Political Figures Audio Books

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

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.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

Ron Chernow now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency...

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.

Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.

Few—if any—books have had a more profound and lasting impact on society than this extraordinary piece of reporting that shook the very foundation of American politics.

In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief.

Told by one of our country's greatest historians, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Truman," here is the extraordinary history of the birth of our country, seen through the lives of two extraordinary men: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.