Building America

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    • The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
    • By: Jean H. Baker
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-2020
    • Language: English
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    • An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard....

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    • The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
    • By: Todd James Pierce
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park: fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Here is the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth"....

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    • The Life and Buildings of America's Most Famous Architect
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Ray
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Perhaps America's most innovative and prolific architect, the works of Frank Lloyd Wright are almost too vast and diverse to list....

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    • A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
    • By: Neal Bascomb
    • Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2005
    • Language: English
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    • This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 27 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2012
    • Language: English
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    • This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world.....

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    • The Mythology of Wealth in America
    • By: Nelson Aldrich
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-2013
    • Language: English
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    • This insider's look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American society....

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    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-2004
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge....

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    • The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry
    • Narrated by: Pippa Vos
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives....

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    • The Building of America, 1735-1817
    • By: Myron Magnet
    • Narrated by: Myron Magnet
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2014
    • Language: English
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    • Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success....

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    • Thrilling Descriptions of Buffalo Hunting, Indian Fighting and Massacres, Cowboy Life and Home Building
    • By: Charles Goodnight
    • Narrated by: Tim Brown
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 19-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Pioneer Days in the Southwest from 1850 to 1879 is an anthology of memoirs by pioneers of the region. The book contains accounts by Emanuel Dubbs, John A. Hart and Charles Goodnight, the famous cattle rancher who was also known as the "father of the Texas Panhandle”....

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    • By: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Character Building (1902) is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute, of which he was leader. The author stresses the importance of developing oneself for life-long success....

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    • The Developing Story of Miami
    • By: Patrick Alexander
    • Narrated by: Patrick Alexander
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Miami was never a town, not even a village; it sprang to life out of the tropical wilderness, as a fully formed magical city. London, Paris, and Rome are just three of the world’s cities that are crammed full of history; events, personalities, stories that never fail to fascinate and entertain....

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    • Getting the Most Out of America's Classrooms
    • By: Gary Gordon, Steve Crabtree
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Can America's public schools, long resistant to change, meet the challenges of globalization and new educational alternatives? Not by doing what they're doing today....

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    • Political Economy in the Early Republic
    • By: Brian Phillips Murphy
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Brian Phillips Murphy follows the collaborations between political leaders and a group of unelected political entrepreneurs, including Robert R. Livingston....

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    • Building the Republic
    • By: David Barton, Tim Barton
    • Narrated by: David Fluitt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • America's Constitutional Republic is like no other. Most Americans recognize the names George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, but few can tell you their stories—much less that of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, or Andrew Jackson.

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