Audiobooks Like Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

10 audiobooks for fans of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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   Grant

   by Ron Chernow

   Narrated by Mark Bramhall

   ★ 4.74 ABR Score (58.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (44.7K) ★ 4.87 Audible (13.8K)

   48h 2m listening time • Released 2017

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   The Path to Power

   The Years of Lyndon Johnson • Book 1

   by Robert A. Caro

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (30.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.43 Goodreads (26.9K) ★ 4.82 Audible (3.8K)

   40h 29m listening time • Released 2013

   Grover Gardner's measured, commanding voice transforms Caro's masterwork into an irresistible deep dive into how raw ambition and political genius actually get built. Forty hours well spent.

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   Alexander Hamilton

   by Ron Chernow

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.61 ABR Score (226.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (201.6K) ★ 4.79 Audible (25.0K)

   35h 58m listening time • Released 2004

   Scott Brick's narration turns this sprawling biography into an addictive listen—his voice captures Hamilton's relentless ambition and the revolutionary chaos surrounding him with equal intensity.

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   Washington: A Life

   by Ron Chernow

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.51 ABR Score (97.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 4.76 Audible (13.9K)

   41h 54m listening time • Released 2010

   Scott Brick's measured, commanding delivery transforms Chernow's sprawling biography into something magnetic—he captures Washington as a conflicted, ambitious man, not a marble statue, making 42 hours vanish.

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   Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

   by Ron Chernow

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.40 ABR Score (47.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (38.2K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.3K)

   35h 3m listening time • Released 2012

   Grover Gardner's measured, almost judicial delivery transforms Chernow's massive biography into a hypnotic deep-dive into American capitalism's founding villain, making 35 hours vanish entirely.

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   The Age of Voltaire

   The Story of Civilization • Book 9

   by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (994) ★ 4.74 Audible (415)

   42h 55m listening time • Released 2015

   Grover Gardner's measured, conversational delivery makes this sprawling intellectual history feel like a brilliant friend walking you through Enlightenment Europe—43 hours that vanish because you're too captivated by Voltaire's world to stop.

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   Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein

   by Brian Greene

   Narrated by Brian Greene, Paul Rudd, Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, Julian Elfer, Kevin Pariseau, Jonathan Davis

   ★ 4.12 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.9K)

   2h 24m listening time • Released 2016

   Brian Greene and Paul Rudd elevate this theatrical reimagining of Einstein's breakthrough into something genuinely cinematic—a rare science audiobook that feels like a play, not a lecture.

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   Becoming

   by Michelle Obama

   Narrated by Michelle Obama

   ★ 4.93 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.89 Audible (183.2K)

   19h 3m listening time • Released 2018

   Michelle Obama reading her own story is the rare case where the narrator's voice becomes inseparable from the intimacy of the memoir—you're getting her reflections in her own cadence, which hits different over 19 hours.

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   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   Narrated by Viola Davis

   ★ 4.91 ABR Score (228.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (43.9K)

   9h 15m listening time • Released 2022

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    Educated

    by Tara Westover

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    ★ 4.84 ABR Score (2.0M ratings)

    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.78 Audible (128.2K)

    12h 10m listening time • Released 2018

    Julia Whelan's narration transforms this memoir into something almost unbearable to pause—her voice carries you through Westover's harrowing escape with such intimacy that you feel the weight of every decision she made to survive and think for herself.

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