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Joe Biden announced his 2020 candidacy for president on April 25, 2019, and in June 2020, he met the 1,991-delegate threshold needed to secure the party's nomination. This is his story.  

This stirring, evocative, one-of-a-kind new audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles a legendary scholar, social reformer, activist, and author, the charismatic Dr. Cornel West, in a loving tribute to his great work and exemplary life. Here is the lauded university professor and folksy intellectual up close and personal exposing his sage ideals in own inimitable, stylish, endearing way.  

John Robert Lewis was an American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis served as the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966. This is his remarkable story!    

Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political activist and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966-1982). Together with Seale, Newton created a 10-point program which laid out guidelines for how the African-American community could achieve liberation.   

The media ran exaggerated accounts of his bravado and colorful personality, styling him as a Robin Hood figure. In response, J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), used Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to evolve the BOI into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, developing more sophisticated investigative techniques as weapons against organized crime.  

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. 

This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality - all these topics are presented by author and producer Giuliano.  

This stirring, evocative, one-of-a-kind new audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the charismatic and legendary scholar, social reformer, activist, and author Dr. Cornel West in a loving tribute to his great work and exemplary life.  

Swami Satchidananda was the founder of Integral Yoga International. He taught that the birthright of all is to realize the spiritual unity behind the diversity throughout creation and live harmoniously as members of “one universal family”. 

Edward Alexander Crowley (born October 12, 1875, Royal Leamington Spa, England - died December 1, 1947, Hastings) was a British occultist, writer, and mountaineer who was a practitioner of “magick” (as he spelled it) and called himself "the Beast 666". He was denounced in his own time for his decadent lifestyle and had few followers, but he became an iconic cult figure after his death. 

An in-depth look at the Fab Four as artists via the author's exclusive interviews with the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Yoko Ono, Donovan, Denny Laine and many others. A treat for music fans young and old. 

Follow Rod Stewart’s amazing life from the early days of rage with the Jeff Beck Group and The Faces to his stellar success as a solo artist and the seemingly endless procession of leggy blondes along the way. This no-holds-barred account goes behind the myth, offering an extraordinary account of Stewart’s unparalleled career. 

The Rolling Stones have survived more than 50 years at the very pinnacle of the rock scene. Listen to the band's tempestuous history, including drug busts, mysterious deaths, exiles and headline-grabbing escapades. Included are original, previously unreleased interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Brian Jones, plus many other Stones insiders. 

For the last 30 plus years, The Who have stood proudly as the defiant bad boys of rock 'n' roll. Here is the story of The Who by someone who has known them intimately since almost the very beginning - the real story behind the rocket-powered riffs, random destruction, broken dreams and rowdy musical rituals hammered out by them.

The Grateful Dead mesmerized generations with their tribal rhythms and uninhibited performances. Through never-before-published interviews with music-industry insiders, Geoffrey Giuliano breaks through the curtain of silence surrounding the band's personal and professional lives to bring you the true story of The Grateful Dead in all its day-glow, mind-bending, colorful ups and downs.

In the history of rock 'n' roll, only Elvis Aaron Presley can truly be called the King. It is a measure of his huge talent, his musical legacy and his personality that years after his death, he is still remembered and revered by legions of fans around the world. Listen to never before released interviews with Elvis and the people who knew him best.

More than just a heavy metal contender, Aerosmith has legitimized hard rock as a musical genre. Listen to the band recall their early beginnings and find out about their (mis)adventures on the road to incredible success.

Always the most musically commercial of the Beatles, Paul McCartney has been incredibly successful in his post-Beatles life as well. This audiobook follows the career of one of popular music's greatest composers/performers, from the early days in Liverpool to his latest world tour.

Born into a working class family in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix had a tough time growing up. Eventually, however, he fell in love with the guitar, and the rest is music history. This title features never-before-heard interviews with Jimi Hendrix; Noel Redding; Jimi's family, including his father Al Hendrix; Jack Bruce, Denny Laine; and Paul McCartney.

Well-known author, actor, and activist Geoffrey Giuliano’s first real job was playing the marvelous, magical Burger King in a vaudeville-type traveling magic show in 1977. Culminating in an all-star show in support of the Special Olympics at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, Giuliano became friends with the family and continues work on behalf of the charity. Working closely with Eunice and Sargent Schriver over the years, the talented Giuliano is also an advocate for animal rights who founded two longstanding charities with his late wife Vrnda Devi.