Genius Biographies

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    • Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
    • By: Craig Wright
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Examining the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale University's popular "Genius Course", explores what we can learn from brilliant minds that have changed the world....

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    • The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 41 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

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    • By: Ian Herbert
    • Narrated by: Dean Williamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The full story of the man who brought unprecedented - and since unmatched - success to Liverpool FC....

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    • The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
    • By: Donald Spoto
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 23 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 22-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock....

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    • The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
    • By: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity....

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • At the age of 22, David Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • By: Michael Lombardi, Bill Belichick - foreword
    • Narrated by: Michael Lombardi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl-winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship level. Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick....

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    • His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
    • By: A. N. Wilson
    • Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era.

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    • Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb
    • By: James Kunetka
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever....

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    • By: Adam Fisher
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....

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    • How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....

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    • Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
    • By: Ronald K. Fierstein
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....

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    • The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe....

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    • How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
    • By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, petrolheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers and bitter rivalries....

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