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A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 34 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid bookāa book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" āHoward FastHistorian Howard ZinnāsĀ A Peopleās History of the United StatesĀ chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more
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The Worst Hard Time
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Jacob York
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Eganās National Book Awardāwinning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more
American Nations
By: Colin Woodard
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or... Read more
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American Prometheus
By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 26 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeberās āfresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timelyā (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more
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Fight Like Hell
By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory and inclusive book āunearths the stories of the peopleāfarm laborers, domestic workers, factory employeesābehind some of the labor movementās biggest successesā (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more
Gay Bar
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out whatās being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of history.Ā In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay... Read more
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Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an Ā āilluminatingā (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
Justice for Some
By: Noura Erakat
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in... Read more
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Team of Rivals
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 41 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwinās modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes.
Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize and the... Read more
Pandora's Jar
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
āFunny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!āāMargaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classicalĀ stories Greek... Read more
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World on the Brink
By: Dmitri Alperovitch & Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it tookĀ place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred.
InĀ World on the... Read more
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more
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A Body Made of Glass
By: Caroline Crampton
Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Part cultural history, partĀ literary criticism, and part memoir,Ā A Body Made of GlassĀ is aĀ definitive biographyĀ of hypochondria.Caroline Cramptonās life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkinās lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But... Read more
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This Time Together
By: Carol Burnett
Narrated by: Carol Burnett
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This touching and hilarious memoirĀ is 100 percent Carol Burnettāfunny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time... Read more
The Bounty
By: Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.
More than two centuries after Masterās Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed... Read more
The Six
By: Loren Grush
Narrated by: InƩs del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
āVivid.ā āThe Guardian * āEngrossing.ā āBooklist * āSuspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.ā āMargot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures
In this account of Americaās first women astronauts āGrush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nationās desire to conquer space, but... Read more
Four Hundred Souls
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A chorus of extraordinary voices comesĀ together to tell one of historyās great epics:Ā theĀ four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentāedited by Ibram X. Kendi, author ofĀ How to Be an Antiracist,Ā and Keisha N. Blain, author ofĀ Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619āa year before the Mayflowerāwhen the White Lion... Read more
I Never Thought of It That Way
By: MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n
Narrated by: MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.
Journalist MĆ³nica GuzmĆ”n is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who votedātwiceāfor Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, MĆ³nica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool... Read more
The Witches Are Coming
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more
Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 35 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Ā
In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is āa robust... Read more
Sea People
By: Christina Thompson
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A blend of Jared Diamondās Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchesterās Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest... Read more
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Four Lost Cities
By: Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site... Read more
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Rebellion
By: Robert Kagan
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual
The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of... Read more