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Taxing the Rich
- A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
- Written by: Kenneth Scheve, David Stasavage
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from 20 countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't.
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Taxing the Rich
- A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-29
- Language: English
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Disasters
- Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries
- Written by: Brenda Guiberson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of 10 well-known catastrophes such as the great Chicago fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and hurricane Katrina, Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events.
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Disasters
- Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes Through the Centuries
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-22
- Language: English
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The Crossing
- Written by: Howard Fast
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs
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The unforgettable novelistic recreation of the night before Christmas when General Washington and a rag-tag army slipped across the Delaware to surprise the Hessians and forge a nation.
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The Crossing
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2011-06-07
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Winston Churchill: Man of the Century
- Written by: Professor John Ramsden
- Narrated by: Professor John Ramsden
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Churchill was an improbable hero for what was to be called "the century of the common man", not only because he was personally so very uncommon, but because he was from an elite British family and was never closely in touch with "ordinary people" in Britain, let alone the rest of the world. Yet to pigeonhole Churchill that way is misleading. Winston Churchill was seen even in his own lifetime as a historic figure, one of the great men of world history.
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The Modern Scholar
- Winston Churchill: Man of the Century
- Narrated by: Professor John Ramsden
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2009-01-14
- Language: English
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"Negro President"
- Jefferson and the Slave Power
- Written by: Garry Wills
- Narrated by: Garry Wills
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a two-time National Book Critics Circle Award winner, takes a bold and fresh look at Thomas Jefferson. Negro President reveals just how strong slave influence was on determining Jefferson’s policies. Through thorough research Wills shows precisely how this “slave power” helped shape the course of a fledgling nation.
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"Negro President"
- Jefferson and the Slave Power
- Narrated by: Garry Wills
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-26
- Language: English
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Dear Miss Breed
- True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
- Written by: Joanne Oppenheim
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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After Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes. The government was afraid that because they looked like “the enemy,” they might be spies. One American, librarian Clara Breed, was heartbroken and outraged. As the San Diego Public Library’s Children’s Librarian, Miss Breed was close to many of the children who were evacuated. She went to the train station the day they left, handing out postcards and telling them to send her letters.
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Dear Miss Breed
- True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-22
- Language: English
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Crossroads of Freedom
- Antietam
- Written by: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Through historical newspaper accounts and the personal letters of soldiers, the events leading up to the battle and the battle itself are stunningly recreated. You will enter the mind of Robert E. Lee as he makes the fateful decision to cross the Potomac River and take the offensive. You will feel the frustration of Abraham Lincoln as he struggles to convince George McClellan to fight. And you will stand side-by-side with foot soldiers as the peaceful Maryland countryside explodes.
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Crossroads of Freedom
- Antietam
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2003-12-12
- Language: English
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Ghostriders 1976-1995
- "Invictus" Combat History of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship, Iran, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia
- Written by: William Walter
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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The AC-130 gunship was quickly developed in 1968 to provide fire support for ground forces in Vietnam. Twenty-eight C-130 cargo aircraft were converted into AC-130s for night attack operations. The AC-130 was crude, ugly, ad hoc, and detested by many within the USAF...but it worked, and it worked well. Likewise, AC-130 crews were deemed unruly “biker gangs” but performed magnificently in every major US military operation from 1976 to 1995. Most of these combat operations were cloaked in secrecy, but records once classified for up to 20 years have now been opened.
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Ghostriders 1976-1995
- "Invictus" Combat History of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship, Iran, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-31
- Language: English
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The Modern Scholar
- Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance
- Written by: Professor Geoffrey Hosking
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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The four main themes of this course are answers to the question, "What makes Europe distinctive compared with other parts of the world?"
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The Modern Scholar
- Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Hosking
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2008-09-23
- Language: English
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The Wicked Boy
- The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- Written by: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Early in the morning of Monday, July 8, 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother, Nattie, set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbors, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 days, Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate.
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The Wicked Boy
- The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-12
- Language: English
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Company of Heroes
- A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
- Written by: Eric Poole
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In his two decades as a reporter, author Eric Poole racked up more than 30 regional and national awards while interviewing presidents and other luminaries. Here Poole recounts the experiences of a band of US soldiers in Vietnam, including the heroics of Leslie Sabo, Jr., who died saving his comrades and finally received his Medal of Honor some 42 years after his act of breathtaking courage.
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Company of Heroes
- A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-01
- Language: English
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A Knock at the Door
- The Story of My Secret Work with Israeli MIAs and POWs
- Written by: Ory Slonim
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist group - and you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive. It’s a nightmare scenario. Here for the first time is the story of Ory Slonim, the one man in Israel who, for more than two decades, was known as the “door knocker.” He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake, on behalf of the Israeli government, secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive.
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A Knock at the Door
- The Story of My Secret Work with Israeli MIAs and POWs
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-15
- Language: English
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- Written by: Mychal Denzel Smith
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-14
- Language: English
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Vivas en su jardin [Alive in Their Garden]
- La verdadera historia de las hermanas Mirabal y su lucha por la libertad
- Written by: Dede Mirabal
- Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Vivas en su jardín is the memoir of the only survivor of the Mirabal sisters, killed by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, an event made famous by Julia Álvarez in her book In the Time of the Butterflies. Four sisters (known as the Butterflies) founded a movement defying Trujillo’s dictatorship, and three died for their beliefs. Dedé Mirabal gives readers unparalleled insight into the lives of three modern heroines. (Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.)
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Vivas en su jardin [Alive in Their Garden]
- La verdadera historia de las hermanas Mirabal y su lucha por la libertad
- Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2010-02-05
- Language: Spanish
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Vanished
- The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
- Written by: Wil S. Hylton
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why.
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Vanished
- The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2013-11-05
- Language: English
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Hit the Target
- Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe
- Written by: Bill Yenne
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months they had set up base in England. Three months later they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe. The Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics - and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood.
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Hit the Target
- Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-14
- Language: English
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- Written by: John Rodden
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon.
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-04
- Language: English
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Silicon City
- San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
- Written by: Cary McClelland
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Ali Ahn, L. J. Ganser, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley. But the richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and the cracks in the city's facade begin to show. Inspired by Studs Terkel's classic works of oral history, writer Cary McClelland has spent years interviewing people at the epicenter of the Bay Area's rapid change: tech innovators, venture capitalists, coders, homeless advocates, pawn brokers, prosecutors, public defenders....
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Silicon City
- San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Ali Ahn, L. J. Ganser, Jonathan Todd Ross, Luis Moreno
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-09
- Language: English
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The Lost Founding Father
- John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
- Written by: William J. Cooper
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous 1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery.
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The Lost Founding Father
- John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-24
- Language: English
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The Apparitionists
- A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- Written by: Peter Manseau
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation.
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The Apparitionists
- A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-12
- Language: English
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