Modern American Memoirs

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • By: Douglas Waller
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals - the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II....

    Regular price: $20.63

    • The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw
    • By: Craig Glazer, Sal Manna
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • Craig Glazer was an ordinary college student when he planned and successfully executed his first fake sting to get back at some drug dealers who had robbed him.....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,386 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • By: Chris Martin
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • An inside look at today's special operations sniper and an in depth look at the career of Chris Kyle from those who knew him and fought alongside him....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    • By: Brea Baker
    • Narrated by: Brea Baker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire
    • By: Christine Wenc
    • Narrated by: Christine Wenc
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion.

    Regular price: $28.79

    • The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism - From al Qa'ida to ISIS
    • By: Michael Morell, Bill Harlow
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 536 ratings
    • Called the "Bob Gates of his generation", Michael Morell is a top CIA officer who saw it all....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment....

    Regular price: $17.19

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    • The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West
    • By: Dan Schultz
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,021 ratings
    • On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • American Heretic
    • By: Robert Elder
    • Narrated by: Rick Perez
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession - the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today....

    Regular price: $40.49

    • How Faith in People and a Culture of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company
    • By: Cameron Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Barry G. Bernson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Cameron Mitchell’s “dish room to boardroom story” began when he was 16-years-old and started working as a dishwasher at a local steakhouse in Columbus, Ohio. Two years later, when Mitchell was working as a line cook during a chaotic shift change, he had an epiphany....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
    • By: Katie Rogers
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray, Katie Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

    Regular price: $18.00

    • A Love Story
    • By: John Kaag
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: Joel Leffert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • By: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

    Regular price: $19.74

    • Politics and Culture in Modern America
    • By: Edward J. Blum
    • Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Pioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the 20th century....

    Regular price: $24.95

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