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A Pretext for War - Abridged
By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people.
In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the... Read more
Betrayal - Abridged
By: Linda Chavez & Daniel Gray
Narrated by: Linda Chavez
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.”
Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert... Read more
MoveOn’s Fifty Ways to Love Your Country
By: MoveOn.org
Narrated by: Al Gore, Joan Blades, Peter Schurman, David Fen...
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In their own words and their own voices, these contributors prove that ordinary citizens can make a difference. They offer practical resources to turn inspiration into action. From effective online petitions to getting out informed voters, this empowering audio is an essential guide for being involved based on one criterion: a heartfelt desire... Read more
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The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged
By: James Surowiecki
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more
Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom
By: D.R. Barton, Steve Sjuggerud & Van K. Tharp
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Commonsense Rules for Financial Freedom--Anyone Can Do It! Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom shows you how to know in 30 seconds whether you should be in or out of the market. The authors show you how great investors avoid mistakes--and win big. With Van Tharp's legendary risk-control techniques, learn how the world's most profitable... Read more
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The Republican Noise Machine - Abridged
By: David Brock
Narrated by: David Brock
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.
Brock, a former right-wing insider and the author of the New York Times bestseller... Read more
Blood Done Sign My Name - Abridged
By: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
*Chicago Tribune
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more
Absolutely American - Abridged
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: David Lipsky
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more
Reason
By: Robert B. Reich
Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Reason is a passionate and urgent statement about liberalism: what it is, the measure of its importance for America, and how it can return to the forefront of American politics. Read more
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Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this 2004 interview, Edwidge Danticat talks about her new novel The Dew Breaker, the story of Haitian-Americans who bear emotional and physical scars from Haitis violent past under the Duvalier dictatorship of the 1960s and 70s. Read more
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Deliver Us From Evil - Abridged
By: Sean Hannity
Narrated by: Sean Hannity
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. With his trademark blend of passion and hard-hitting commentary, he urges Americans to recognize the dangers of putting our faith in... Read more
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Grace and Power - Abridged
By: Sally Bedell Smith
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more
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Let Freedom Ring - Abridged
By: Sean Hannity
Narrated by: Sean Hannity
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The hard-hitting and provocative first book from the fastest-rising conservative voice in the countrySean Hannity is the hottest phenomenon in TV and talk radio today. His gutsy, take-no-prisoners interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes has made him one of the network’s most popular personalities. And his... Read more
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Fanatics and Fools
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Arianna Huffington
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Arianna Huffington takes another sweeping look at how right wing zealots have taken charge of the Republican Party and the governmentand the American leadership who let it happen. Read more
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Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy - Abridged
By: Partha Bose
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history. In our time, his example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner (who keeps a bronze bust of Alexander in his office) to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf... Read more
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Plan of Attack - Abridged
By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the... Read more
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Why Courage Matters - Abridged
By: John McCain & Mark Salter
Narrated by: John McCain
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.
“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more
The Bushes - Abridged
By: Peter Schweizer & Rochelle Schweizer
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace... Read more
George Herbert Walker Bush
By: Tom Wicker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker... Read more
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Puppetmaster
By: Richard Hack
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
For over fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was the most powerful lawman in America. He was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover... Read more
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Losing Bin Laden
By: Richard Miniter
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened."
Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton's presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the... Read more
A Man of Faith
By: David Aikman
Narrated by: David Aikman
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In time for election fever is this favorable look at how George W. Bush's faith has influenced his life and politics. Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine and the author of several books, including Great Souls, opens with Bush's startling 1999 declaration that the philosopher he most identified with was "Christ-because he... Read more
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Mekong First Light - Abridged
By: Joseph W. Callaway, Jr.
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.”
—Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell
December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three when he arrived in Vietnam to lead forty-two untested men into... Read more
All the Way to Berlin - Abridged
By: James Megellas
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.
In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army... Read more