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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

    $14.99 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

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  • 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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    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

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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

    $32.50 USD

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    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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    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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    Paper Bullets

    Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis

    by Jeffrey H. Jackson ...
    Narrated by Susan Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    “A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground**"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American MoonshotA Stonewall Honor Book in NonfictionLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction* ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Hoover

    An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

    by Kenneth Whyte ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 38 min

    **"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    One Man Against the World

    The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

    by Tim Weiner ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    Narrated by Kiff VandenHeuvel ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 7 min

    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Reaganland

    America's Right Turn 1976-1980

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    Narrated by Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy, Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    45 hours 19 min

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the bestselling author of Nixonland**,** The Invisible Bridge**, and** Before the Storm comes the dramatic conclusion of how modern conservatism took control of American political power.Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emergi... ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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