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Author:
Patrick Tyler
Reader:
Michael Prichard
Format: 22
CDs
(Unabridged)
A veteran journalist draws on newly opened presidential archives to dramatize the approach to the Middle East across U.S. presidencies, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. He shows how each president has managed to undo the policies of his predecessor, often fomenting both anger against America and confusion at home. "Riveting [and] passionate... tough-minded historical analysis."—San Francisco Chronicle
Item #: E9M006
ISBN: 9781400110063
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Author:
Susan Jacoby
Reader:
Laural Merlington
Format: 1
MP3-CDs
(Unabridged)
In 1948, Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist spy. This audiobook focuses on the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. The author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post-Cold War era.
Item #: E1M155
ISBN: 9781400161553
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Author:
Susan Jacoby
Reader:
Laural Merlington
Format: 5
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(Unabridged)
In 1948, Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist spy. This audiobook focuses on the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. The author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post-Cold War era.
Item #: E5M155
ISBN: 9781400111558
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Authors:
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Reader:
Richard Poe
Format: 11
CDs
(Unabridged)
The book that changed America. In the most devastating political detective story of the century, two young reporters smashed the Watergate scandal wide open with their brilliant investigative journalism. President Nixon eventually resignedas a result of that simple burglary at the Democratic national headquarters. "It's easy to see why this book won a Pulitzer Prize... a tale as suspenseful as a fine novel... Poe provides such a range of voices that the result sounds like afull-cast production."—AudioFile
Item #: E9X562
ISBN: 9781402575624
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Author:
Robert V. Remini
Reader:
To Be Announced
Format: 6
CDs
(Unabridged)
As the debate over slavery grew rancorous, America hovered on the brink of disunion. This audiobook explains how the Kentucky statesman Henry Clay brokered the Compromise of 1850, winning the North time to build its industrial might and gain the strength it needed to prevent the South from seceding. A timely argument on the critical importance of bipartisanship in times of crisis. By the historian of the House of Representatives.
Item #: E6B024
ISBN: 9781441740243
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Author:
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Read by
Walter Cronkite and a Full Cast
Format: 2
CDs
(Audio Orig)
In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights. These were guarantees of individual liberty upon which critics of the Constitution had insisted. Throughout America's history, theConstitution has remained a living document. Here, each of the 26 amendments is presented in the unique historical context that gave it birth.
Item #: E2B328
ISBN: 9780786173280
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Author/Reader:
Elliot Jaspin
Elliot Jaspin
Format:
Playaway
(Unabridged)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes more than a century of whites purging black populations from counties across the nation. He provides irrefutable evidence that this occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race. Winner of a Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly.
Item #: EP8246
ISBN: 9781602528246
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Author:
Elliot G. Jaspin
Reader:
Don Leslie
Format: 9
CDs
(Unabridged)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes more than a century of whites purging black populations from counties across the nation. He provides irrefutable evidence that this occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race. Winner of a Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly. "Harrowing... His passion and conviction are richly evident and inspiring throughout, thanks to Leslie's first-rate narration."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E8Z079
ISBN: 9781598870794
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Authors:
Wendy McElroy and George H. Smith
Reader:
Craig Deitschmann, with Bill Middleton
Format: 2
CDs
(Audio Orig)
Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for acting according to one's conscience rather than the law. The Liberator was William Lloyd Garrison's demand for abolitionism in the 19th century. Abolitionism called for the immediate emancipation of slaves, based on the principle that individuals own their bodies, labor, and the fruits of their labor.
Item #: E2B987
ISBN: 9780786169870
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Author/Reader:
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch
Format: 9
CDs
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Over seven years, the then-president, Bill Clinton, talked intimately to this Pulitzer Prize-winning historian about what it's like to be president. Topics include the war in Bosnia, health reform failure, and his impeachment trial. The author – a long-time friend – includes his reactions to the President's demeanor, moods, and puzzlements. "Absorbing... perceptive insights."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E8P674
ISBN: 9780743576741
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Author:
George H. Smith
Reader:
Craig Deitschmann
Format: 2
CDs
(Audio Orig)
These two revolutionary documents changed the path of history. Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. The Declaration of Independence articulates the principles of the American Revolution, and focuses on the rights of free citizens.
