23 best-selling audiobook books like American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis

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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.23

Format: 9 pages, Audio CD

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful exam…

"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

If you liked the audiobook plot in American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Mornings on Horseback

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live."

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

"A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal."

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

"To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, …"

-David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

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2. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

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3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

By: Henry Hazlitt

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. How the States Got Their Shapes

By: Mark Stein

3.86

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map … read more

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6. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By: Gordon S. Wood

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitze… read more

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7. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winnin… read more

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8. Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World

By: Thomas F. Madden

4.28

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of ci… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • biography
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  • audiobook
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11. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

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  • american
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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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12. The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

By: Paul Bloom

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

13. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine K. Albright

4.25

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."

-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

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15. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • history
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Cover of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

16. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
Cover of One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain

17. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

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  • american
  • history
  • historical
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta

18. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

By: Tim Alberta

4.17

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the makin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht

19. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

By: Matt Kracht

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H.W. Brands

20. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: H.W. Brands

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more

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  • history
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  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple

21. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

America's first presidential impeachment: A prize-winning author tells the story of the efforts by … read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy by Philip Freeman

22. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy

By: Philip Freeman

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

23. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

By: Katharine Hayhoe

4.31

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt

24. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America by Winston Groom

25. The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America

By: Winston Groom

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this masterful narrative, Winston Groom brings his signature storytelling panache to the intrica… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis

26. American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.23

Format: 9 pages, Audio CD

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful exam… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"In fact, the past is not history, but a much vaster region of the dead, gone, unknowable, or forgotten. History is what we choose to remember, and we have no alternative but to do our choosing now."

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"Moreover, the very belief that Americans had somehow discovered the ultimate answer to mankind's eternal quandaries and were now poised to establish heaven on earth was a delusion that deserved to be…"

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • history
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

28. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past by Steve Benen

29. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

By: Steve Benen

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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Cover of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple

30. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

4.40

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more

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  • biography
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  • audiobook
Cover of Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier by Robert G. Parkinson

31. Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

By: Robert G. Parkinson

3.73

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pion… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history

25 Top history books like American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis

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3.69

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Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency

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Bill O'Reilly

4.13

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