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The Three Lives of James Madison
- Genius, Partisan, President
- ナレーター: John H. Mayer
- 再生時間: 34 時間 12 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 法律
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The Last Founding Father
- James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
- 著者: Harlow Giles Unger
- ナレーター: Michael McConnohie
- 再生時間: 12 時間 23 分
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In this lively and compelling biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751 - 1831) went on to become America's first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America's national and international durability.
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James Monroe
- A Life
- 著者: Tim McGrath
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 28 時間 54 分
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: Soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform 13 colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic.
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Jefferson
- Architect of American Liberty
- 著者: John B. Boles
- ナレーター: Michael Johnson
- 再生時間: 24 時間 11 分
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Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker - as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet.
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- 著者: Jon Meacham
- ナレーター: Richard McGonagle
- 再生時間: 17 時間 16 分
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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The Quartet
- Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- 著者: Joseph J. Ellis
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean
- 再生時間: 8 時間 25 分
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the 13 colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
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John Quincy Adams
- American Visionary
- 著者: Fred Kaplan
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 27 時間 39 分
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In this fresh and lively biography rich in literary analysis and new historical detail, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams - the little known and much misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams - and persuasively demonstrates how Adams's inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America.
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The Last Founding Father
- James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
- 著者: Harlow Giles Unger
- ナレーター: Michael McConnohie
- 再生時間: 12 時間 23 分
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In this lively and compelling biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751 - 1831) went on to become America's first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America's national and international durability.
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James Monroe
- A Life
- 著者: Tim McGrath
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 28 時間 54 分
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The extraordinary life of James Monroe: Soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform 13 colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic.
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Jefferson
- Architect of American Liberty
- 著者: John B. Boles
- ナレーター: Michael Johnson
- 再生時間: 24 時間 11 分
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Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker - as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet.
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- 著者: Jon Meacham
- ナレーター: Richard McGonagle
- 再生時間: 17 時間 16 分
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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The Quartet
- Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- 著者: Joseph J. Ellis
- ナレーター: Robertson Dean
- 再生時間: 8 時間 25 分
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the 13 colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
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John Quincy Adams
- American Visionary
- 著者: Fred Kaplan
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 27 時間 39 分
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In this fresh and lively biography rich in literary analysis and new historical detail, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams - the little known and much misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams - and persuasively demonstrates how Adams's inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America.
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Alexander Hamilton
- 著者: Ron Chernow
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 35 時間 58 分
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Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history are more controversial. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.
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Scorpions
- The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
- 著者: Noah Feldman
- ナレーター: Cotter Smith
- 再生時間: 14 時間 38 分
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They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.
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Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- 著者: Edward J. Larson
- ナレーター: Andrew Tell
- 再生時間: 11 時間
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Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago - the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college - as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
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FDR
- 著者: Jean Edward Smith
- ナレーター: Marc Cashman
- 再生時間: 32 時間 52 分
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One of today's premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt's restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDR's personal battles and also tackles head-on and in depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt's political career.
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The Virginia Dynasty
- Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
- 著者: Lynne Cheney
- ナレーター: Nan McNamara
- 再生時間: 10 時間 40 分
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A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe - from the best-selling historian and author of James Madison.
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Lincoln
- 著者: David Herbert Donald
- ナレーター: Dick Estell
- 再生時間: 30 時間 21 分
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In the best-selling tradition of Truman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald offers a new classic in American history and biography - a masterly account of how one man's extraordinary political acumen steered the Union to victory in the Civil War, and of how his soaring rhetoric gave meaning to that agonizing struggle for nationhood and equality.
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Rush
- Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
- 著者: Stephen Fried
- ナレーター: John H. Mayer
- 再生時間: 22 時間 18 分
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By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general. And as with the greatest Revolutionary minds, Rush was only just beginning his role in 1776 in the American experiment.
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John Tyler, the Accidental President
- 著者: Edward P. Crapol
- ナレーター: Michael Butler Murray
- 再生時間: 14 時間 2 分
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The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In this biography of the 10th president, Edward P. Crapol challenges depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government, and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Instead, he argues, Tyler manipulated the Constitution to increase the executive power of the presidency. Crapol also highlights Tyler's faith in America's national destiny and his belief in boundless territorial expansion.
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Empire of Liberty
- A History of the Early Republic
- 著者: Gordon S. Wood
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 30 時間 58 分
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In Empire of Liberty, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life - in politics, society, economy, and culture.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- 著者: H. W. Brands
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 16 時間 40 分
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Master storyteller and best-selling 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. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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The Presidents vs. the Press
- The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media - from the Founding Fathers to Fake News
- 著者: Harold Holzer
- ナレーター: James Lurie
- 再生時間: 21 時間 54 分
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Every president has been convinced of his own honesty and transparency; every reporter who has covered the White House beat has believed with equal fervency that his or her journalistic rigor protects the country from danger. Our first president, George Washington, was also the first to grouse about his treatment in the newspapers, although he kept his complaints private. Subsequent chiefs like John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Barack Obama were not so reticent, going so far as to wield executive power to overturn press freedoms, and even to prosecute journalists.
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A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political "lives" - as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president
Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician, he cofounded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk conflict, becoming the first wartime president and, despite the odds, winning.
