History - United States

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Taking Charge

Michael R. Beschloss

As expertly selected, edited and footnoted by the presidential historian Michael R. Beschloss, the conversations form a fascinating record of the first nine months of Johnson's administration, providing new insights into his character...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Area 51: An Uncensored History of Ame...

Annie Jacobsen

Area 51It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2011

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jenn...

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

The Supreme Court: The Personalities ...

Jeffrey Rosen

A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives.'The Supreme Court' is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hea...

Evan Thomas

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Cour...

Bob Woodward

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices -- maneuvering...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2005

Bring the War Home: The White Power M...

Kathleen Belew

A Guardian Best Book of the YearA PopMatters Best Book of the Year"A gripping study of white power… Explosive."―New York Times"Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."―Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white p...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2019

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal...

Tom Brokaw

In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America's premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famou...

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Published: Nov 2008

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Powe...

Robert Dallek

More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth cen...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2007

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and...

Bruce Watson

Told here for the first time, the riveting story of the most remarkable strike in American history On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become ...

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Published: Aug 2006

Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand

He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, 'was mostly in h...

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Published: Mar 2002

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story o...

Jon Krakauer

Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith’s most extreme facti...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2003

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2005

The Wordy Shipmates

Sarah Vowell

The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times–bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's "city upon a hill"—a shining example, a "city ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2008

George Washington's Secret Six: The S...

Brian Kilmeade

From the cohost of Fox & Friends, the true story of the anonymous spies who helped win the Revolutionary War  Among the pantheon of heroes of the American Revolution, six names are missing. First and foremost, Robert Townsend, an una...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

It Happened on the Underground Railro...

Tricia Martineau Wagner

Begun in earnest in the 1830s and named for the emerging system of steam railroads in the United States, the Underground Railroad moved hundreds of slaves northward each year through a network of hidden rooms connected by the efforts ...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg ...

Karen Abbott

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptres...

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Published: May 2020

First Family: Abigail and John Adams

Joseph J. Ellis

The prizewinning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the Republic's tenuo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

A People's History of the United Stat...

Howard Zinn

A revised edition of the American Book Award-nominated chronicle of U.S. history is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events of the 20th Century. Read by Matt Damon, preface and afterword read by...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2003

Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Mil...

Tanya Biank

Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. Biank tells the story of four typical Army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extrao...

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Published: May 2007

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, ...

Douglas Brinkley

An eye-opening, deeply personal account of hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath, the historical roots of the ter...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2006

The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy...

Greil Marcus

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil Mar...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2007

The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale o...

Candice Millard

James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for pre...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2011

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

"A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book." —TheWashington Post"CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL." —Christian Science Monitor * "EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY E...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2018

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt,...

Doris Kearns Goodwin

After Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin wields her magic on another larger-than-life president, and another momentous and raucous American time period as she brings Theodore Roosevelt, the muck...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2013

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, ...

Nathaniel Philbrick

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea and Mayflower comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.�...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2016

The Way of the World: A Story of Trut...

Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind's book promises to be a bracing international thriller ' an ensemble of uranium merchants and panicked diplomats, stealthy Jihadist soldiers and CIA operatives, anxious Muslim children and angry world leaders ' a diverse c...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the ...

Barry Werth

In this study of the first month of the Gerald Ford administration, journalist Barry Werth relates how, following the ignominious departure of President Nixon, the new president was undermined by the jockeying for power of the Oval O...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Por...

Jon Meacham

This is an exploration of the personal relationship that existed between United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and how that friendship affected U.S. and British involvement in W...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2003
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