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Profiles in Leadership
- Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
- Written by: Sean Wilentz, Alan Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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What made FDR a more successful leader during the Depression crisis than Hoover? Why was Eisenhower more effective as supreme commander during World War II than he was as president? Why was Grant one of the best presidents of his day, if not in all of American history? What drove Bobby Kennedy into the scrum of electoral politics? Find the surprising and revelatory answers to these questions and more in this collection of new essays by great historians.
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Profiles in Leadership
- Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-19
- Language: English
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
- Written by: Richard Hofstadter, Sean Wilentz - foreward
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence - and derail - the larger agendas of a political party.
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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The Politicians and the Egalitarians
- The Hidden History of American Politics
- Written by: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history. First, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and in fact has made possible the nation's greatest social reforms. There is little to be gained from a "postpartisan" political world. Second, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history. From the founders' generation to the present, America's egalitarian tradition has appeared and reappeared like an underground river.
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The Politicians and the Egalitarians
- The Hidden History of American Politics
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-17
- Language: English
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- Written by: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Age of Reagan, Sean Wilentz offers a fresh, brilliant chronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past 35 years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s, a powerful surge from the Right has dominated American politics and government.
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The Age of Reagan
- A History, 1974-2008
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2008-07-03
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Matthias
- A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
- Written by: Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias. It was said that Matthias the Prophet was stealing money from one of his followers; then came reports of lascivious sexual relations, based on odd teachings of matched spirits, apostolic priesthoods, and the inferiority of women. At its climax, the rumors transformed into legal charges, as the Prophet was arrested for the murder of a once highly regarded Christian gentleman who had fallen under his sway.
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The Kingdom of Matthias
- A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-06
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Democracy
- Jefferson to Lincoln
- Written by: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
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In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves, and a host of others hewed their own local definitions.
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The Rise of American Democracy
- Jefferson to Lincoln
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-21
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan in America
- Written by: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: Sean Wilentz
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan.
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Bob Dylan in America
- Narrated by: Sean Wilentz
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2010-09-07
- Language: English
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No Property in Man
- Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
- Written by: Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers' work. Far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery's legitimacy under the new national government.
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No Property in Man
- By Norma on 2024-01-28
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No Property in Man
- Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-02
- Language: English
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William Howard Taft
- The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913
- Written by: Jeffrey Rosen, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned to serve as chief justice of the United States. In this assessment, author Jeffrey Rosen reveals Taft's crucial role in shaping how America balances populism against the rule of law. Taft approached each decision as president by asking whether it comported with the Constitution, seeking to put Roosevelt's activist executive orders on firm legal grounds. But unlike Roosevelt, who thought the president could do anything the Constitution didn't forbid, Taft insisted he could do only what the Constitution explicitly allowed.
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William Howard Taft
- The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: American Presidents, Book 27
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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Andrew Johnson
- The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
- Written by: Annette Gordon-Reed, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. - editor, Sean Wilentz - editor
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed America's greatest chief executive, to bind the nation's wounds after the Civil War, and to work with a Congress controlled by the so-called Radical Republicans. Annette Gordon-Reed, one of America's leading historians of slavery, shows how ill-suited Johnson was for this daunting task.
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Andrew Johnson
- The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-22
- Language: English
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In the Cause of Liberty
- How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals
- Written by: James M. McPherson, Peter S. Onuf, Christa Dierksheide, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas - antebellum, wartime, and postbellum nations. Moreover, they recognize the critical role in this transformative era of three groups of Americans - white northerners, white southerners, and African Americans in the North and South.
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In the Cause of Liberty
- How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals
- Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-30
- Language: English
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Bill Clinton
- The American Presidents
- Written by: Michael Tomasky, Sean Wilentz - editor, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. - editor
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Bill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most talented politicians of his age, but he inspired enmity of such intensity that his opponents would stop at nothing to destroy him. He was the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win two successive presidential elections, but he was also the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached.
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Bill Clinton
- The American Presidents
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2017-01-24
- Language: English
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