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The American Story Audiobook Summary

In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story.

These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American history exploring the subjects they intimately know and understand. You’ll hear live recordings of:

David McCullough on John Adams
Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton
Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin
Cokie Roberts on Founding Mothers
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln
A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh
Jay Winik on Franklin D. Roosevelt and 1944
Jean Edward Smith on Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King
Bob Woodward on Richard Nixon
H.W. Brands on Ronald Reagan
And a special conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts

Through his popular program The David Rubenstein Show, David Rubenstein has established himself as one of today’s most thoughtful interviewers. Now, in The American Story, David shares almost a dozen interviews that capture the brilliance of today’s most esteemed historians, as well as the souls of their subjects. The audiobook presents archival recordings of these interviews and features new introductions by Rubenstein as well as a foreword by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead our national library.

Through these captivating exchanges, these bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors offer fresh insight on pivotal moments from the Founding Era to the late 20th century.

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The American Story Audiobook Narrator

David M. Rubenstein is the narrator of The American Story audiobook that was written by David M. Rubenstein

David M. Rubenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead, The American Experiment, and The American Story. He is cofounder and cochairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Gallery of Art. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. The host of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV and The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, he lives in the Washington, DC, area. 

About the Author(s) of The American Story

David M. Rubenstein is the author of The American Story

The American Story Full Details

Narrator David M. Rubenstein
Length 9 hours 52 minutes
Author David M. Rubenstein
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 19, 2024
ISBN 9781797105956

Subjects

The publisher of the The American Story is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is General, History, United States

Additional info

The publisher of the The American Story is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797105956.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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