Large Library of Full Greatest Audiobooks in History, American Top 100

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Title: Theodore Roosevelt

Author: William D. Bader

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President Teddy Roosevelt was a colorful leader who had been a boxer as a young man and took a free-swinging, pugilistic approach to the presidency. A dedicated Progressive, he pushed through important initiatives like the Panama Canal plan by dint of sheer willpower and devoted much of his career seeking to whittle down the Supreme Court (and his own appointee Oliver Wendell Holmes), which he believed was using its judicial powers to undermine his Progressive agenda. Roosevelt went out fighting on these issuesyet he never achieved many of his Progressive goals (including neutering the federal courts) that had energized him while he was in office.

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Title: George Washington

Author: Richard J. Ellis

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

No other president in American history faced so many decisions about the scope of his constitutional powers as did George Washington. Keenly aware that his interpretations of the fundamental charter would set precedent for future generations, and reluctant to appear that he was gathering power like a king, Washington was extremely cautious as chief executive. Throughout his two terms in office, he was especially careful to shore up the notion of separation of powers, ensuring that each branch of government retained its own independent sphere of authority under the new Constitution. Through careful, restrained exercise of power, Washington paradoxically helped to build a strong and respected American presidency.

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Title: Ronald Reagan

Author: Kenneth W. Starr

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President Reagan was a popular and transformative chief executive who chipped away at what he considered a runaway federal bureaucracy to bring a more conservative vision to all three branches of American government. While the Iran-Contra affair during Reagans second term galvanized critics, he still managed to win major victories to curb what he perceived to be overreaching by Congress. He exercised executive power with vigor and assuredness, and he systematically reshaped the federal judicial branch to take on a more conservative, originalist complexion. Thus, the Reagan Revolutionbuilt largely on the dual constitutional principles of separation of powers and federalismcontinued to reconfigure the landscape of American government long after Reagan left office.

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Title: George H. W. Bush

Author: Cox Han

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President George H. W. Bush (Bush 41) was a one-term president who some detractors believed lacked the charisma, vision, and political skill of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. Consequently, Bushs domestic record was mixed; it was worsened when he broke his no new taxes pledge. Yet Bush exercised his constitutional powers in the realm of foreign policy with strength and decisiveness, driving Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, in an impressive military victory that used modern technology to redefine warfare. Bush 41 also strongly defended respect for the American flag and patriotism, failing in an effort to amend the Constitution to ban desecrating the flag, but laying the groundwork for a more ardent appeal to patriotism a decade later, when his son George W. Bush became commander in chief.

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Title: George W. Bush

Author: Benjamin A. Kleinerman

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

George W. Bush (Bush 43) won office as a result of a highly contested election that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, dividing the country anew after the polarizing Clinton impeachment. The son of the forty-first president, George W. Bush sought to build a new, more powerful presidency. When terrorists struck the World Trade Center on 9/11, Bush used the full authority of his office to wage an unprecedented war on terror. In pushing through the USA Patriot Act, beginning secret NSA wiretaps, defending extraordinary interrogation techniques, and imprisoning enemy combatants in military prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, pushed executive powers to new heights. Ironically, both the nation and the Supreme Courtwhich seemed prepared to give Bush extraordinary authority to protect the nation after 9/11concluded that he went too far. Thus, Bush 43 left behind a mixed legacy as a president who did a commendable job fighting a new war on terror, but in the process may have insisted too much on his own controversial understanding of the constitutional presidency.

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Title: Abraham Lincoln

Author: William D. Pederson

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Abraham Lincoln, who began his career as an unsophisticated frontier lawyer, became the first successful presidential candidate of the fledgling Republican Party. As the nation splintered into a civil war, Lincoln wielded his constitutional authority with an inspired wisdom and effectiveness. Author of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lincolns Code, which established laws of war; and the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln transformed himself into one of the greatest leaders and statesmen in American history. He also greatly expanded presidential powers as he grappled with the exigencies of an unprecedented war among the states. Despite his death by an assassins bullet five days after the Confederates surrendered at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln helped define the concept of democratic self-governmentnot just in the United States but around the worldperhaps more so than any American president.

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Title: William Jefferson Clinton

Author: Ken Gormley

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President William Jefferson Clinton, the first baby boomer to occupy the White House, took office with a group of political foes viewing him as an unworthy president. Clinton was dogged by the Whitewater scandal, the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, and the Monica Lewinsky revelation. His own decision to sign the controversial independent-counsel statute back into lawwhich led to the appointment of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starrhaunted him throughout his time in office. Indeed, many of the high-profile constitutional issues that emerged during his presidency were linked to those scandals. Yet Clinton proved to be extraordinarily resilient, presiding over an era of economic growth as he battled endless investigations. The second president in American history to be impeached by the House, the tenacious Bill Clinton fought back and was acquitted on all counts in the Senate. A brilliant political figure, notwithstanding his personal shortcomings, which prevented him from accomplishing even more in office, Clinton would eventually become an international symbol of American determination and optimism.

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Title: John Adams

Author: Louis Fisher

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In testing the scope of the presidents power in the field of foreign affairs under the Constitution, John Adams quickly learned that an aggressive approach to exercising executive power could backfire. He found himself caught in a political tug-of-war between the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans over foreign affairs. Adams became involved in the Quasi-War against France, signed the repressive Alien and Sedition Acts, and was ousted from office after one term. Although some believed that the president was the exclusive voice of government in the sphere of foreign relations under the Constitution, John Adamss presidency would prove such a belief to be a misconception.

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Title: Harry S. Truman

Author: James N. Giglio

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Harry S. Truman, a farmer and soldier from Missouri and a latecomer to politics, was thrust unexpectedly into the presidency when President Roosevelt died in office with World War II raging in Europe. Truman was a plain-speaking, decisive, and sometimes impulsive leader who dropped the atomic bomb to end the war; waged war against North Korea to stop the spread of communism; and tried to seize Americas steel mills to support troops abroad. This last action led the Supreme Court to issue a stinging rebuke of the president in the landmark Steel Seizure Case. Although Truman left office after the 1952 elections a frustrated and unpopular president, many scholars today give him high marks for his strong leadership and integrity at a difficult time in American history.

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Title: Gerald R. Ford

Author: Jeffrey Crouch

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President Gerald R. Ford, a member of Congress on the verge of retirement, was selected by President Nixon to serve as vice president when Spiro T. Agnew abruptly resigned after being charged with accepting bribes. Within months, Ford would become president when Nixon himself was forced to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal. An honest, square-jawed, straight-shooting Midwesterner, Ford pardoned Nixon, believing a pardon was the best thing for the country. The Nixon pardonas well as Fords standing up to Congress on other issuesquickly ended Fords honeymoon and wrecked his chances for election in 1976. Yet Fords steady handling of the presidency during the unstable aftermath of Watergate ended up setting the nation on a safer course.

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