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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

by Sarah Vowell ...

Narrated by Sarah Vowell, Alexis Denisof, John Slattery, Patton Oswalt, Fred Armisen, John Hodgman, Stephanie March, Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome
... Read more
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Summer for the Gods

The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

by Edward J Larson ...

Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

**The landmark history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schoolsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“A riveting book.” —Frank Rich, New York Times**In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists ... Read more

$27.99 USD

**The landmark history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schoolsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“A riveting book.” —Frank Rich, New York Times**In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists
... Read more
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All We Say

The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches

by Ben Rhodes ...

Narrated by Ben Rhodes, Various ...

Unabridged

16 hours 39 min

**What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means.” ... Read more

$28.00 USD

**What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters.“At a time of moral and political drift, Ben Rhodes reminds us what American greatness actually sounds like, and what it means.”
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The River of Doubt

Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard ...

Narrated by Paul Michael ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its ... Read more

$20.00 USD

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its
... Read more
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky

An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

by Garrett M. Graff ...

Narrated by Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini, A Full Cast ...

Unabridged

20 hours 25 min

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the Sky…This period in history has ... Read more

$34.99 USD

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the Sky…This period in history has
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A Devil Went Down to Georgia

Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

by Deb Miller Landau ...

Narrated by Callie Beaulieu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shock waves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hit man pretending to deliver ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shock waves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hit man pretending to deliver
... Read more
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The Power Broker

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

66 hours 7 min

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: ... Read more

$60.00 USD

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew:
... Read more
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Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

15 hours 9 min

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela... ... Read more

$29.99 USD

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela...
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Passage of Power, The

by Robert A. Caro ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Years of Lyndon Johnson
Unabridged

32 hours 47 min

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece. ... Read more

$19.99 USD

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEBook Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2

Fredericksburg to Meridian

by Shelby Foote ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

52 hours 46 min

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.The word narrative is the key to this book’s ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2 continues one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. Focusing on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume in Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign.The word narrative is the key to this book’s
... Read more
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T.R.

The Last Romantic

by H. W. Brands ...

Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

Unabridged

35 hours 35 min

From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt"A rip-roaring life... Every red-blooded American should read this entertaining book." — Wall Street JournalIn his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so ... Read more

$49.99 USD

From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt"A rip-roaring life... Every red-blooded American should read this entertaining book." — Wall Street JournalIn his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so
... Read more
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The Age of Homespun

Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

18 hours 50 min

Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods—Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods—Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy
... Read more
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Brooklyn

The Once and Future City

by Thomas J. Campanella ...

Narrated by William Hope ...

Unabridged

22 hours 23 min

This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The
... Read more
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American Sirens

The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

by Kevin Hazzard ...

Narrated by Gilbert Glenn Brown ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.**? "A riveting portrait ... a fascinating and deeply rewarding study of triumph in the face of adversity." -**Publishers Weekly (starred review)Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.**? "A riveting portrait ... a fascinating and deeply rewarding study of triumph in the face of adversity." -**Publishers Weekly (starred review)Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis,
... Read more
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The Radical Fund

How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

by John Fabian Witt ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

21 hours 26 min

As recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a ... Read more

$34.99 USD

As recommended on The Ezra Klein ShowFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the “engrossing” (The New York Times) secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a
... Read more
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Angels with Dirty Faces

How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever

by Jonathan Wilson ...

Narrated by John Sackville ...

Unabridged

20 hours 33 min

The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian SoccerLionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -- is mirrored in the style and swagger of ... Read more

$44.99 USD

The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian SoccerLionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -- is mirrored in the style and swagger of
... Read more
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Making of the Atomic Bomb

25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

37 hours 16 min

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping ... Read more

$49.99 USD

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping
... Read more
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On Corruption in America

And What Is at Stake

by Sarah Chayes ...

Narrated by Sarah Chayes ...

Unabridged

12 hours 49 min

**From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future.“If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of ... Read more

$22.99 USD

**From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future.“If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of
... Read more
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The Edge of Anarchy

The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

by Jack Kelly ...

Narrated by Traber Burns ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for AmericaThe Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for AmericaThe Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill
... Read more
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Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

by David Grann ...

Narrated by Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime
... Read more
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Chaos

Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

by Tom O'Neill ...

Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

Unabridged

16 hours 15 min

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the ... Read more

$38.99 USD

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the
... Read more
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A True History of the United States

Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism

by Daniel Sjursen ...

Narrated by Daniel Sjursen ...

Series series Truth to Power
Unabridged

24 hours 27 min

**“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history." —Kirkus (starred review)Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.**Sjursen shifts the lens ... Read more

$25.00 USD

**“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history." —Kirkus (starred review)Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.**Sjursen shifts the lens
... Read more
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Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck ...

Narrated by Gary Sinise ...

Series series Penguin Audio Classics
Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writersTo hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and ... Read more

$17.99 USD

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writersTo hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and
... Read more
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Killing Lincoln

The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard ...

Narrated by Bill O'Reilly ...

Series series Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'ReillyThe iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally ... Read more

$22.99 USD

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'ReillyThe iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally
... Read more

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