American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address
Written by Stephen Puleo
Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place.
American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality.
Stephen Puleo
Stephen Puleo is a historian, teacher, public speaker, and the author of several books, including Voyage of Mercy, Dark Tide, American Treasures, and The Caning. A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor to American History magazine, the Boston Globe, and other publications, he holds a master's degree in history and has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Suffolk University. He and his wife, Kate, reside in the Boston area.
Related to American Treasures
Related audiobooks
Washington: The Making of the American Capital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Jay: Founding Father Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paul Revere's Ride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Little Rock Nine 40th Anniversary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Michael Beschloss: Taking Charge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Constitution and the Union Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Patriots: Answering the Call to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5To Live on Lafayette Square: Society and Politics in the President's Neighborhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSherman: The Ruthless Victor Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Soul of Capitalism: A Path to a Moral Economy Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Leaves of Fate: Tobacco and its smoke has destroyed our Eden. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbsalom and Achitophel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Up From Slavery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wright Brothers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for American Treasures
7 ratings0 reviews