This program features an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly.The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports listeners t...
A Short History of the United States
Robert Vincent ReminiOffering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institut...
Untitled on Obama Administration
Bob WoodwardIn Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with m...
In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who live and die by an American cotton mill. In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ev...
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses ...
H. W. BrandsFrom New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two criti...
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived thr...
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: T...
Lorri GloverThe English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed ...
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and...
S. C. GwynneFrom the author of the mega-bestselling, prize-winning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a groundbreaking account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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...
The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what followed.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates a...
Bestselling author Sarah Vowell takes listeners on a historical journey to the tropical paradise of Hawaii, a place where American ideals went to die.
Lone Star Nation: The Texas Revolutio...
H. W. BrandsFrom bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history—the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America.“For better or f...
The Big Oyster: History on the Half S...
Mark KurlanskyAs he did previously in COD: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and in SALT: A WORLD HISTORY, historian Mark Kurlansky takes a unique, and rewarding, entry-point into the past, this time relating the rich social history of...
The Patriot's History Reader: Essenti...
Larry SchweikartAn original collection of the most influential documents in American history from the bestselling authors of A Patriot's History of the United States. Since 2005, A Patriot's History of the United States has become a modern classic...
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas ...
Peter Stark[Read by Michael Kramer]The incredible true story of the men who permanently altered the nation's landscape and its global standing. -- In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-...
A Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes...
William J. BennettAuthor, historian, and educator William J. Bennett examines America's last two decades. Twenty years ago, John McCain was serving his second year in the Senate, and Colin Powell had just been promoted to chairman of the Joint Chiefs ...
Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Do...
Frederick DouglassThe famous biography of the former slave who became an outstanding orator, minister, and leader offers an eloquent indictment of America's 'peculiar institution,' exposing the conditions of slavery on the plantations of the antebellum...
Out of Order: Stories from the Histor...
Sandra Day O'Connorb“I called this book iOut of Order/i because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hea...