American Century

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    • Written by: Alfred W. McCoy
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-30
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In a completely original analysis, prizewinning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the 21st century....

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    • The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    • Written by: Maureen Callahan
    • Narrated by: Amy Landon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history....

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    • On Writing with Style
    • Written by: Kurt Vonnegut, Suzanne McConnell
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2019-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and listeners written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student....

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    • Written by: Joseph S. Nye Jr.
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"-a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power-be it political, economic, or military-on the global stage.

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    • A New History of King Philip’s War
    • Written by: Lisa Brooks
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-30
    • Language: English
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    • A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America....

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    • J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
    • Written by: Beverly Gage
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....

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    • Written by: Linda Byler
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Willis
    • Series: Hester’s Hunt for Home, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Born a Native American but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off....

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    • Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
    • Written by: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2010-06-01
    • Language: English
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    • As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements....

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    • Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
    • Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson penned groundbreaking works as outrageous—and provocative—as the author himself....

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    • A Biography
    • Written by: Linda Wagner-Martin
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the outstanding poets of the 20th century. When her Collected Poems was published it won the Pulitzer Prize. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, has become a modern classic....

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    • Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
    • Written by: Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War....

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    • Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
    • Written by: George Packer
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era....

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    • Written by: William Lindsay Gresham
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • One of the 20th-century's most darkly beautiful works of crime fiction - a story of carny life, spiritualism, and a con man of merciless resolve....

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    • A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
    • Written by: Susan Fair
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2016-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history....

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    • How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
    • Written by: Michael S. Sherry
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies....

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    • 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
    • Written by: Noah Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Brian Telestai
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on a complex and inspiring journey through the last 101 years as told through some of the most memorable hits and the artists behind them.

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    • Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
    • Written by: William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically....

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    • A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
    • Written by: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two....

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