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FDR: The First Hundred Days
by Anthony J. Badger
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($69.00) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
June 2009
Since President-elect Barack Obama mentioned he was reading about the first hundred days of FDRs administration in a 60 Minutes interview, there has been a surge of interest in books on the topic.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
by Brion McClanahan
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
June 2009
The Founding Fathers are the most important men in American history. But leftist textbooks and historians would have you believe Washington, Adams, and Jefferson are all dead, racist, slave-holding white men with nothing to offer modern society.
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
by Susan Jacoby
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
May 2009
Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948---that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.
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The Obama Revolution
by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer
Formats: Audio Download ($16.06) | Audio CD ($20.66)
Published:
April 2009
The first audiobook presented by a campaign staffer and offering rare insider glimpses, "The Obama Revolution" explores how a generation of believers and the politics of hope won the presidency for Barack Obama and changed the world.
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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
by Charles Bracelen Flood
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
Published:
February 2009
At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, challenged him for the Republican nomination.
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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
by Peter S. Canellos
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
February 2009
The complete, authoritative biography of Senator Ted Kennedy by an all-star team of seasoned reporters from "The Boston Globe."
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Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
by Richard Carwardine
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($99.00) | Audio Cassette ($89.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Published:
February 2009
Carwardine examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president. As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents.
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The Essential Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
January 2009
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, The Essential Abraham Lincoln, views this key figure in Western history through his own word, complemented by a compact biography.
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
by Abraham Lincoln
Formats: Audio Download ($27.55) | Audio CD ($31.96)
Published:
January 2009
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, seven legendary meetings between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during their 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois, made history, and changed its course as well.
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
by Adam Cohen
Formats: Audio Download ($19.00) | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
January 2009
Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history - the tense, feverish first 100 days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government.
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The Reagan I Knew
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($54.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
January 2009
In The Reagan I Knew, the late William F. Buckley Jr. offers a reminiscence of thirty years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House.
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Speaking of Freedom
by George H.W. Bush
Formats: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
January 2009
George H.W. Bush takes a special look back on the momentous global events of 1989-1992 - the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the liberation of Kuwait, to name a few - and reminisces about what it was like to be President through such unprecedented times.
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Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President, 1861-1865
by George McGovern
Formats: Audio CD ($23.96)
Published:
December 2008
McGovern's account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.
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