In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, and mere boys turned soldiers. In our own tumultuous time, 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did.
In this epic, Pulitzer prize-winning biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution. Much about John Adams' life will come as a surprise to many. His rocky relationship with friend and eventual archrival Thomas Jefferson, his courageous voyages and mountain treks are exploits few would have dared.
John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale -- an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm of Hemingway himself.
Bringing to bear the tools of both history and biography, No Ordinary Time relates the unique story of how Franklin D. Roosevelt led the nation to victory against seemingly insurmountable odds and, with Eleanor's essential help, forever changed the fabric of American society.
Using diaries, interviews, and White House records, Goodwin paints an intimate portrait of the daily conduct of the presidency during wartime, and the Roosevelts' extraordinary constellation of friends, advisers, and family.
Watch the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 is unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.
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Team of Rivals: Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln won the presidential nomination from the Republican National Convention, his rivalswere dismayed and angry. Each had energetically sought the presidency as the onflict over slavery was leeding to secession and civil war.Yet, Lincoln had an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. This capacity enabled President Lincoln to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to preserve the Union and win the war.
