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S Street Rising
- Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
- By: Ruben Castaneda
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country’s premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix.
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S Street Rising
- Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2014
- Language: English
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- By: Clay Risen
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, "it seems preordained", as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory.
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2014
- Language: English
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Nothin' But Blue Skies
- The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
- By: Edward McClelland
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy" - the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II, thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots, strikes, burning rivers, and oil embargoes. A vibrant, quintessentially American character bloomed in the region's cities, suburbs, and backwaters.
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Nothin' But Blue Skies
- The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- By: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Society for Useful Knowledge
- How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
- By: Jonathan Lyons
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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From celebrated historian of knowledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Knowledge, telling the story of America's coming-of-age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Lyons illustrates how a social movement in support of useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American history and the development of our society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.
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The Society for Useful Knowledge
- How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Double V
- How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
- By: Rawn James Jr.
- Narrated by: Rob Cleveland
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle.
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The Double V
- How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
- Narrated by: Rob Cleveland
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Half Century
- The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
- By: Larry J. Sabato
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
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John F. Kennedy died half a century ago - yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato - himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency - explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors.
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The Kennedy Half Century
- The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2013
- Language: English
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Chasing Icarus
- The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
- By: Gavin Mortimer
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail. Within a period of 17 days, this question was on prime display, as the dirigible America tried to cross the Atlantic; huge crowds gathered at horse-racing tracks to watch airplanes race around overhead; and ballooning teams from around the world took off from St. Louis in pursuit of the Bennett International Balloon Cup, given to the balloon that traveled the farthest.
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Chasing Icarus
- The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
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Year of Meteors
- Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
- By: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrated by: Michael Scherer
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, led the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democrats would split over the issue of slavery, leading Southerners in the party to run their own presidential slate. This opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln, not the first choice even of his own party, won the presidency with a record-low 39.8 percent of the popular vote.
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Year of Meteors
- Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
- Narrated by: Michael Scherer
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2013
- Language: English
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Reasons to Kill
- Why Americans Choose War
- By: Richard E. Rubenstein
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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From the American Revolution to the end of World War II, the United States spent 19 years at war against other nations. But since1950, the total is 22 years and counting. On four occasions, U.S. presidents elected as "peace candidates" have gone on to lead the nation into ferocious armed conflicts. Repeatedly, wars deemed necessary when they began have been seen in retrospect as avoidable, and ill-advised. Americans profess to be a peace-loving people and one wary of "foreign entanglements". Yet we have been drawn into wars in distant lands from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
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Reasons to Kill
- Why Americans Choose War
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2013
- Language: English
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Young Mr. Obama
- Chicago and the Making of a Black President
- By: Edward McClelland
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The route to the White House began on the streets of Chicago’s South Side. Edward McClelland, a veteran Chicago journalist, tells the real story of the first Black president’s political education in the capital of the African American political community.
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Young Mr. Obama
- Chicago and the Making of a Black President
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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What if Latin America Ruled the World?
- By: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
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What if Latin America Ruled the World? deftly braids together the histories of North and South America from the exploits of Hernán Cortés to the political showmanship of Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales. Scholar Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is an ideal guide for a searching portrait of the Latin America that we rarely hear about.
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What if Latin America Ruled the World?
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2013
- Language: English
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The Great Swim
- By: Gavin Mortimer
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swimmers - Gertrude Ederle, Mille Gade, Lillian Cannon, and Clarabelle Barrett - who battled the weather, each other, and considerable odds to become the first woman to conquer the brutal waters of the English Channel. The popular East Coast tabloids from New York to Boston engaged in rivalries nearly as competitive as the swimmers themselves.
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The Great Swim
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
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Island Cup
- Two Teams, Twelve Miles of Ocean, and Fifty Years of Football Rivalry
- By: James Sullivan
- Narrated by: T. David Rutherford
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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To most of us "mainlanders," the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are resort destinations, summer homes for the Kennedys, the Obamas, and Patriots coach Bill Belichick. But after the tourists and jetsetters leave, the cold weather descends, and the local shop owners, carpenters, and fishermen ready themselves for the main event: high school football. For over 50 years, the local teams have been locking horns every November. They play for pride, a coveted trophy, and, very often, a shot at the league championship.
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Island Cup
- Two Teams, Twelve Miles of Ocean, and Fifty Years of Football Rivalry
- Narrated by: T. David Rutherford
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- By: Raymond Arsenault
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial - an early milestone in civil rights history - on the 70th anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington - an electrifying moment and an underappreciated milestone in civil rights history.
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The Sound of Freedom
- Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2013
- Language: English
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Half Moon
- Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
- By: Douglas Hunter
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written the first book-length history of the 1609 adventure that put New York on the map. Hudson was commissioned by the mighty Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over Russia to the lucrative ports of China. But the inscrutable Hudson, defying his orders, turned his ship around and instead headed west....
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Half Moon
- Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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Now the Drum of War
- Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
- By: Robert Roper
- Narrated by: David Deboy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family is brought to life, in Robert Roper’s brilliant evocation of the family Whitman. Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother George Washington Whitman, who led his men in 21 major battles almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended.
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Now the Drum of War
- Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
- Narrated by: David Deboy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Irish Americans
- A History
- By: Jay P. Dolan
- Narrated by: Jim McCabe
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America’s most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative.
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The Irish Americans
- A History
- Narrated by: Jim McCabe
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2013
- Language: English
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Yankee Come Home
- On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
- By: William Craig
- Narrated by: Jimmy Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor. In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost - and now needs to recover. He's looking for the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather, Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the "splendid little war" who left a legacy of glorious, painful lies.
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Yankee Come Home
- On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
- Narrated by: Jimmy Garcia
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
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Armed Humanitarians
- The Rise of the Nation Builders
- By: Nathan Hodge
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failure prompted a fundamental change in our foreign policy. Confronted with theshortcomings of "shock and awe", the U.S. military shifted its focus to"stability operations": counterinsurgency and the rebuilding of failed states. In less than a decade, foreign assistance has become militarized; humanitarianism has been armed.
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Armed Humanitarians
- The Rise of the Nation Builders
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2013
- Language: English
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