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Title: The Age of Lincoln

Author: Orville Vernon Burton

Narrator: Rich Mock

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, it was the inscribing of personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations that was its most profound. America had always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s, a pessimism accompanied a marked extremism. Even amidst historic political compromises, the middle ground collapsed. Burton shows how the president's authentic Southerness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans. In the violent decades to follow, while the extent of that freedom would be contested, its centrality to the definition of the country would not.

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Title: The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Author: Leonard L. Richards

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links between the Gold Rush and the Civil War. Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a new market for slaves in the gold fields, schemed to tie California to the South via railroad, and imagined splitting off the state’s southern half for a slave state. We see how the Gold Rush influenced other regional and national squabbles, and we meet renegade New York Democrat David Broderick, who became a force in San Francisco politics in 1849, and his archrival, William Gwin, a major Mississippi slaveholder. Richards recounts the political battles alongside the fiery California feuds, duels, and, perhaps, outright murders as the state came shockingly close to being divided in two.

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Title: In Time of War: Hitler’s Terrorist Attack on America

Author: Pierce O’donnell

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

It’s a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on American shores on a sabotage mission devised by Hitler. When one of them, a hapless US citizen, betrayed the mission to the FBI, Roosevelt appointed a special military tribunal to authorize the death penalty omitting proper legal procedure. Army Colonel Kenneth Royall, a respected lawyer charged with defending the saboteurs, courageously fought the lost cause for the saboteurs’ Constitutional rights. More than sixty years later, George W. Bush, in the wake of 9/11, cited Roosevelt’s act as a precedent for indefinitely imprisoning US citizens and suspected “enemy combatants” without charge. O'Donnell illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.

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Title: Escape from Alcatraz

Author: J. Campbell Bruce

Narrator: John Lescault

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Mobster Al 'Scarface' Capone; 'Machine Gun' Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as 'The Rock.' This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope. This gripping true-crime classic was originally written in 1963 and published just weeks after the last prisoner was escorted off Devil's Island, marking the end of Alcatraz's days asa prison. It tells the story of the Rock's transition from a Spanish fort to a maximum-security penitentiary, of life on The Rock, and of fourteen ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners. The chapters describing the attempts of Frank Morris and two accomplices became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood film,Escape from Alcatraz. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the absorbing saga of Alcatraz—the 'inescapable' prison—where America's most violent and notorious prisoners resided in tortuous proximity to one of the world's favorite cities.

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Title: God and Mr. Gomez

Author: Jack Smith

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives “that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States.” Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez. As their house took form first in their imaginations and then on paper, little things went wrong along the way. The building site had a way of moving slightly each time they visited it, and by the time the foundation was laid, it had moved to the middle of the road. Gomez got around that by simply moving the road. Fortunately, Gomez was always on hand to provide the solution, with the philosophy that all practical problems can be solved—with a little time and a little tequila.

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Title: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again)

Series: Part of The Politically Incorrect Guides

Author: Clint Johnson

Narrator: Dianna Dorman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture. From the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and many others—to the frontiersmen who tamed the West, to the country music and NASCAR-loving, Bible-thumping heart of “red state” America, the South is the quintessence of what’s original, unique, and most-loved about American culture. And with its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, the South should certainly rise again.

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Title: The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid: A Faithful and Interesting Narrative

Author: Pat F. Garrett

Narrator: Daniel Luna

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. It was first published in 1882, a year after Sheriff Garrett killed the Kid, 'the bravest and most feared' gunman of the cattle war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. This book is at once the most authoritative biography of William H. Bonney and the foundation of the Billy the Kid legend. Reputed to have killed his first man at the age of twelve, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend as Billy the Kid. When he was killed at the age of twenty-one, the Kid was famous throughout the country as the boy who, so he boasted, had killed a man for every year of his life. This is the story of William Bonney as told by the lawman who ended his notorious career. While explaining the public sympathy that people often accorded Bonney, Garrett challenges the glorified legends of the Kid with the genuine story of a reckless cowhand who became a hired gun. Combining the best elements of eyewitness history with the dramatic flair of a Western novel, this is the clearest account available of the career of a man some thought of as a murdering fiend and others as an American Robin Hood.

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Title: Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror 1801–1805

Author: Joseph Wheelan

Narrator: John Lescault

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2005

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, Thomas Jefferson, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, launched America’s first war on foreign soil—a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases. For nearly two hundred years, the Barbary pirates had haunted the Mediterranean, enslaving tens of thousands of Europeans and extorting millions of dollars from their countries in a mercenary holy war against Christendom. Sailing in sleek corsairs built for speed and plunder, the Barbary pirates attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity, triumphing as much by terror as force of arms. The author traces the events leading to Jefferson’s belief that peace with the Barbary States and respect from Europe could be achieved only through the “medium of war.”

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Title: New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America

Author: Nathan Miller

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Release date: June 25, 2005

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, Model T Fords, Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic—the 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. With scandal and crime the lifeblood of the tabloids, it was the time when the culture of celebrity and sensationalism took root and journalism became popular entertainment.Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Chronicling what he sees as the most significant decade of the past century, the author vividly portrays the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped this extraordinary time, including three of America's most conservative presidents and H. L. Mencken.Written in extraordinarily accessible—and frequently witty—prose, New World Coming is destined to become the book we all turn to in order to recall one of the most beloved eras in American history.

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Title: A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1774

Series: #1 of The Basic History of the United States Series

Author: Clarence B. Carson

Narrator: Mary Woods

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Release date: June 22, 2005

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Carson’s full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. “For Carson, history is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. And Carson explores those ideas, ideologies, and ‘isms.’”—The Freeman This first volume covers our heritage, our links to England, how the colonies grew, the mighty force of religion in early America, and the oppression felt by the colonists. It describes why our ancestors fought for their beliefs and their efforts to create a government limited in scope by checks and balances so that it would not have the power to oppress the people.