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Kosciuszko
- The incredible life of the man behind the mountain
- By: Anthony Sharwood
- Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents.
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Witty informative and fun.
- By Bernie on 11-12-2024
By: Anthony Sharwood
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
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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....
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Rather verbose
- By Richard on 07-01-2019
By: Walter Isaacson
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Common Sense
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1775 the American colonies were a hotbed of political discord. Many of the British policies, specifically taxes, had caused American colonial leaders to consider the unthinkable....
By: Thomas Paine
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The Age of Revolutions
- And the Generations Who Made It
- By: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
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The revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. In The Age of Revolutions, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of this entire era
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The Fate of the Day
- The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Rick Atkinson
- Length: 32 hrs and 26 mins
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In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.
By: Rick Atkinson
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The British Are Coming
- The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1)
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
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Rick Atkinson recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence, from the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777....
By: Rick Atkinson
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Kosciuszko
- The incredible life of the man behind the mountain
- By: Anthony Sharwood
- Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents.
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Witty informative and fun.
- By Bernie on 11-12-2024
By: Anthony Sharwood
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
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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....
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Rather verbose
- By Richard on 07-01-2019
By: Walter Isaacson
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Common Sense
- By: Thomas Paine
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1775 the American colonies were a hotbed of political discord. Many of the British policies, specifically taxes, had caused American colonial leaders to consider the unthinkable....
By: Thomas Paine
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The Age of Revolutions
- And the Generations Who Made It
- By: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. In The Age of Revolutions, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of this entire era
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The Fate of the Day
- The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Rick Atkinson
- Length: 32 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.
By: Rick Atkinson
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The British Are Coming
- The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1)
- By: Rick Atkinson
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
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Rick Atkinson recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence, from the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777....
By: Rick Atkinson
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- By: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered....
By: Akhil Reed Amar
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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn
- An Untold Story of the American Revolution
- By: Robert P. Watson
- Narrated by: Bob Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war....
By: Robert P. Watson
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- By: Mike Duncan
- Narrated by: Mike Duncan
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times best-selling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in....
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Brilliant book
- By Anonymous User on 18-05-2025
By: Mike Duncan
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Outstanding
- By Baron von Brunch on 18-09-2024
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Benjamin Franklin
- Live Wire (Heroes of History)
- By: Geoff Benge, Janet Benge
- Narrated by: Tim Gregory
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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As Ben experimented, people peppered him with questions about electricity. Distracted, Ben was still holding the ends of two bare wires when the other ends touched the Leyden jars. A massive charge knocked him to the ground....
By: Geoff Benge, and others
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Killing England
- The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the listener from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe....
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A really well-written and good listen
- By Stephen Grocott on 10-08-2024
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life
- By: Jeff Wilser
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 7 hrs
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Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under America's spotlight - and we need him now more than ever....
By: Jeff Wilser
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The American Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America's Struggle for Independence from Great Britain
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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This captivating history audiobook presents a general outline of the American Revolution, focusing largely on the period between the outbreak of rebellion in 1765 until the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789....
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Poor Richard's Almanack
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Jacques Richey
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Poor Richard's Almanack contained the calendar, astronomical and astrological information, poems, and sayings....
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Good Maxims; Recommend Not Reading In One Day
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-2021
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Napoléon Bonaparte
- How One Man's Love for His Country Gave Birth to the French Revolution
- By: Chad Dawson
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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One of the greatest military leaders that ever lived, Napoleon left behind a legacy. His work has lived on, years after his death....
By: Chad Dawson
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- By: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.
By: Jeffrey Rosen
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George Rogers Clark
- A Life from Beginning to End (American Revolutionary War)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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George Rogers Clark was an American general during the Revolutionary War—the epic conflict in which the newly formed United States of America broke free from British rule.
By: Hourly History
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The American Revolution: A Concise History
- By: Robert Allison
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States: the American Revolution....
By: Robert Allison
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Eliza Hamilton
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
- By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton’s devoted wife - in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenal musical Hamilton. But they don’t know her full story....
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
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Jefferson and Hamilton
- The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
- By: John Ferling
- Narrated by: Bo Foxworth
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton comes the spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.
By: John Ferling
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The Pioneers
- The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times best seller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal) - the settling of the Northwest Territory....
By: David McCullough
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Almost a Miracle
- The American Victory in the War of Independence
- By: John Ferling
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
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In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war....
By: John Ferling
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The Unfinished Symphony
- The Clash of the Two Americas, Volume 1
- By: Matthew Ehret, Cynthia Chung
- Narrated by: Hugh Trudeau
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This volume will showcase the international grand design led by Benjamin Franklin that manifested in the establishment of the American republic and trace the next 130 years of world history....
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Understanding America
- By Anonymous User on 18-11-2024
By: Matthew Ehret, and others
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Benjamin Franklin
- An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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In best selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us...
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as "the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written," The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788....
By: Alexander Hamilton, and others
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
- By: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
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Riveting Biography
- By Simpson from Oz on 13-01-2023
By: Stacy Schiff
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776
- Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
- By: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders....
By: Gerald Horne
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The Virginia Dynasty
- Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
- By: Lynne Cheney
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe - from the best-selling historian and author of James Madison....
By: Lynne Cheney
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The Year of Living Constitutionally
- One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
- By: A.J. Jacobs
- Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution....
By: A.J. Jacobs