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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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The Land of Flickering Lights
- Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
- Written by: Michael Bennet
- Narrated by: Michael Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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The Land of Flickering Lights is a unique contribution to American political writing at this or any other time. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado lifts a veil on Congress to reveal, in his words, "through a series of actual stories - about the people, the politics, the motives, the money, the hypocrisy, the stakes, the outcome - the pathological culture of the capitol and the consequences for us all."
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The Land of Flickering Lights
- Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
- Narrated by: Michael Bennet
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2019-06-04
- Language: English
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Girl in Black and White
- The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
- Written by: Jessie Morgan-Owens
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary's skin was so light that she "passed" as White, and this fact would make her the key to his White audience's sympathy.
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Girl in Black and White
- The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-09
- Language: English
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America's Jewish Women
- A History from Colonial Times to Today
- Written by: Pamela Nadell
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people - from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity.
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America's Jewish Women
- A History from Colonial Times to Today
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-02
- Language: English
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The Scientific Sublime
- Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe
- Written by: Alan G. Gross
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He tells how the great popular scientists of our time evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language?
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The Scientific Sublime
- Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-28
- Language: English
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PTSD: A Short History
- Written by: Allan V. Horwitz
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.
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PTSD: A Short History
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-03
- Language: English
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Storming the Heavens
- African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
- Written by: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the US effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly.
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Storming the Heavens
- African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-18
- Language: English
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The Escape Line
- How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
- Written by: Megan Koreman
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1942 and 1945, a group of ordinary citizens formed a network to smuggle Dutch Jews and others targeted by the Nazis south into France, via Paris, and then to Switzerland. This network became known as the Dutch-Paris Escape Line, eventually growing to include 300 people and expanding its reach into Spain. Led by Jean Weidner, a Dutchman living in France, many lacked any experience in clandestine operations or military tactics, and yet they became one of the most effective resistance groups of the Second World War.
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The Escape Line
- How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 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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Frontier Rebels
- The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
- Written by: Patrick Spero
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a diplomatic expedition into the American interior to open trade with the Indian warrior Pontiac, the Black Boys formed to stop it and led an uprising that threatened the future of Britain's empire. Clashing with traders, diplomats, Native warriors, and imperious British officials, the Black Boys evolved into an organized political movement that resisted the Crown years before the Declaration of Independence.
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Frontier Rebels
- The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-20
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Turtle
- A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures
- Written by: Peter Laufer PhD, Richard Branson - introduction
- Narrated by: Peter Laufer
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today - an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization. It stars turtles and shady and heroic human characters both, in settings ranging from luxury redoubts to degraded habitats, during a time when the confluence of easy global trade, limited supply, and inexhaustible demand has accelerated the stress on species. This is a tale not just of endangered turtles but also one of overall human failings, frailties, and vulnerabilities.
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Dreaming in Turtle
- A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures
- Narrated by: Peter Laufer
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-20
- Language: English
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Written by: Dana Hercbergs
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace process and the second intifada. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets, and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged narratives about belonging and rights to place.
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Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem
- Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-16
- 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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Homeplace
- A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
- Written by: John Lingan
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Winchester, Virginia, is an emblematic American town. As the US economy and American culture have transformed in recent decades, the ground under centuries-old social codes has shifted, throwing old folkways into chaos. Homeplace teases apart the tangle of class, race, and family origin that still defines the town and illuminates questions that now dominate our national conversation - about how we move into the future without pretending our past doesn't exist, about what we salvage, and what we leave behind.
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Homeplace
- A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-14
- Language: English
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The Peacemakers
- Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship
- Written by: Bruce W. Jentleson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Peacemakers, author Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad range of historical examples, from Yitzhak Rabin's efforts for Arab-Israeli peace to Dag Hammarskjöld's effectiveness as secretary-general of the United Nations and Mahatma Gandhi's pioneering use of nonviolence as a political tool, Jentleson argues that individuals can shape policy.
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The Peacemakers
- Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-30
- Language: English
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Resistance
- Reclaiming an American Tradition
- Written by: Jeff Biggers
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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In an inspiring narrative history, Jeff Biggers reframes today's battles as a continuum of a vibrant American tradition. Resistance is a chronicle of the courageous resistance movements that have insured the benchmarks of our democracy - movements that served on the front lines of the American Revolution, the defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the defeat of fascism during World War II, and landmark civil rights and environmental protection achievements.
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Resistance
- Reclaiming an American Tradition
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-03
- Language: English
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American Epic
- When Music Gave America Her Voice
- Written by: Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Elijah Wald
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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In the 1920s and 1930s, as radio took over the pop music business, record companies were forced to leave their studios in major cities in search of new styles and markets. Ranging the mountains, prairies, rural villages, and urban ghettos of America, they discovered a wealth of unexpected talent - farmers, laborers, and ethnic minorities playing styles that blended the intertwining strands of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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American Epic
- When Music Gave America Her Voice
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-02
- 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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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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