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American Messiahs
- False Prophets of a Damned Nation
- Written by: Adam Morris
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history.
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American Messiahs
- False Prophets of a Damned Nation
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-04
- Language: English
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George Washington: A Life in Books
- Written by: Kevin J. Hayes
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement.
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George Washington: A Life in Books
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-18
- Language: English
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A Grip of Time
- When Prison Is Your Life
- Written by: Lauren Kessler
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes listeners into a world most know little about - a maximum-security prison - and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers' Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives.
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A Grip of Time
- When Prison Is Your Life
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-02
- Language: English
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Gumbo Life
- Tales from the Roux Bayou
- Written by: Ken Wells
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West Africans in bondage, Cajun refugees, German settlers, Native Americans-all had a hand in the pot. What is it about gumbo that continues to delight and nourish so many? And what explains its spread around the world? A seasoned journalist, Ken Wells sleuths out the answers.
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Gumbo Life
- Tales from the Roux Bayou
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-30
- Language: English
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No Human Is Illegal
- An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War
- Written by: J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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No Human Is Illegal is a powerful document of one lawyer's fight for those seeking a better life in America against its ever-tightening borders. For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda discusses visiting border detention centers, defending undocumented immigrants in court, and taking his services to JFK to represent people being turned away at the gates during Trump's infamous travel ban.
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No Human Is Illegal
- An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-22
- Language: English
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The Sit Room
- In the Theater of War and Peace
- Written by: David Scheffer
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy toward the bloody Balkans War. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and his own notes, David Scheffer, who later became America's first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, weaves the true story of how policy options were debated in the Sit Room among the highest national security officials.
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The Sit Room
- In the Theater of War and Peace
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-18
- Language: English
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The Improbable Wendell Willkie
- The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
- Written by: David Levering Lewis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president. Though Wendell Willkie would lose to FDR, David Levering Lewis reveals in this news-making reclamation that the story of this Hoosier-born corporate chairman's life is the story of an America that could have been. Popular for his down-home Midwestern charm and unaffected candor, Willkie possessed a supple intellect and a concealed disdain for political opportunism that, had he not died prematurely, would have revolutionized American politics with its advocacy of bipartisanship and social responsibility.
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The Improbable Wendell Willkie
- The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-27
- Language: English
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In the Name of the Father
- Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty
- Written by: Mark Ribowsky
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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No family in the history of American sports has ascended to the storybook level of greatness and royal succession quite like the Mannings. This talented trio of quarterbacks is enshrined in American culture, epitomizing once-proud but dying nostrums of Southern Christian manhood. With remarkable nuance, "outstanding biographer" (Dallas Morning News) Mark Ribowsky traces their roots from red-clay Mississippi. Drawing on dozens of new interviews, Ribowsky tells us that the path to football immortality has not always been smooth, nor completely glorious.
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In the Name of the Father
- Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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Let It Bang
- A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
- Written by: RJ Young
- Narrated by: RJ Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to relate to his gun-loving father-in-law, Young does the unimaginable: He accepts Charles's gift of a Glock. Let It Bang is the compelling story of the author's unexpected obsession - he eventually becomes an NRA-certified pistol instructor - and of his deep dive into the heart of America's gun culture: what he sees as the domino effect of White fear, White violence, Black fear, rinse, repeat.
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Let It Bang
- A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
- Narrated by: RJ Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-23
- Language: English
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The Burden
- African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
- Written by: Rochelle Riley - editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones - foreword
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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The Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a chorus of evidence that the burden is real. The Burden expresses the voices of well-known Americans, such as actor/director Tim Reid who compares slavery to a cancer diagnosis, and former Detroit News columnist Betty DeRamus who recounts the discrimination she encountered as a young Black Detroiter in the south.
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The Burden
- African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-02
- Language: English
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To the Promised Land
- Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
- Written by: Michael K. Honey
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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More than 50 years ago, an assassin's bullet robbed us of one of the most eloquent voices for 20th-century human rights and justice. Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class, and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including economic injustice.
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To the Promised Land
- Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-03
- Language: English
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Autumn in Venice
- Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
- Written by: Andrea di Robilant
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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In the fall of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called "a goddam wonderful city." He was a year shy of his 50th birthday and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. At a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Di Robilant - whose great-uncle moved in Hemingway's revolving circle of bon vivants, aristocrats, and artists - re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship.
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Autumn in Venice
- Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-26
- Language: English
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Crossings
- A Doctor-Soldier's Story
- Written by: Jon Kerstetter
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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In this gorgeous memoir that moves from Jon Kerstetter's impoverished upbringing on an Oneida reservation, to his harrowing stints as a volunteer medic in Kosovo and Bosnia, through the madness of Iraq and his intense mandate to assemble a team to identify the remains of Uday and Qusay Hussein, and the struggle afterward to come to terms with a life irrevocably changed, Kerstetter beautifully illuminates war and survival, the fragility of the human body, and the strength of will that lies within.
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Crossings
- A Doctor-Soldier's Story
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-05
- Language: English
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Nine Irish Lives
- The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
- Written by: Mark Bailey
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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This anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish-Americans. More than one in 10 Americans claims Irish ancestry and, with its celebrity contributors, Nine Irish Lives will have strong appeal for those listeners. It is also, though, a timely portrait of shared humanity. These are stories about immigrants - and in the tales of revolutionaries and visionaries, caretakers and unsung heroes, Nine Irish Lives reminds us of the values and the people that have shaped America.
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Nine Irish Lives
- The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-06
- Language: English
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Furnishing Eternity
- A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
- Written by: David Giffels
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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David Giffels grew up fascinated by his father's dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations - both practical and fantastical - it inspired. So when he enlisted his 81-year-old dad for the unusual project of building a casket, he thought of it mostly as a way to learn and to spend time together. Life had other plans. The unexpected death of his mother and, a year later, of his best friend, coupled with turning 50 and the growing realization that his father won't always be around for such offbeat adventures, leads to a harsh confrontation with mortality and loss.
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Furnishing Eternity
- A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-10
- Language: English
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Saving Tarboo Creek
- One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
- Written by: Scott Freeman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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When the Freeman family decided to restore a damaged creek in Washington's Olympic Peninsula - to transform it from a drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture salmon - they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman artfully blends his family's story with powerful universal lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it.
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Saving Tarboo Creek
- One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-24
- Language: English
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions
- Dispatches from the Working Class
- Written by: J. R. Helton
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching account of life inside the working class of Texas in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a struggling writer succumbing to the bleak reality of what it means to support himself and a wife. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, enduring hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor.
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions
- Dispatches from the Working Class
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-01-02
- Language: English
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Brutus
- The Noble Conspirator
- Written by: Kathryn Tempest
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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In this comprehensive and stimulating biography, Kathryn Tempest delves into contemporary sources to bring to light the personal and political struggles Brutus faced. As the details are revealed - from his own correspondence with Cicero, from the perceptions of his peers, and from the Roman aristocratic values and concepts that held sway in his time - Brutus emerges from legend, revealed to us more surely than ever before.
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Brutus
- The Noble Conspirator
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-21
- Language: English
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Schlesinger
- The Imperial Historian
- Written by: Richard Aldous
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy - and the myth of Camelot - blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian - and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right - Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his best-selling record of the Kennedy administration, remains immensely influential.
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Schlesinger
- The Imperial Historian
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-10
- Language: English
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
- Written by: Alan Cutler
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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A thrilling scientific investigation and the portrait of an extraordinary genius, The Seashell on the Mountaintop gives us new insight into our planet, revealing how we learned to read the story told to us by the Earth itself, written in rock and stone.
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2003-06-19
- Language: English
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