Political Figures

What Happened

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Narrated By Hillary Rodham Clinton

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Jack Weatherford
• Narrated By Jack Weatherford, Jonathan Davis
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Narrated By Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephen Lang

Chronicling his embodiment of the American Dream, Total Recall covers Schwarzenegger's high-stakes journey to the United States, from creating the international bodybuilding industry out of the sands of Venice Beach, to breathing life into cinema's most iconic characters, and becoming one of the leading political figures of our time. Proud of his accomplishments and honest about his regrets, Schwarzenegger spares nothing in sharing his amazing story.

The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Robert O'Neill
• Narrated By Robert O'Neill

Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.

I Am Malala

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Malala Yousafzai
• Narrated By Malala Yousafzai, Archie Panjabi
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In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When her identity was discovered, Malala began to appear in both Pakistani and international media, advocating the freedom to pursue education for all. In October 2012, gunmen boarded Malala's school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. Remarkably, Malala survived the shooting. At a very young age, Malala Yousafzai has become a worldwide symbol of courage and hope.

Trump: The Art of the Deal

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz
• Narrated By Donald J. Trump, Kaleo Griffith

Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and challenges conventional thinking. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated time-tested guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest accomplishments; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker's art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it.

The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy
• Narrated By Chris Kayser
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The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Ulysses S. Grant
• Narrated By Robin Field
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Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood, to his heroics in battle, to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically rescued him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant man told with great courage.

The Duchess: The Untold Story

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Penny Junor
• Narrated By Jenny Funnell
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In her relationship with Charles, which has survived for more than 40 years, Camilla's story has seen a great many myths. This book is the definitive account. The relationship between Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is one of the most remarkable love stories of the age. It has endured against all the odds and, in the process, nearly destroyed the British monarchy.

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Michael Malice
• Narrated By Marcus Freeman

No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality". Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, Dear Reader is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Marcus Aurelius
• Narrated By Alan Munro
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Meditations is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.

Diana: Her True Story - in Her Own Words

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Andrew Morton
• Narrated By Andrew Morton, Caroline Langrishe, Michael Maloney, and others
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A reissue of this classic title, updated with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and with a new introduction by Andrew Morton that reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication of Diana: Her True Story. One of the world's best-known biographers, Andrew Morton's groundbreaking and controversial biography Diana: Her True Story changed the public's perception of the British monarchy and became an instant global best seller.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Al Franken
• Narrated By Al Franken
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Doris Pilkington
• Narrated By Rachael Mazza
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The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother, Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue.

Long Walk to Freedom, Vol. 1: 1918-1962

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Nelson Mandela
• Narrated By Michael Boatman, Kofi Annan
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being taken to Robben Island, this is the remarkable story of how a man rose so far, only to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Emotive and compelling, this is the story of an epic life.

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Walter Isaacson
• Narrated By Nelson Runger
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
• Narrated By Kimberly Farr
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It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign - the candidate herself.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Alison Weir
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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This acclaimed best seller from popular historian Alison Weir is a fascinating look at the Tudor family dynasty and its most infamous ruler. The Six Wives of Henry VIII brings to life England’s oft-married monarch and the six wildly different but equally fascinating women who married him. Gripping from the first sentence to the last and loaded with fascinating details, Weir’s rich history is a perfect blend of scholarship and entertainment.

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens, Ariel Dorfman (introduction)
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.

Long Walk to Freedom, Vol. 2: 1962-1994

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Nelson Mandela
• Narrated By Michael Boatman, Kofi Annan

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being taken to Robben Island, this is the remarkable story of how a man rose so far, only to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Emotive and compelling, this is the story of an epic life.

The Nazi Murder Squad: The Confession of Helmut Grund, Waffen-SS Cavalry

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Helmut Grund
• Narrated By Michael Goldsmith

The confession of Helmut Grund explores one of the second World War's most notorious men. Grund had trained his men well, and his new methods had held Deutschland's casualties down to 15 dead and 35 wounded, compared to much higher losses in the other units of the V-Truppe operating in Poland. In the eyes of Hitler and high-ranking members of the SS, the V-Truppe had proven itself in the field. Despite army resistance, an SS police division was formed in late September.

Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Craig Shirley
• Narrated By John McLain
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In one way or another Newt Gingrich has been leading a revolution for most of his life. Citizen Newt is the definitive account of that struggle. Writing with the full cooperation of Speaker Gingrich and the players around him, New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley captures the events, ideas, failures, and successes of Newton Leroy Gingrich - one of the most complex, influential, and durable political figures of our time.

George Rogers Clark: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Conqueror of the Old Northwest

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 3 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Scott Clem

The last days of the colonial era in America seemed to spawn a number of Renaissance men, unique individuals who were as comfortable in a log cabin as a ballroom and could write as well as they could hunt. George Rogers Clark was one of these men, and in many ways he was a paler, less-accomplished version of his illustrious neighbor, George Washington.

Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Michael Vinson Williams
• Narrated By Brandon Church

This biography of a seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Myrlie Evers-Williams (Evers's widow), his two remaining siblings, friends, grade-school-to-college schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Extensive archival work in the Evers Papers, the NAACP Papers, oral history collections, FBI files, Citizen Council collections, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Papers, to list a few, provides a detailed account of Evers's NAACP work and more.

