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Just Plain Dick
By: Kevin Mattson
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous campaign speeches—Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, to be published on its sixtieth anniversaryIt all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization." But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to... Read more
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Joseph Anton
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Sam Dastor
Length: 26 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”
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The Oath
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme... Read more
The Rise of Rome
By: Anthony Everitt
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world's preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined... Read more
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Red Ink
By: David Wessel
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter David Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key people—Jacob Lew, White House... Read more
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Boss Rove
By: Craig Unger
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Karl Rove, the man who masterminded the rise of George W. Bush from governor of Texas to the presidency, who advised Bush during two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who some claim helped seize the 2004 election for Bush, and who was at the center of the Bush administration's two biggest scandals—the Valerie Plame Wilson affair and the U.S.... Read more
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Patriarch
By: Richard Norton Smith
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
With the thoroughness of a newspaper of the era, Smith retells the old familiar stories and legends surrounding our nation's first president during the years preceding and during his terms in office. Patriarch brings George Washington to life as few historical accounts have before-showing our country's most celebrated father occupied with the... Read more
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Argo
By: Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there’s a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped.... Read more
Who Stole the American Dream?
By: Hedrick Smith
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 16 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s... Read more
The Price of Politics
By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 13 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
See how and why Washington is not functioning.
Bob Woodward’s freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his national bestseller, The Price of Politics, provides a detailed, often verbatim account of what happened in the dramatic “fiscal cliff” face-off at the end of 2012 between President Obama and the Republicans.
Now it’s happening again.... Read more
The Betrayal of the American Dream
By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele
Narrated by: Wes Talbot
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic; it eclipsed old imperial systems and colonial archetypes. It gave rise to a dream:... Read more
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500 Days
By: Kurt Eichenwald
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Kurt Eichenwald—New York Times bestselling author of Conspiracy of Fools and The Informant—recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, fly on the wall, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller.
In 500 Days, master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen... Read more
Beyond Courage
By: Doreen Rappaport
Narrated by: Emily Beresford & Jeff Crawford
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium, three resisters ambush a train, allowing scores... Read more
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The Victory Lab
By: Sasha Issenberg
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.
Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and... Read more
All the President's Men
By: Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
50th Anniversary Edition—With a new foreword on what Watergate means today.
“The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time)—from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days.
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters,... Read more
Freedom's Forge
By: Arthur Herman
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 16 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist... Read more
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John Quincy Adams
By: Harlow Giles Unger
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six... Read more
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Divider-in-Chief
By: Kate Obenshain
Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When Barack Obama ran on a platform of "hope and change" four years ago, he promised to unite the country. But as Kate Obenshain reveals in Divider-in-Chief, Obama has done exactly the opposite. Rather than seeking commonsense, pro-American solutions, he has pursued far-left policies, a radical leftist agenda, and an attitude that's both... Read more
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No Easy Day
By: Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of... Read more
Desert Queen
By: Janet Wallach
Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books... Read more
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Interventions
By: Kofi Annan & Nader Mousavizadeh
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A candid memoir of global statecraft during one of the most consequential eras of recent history
INTERVENTIONS is the inside story of a world at the brink. After forty years of service in the United Nations, former Secretary-General Kofi Annan shares his unique perspective of the terrorist attacks of September 11; the American invasions of Iraq... Read more
50 Things Liberals Love to Hate
By: Mike Gallagher
Narrated by: Mike Gallagher
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A nationally syndicated radio talk show host and Fox News contributor uses his trademark humor to take us inside the life and mind of the American liberal, coming up with 50 definitive things liberals just love to hate.
It’s hard work being a liberal these days. When you hate things most Americans love, it’s tiring to have to endlessly... Read more
Leading from Behind
By: Richard Miniter
Narrated by: Richard Miniter
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Barack Obama has never been fully vetted—until now.
In the New York Times bestselling Leading from Behind, investigative journalist Richard Miniter presents the first book to explore President Obama's abilities as a leader, by unearthing new details of his biggest successes and failures. Based on exclusive interviews and... Read more
Wealth and Poverty
By: George Gilder
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as “the guide to capitalism,” the New York Times bestseller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time and has sold more than one million copies since its first release. In this modern classic, Gilder affirms the moral superiority of free-market capitalism and explains why supply-side economics is more... Read more
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