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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