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Simon Bolivar: The Liberator Who Walked Away After Freeing Six Nations
Jun 16, 202626 min
Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Bulletproof Legacy of the Man Who Defied the West and United the Arab World
Jun 16, 202622 min
Henry Kissinger: The Cold Calculus of Power That Made Him the Most Controversial Diplomat Alive
Jun 16, 202620 min
Frederick the Great: The Flute-Playing Prince Who Built Prussia Into a Military Superpower
Jun 16, 202622 min
Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian Who Fed the World and Then Failed America
Jun 16, 202620 min
Hirohito: The Myth of the Powerless Emperor Who Actually Shaped Japan's Fate
Jun 16, 202616 min
Otto von Bismarck: The Puppet Master Who United Germany Through Blood, Iron, and Brilliant Deception
Jun 16, 202622 min
Jose Marti: The Poet-Revolutionary Who Built a Nation With Words Before Dying in Battle
Jun 16, 202618 min
Anwar Sadat: The Peacemaker Whose Historic Deal With Israel Got Him Assassinated
Jun 16, 202621 min
Jimmy Carter: The One-Term President Whose Post-Presidential Life Became His Greatest Achievement
Jun 16, 202621 min
Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal's Secret Mastery of Media Strategy and Presidential Branding
Jun 16, 202620 min
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress Who Ruled an Empire From a Glass Cliff
Jun 16, 202621 min
Stonewall Jackson: The Bitter Insult That Named a Confederate Legend
Jun 16, 202622 min
William Tecumseh Sherman: The General Who Invented Modern Warfare and Was Called Mad for It
Jun 16, 202620 min
Robert E. Lee: The Marble Man and the Myth That Obscured a Complicated Traitor
Jun 16, 202619 min
Pancho Villa: From Mule Driver to Revolutionary General to Hollywood Movie Star
Jun 16, 202624 min
Robert Kennedy: From Ruthless Political Enforcer to Prophetic Voice for American Justice
Jun 16, 202620 min
Ayatollah Khomeini: How Cassette Tapes Smuggled a Revolution Into Iran
Jun 16, 202623 min
Grover Cleveland: The President Who Had Secret Cancer Surgery on a Yacht
Jun 16, 202622 min
James K. Polk: The One-Term President Who Conquered Half a Continent and Kept Every Promise
Jun 16, 202625 min
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: The Military Commander Who Created Modern Turkey From Ottoman Ruins
Jun 16, 202618 min
John Brown: The Abolitionist Whose Prophecy of Blood Came True at Harpers Ferry
Jun 16, 202621 min
Hubert Humphrey: The Happy Warrior Whose Presidential Ambition Cost Him Everything
Jun 16, 202619 min
Camillo Cavour: The Machiavellian Diplomat Who Manipulated Italy Into Existence
Jun 16, 202621 min
Ted Kennedy: How Scandal and Tragedy Forged the Most Powerful Senate Machine in American History
Jun 16, 202621 min
Steve Jobs: The Adopted College Dropout Who Hacked Reality and Rebuilt the World
Jun 16, 202622 min
Maximilian I: From European Royalty to Executed Emperor of Mexico's Chocolate Empire
Jun 16, 202618 min
Gerald Ford: The Accidental President Behind the Caricature History Got Wrong
Jun 16, 202620 min
George Patton: The Brilliant, Reckless General Who Was Only Built for War
Jun 16, 202621 min
Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Contested Legacy of America's First Black President
Jun 16, 202618 min
Emiliano Zapata: The Revolutionary Watermelon Farmer Who Fought for Land and Died for It
Jun 16, 202621 min
Sugar Ray Robinson: The Pound-for-Pound Greatest Fighter and the Premonition That Came True
Jun 15, 202622 min
Jane Fonda: The Actress the United States Senate Called a Traitor
Jun 15, 202619 min
Anne Frank: The Ambitious Young Author Behind the Secret Annex Diary
Jun 15, 202621 min
The Blind Champion Who Beat Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story of a Fighter Who Could Barely See
Jun 15, 202622 min
Patty Hearst: The Kidnapped Heiress Who Picked Up a Machine Gun and Defended Her Captors
Jun 15, 202621 min
John Wayne: The Draft-Dodging Actor Behind America's Most Patriotic Myth
Jun 15, 202626 min
Harvey Milk: The Radical Reinvention of a Camera Shop Owner Into America's First Openly Gay Elected Official
Jun 15, 202623 min
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Harvard Scholar Who Became a Communist and Died in Exile in Ghana
Jun 15, 202624 min
Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse Whose 2,130-Game Streak Hid a Body That Was Already Dying
Jun 15, 202621 min
Jim Thorpe: Trash Can Shoes, Stolen Gold Medals, and the Greatest Athlete America Ever Produced
Jun 15, 202624 min
Bill Russell: The Eleven-Time Champion Who Demanded an Empty Arena Because Boston Hated Him
Jun 15, 202624 min
Wilt Chamberlain: The Goliath Paradox of the Greatest Individual Athlete Who Could Never Win Enough
Jun 15, 202621 min
James Stewart: The Combat Pilot Who Came Home and Broke Hollywood's Nicest-Guy Mold
Jun 15, 202618 min
Joe DiMaggio: The Yankee Clipper and the Impossible Price of Perfection
Jun 15, 202619 min
Malala Yousafzai: Beyond the Bullet and the Nobel Prize — The Full Story of a Global Icon
Jun 15, 202620 min
Marlon Brando: The Actor Who Revolutionized Performance and Spent His Life Hating It
Jun 15, 202623 min
Martin Scorsese: From Seminary Student to Cinema's Greatest Living Director
Jun 15, 202622 min
Martina Navratilova: The Defector Who Defied Every Limit Tennis, Gender, and Politics Could Impose
Jun 15, 202619 min
Nadia Comaneci: The Perfect Ten, the Dictator's Pawn, and the Midnight Escape to Freedom
Jun 15, 202623 min