Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic:...
Jill Jonnes* Mp3 CD Format *. The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice but also a building that commemorated one of the last centurys great engineering feats---the construction of railroad tunnels ...
A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuou...
Dominic LapierreIn 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were co...
Lincoln's Letters, Essays and Speeche...
Abraham LincolnDetails Size Height: 7.3 in Width: 5.3 in Thickness: 0.5 in Weight: 3.2 oz
The Old West: Stories and Legends
Joe LoeschThe Run of 93 - Hear the riveting story of the Oklahoma Land Rush. I Pioneers in Petticoats - Travel back in time with women who braved the journey west, including Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley and Baby Doe Tabor.DIV...
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot...
Brad MeltzerThis program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reve...
American Heroes: In the Fight Against...
Oliver NorthWhat is a Hero? New York Times best-selling author Oliver North says, "Real heroes are selfless. Those who serve America in harm's way in the war against radical Islam have that quality in abundance. And so do their families and ...
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Or...
Bill O'ReillyIn the tenth audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob.Killing the Mob is the tenth audiobook in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York ...
Yiddish Radio Project: Stories from t...
Carl ReinerThe Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of 2002. The series highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. In its heyday Yiddish...
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: ...
William RosenIf all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot str...
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr...
Tavis SmileyA revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassinationMartin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered abo...
Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remem...
Larry SmithThe men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history.
A Different Mirror: A History of Mult...
Ronald TakakiRonald Takaki's critically acclaimed A Different Mirror is a dramatic retelling of our nation's past that relates the history of America in the voice of its non-Anglo peoples, from Native Americans to Muslim refugees from Afghanistan.
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, ...
Evan WrightBased on the author's National Magazine Award-winning series in Rolling Stone, this New York Times bestseller offers a firsthand account of the first warriors of the current generation to enter the Iraq War.
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of...
Anderson CooperAnderson Cooper's memoir of the 2005 news year includes war and natural disasters: tsunamis, Katrina, Iraq, starvation in Africa. Cooper, who is objective on camera when covering news for CNN, here recalls the major stories and worldw...
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I...
William J. BennettWilliam Bennett makes history come alive through good, old-fashioned storytelling. Beginning with the arrival of Columbus in 1492 and going up to the beginning of World War I, Bennett's unabashed enthusiasm and fervor come through as ...
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the R...
Lawrence WrightA sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s re...
Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the...
Evan CartonJohn Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes--as a madman, martyr, or enigma. This illuminating biography brings him to life in scintillating prose and moving detail,...
IN THE WAKE OF MADNESS is the gripping true story of one of the bloodiest mutinies of the nineteenth century, written by an award-winning maritime historian. In 1841, Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling grounds of ...
The Demon Under the Microscope: From ...
Thomas HagerFast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.The Nazis discovered it. The Al...
Roots: The Saga of an American Family...
Alex HaleyThis monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning saga and iconic bestseller is available for the first time on audio. Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. In that t...
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the R...
Tony HorwitzBestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody warPlotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. ...
The China Mirage: The Hidden History ...
James BradleyFrom the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a riveting history of turbulent U.S.-China relationsJames Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Del...
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at G...
James D. HornfischerWith The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America's World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men...
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic:...
Jill JonnesThe demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats-the construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. ...
My Tank Is Fight!: Deranged Invention...
Zack ParsonsMy Tank Is Fight!' contains a humorous and exciting examination of twenty real inventions from World War II that never saw the light of day. Each entry includes full technical details, a complete development history, in-depth analysis...
First They Killed My Father: A Daught...
Loung UngA harrowing memoir of a Cambodian family shattered by Pol Pot's regime, First They Killed My Father is a powerful, unforgettable story of courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.
The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocra...
Marc WortmanIn this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying ...
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded:...
Simon WinchesterConsiders the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed some 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fu...
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the...
Erik LarsonFull of dramatic survivor stories and vivid storm descriptions, this fast-paced historical analysis chronicles the events surrounding the devastating 1900 Galveston hurricane, and asserts that the city’s Weather Bureau--and its ...
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
H.W. BrandsThe extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First America...