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“john a farrell”

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  • Richard Nixon

    The Life

    by John A. Farrell ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clarence Darrow

    Attorney for the Damned

    by John A. Farrell ...
    Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ted Kennedy

    A Life

    by John A. Farrell ...
    **Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"Revelatory . . . the definitive single volume . . . fresh and indelible." —Oprah Daily"A rounded portrait of a gifted, complex, and sometimes tortured man." —The Boston GlobeAn enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Richard Nixon

    The Life

    by John A. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 54 min

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Ted Kennedy

    A Life

    by John A. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Jim Frangione ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours

    **Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"Revelatory . . . the definitive single volume . . . fresh and indelible." —Oprah Daily"A rounded portrait of a gifted, complex, and sometimes tortured man." —The Boston GlobeAn enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Clarence Darrow

    Attorney for the Damned

    by John A. Farrell ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 2 min

    Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being:on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during thetumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor workers, blacks, andsocial ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    A Dream Deferred

    Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power

    by Abby Phillip ...
    Narrated by Abby Phillip ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    From CNN’s Abby Phillip, a triumphant new look at Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns of the 1980s and how they changed Black political power. This program is read by the author.“A joyful, rich, must-read biography of a politician whose flaws and gifts were in constant, intense competition.” —Jake TapperJesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, activist, raconteur, and political candidate, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Crooked

    The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

    by Nathan Masters ...
    Narrated by David H Lawrence XVII ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 34 min

    The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him downMany tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Mortal Republic

    How Rome Fell into Tyranny

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Roman Warfare

    by Adrian Goldsworthy ...
    Narrated by Richard Poe ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    **From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire.“Goldsworthy is a superb historian and talented writer.” —Washington Times**In Roman Warfare, celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy leads readers through more than a thousand years of Roman military history, tracing both the Roman Empire’s dramatic rise and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The End of Everything

    How Wars Descend into Annihilation

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    In this “extraordinarily brave and entertaining book” (Sonia Purnell, New York Times–bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance), the bestselling coauthor of Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife,” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Buckley

    The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

    by Sam Tanenhaus ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 39 min

    “A magnificent achievement—a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America’s premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century.”—Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend“A rich, immersive biography exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement through the life of the firebrand writer and commentator who shaped it.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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