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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
From printer's apprentice to internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin led a most remarkable life.
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JFK: The Kennedy Tapes
by John F. Kennedy
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76) | Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Highlights of 16 of John F. Kennedy's best known speeches, chronicling his Presidential years, 1960 through 1963.
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The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...
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JFK: The Kennedy Tapes Vol. II
by John F. Kennedy
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Volume II of this historical compilation includes live recordings of "The New Frontier," the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, civil rights, Ich Bin Berliner...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Average Rating:  (4.5 Stars)
A dramatic autobiography of the great 19th century black leader and abolitionist.
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Inventing a Nation
by Gore Vidal
Formats: Audio CD ($19.99)
Average Rating: (4.3 Stars)
Volumes have been written about George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Inventing a Nation does.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating:  (4.2 Stars)
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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The Course of Human Events
by David McCullough
Formats: Audio CD ($11.20)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Lecture is a tribute to McCullough's lifetime investigation of history.
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Jazz
by Ken Burns
Formats: Audio CD ($19.99)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius...
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Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
by Jim Murphy
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.96)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...
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Don't Know Much About History
by Kenneth C. Davis
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the New York Times best seller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About series.
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Edward R. Murrow
by Bob Edwards
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Reporting live from the streets and rooftops of London as Nazi war planes rained terror from the skies during the Battle of Britain, Edward R. Murrow brought the stark horror of war and the shock of breaking news events directly into American living rooms for the first time.
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Famous Americans in History
by Barnaby Chesterman
Formats: Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
This audio-original, designed for 8-12 year-olds and written specially for Naxos AudioBooks recounts the energy, imagination, courage and determination that forever changed the world.
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Ulysses S. Grant
by Josiah Bunting
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Grant was indeed a military man of the highest order, he was also a better president than he is often given credit for.
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Washington Schlepped Here
by Christopher Buckley
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his "other" Washington...
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Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Words
by Robert F. Kennedy
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76) | Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
He was called "The Second-Most Powerful man in America." Now, relive his thoughts and words in this release featuring highlights of 9 major speeches.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by Roy Jenkins
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
Roosevelt's presidency was one of the most eventful in U.S. history.
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The People Speak
by Howard Zinn
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
This makes for exciting listening and is on its own an invaluable contribution to understanding American history.
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Rumsfeld's War
by Rowan Scarborough
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
He is Donald Rumsfeld. His great fear was a second Pearl Harbor. When it happened on September 11, 2001, he led the charge to make sure it never happens again.
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A Struggle of Ideas
by US Government
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
This is an authentic government document that analyzes America’s standing in the Middle East.
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The Incredible Century
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Collects great historical speeches from 1900 to 1999.
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Great American Presidents
by Wikipedia
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (2.0 Stars)
LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents collects four biographies of some of America's most celebrated leaders.
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Great Speeches Of The 20th Century
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (1.0 Stars)
This collection represents some of the most well-known speeches of the 20th century, spanning the years 1908-1991.
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Adlai Stevenson - Campaign Speech 1956
by Adlai Stevenson
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Addressing a gathering at the State Fair in Newton Iowa, Adlai Stevenson speaks on the subject of farm subsidies and the state of rural America during a whistle-stop campaign appearance.
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Adlai Stevenson - Opening the 1956 Campaign
by Adlai Stevenson
Formats: Digital Download ($2.95)
For his second nomination as President, having made an unsuccessful bid in 1952 with John Sparkman as his running mate, Adlai Stevenson attempted a second bid for the Presidency in 1956.
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