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Title: Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy aboard the Can Do

Author: Michael J. Tougias

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known as the Storm of the Century. Encountering one of the most monstrous seas ever recorded, Quirk struggled through the night to keep his boat from sinking, maintaining contact through his hand-held battery-powered radio. The Can Do stayed afloat past three a.m. Then there was silence. Through dozens of interviews as well as recordings of the radio communications exchanged between Quirk and the Coast Guard—actual recordings included here in this audiobook—Michael J. Tougias provides us a devastating, true account of bravery and death at sea.

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Title: The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery; The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition

Author: Gary E. Moulton

Narrator: John Lescault

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 33 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey. In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. All of their triumphs and terrors are here: the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison, the fear the captains felt when Sacagawea fell ill, the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide. The natural wonders of an unspoiled America are here, and the lives and customs of its native peoples also vividly come to life, making for a living drama that is humorous, poignant and, at least once, tragic. Editor Gary E. Moulton blends the narrative highlights of his definitive Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals to bring forth the voices of the enlisted men and of the Native Americans, heard for the first time alongside the words of the captains.

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Title: The Light and the Glory

Author: David Manuel, Peter Marshall

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Did Columbus believe that God called him west to undiscovered lands? Does American democracy owe its inception to the handful of Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth? If, indeed, there was a specific, divine call upon this nation, is it still valid today? Was this continent the stage for a new act in the drama of redemption?The Light and the Glory answers these questions and many more for anyoe interested in the founding of the great experiment called America, visiting American history from Christopher Columbus through George Washington's presidency. As we look at our nation's history from God's point of view, we begin to have an idea of how much we owe a very few—and how much is still at stake. The Light and the Glory is the perfect handbook to our nation's beginnings—and its future.

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Title: Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II

Author: Ronald Takaki

Narrator: Edward Lewis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerges to illustrate the country's multicultural struggles and victories during World War II. We hear from a Japanese-American at an internment camp; a Native American code breaker using the Navajo language for the first time; a Mexican-American woman, 'Rosarita, the riveter,' who was able to work a job during wartime other than as a housecleaner or a maid. Takaki also considers the racial biases that influenced important American government actions during the war, like the bombing of Hiroshima and the refusal to admit Jews into the US. Double Victory clearly demonstrates that World War II helped to transform American society and advance the cause of multiculturalism throughout the country.

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Title: Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Author: Peter Schweizer

Narrator: Ian Esmo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

This explosive book chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union. Based on exclusive interviews with key participants including Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and William Clark, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details of how the Reagan inner circle undermined the Soviet economy—and its dwindling resource base—to subvert the Kremlin’s hold on its global empire. Using secret diplomacy, the administration dramatically reduced Soviet income while simultaneously driving Moscow to expend an increasing amount of precious assets; they also provided covert aid to indigenous forces in Poland and Afghanistan to roll back Soviet power. In Victory, Schweizer presents a compelling argument for the Reagan administration’s calculated strategy that is impossible to ignore.

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Title: Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party

Author: George R. Stewart

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California and were persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers—an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

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Title: Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan

Author: Michael Barone

Narrator: William Lavelle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 39 hours 54 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this rare, sweeping history, Michael Barone draws from deep within the political and social record of modern America to tell the story of how the country of our parents and of our grandparents became the prosperous and powerful nation we know today. Barone points out that the single most significant issue to dominate American politics in this century is that of who really is an American. Gone are the vaunted battles over the distribution of wealth and income. In their place are the powerfully rooted political battles fought between America’s cultural poles: its racial and ethnic groups, its urban liberals and small-town conservatives, its state’s rightists and centrists, and ultimately also between advocates of culturally diverse lifestyles. Barone’s extensive knowledge of the historical record and his portrayal of well-known individual participants add color and dimension to this narrative.

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Title: Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent’s Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rights

Author: Jeffrey St. John

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this “eyewitness account” of America's first Federal elections, the First Congress, and the creation of the Bill of Rights. In a swift-moving and colorful chronicle written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, listeners will discover how Madison had to fight both friend and foe of the Constitution to pass a Federal Bill of Rights in the First Congress; why Washington and Madison saw the future of America in the frontier West and not in Europe; and how Spanish and British intrigues—and hostile Indian tribes on the American frontier—posed a threat to the survival of the new national government. Vastly entertaining, based on documented and newly-available sources, this book is both a popular history and an important contribution to the study of the founding of the American Republic.

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Title: Stonewall Jackson: A Biography

Series: Part of The Great Generals Series

Author: Donald A. Davis

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Deemed “irreplaceable” by Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. It is said that the Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Jackson’s leadership when he was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died in 1863. Davis highlights Stonewall Jackson as a general who emphasized the importance of reliable information and early preparedness, who so believed in information that he had a personal mapmaker with him at all times, and he details Jackson’s many lessons in strategy and leadership.

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Title: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Author: David Brion Davis

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, beginning with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of ordinary slaves; the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism.