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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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Homegrown Democrat
by Garrison Keillor
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
In a book that is at once deeply personal and intellectually savvy, Homegrown Democrat is a celebration of liberalism as the "politics of kindness."
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John F. Kennedy's Great American Rhetoric
by Michael E. Eidenmuller
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Entire audio and custom text transcriptions of John F. Kennedy's great speeches. Includes Houston Ministerial Association, City Upon a Hill, The Inaugural, American University, and Berlin addresses
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An American Addiction
by Noam Chomsky
Formats: Audio CD ($12.58)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Colombia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs.
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Free Market Fantasies
by Noam Chomsky
Formats: Audio CD ($12.58)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.
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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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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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Longitudes & Attitudes
by Thomas L. Friedman
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Average Rating: (4.3 Stars)
Longitudes & Attitudes is made up of Friedman's New York Times columns, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections as he travels to Europe...
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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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America (The Audiobook)
by Jon Stewart
Formats: Audio CD ($19.98)
Average Rating: (4.1 Stars)
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious look at American government.
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Bushwhacked
by Lou Dubose
Formats: Audio CD ($13.49)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies...
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Even the Sun Will Die
by Eckhart Tolle
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96) | Digital Download ($17.47)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
When Eckhart Tolle agreed to be interviewed on September 11, 2001, he could not foresee the historic nature of this date or the suffering that would follow.
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Great Speeches in History
by Socrates
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln - here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches...
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Digital Download ($12.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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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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George Washington
by James MacGregor Burns
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.96)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Wealthy Virginia planter, revolutionary general, and founding president, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time....
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Losing Bin Laden
by Richard Miniter
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did....
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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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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
by Bernard Goldberg
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
Average Rating: (2.5 Stars)
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers...
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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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1000 Years of English Royalty
by Richard Hampton
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
This look at the public and private lives of British royal families brings the monarchs to life through their diaries and speeches and through observations by their contemporaries.
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9/11 Commission Report Executive Summary
Formats: Audio CD ($8.06)
On July 22, 2004, after 20 months of interviews, hearings and other research, the bipartisan 911 commission issued its widely acclaimed report...
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