Item #: E2B988
ISBN: 9780786169887
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Authors:
Ralph Raico and Wendy McElroy
Reader:
Craig Deitschmann
Format: 3
CDs
(Audio Orig)
In Communist Manifesto, Marx argues that history flows inevitably toward a social revolution, which will result in a society without economic classes. Rousseau believed that people secure their liberty by entering into an implied contract with government. His controversial explanation of social authority in Social Contract fanned the flames of the French Revolution.
Item #: E3B327
ISBN: 9780786173273
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Author:
Pat Robertson
Readers:
Pat Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen
Format: 5
CDs
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In America's continuing culture war, the unrestricted power of judges goes largely unchecked, especially in the Supreme Court. The founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) examines the threat of "no judicial limits"to the Judeo-Christian heritage of our country and how it has steadily eroded the power of both representative government and democracy itself.
Item #: E5B378
ISBN: 9780786183784
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Authors:
Ralph Raico and Wendy McElroy
Read by
Craig Deitschmann and a Supporting Cast
Format: 3
CDs
(Audio Orig)
Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of 19th-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America. The democratic concept of equality was emerging as a political reality in America, and it threatened the aristocracy of Europe. This classic treatise weighs the advantages of democracy against its dangers.
Item #: E3B979
ISBN: 9780786169795
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Authors:
George H. Smith and Wendy McElroy
Reader:
Craig Deitschmann
Format: 3
CDs
(Audio Orig)
To ensure that at least nine of the 13 United States ratify the U.S. Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote a series of letters – later known as The Federalist Papers – urging its ratification. This presentation explores their major arguments and contrasts them with the views of the Anti-Federalists.
Item #: E3B325
ISBN: 9780786173259
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SpeechWorks SpeechWorks
Reader:
Original Speeches
Format:
Playaway
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This is a collection of the most important and well-known speeches of modern times, spanning the years 1933-1997. Each speech has been edited to include the most noteworthy segment. Includes Clinton's Second Inaugural Address, King's "I Have a Dream," Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, Kennedy's speech in Berlin, Nixon's resignation, Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall," Jesse Jackson at the political rally in Philadelphia, and General MacArthur's farewell address to Congress.
Item #: HP3374
ISBN: 9781598953374
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Author:
L. Patrick Gray III, with Ed Gray
Reader:
Michael Prichard
Format: 9
CDs
(Unabridged)
The former acting director of the FBI tells the last untold story of Watergate. During his crucial year, he became the target of one of the most shocking acts of the break-in scandal and its cover-up: Nixon's attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. Based on a never-before-published first-person account and previously secret documents. "When [Prichard] comes to the paranoid president's words – and without ever mimicking his voice – he imitates to a teeNixon's badgering interrogations and lapses of reality."—AudioFile
Item #: E9M673
ISBN: 9781400106738
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Author:
Kim Phillips-Fein
Reader:
Lorna Raver
Format: 10
CDs
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Starting in the mid-1930s, prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America – and their profit margins – from socialism and the "nanny state." They funded think tanks, fought labor unions, and formed organizations to market their views. This audiobook reveals their campaign to promote an ideological revolution. "Piquant profiles of corporate firebrands... trenchant historical analysis."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E9M075
ISBN: 9781400110759
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Author/Reader:
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Format:
Playaway
(Abridged)
Relive the authentic thoughts and words of President John F. Kennedy. Volume 1 presents highlights of 16 of his best known speeches, chronicling his presidential years, 1960 through 1963. Volume 2 includes live recordings of "The New Frontier," the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, civil rights, "Ich Bin Ein Berliner," and remarks made at a Fort Worth rally the morning of the assassination.
Item #: HP6878
ISBN: 9781606406878
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