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Title: Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Edward Steers

Narrator: William Coon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 72 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge. This is not only too simple an explanation; Blood on the Moon reveals that it is completely wrong. John Wilkes Booth was neither mad nor alone in his act of murder. He received the help of many, not the least of whom was Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the Charles County physician who has been portrayed as the innocent victim of a vengeful government. Booth was also aided by the Confederate leadership in Richmond. As he made his plans to strike at Lincoln, Booth was in contact with key members of the Confederate underground, and after the assassination, these same forces used all of their resources to attempt his escape.

Noted Lincoln authority Edward Steers Jr. introduces the cast of characters in this ill-fated drama. He explores why they were so willing to help pull the trigger, and corrects the many misconceptions surrounding this defining moment that changed American history.

About the author: After completing an acclaimed career as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Edward Steers Jr. has turned his research skills to the Lincoln assassination. He is the author of several books about the president, including The Trial. He lives in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

Critic Reviews:

"An exceptionally well-written and thorough book on the assassination. For anyone who is sincerely interested in the assassination, this book is a 'must read." (Historian)

"Steers has a sharp ear for historical discordance and a novelist's eye for illuminating detail. Provocative reading." (Publishers Weekly)

"Steers has written a careful synthesis of what is known about Lincoln's murder." (New York Review of Books)

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Title: Washington's Circle

Subtitle: The Creation of the President

Author: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-15

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

George Washington was a singular, often aloof man who sought out the counsel of a few trusted men to help him share his task of governing the new nation. In Washington's Circle, David and Jeanne Heidler introduce not just the president but the group of extraordinary men who advised him. The familiar names are here, like the often irked and occasionally irksome John Adams, the scheming Alexander Hamilton, and the prodigiously talented James "Jemmy" Madison, but so are the lesser known Edmund Randolph, John Jay, and Gouverneur Morris. Washington's choices of whom to listen to, for better and sometimes worse, were as consequential as the advice his cabinet gave. It is a story of give and take - between Washington and Congress, these men confronted questions, including the limits of executive power, that continue to raise debates today.

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Title: Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Wild Bill Hickok

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Discusses Wild Bill's most famous shootouts and his murder, explaining what's fact and what's legend. Includes a bibliography for further reading.

"Wild Bill was a strange character. Add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains." (General George Custer)

Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the Wild West, which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th-century American West continues to be vividly and colorful portrayed not just as a place but as a state of mind. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the West series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most famous frontier figures in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

In many ways the narrative of the Wild West has endured more as legend than reality, and a perfect example of that can be found in the legend of James Butler Hickok (1837-1876), forever known as "Wild Bill". Indeed, separating fact from fiction when it comes to the life of Wild Bill is nearly impossible, something due in great measure to the fact that the man himself exaggerated his own adventures or fabricated stories altogether. When he was killed while playing poker in the mining South Dakotan outpost of Deadwood, he put Deadwood on the map and ensured both his place and his poker hand's place in legend.

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Title: Monticello: The History of Thomas Jefferson's Famous Estate

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Neil Holmes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"[A]nd our own dear Monticello, where has Nature spread so rich a mantle under the eye? Mountains, forests, rocks, rivers. With what majesty do we there ride above the storms! How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! And the glorious Sun, when rising as if out of a distant water, just gilding the tops of the mountains, and giving life to all nature!" - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Maria Cosway, 1786 >

Nobody spent more time in the thick of the Revolutionary era than Thomas Jefferson, one of the most famous and revered Americans. Jefferson was instrumental in all of the debates before the Revolution, authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states' rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency.

For all of his accomplishments, Jefferson's reputation and legacy are still inextricably intertwined with the divisive issues of his own day. As the slaveholder who wrote that all men are created equal, and his relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's life and career are still sometimes fiercely debated today.

Few Presidents are remembered for their homes, but Jefferson's Monticello is the greatest exception to that rule, and to this day it remains one of the nation's most instantly recognizable landmarks.

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Title: The Patriots History Reader

Subtitle: Essential Documents for Every American

Author: Larry Schweikart, Dave Dougherty, Michael Allen

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

An original collection of the most influential documents in American history from the best-selling authors of A Patriots History of the United States

Since 2005, A Patriots History of the United States has become a modern classic for its defense of America as a unique country founded on the principles of justice, equality, and freedom for all. The Patriots History Reader continues this tradition by going back to the original sourcesthe documents, speeches, and legal decisions that shaped our country into what it is today. The authors explore both oft-cited documentsthe Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, and Roe v. Wadeas well as those that are less famous. Among these are George Washingtons letter to Alexander Hamilton, which essentially outlined Americas military strategy for the next 150 years, and Herbert Hoovers speech on business ethics, which examines the governments role in regulating private enterprise.

By helping readers explore history at its source, this book sheds new light on the principles and personalities that have made America great.

LARRY SCHWEIKART and MICHAEL ALLEN are the coauthors of A Patriots History of the United States and have each written several books on American history and politics.

DAVE DOUGHERTY is a self-employed businessman and has collaborated with prominent historians on their books, most recently on Schweikarts What Would the Founders Say?

Critic Reviews:

Praise for A Patriots History of the United States: This book has taught me more about our history than any Ive read in years. A Patriots History of the United States should be required reading for all Americans.(Glenn Beck)

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