Great Decisions & The Extraordinary People Who Made Them. Hard Call is an inspiring testament to grace under pressure by one of America's most admired political leaders.
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Exciting biographies of three of America's greatest men: George Washington, Daniel Boone and Benjamin Franklin. Full cast production.
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In one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, Army infantry platoon leader, gives a teeth-rattling, first-hand account of eleven straight days of heavy house-to-house fighting during the climactic second battle of Fallujah.
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The thrilling 1-life story of how the famous Charleston, SC, church of St. Michael's was saved from fire by the daring act of a slave...
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An account of one man's profound respect and affection for a president who changed his life.
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In this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active Directors of Cen...
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Ben Ferguson, the voice of America's youth, delivers his views on all the issues, from politics to culture. Everyone wants to know what Ferguson will say next -- and here's your chance.
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New York Times bestselling author Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers.
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Lackawanna, New York was home of the first home-grown al-Qaeda terrorist cell in America. Or was it? Dina Temple-Raston re-evaluates the casualties of the war on terror in this story of pre-emptive imprisonment for an act of terrorism never committed.
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot.
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The Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison was Andersonville, where many thousands of wretched Union prisoners died in deplorable conditions. John Ransom survived to tell the dreadful tale, t...
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town...
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With fiery words of wisdom and a passion for justice, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired people everywhere to perform extraordinary acts of courage.
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The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: On this single day, the battle claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In ...
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From bestselling author and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos comes a pivotal new book that explores the current and future power of the Latino vote in American politics.
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When was the last time you were energized by ideas? In this self-paced program, the growth of human freedom, science, culture, and capitalistic prosperity are explained.
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After his dramatic surrender at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee lived only another five years, during which time he did more than any other American to heal the wounds between North and South during the ...
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Listen as a full-cast tells us of Hiawatha's battle with Pearl Feather.
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Sean Hannity makes clear that the greatest challenge Americans have to overcome may not be an attack from overseas, but the slow compromising of our national character.
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Once more personally selected by Alistair Cooke these middle years in America bring reports on the black revolution and ’60s counter culture as well as fascinating memories.
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Union supporters in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Illinois, asked him to speak at a rally on September 3, 1863. Lincoln could not attend but wrote this letter instead.
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In 1909 Elinore Pruitt took a job with a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. This was the beginning of the eloquent letters narrated in this remarkable audiobook.
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Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal.
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Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'.
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Beyond the Civil War’s bloody battles was an equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. At the head of the fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the “father of modern American intelligence”
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In Lion in the White House, historian Aida D. Donald masterfully chronicles the life of this first modern president.
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The real story of Custer and his famous last battle against the Sioux
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Manassas is the first in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. As local lawman Will, the eldest of the Brannon sons, decides to enlist, the fa...
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Fifty people never came home to Middletown, New Jersey after September 11th. Wall Street fathers, young Port Authority police, single working moms, the beloved coach of the girls basketball team.
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La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso. Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos.
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Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.
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For O. J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop and brilliant detective had to be destroyed. That was the strategy of the Simpson defense. But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grew, so...
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The account of the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy.
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In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The author reveals how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America and states that only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur’s grip...
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The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
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The political story the media was afraid to touch. The story of how the "Right" stole...
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Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad.
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Como los Hispanos Elegiran al Proximo Presidente de los Estados Unidos.
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Old Ironsides battles Tripolitan Pirates to free the crew of the captured USS Philadelphia
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An amazing but true story of Yankee ingenuity!
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In 1846, eighty-seven men, women, and children set out for California, attempting a new overland route. After many struggles, they reached the summit of the Sierras but were trapped there. Many per...
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A teeming and engrossing audiobook, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
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Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story ...
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Zinn draws on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history, read by distinguished people in the arts.
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A chronicle of American history, from the bottom up.
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Strategically located, The Philippine Islands have been one of the keys to American policy in the Pacific. But this loose island chain has a better history, vacillating between oppression and rebel...
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Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush...
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The pilgrims embark on a perilous voyage to the New World in search of religious freedom
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In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. This book by scientist and psychologist Drew Westen is a groundbreaking scientific investigation into how the mind works, how the brain works, and how it affects candidates winning and losing elections.
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What gives unelected judges the right to decide hot-button issues? Judges say it’s the Constitution. But law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law”...
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Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture. And with its emphasis on traditional values, military service, good manners, and small government, the South should certainly rise again.
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The Preacher and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together.
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Michael Beschloss's dramatic and inspiring saga explores crucial times when courageous Presidents changed the history of the United States.
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The ultimate guided tour of the nation's most famous dwelling, The President's House is truly a national treasure.
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This is the story of the battle of Antietam and the events leading up to the single bloodiest day in the entire Civil War. Union casualties topped 12,000 and Confederate casualties topped 11,000, a...
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Twenty years in the making, Reclaiming History resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
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An epic work of fiction, the dramatic, intertwining tale of two families struggling to make a place for themselves in an America deeply divided after the Civil War.
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The welcome, all-new return of Griffin’s New York Times–bestselling series about the OSS in World War II...
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Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army is marching to Savannah, layi...
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Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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An introductory military history of the American Civil War, this book places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, ...
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This is the eighth book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family. Three Brannon brothers return home in the lull in the fighting, bu...
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Shiloh is the second book in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. The Brannon son, Cory, is working as a riverboat crewman when he sees Unio...
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General U.S. Grant and General Sherman are caught off guard by the entire Confederate Army
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Passion and property in Manhatten.
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The heroic true stroy of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy.
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In this best-seller, Chalmers Johnson explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire.
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On April 25th, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain. Less than seven months later, a victorious America claimed the former Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands. To the American diplomat John Hay, the Spanish-American War was “a splendid little war.” It...
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One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan—one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents.
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If questioning certainties is an art, John Kasich has mastered it in his stand for something with eloquence, passion, and sincerity
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Learn about the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812 in this educational full-cast presentation.
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Clara Barton was one of those women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. She was determined to help the unfortunate victims of wars and disasters. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross, which today stands as a living memorial to the lifelong...
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The Straight-Talking Former Ambassador Takes Listeners Behind the Scenes at the State Department and the U.N.
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Still hated and revered a quarter century after his death, we hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards, and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
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Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
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The American War of Independence. A triumph or a disaster? A masterpiece or a mess? Ask an American, and you will get one answer; ask an Englishman, and you will get another.
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Evans tells the epic story of the men and women who made America over two centuries.
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There is a love affair, a duel, and a climactic courtroom scene, just as in Puddnhead Wilson, but in this book it's all for laughs.
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At the outset of the Vietnam War an experimental unit was created; Tiger Force. This material is an account of how badly that experiment went wrong...
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In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly.
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Titanic is a unique record of one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. Not only does Colonel Gracie describe his own experience on that fateful night but the stories of as many other survivors as he could track down. He also attended a court hearing to obtain the official record....
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Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's most influential historians—confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs.
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
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Tulia, in Blakeslee's rich and deeply satisfying telling resembles nothing so much as a modern-day To Kill a Mockingbird, or would, that is, if the novel were a true story..
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
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FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich had a plum assignment after years of chasing mobsters, drug dealers, and white-collar criminals—performing background checks on White House appointees. What he discovered in the first months of the Clinton administration left him troubled, alarmed, and finally...
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A detailed history behind the origins of the City of Virginia highlighting the roots of the area and other influences throughout the years...
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
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Half the world is at war, and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce with the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China.
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A blueprint to preserve and restore our country to its original intent.
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Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ...
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'Treat yourself to the commentary that sets Neil apart from all the rest in Your Money or Your Life'
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