In The Three Lives of James Madison, Noah Feldman offers an intriguing portrait of this elusive genius and the constitutional republic he created - and how both evolved to meet unforeseen challenges. Madison hoped to eradicate partisanship yet found himself giving voice to and institutionalizing the political divide. Madison's lifelong loyalty to Thomas Jefferson led to an irrevocable break with George Washington, hero of the American Revolution. Madison closely collaborated with Alexander Hamilton on the Federalist papers - yet their different visions for the United States left them enemies.
Alliances defined Madison, too. The vivacious Dolley Madison used her social and political talents to win her husband new supporters in Washington - and define the diplomatic customs of the capital's society. Madison's relationship with James Monroe, a mixture of friendship and rivalry, shaped his presidency and the outcome of the War of 1812.
We may be more familiar with other Founding Fathers, but the United States today is in many ways Madisonian in nature. Madison predicted that foreign threats would justify the curtailment of civil liberties. He feared economic inequality and the power of financial markets over politics, believing that government by the people demanded resistance to wealth. Madison was the first Founding Father to recognize the importance of public opinion and the first to understand that the media could function as a safeguard to liberty.
The Three Lives of James Madison is an illuminating biography of the man whose creativity and tenacity gave us America's distinctive form of government. His collaborations, struggles, and contradictions define the United States to this day.
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- Diana Black Kennedy
- 2018/06/15
Cogently organized, meticulously balanced
This is the first book I have listened to about Madison, so it is hard to be sure it is a balanced view of such a complex figure, but I can say that Noah Feldman works hard to explore the good, the bad and the hypocritical. He shares the historical, personal and partisan contexts of Madison's words, actions and beliefs. One gets the sense of Madison the complex, brilliant, evolving, contradictory human. I found the explanations of his growth and changes more subtle and plausible than the "he was great and then Jefferson ruined him" narrative. I am happy I chose this as my Madison biography. Still not sure if I am satisfied and ready to move onto Monroe or want to stay with Madison a bit longer. I'd be interested in hearing other people's feelings about the thoroughness of the book.
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- tdg
- 2019/02/09
Interesting and informative
First let me praise Noah Feldman's performance. He is very easy to listen to, his voice, his intonation, and pronunciation. Moving on to the book, Mayer paints a picture of the man that is nearly idyllic. Madison is flawless even in his loss of Washington DC and a stalemate war. I guess I have come to expect this in biographies, the author falls in love with his subject and deifies him. That said, Mayer does delve into some of Madison's contradictions and political misdirections. Madison isn't exactly called out, rather it's just what a politician has to do. Probably, even admired in a politican one agrees with. One thing became annoying after awhile, in every single example of Madison referring to religion, the author follows the line with assurances that Madison was not a Christian and did not in fact believe what he was saying. In some cases even stating that Madison was doing so for political reasons. Mayer will always authoratively tell you how to interpret any quote that might make you think Madison had any religious beliefs. I find this laughable. Just because a man believes in religious freedom, (and this was a Madison hallmark), it does not follow that he therefore has no convictions of his own. If in youth we don't question our beliefs, we cannot have a firm basis upon which to believe later in life. Rarely do intelligent people carry their youthful opinions unchanged into old age. Overall I did get a better idea of Madison as a leader and the times in which he lived.
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- jonah
- 2019/01/17
Favorite biography of James Madison!
I loved this biography! the depth in which the author pulls back the curtain to both James Madison's role at the constitutional convention and his presidency were incredible!
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- Irish Eyes
- 2018/04/11
Fantastic
Loved this book! My only complaint is that it was read too slowly. I listened to it at 1.25x and that was perfect.
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- Luke J Nemuras
- 2018/10/29
1.3x for the win
I'm glad I could listen at 1.3x the speed, because the narrator was a little slow for my liking. Ultimately a great read. Thanks!
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- Victoria Cuneo
- 2018/10/11
Intense and detailed
I am an avid reader and am American History teacher (Eighth grade). I confess this book took me four months to finish because the author's voice was so slow and deliberate that it drove me up the wall. Each word was carefully considered before it was uttered. I went weeks avoiding my Audible app because I just wanted to be done already. I did not need details on EACH and EVERY individual document in the Federalist Papers. Eegads. Finishing this book became my personal endurance test, and it pains me to say it. I wanted more information about his relationship with Dolley; I did appreciate the details on his step-son's travails. I feel giddy, now that I've finished it.
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- Peggy
- 2019/02/01
Hard to follow
I found this to be a bit hard to follow with the way the author broke up Madison's life and I did not really get a good grasp on Madison as an individual person.
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- Anuwit
- 2018/05/28
Not a straight biography
This is a beautifully crafted analysis of Madison’s life by a gifted legal scholar. It is informative, perceptive, and provocative. It is NOT a straight biography. Several important events are omitted or skipped over too quickly, a premier example being (Federalist) President John Adams calling George Washington to lead a national army to confront (Republican-supported) France.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/09/07
Incredible story of the father of the Constitution
Every wood is worth hearing in this time when American is dominated by hateful rhetoric.
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- Roberta Casper Watson
- 2018/11/11
An Important Founding Father
This book explains how critical James Madison was to the evolution of our independent country and our Constitutional thought. At every stage of the country's development, Madison's presence made a difference. The book is very informative, but not quite as compelling as I had hoped (hence only 4 stars instead of 5). #Leadership #Informative #AmericanHistory #Tagsgiving #Sweepstakes