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    Iron Empires

    Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

    by Michael Hiltzik ...
    Narrated by Nick Tecoksy ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The American Story

    Conversations with Master Historians

    by David M. Rubenstein ...
    Narrated by David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden, David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, Ron Chernow, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Taylor Branch, A. Scott Berg, Cokie Roberts0, Jay Winik1, Jean Edward Smith2, Bob Woodward3, H.W. Brands4 ...
    Series series Gift for History Buffs

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Cofounder of The Carlyle Group, patriotic philanthropist, and bestselling author of The American Experiment David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they’ve come to so intimately know and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    All Against All

    The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

    by Paul Jankowski ...
    Narrated by Dean Gallagher ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 6 min

    A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control.All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas—exploring why, during a single winter ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The New Deal

    A Modern History

    by Michael Hiltzik ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 35 min

    New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time.As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account ... Read more

    $44.75 CAD

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    Fire and Light

    How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, bringing down governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments that would ultimately reach every corner of the globe. Unlike most historians, Burns ... Read more

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    The Wham Curse

    by Virgil Alexander ...
    Narrated by Curtis Michael Holland ...
    Series series Deputy Allred & Apache Policeman Victor

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    A tale of two crimes in the twenty-first century: In the rugged ranch country of eastern Arizona, Graham County Deputy Branden Allred and San Carlos Tribal Police Officer Allen Victor are investigating the death of a young Apache. At first it appears to be a freak accident, a conclusion the Sheriff likes, but the officers begin to suspect murder. Motive is the major missing element, and nothing ... Read more

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    Da Vinci's Ghost

    Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image

    by Toby Lester ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo daVinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and asquare. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeurof art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the humanspirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffeecups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It ... Read more

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    Omaha Beach

    D-Day, June 6, 1944

    by Joseph Balkoski ...
    Narrated by Basil Sands ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    Combining the personal recollections of soldiers with historical narrative and analysis of the actual invasion as it unfolded, this detailed description of the action at Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion of World War II comes from "the top living D-Day historian" (USA Today). ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    White Freedom

    The Racial History of an Idea

    by Tyler Stovall ...
    Narrated by Ako Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 56 min

    This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell exposes the racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial ... Read more

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    Utah Beach

    The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944

    by Joseph Balkoski ...
    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 14 min

    "A first-class history, impeccably researched and skillfully written . . . by the foremost historian of the American D-Day experience." —Naval HistoryAdded to the invasion plan largely at the insistence of British General Bernard Montgomery, the attack at Utah Beach aimed to secure the Cotentin Peninsula and ultimately seize the port of Cherbourg. Although the assault on Utah Beach became one of ... Read more

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    The Grandes Dames

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    Narrated by Cory Herndon ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    The acclaimed social historian provides an in-depth look at eight society women who shaped upper class culture from the Gilded Age to WWII.Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. Family names that still adorn buildings, streets, and charity foundations. While their men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphonies ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unsinkable

    Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett

    by James Sullivan ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal), ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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