H. W. Brands

H. W. Brands

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American Colossus
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American Colossus
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Robertson Dean
  • Length: 23 hours 27 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an... Read more
Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Chuck Montgomery
  • Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.The most... Read more
Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: John H. Mayer
  • Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2005
  • Language: English
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.The most... Read more
Dreams of El Dorado
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Dreams of El Dorado
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Matt Kugler
  • Length: 17 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: October 22, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (1267 ratings)
(1267 ratings)
“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.In Dreams of... Read more
Heirs of the Founders
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Heirs of the Founders
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
  • Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our... Read more
Lone Star Nation
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Lone Star Nation
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Don Leslie
  • Length: 17 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history–the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America.“For better or for worse, Texas... Read more
Lone Star Nation
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Lone Star Nation
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Chuck Montgomery
  • Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2004
  • Language: English
From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history—the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America.“For better or for worse, Texas was... Read more
Our First Civil War
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Our First Civil War
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Steve Hendrickson
  • Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
“A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war … Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much... Read more
Reagan
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Reagan
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 31 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
  • (2268 ratings)
(2268 ratings)
From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of... Read more
T.R.
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T.R.
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Matt Kugler
  • Length: 35 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: August 13, 2019
  • Language: English
From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy RooseveltLauded as “a rip-roaring life” (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands.... Read more
The Age of Gold
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The Age of Gold
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 17 hours 52 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2002
  • Language: English
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH. When gold was first... Read more
The Age of Gold
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The Age of Gold
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Brian Mancinelli
  • Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2002
  • Language: English
By the Author of the Bestselling Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN THEY WENT WEST TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES AND IN THE BARGAIN THEY CHANGED THE WORLD. THIS IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE GOLD RUSH. When gold was first... Read more
The General vs. the President
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The General vs. the President
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Scott Brick
  • Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (2506 ratings)
(2506 ratings)
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America’s future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War,... Read more
The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
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The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: H. W. Brands
  • Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—a fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history—a Revolutionary War hero, vice president of the United... Read more
The Last Campaign
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The Last Campaign
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Christopher Grove
  • Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American... Read more
The Man Who Saved the Union
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The Man Who Saved the Union
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 27 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (5906 ratings)
(5906 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning... Read more
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
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The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Richard McGonagle
  • Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York’s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss... Read more
The Zealot and the Emancipator
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Robert Fass
  • Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
Master storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.   John Brown was a... Read more
Traitor to His Class
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Traitor to His Class
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Patrick Egan
  • Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR’s formative years, his remarkable... Read more
Traitor to His Class
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Traitor to His Class
  • By: H. W. Brands
  • Narrator: Mark Deakins
  • Length: 37 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR’s formative years, his remarkable... Read more

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