The Reign of Vladimir Putin: An Unauthorized Biography

• UNABRIDGED (51 mins)
• By My Ebook Publishing House
• Narrated By Matt Montanez

This is the book to read if you want to understand how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why he has become one of the gravest threats to American security.

Emmanuel Macron: An Unauthorized Biography

• UNABRIDGED (19 mins)
• By My Ebook Publishing House
• Narrated By Matt Montanez

Emmanuel Macron has wоn thе 2017 Frеnсh еlесtiоnѕ, outdoing еxtrеmе right-wing lеаdеr Marine Lе Pen. Mасrоn achieved ѕuсh a result bу presenting himself as a nеw, "аnti-еѕtаbliѕhmеnt" саndidаtе. Alѕо, thanks tо аn еffесtivе media саmраign, he mаnаgеd tо lеаvе an imрrеѕѕiоn оn the electorate, dеѕрitе that he was a wеll-placed реrѕоn in Frаnсе'ѕ financial аnd роlitiсаl сеnterѕ оf роwеr. But who is Emmanuel Macron? Whо'ѕ bеhind the mysterious rise оf Emmanuel Macron? What is his profile? Find out now.

History in 30: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt

• UNABRIDGED (43 mins)
• By Percy Bennington
• Narrated By Scott Clem
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By the time Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919, he was an American icon. Today, Teddy is remembered for being an explorer, hunter, author, soldier, president, and safari adventurer, all of which combine into one unique reputation. As with all legends, Roosevelt is often portrayed more as a quintessential man's man, to the point that the legend obscures the actual man. History in 30: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt provides a quick but comprehensive look at the life of the famous president.

An Illustrated Biography of Samuel Adams for Children: History for Kids

• UNABRIDGED (23 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Tracey Norman

The American Revolution had no shortage of compelling characters with seemingly larger than life traits, including men like the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin, the wise Thomas Jefferson, the mercurial John Adams, and the stoic George Washington. But no Revolutionary leader has been as controversial as Samuel Adams, who has been widely portrayed over the last two centuries as America's most radical and fiery colonist.

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Nicola Tallis
• Narrated By Charlotte Strevens

'Good people, I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the words uttered by 17-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Forced on to the throne by power players at court, Queen Jane reigned for just 13 days before being imprisoned in the tower, condemned for high treason and executed.

George Romney: An American Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Patrick Foster, Mitt Romney - foreword
• Narrated By Robertson Dean

George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success. He later became the most popular governor in Michigan history, a Republican stalwart beloved in a Democratic state. He ran for the presidency in 1967 and served as Secretary of HUD in the first Nixon administration before leaving over concerns about the president.

Olivia: A Woman Born Ahead of Her Time Who Paved the Way for Today's Hispanic Women

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Priscilla Kohutek
• Narrated By Priscilla Kohutek

Olivia was a pioneer. The daughter of a teenage Tejana mother and an immigrant father, she blazed a trail for the modern Hispanic woman and influenced the political history of Texas. Listen to her story and enjoy the journey from her humble beginnings to the hallowed halls of Washington.

Riot Days

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Maria Alyokhina
• Narrated By Kate Lock
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From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in. 'People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.'

What Happened

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Narrated By Hillary Rodham Clinton

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words: The Letters, Speeches, and Articles of the World's Most Admired Woman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Nancy Woloch - editor
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren

Eleanor Roosevelt is considered by many to be the most fascinating, accomplished, and admired woman in American history. While she is best known as a politician, a diplomat, a humanitarian, a UN delegate, an activist, a feminist, and first lady, she was also a prolific reporter and writer who changed the role of women in government. She wrote 27 books and more than 8,000 columns and delivered more than 75 speeches a year.

American Legends: The Life of General Douglas MacArthur

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Mark Norman
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A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

The Revolution of Robert Kennedy

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 48 mins)
• By John R. Bohrer
• Narrated By John R. Bohrer
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In The Revolution of Robert Kennedy, journalist John R. Bohrer focuses in intimate and revealing detail on Bobby Kennedy's life during the three years following JFK's assassination. Torn between mourning the past and plotting his future, Bobby was placed in a sudden competition with his political enemy, Lyndon Johnson, for control of the Democratic Party.

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 44 mins)
• By John Bew
• Narrated By Roger Davis
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Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.

Things Can Only Get Worse?

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By John O'Farrell
• Narrated By John O'Farrell
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Things Can Only Get Worse is the personal story of one political activist helping Labour progress from its 1997 landslide to the unassailable position it enjoys today. Along the way he stood for Parliament against Theresa May; he was dropped from Tony and Cherie's Christmas card list after he revealed he always sent their card on to a friend from the SWP; and he campaigned for a new nonselective inner-city state school, then realised this meant he had to send his kids to a nonselective inner-city state school.

John Jay: Founding Father

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Walter Stahr
• Narrated By Andrew Garman
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John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction, and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In this first full-length biography of John Jay in almost 70 years, Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Drawing on substantial new material, Walter Stahr has written a full and highly enjoyable portrait of both the public and private man.

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Marcus Rediker
• Narrated By Cornell Womack

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity.