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David McCullough
John Adams
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2001-05-01)

Jonathan Alter
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Audio Editions Mystery Masters)
by Audio Partners, The (Audio Cassette)

The Defining Moment shows how Roosevelt used his famous "fear itself" speech and his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency. With its themes of a nation in crisis and a strong executive, The Defining Moment is not only an inspiring political story, but also a book that is pertinent to today's debates over both foreign and domestic affairs.

Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

David McCullough
Truman
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Assassination Vacation
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue -- it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how ...

Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2003-07-01)

Joseph J. Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington
by Recorded Books (Audio Cassette)

Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
by Blackstone Audio Inc. (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2007-02-01)

David Herbert Donald
Lincoln
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

The year's most important biography -- of a leader who still speaks to our times In the bestselling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography -- a masterly account of how one man's extraordinary political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War, and of how his soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood and equality. Culminating his half-century of study of Lincoln and his times, Donald brilliantly traces Lincoln's rise from humble origins to the pinnacle of the presidency. He reveals the development of the future President's character and shows how Lincoln's enormous capacity for growth enabled one of the least experienced men ever elected to high office to become a giant in the annals of American politics. And he depicts a man who was basically passive by nature, yet ambitious enough to take enormous risks and overcome repeated defeats. ...

Traveling Mercies
by Random House Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1999-01-19)

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