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Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh

Author: Thomas S. Kidd

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 10, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson’s idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history’s most studied figures.

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Title: The Winning Ticket: Uncovering America's Biggest Lottery Scam

Author: Rob Sand

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Winning Ticket is an inside look at one of the most complicated yet seat-of-your-pants financial investigations and prosecutions in recent history. Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was assigned a new case by his boss, who was days away from retirement. Inside the thin accordion binder that Sand received was meager evidence that had been gathered over the course of two years by Iowa authorities regarding a suspicious lottery ticket. No one expected the case to go anywhere. No dead body, no shots fired, and no money paid out. Why should they care? There was no certainty that a crime had even been committed. But a mysterious Belizean trust had attempted to claim the $16 million ticket but then decided to forgo the money and maintain anonymity when the State of Iowa demanded to know who had purchased the ticket. Who values anonymity over that much money? Both a story of small-town America and a true-crime saga about the largest lottery-rigging scheme in American history, The Winning Ticket follows the investigation all the way down the rabbit hole to uncover how Eddie Tipton was able to cheat the system to win jackpots over $16 million and go more than a decade without being caught—until Sand inherited the case. Just as remarkable as the crime are the real-life characters met along the way: an honest fireworks salesman, a hoodwinked FBI agent, a crooked Texas lawman, a shady attorney representing a Belizean trust, and, Bigfoot hunters. While some of the characters are nearly unbelievable, the everyday themes of integrity and hard work resonate throughout the saga. As the case builds toward a reckoning, The Winning Ticket demonstrates how a new day has dawned in prosecuting complex technological crimes.

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Title: Bad Land: An American Romance

Author: Jonathan Raban

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Seduced by the government’s offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of the twentieth century. Jonathan Raban’s stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader’s dreams strips away the myth—while preserving the romance—that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.

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Title: Cheyenne Autumn

Author: Mari Sandoz

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In the autumn of 1878, a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Acclaimed author Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.

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Title: Unwritten History Lincoln A Dark & Dangerous Vision

Author: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release date: March 28, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Lincoln's connection to black history may go much further than his role in slavery. In the 2001 book 'Black People and Their Place in History', historian Leroy Vaughn, alleges that Lincoln’s father was African American and his mother had Ethiopian ethnicity, both of which may have explained his “very dark skin and coarse hair.” The fact is his rivals campaigned using propaganda that depicted Lincoln as “Abraham Africanus the First,” an African man. It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln, who became America’s 16th President in 1860, was a Melungeon; a person of European, African-American and Native American ancestry. But beyond even that thoughtful historical proposition the late scholar Lerone Bennet Jr. sees America's most beloved president in a very different light to how he has been portrayed throughout time. Bennet hit a nerve in his research and writing on Lincoln. His book, 'Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream', questions Lincoln's role as the 'Great Emancipator'. The work was described by one reviewer as a 'flawed mirror.' It was further criticized by historians of the Civil War period as faulty. In his introduction, Bennett wrote: 'The idea of the book is simple: Everything you think you know about Lincoln and race is wrong. Every schoolchild, for example, knows the story of 'the great emancipator' who freed Negroes with a stroke of the pen out of the goodness of his heart. The real Lincoln ... was a conservative politician who said repeatedly that he believed in white supremacy. Not only that: He opposed the basic principle of the Emancipation Proclamation until his death and was literally forced – Count Adam Gurowski said he was literally whipped – 'into the glory of having issued the Emancipation Proclamation,' which Lincoln drafted in such a way that it did not in and of itself free a single slave.' Bennett's critics, including historians as well as political scientists, believe he ignores Lincoln's political and moral growth during the course

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Title: Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Author: Rebecca L. Davis

Narrator: Vayu O'donnell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: October 5, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures including Clare Boothe Luce, Whittaker Chambers, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Chuck Colson, and others riveted the American public. Unconventional religious choices charted new ways of declaring an 'authentic' identity amid escalating Cold War fears of brainwashing and coercion. Facing pressure to celebrate a specific vision of Americanism, these converts variously attracted and repelled members of the American public. Whether the act of changing religions was viewed as selfish, reckless, or even unpatriotic, it provoked controversies that ultimately transformed American politics. Public Confessions takes intimate history to its widest relevance, and in so doing, makes you see yourself in both the private and public stories it tells.

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Title: The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America

Author: Stephen Warren

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 15, 2014

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, 'We have always been the frontier.' Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond. Warren's deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.

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Title: Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt

Author: Edward P. Kohn

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Release date: December 10, 2013

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical 'cowboy' president—a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions and Tammany Hall Democrats alike, proving his commitment to reform at all costs. He combated the city's rampant corruption and helped to guide New York through the perils of rabid urbanization and the challenges of accommodating an influx of immigrants—experiences that would serve him well as president of the United States. A riveting account of a man and a city on the brink of greatness, Heir to the Empire City reveals that Roosevelt's true education took place not in the West but on the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York.

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Title: This Land That I Love: Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and the Story of Two American Anthems

Author: John Shaw

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Release date: November 5, 2013

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A narrative history of the writing of 'This Land Is Your Land' and 'God Bless America' that uncovers the conflicts and common ground between two classic patriotic songs February, 1940. After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march and Japan at war with China, the global crisis was in a crescendo. America's top songwriter, Irving Berlin, had captured the nation's mood a little more than a year before with his patriotic hymn 'God Bless America.' Woody Guthrie was having none of it. Near-starving and penniless, he was traveling from Texas to New York to make a new start. As he eked his way across the country by bus and by thumb, he couldn't avoid Berlin's song. Some people say that it was when he was freezing by the side of the road in a Pennsylvania snowstorm that he conceived of a rebuttal. It would encompass the dark realities of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, and it would begin with the lines 'This land is your land, this land is my land.' In This Land That I Love, John Shaw writes the dual biography of these beloved American songs. Examining the lives of their authors, he finds that Guthrie and Berlin had more in common than either could have guessed. Though Guthrie's image was defined by train-hopping, Irving Berlin had also risen from homelessness, having worked his way up from the streets of New York. At the same time, This Land That I Love sheds new light on our patriotic musical heritage, from 'Yankee Doodle' and 'The Star-Spangled Banner' to Martin Luther King's recitation from 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. Delving into the deeper history of war songs, minstrelsy, ragtime, country music, folk music, and African American spirituals, Shaw unearths a rich vein of half-forgotten musical traditions. With the aid of archival research, he uncovers new details about the songs, including a never-before-printed verse for 'This Land Is Your Land.' The result is a fascinating narrative that refracts and reenvisions America's tumultuous history through the prism of two unforgettable anthems.

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Title: A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War

Author: Thomas Fleming

Narrator: William Hughes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 7, 2013

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a 'holy martyr' in the fight against Southern slave owners. But Northern hatred for Southerners had been long in the making. Northern rage was born of the conviction that New England, whose spokesmen and militia had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern 'slavocrats' like Thomas Jefferson. And Northern envy only exacerbated the South's greatest fear: race war. In the sixty years preceding the outbreak of civil war, Northern and Southern fanatics ramped up the struggle over slavery. By the time they had become intractable enemies, only the tragedy of a bloody civil war could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the 'disease in the public mind'—distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans—in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.