Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley

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American Heritage History of the United States
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American Heritage History of the United States
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Length: 23 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Highbridge Company
  • Publish date: May 30, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (185 ratings)
(185 ratings)
Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States-a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes thirteen small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the... Read more
American Moonshot
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American Moonshot
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Stephen Graybill
  • Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: April 02, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (1786 ratings)
(1786 ratings)
2020 Audie Awards(r) WINNER – History/Biography As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President... Read more
American Moonshot Young Readers’ Edition
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American Moonshot Young Readers’ Edition
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Stephen Graybill
  • Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publish date: April 02, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (35 ratings)
(35 ratings)
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley delivers a young readers’ edition of a story rooted in heroism, bravery, and patriotism: America’s race... Read more
Cronkite
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Cronkite
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: George Guidall
  • Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 29, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (1132 ratings)
(1132 ratings)
Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite. An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the... Read more
Parish Priest
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Parish Priest
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Julie M. Fenster
  • Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 10, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (271 ratings)
(271 ratings)
Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom “family values” represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world. In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was... Read more
Rightful Heritage
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Rightful Heritage
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: William Dufris
  • Length: 22 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: March 15, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (393 ratings)
(393 ratings)
The acclaimed, award-winning historian–“America’s new past master” (Chicago Tribune)–examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal. Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore... Read more
Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Karen White
  • Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2000
  • Language: English
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that... Read more
Silent Spring Revolution
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Silent Spring Revolution
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Stephen Graybill
  • Length: 29 hours 24 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: November 15, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (64 ratings)
(64 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world... Read more
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Douglas Brinkley
  • Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 31, 2005
  • Language: English
  • (374 ratings)
(374 ratings)
“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. Theseare the men who took the cliffs. These are thechampions who helped free a continent. Theseare the heroes who helped end a war.”–Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984,Normandy, France Acclaimed... Read more
The Great Deluge
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The Great Deluge
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Kyf Brewer
  • Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: June 13, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (2381 ratings)
(2381 ratings)
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina... Read more
The Quiet World
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The Quiet World
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Andrew Garman
  • Length: 23 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 18, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (235 ratings)
(235 ratings)
In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the... Read more
Tour of Duty
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Tour of Duty
  • By: Douglas Brinkley
  • Narrator: Douglas Brinkley
  • Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: January 27, 2004
  • Language: English
  • (105 ratings)
(105 ratings)
One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America’s most intriguing politicians–the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004–and its profound effects on his career and life In... Read more

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A People’s History of the Civil War The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it.Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people-foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and ... Read Book
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Me the People The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now.   Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it. But first, some historical context: In the eighteenth ... Read Book
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