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Books narrated by Peter Hoffer

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  • Uncivil Warriors

    The Lawyers' Civil War

    by Peter Hoffer ...
    In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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    Innovations Unplugged

    Surprising Inventions That Changed the Game

    by Kevin Hudson ...
    Narrated by Peter Hoffer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 36 min

    The Great Emu War, which unfolded in Australia in 1932, stands as one of the most peculiar conflicts in history, pitting humans against a flightless bird. Following World War I, many Australian veterans were given land to farm in Western Australia. However, their efforts were thwarted by an unexpected adversary: the emu population. These large, flightless birds descended upon the newly cultivated ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Innovations Unplugged:

    Surprising Inventions That Changed the Game

    by Kevin Hudson ...
    Narrated by Peter Hoffer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 36 min

    The Great Emu War, which unfolded in Australia in 1932, stands as one of the most peculiar conflicts in history, pitting humans against a flightless bird. Following World War I, many Australian veterans were given land to farm in Western Australia. However, their efforts were thwarted by an unexpected adversary: the emu population. These large, flightless birds descended upon the newly cultivated ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Biography

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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln

    The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865

    Series series The American Presidents
    America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil WarAbraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president—the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Plain, Honest Men

    The Making of the American Constitution

    In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Man Behind the Myths

    A biographical study of the 16th U.S. president, and an essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history.In this multifaceted portrait, Oates, "the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln" (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president—including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling ... Read more

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  • Slave Nation

    How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution

    A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future.In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Lincoln and the Abolitionists

    John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    "Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the worst periods in American history and its chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan returns with a controversial exploration of how Abraham ... Read more

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  • Ratification

    The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

    by Pauline Maier ...
    The defining book of the American Revolution era and a winner of the George Washington Book Award, Ratification chronicles the pivotal moments and key figures in transforming the US Constitution from an idea into a transformational document and the Constitutional Convention into a working government.When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Abraham Lincoln

    by David Colbert ...
    Series series 10 Days
    You're about to be an eyewitness to the ten crucial days in Abraham Lincoln's life, including:A tragic loss that sets a boy on a course for greatnessA career sacrificed to protest an unjust warA state resorting to treason to preserve slaveryA president who learns the most difficult decisions are made aloneAnd a promise made to every citizen that American's salves will be free.These days and five ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD