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Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American....
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?
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FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
From Pulitzer finalist Jean Edward Smith comes another lucid, well-written, tightly organized biography. The Roosevelt that emerges from this audiobook is a man of enormous complexity.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Credits: Audio Download
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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Great Biographies in Time
by Plutarch
Credits: Audio Download
Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.
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Great American Presidents
by Wikipedia
Credits: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents collects four biographies of some of America's most celebrated leaders.
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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The rising democratic star and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Dreams From My Father" invokes the hopes and ideals that have made "our improbably experiment in democracy" work and proclaims his vision for more authentic politics.
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Reagan in His Own Voice
by Ronald Reagan
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself...
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Thomas Jefferson: Champion of the Jews
by Berel Wein
Credits: Audio Download
It's a little-known fact that Thomas Jefferson considered the Jewish people his "test case" for democracy and religious tolerance. Discover the astounding truth in Berel Wein's revealing lecture.
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Decision Points
by George W. Bush
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history – and the man at the center of events.
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An American Life: The Autobiography
by Ronald Reagan
Credits: Audio Download
"An American Life" is a richly detailed, definitive account of a great and historic presidency and of a unique American Life -- from the man who restored America's confidence and strength and shaped the future of the world.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio Download
In best selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us...
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No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Doris Kearns Goodwin describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world.
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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Credits: Audio Download
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey...
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Truman
by David McCullough
Credits: Audio CD
The life and times of the thirty-third President of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.
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My Experiments With Truth
by Mohandas Gandhi
Credits: Audio CD
Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people.
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Parting the Waters
by Taylor Branch
Credits: Audio Download
This audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement...
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Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
Credits: Audio Download
Culminating his half-century of study of Lincoln and his times, Donald brilliantly traces Lincoln's rise from humble origins to the pinnacle of the presidency.
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John Adams
by David McCullough
Credits: Audio CD
This is history on a grand scale - an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas.
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My Life
by Bill Clinton
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public.
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1776
by David McCullough
Credits: Audio CD
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
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His Excellency
by Joseph J. Ellis
Credits: Audio CD
Recently, Washington's papers were catalogued at the University of Virginia. Joseph J. Ellis had primary access to the 90-volume papers, allowing him to paint a thorough and fascinating portrait.
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Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
Credits: Audio Download
TR's speed of thought and action, and his total command of all aspects of presidential leadership, from bureaucratic subterfuge to manipulation of the press, make him all but invincible in 1904, when he wins a second term by a historic landslide.
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The Case Against Barack Obama
by David Freddoso
Credits: Audio Download
Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the number-one most liberal U.S. senator, and - if he were commander-in-chief - a serious threat to our national security.
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Born Again
by Charles Colson
Credits: Audio Download
The former White House counsel for President Richard Nixon describes his search for meaning amid the Watergate scandal.
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