History audiobooks

Treason

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”

In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more

My Life (Part B)

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 25 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

My Life (Part A)

By: Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 24 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the... Read more

We The People: Jefferson Lives

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Thom Hartmann bought an old farmhouse in Vermont, he found a complete twenty-volume set of the complete writings of Thomas Jefferson, published in 1904, hidden away in the attic. The discovery led Hartmann to explore our founding fathers' true vision for America, and how that vision is and is not reflected in the government and society we... Read more

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour

By: Joseph E. Persico

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand... Read more

Founding Fathers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez speaks with three historians--Richard Brookhiser, Ron Chernow and Jan Lewis--about what the Founding Fathers might have thought of America today. Read more

Rumsfeld's War

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The man in the cockpit fighting the war on terror.

When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is... Read more

Public Enemies - Abridged

By: Bryan Burrough

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The astonishing true story of America's first and greatest "War on Crime."
In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and an assortment of criminals who became... Read more

The Great Bridge - Abridged

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.

This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our... Read more

An American Life - Abridged

By: Ronald Reagan

Narrated by: Ronald Reagan

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t miss one of our greatest presidents’ bestselling autobiographies in his own words. Ronald Reagan’s story is a work of major historical importance, a narrative that The Washington Times calls “one of our classic American success stories.”

Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in... Read more

Shadow Divers - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times Bestseller 

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than... Read more

Queen of Scots - Abridged

By: John Guy

Narrated by: John Guy

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources.Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of history’s greatest women.John Guy draws on sources -- many... Read more

Namath: A Biography

By: Mark Kriegel

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the  few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his... Read more

A Pretext for War - Abridged

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people.

In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the... Read more

Gasping for Airtime - Abridged

By: Jay Mohr

Narrated by: Jay Mohr

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hilarious look at what life was really like inside Saturday Night Live

When 21-year old Jay Mohr moved from New Jersey to New York City to pursue his dream of stand-up stardom, he never thought the first real job he'd land would be on Saturday Night Live. But, surprisingly, that's just what he did. What followed were two unbelievable, grueling,... Read more

The Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged

By: James Surowiecki

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken
 
H. L. Mencken was wrong.

In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained... Read more

Scribbling the Cat

By: Alexandra Fuller

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship... Read more

Blood Done Sign My Name - Abridged

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
 
*Chicago Tribune

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more

Washington's Crossing

By: David Hackett Fischer

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let... Read more

Absolutely American - Abridged

By: David Lipsky

Narrated by: David Lipsky

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review

As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more

Founding Mothers

By: Cokie Roberts

Narrated by: Cokie Roberts

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now... Read more

Grace and Power - Abridged

By: Sally Bedell Smith

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more

Beyond Belief - Abridged

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas

Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first... Read more