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
The Republican Noise Machine - Abridged
By: David Brock
Narrated by: David Brock
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States.
Brock, a former right-wing insider and the author of the New York Times bestseller... 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
Reason
By: Robert B. Reich
Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Reason is a passionate and urgent statement about liberalism: what it is, the measure of its importance for America, and how it can return to the forefront of American politics. Read more
View audiobookEdwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this 2004 interview, Edwidge Danticat talks about her new novel The Dew Breaker, the story of Haitian-Americans who bear emotional and physical scars from Haitis violent past under the Duvalier dictatorship of the 1960s and 70s. Read more
View audiobookGrace 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
View audiobookDeliver Us From Evil - Abridged
By: Sean Hannity
Narrated by: Sean Hannity
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As Americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, Sean Hannity reminds us we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. With his trademark blend of passion and hard-hitting commentary, he urges Americans to recognize the dangers of putting our faith in... Read more
View audiobookLet Freedom Ring - Abridged
By: Sean Hannity
Narrated by: Sean Hannity
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The hard-hitting and provocative first book from the fastest-rising conservative voice in the countrySean Hannity is the hottest phenomenon in TV and talk radio today. His gutsy, take-no-prisoners interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes has made him one of the network’s most popular personalities. And his... Read more
View audiobookFanatics and Fools
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Arianna Huffington
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Arianna Huffington takes another sweeping look at how right wing zealots have taken charge of the Republican Party and the governmentand the American leadership who let it happen. Read more
View audiobookAlexander the Great's Art of Strategy - Abridged
By: Partha Bose
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history. In our time, his example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner (who keeps a bronze bust of Alexander in his office) to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf... Read more
View audiobookPlan of Attack - Abridged
By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the... Read more
View audiobookWhy Courage Matters - Abridged
By: John McCain & Mark Salter
Narrated by: John McCain
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.
“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more
The Bushes - Abridged
By: Peter Schweizer & Rochelle Schweizer
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace... Read more
George Herbert Walker Bush
By: Tom Wicker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker... Read more
View audiobookA Man of Faith
By: David Aikman
Narrated by: David Aikman
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In time for election fever is this favorable look at how George W. Bush's faith has influenced his life and politics. Aikman, a former senior correspondent for Time magazine and the author of several books, including Great Souls, opens with Bush's startling 1999 declaration that the philosopher he most identified with was "Christ-because he... Read more
View audiobookLosing Bin Laden
By: Richard Miniter
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened."
Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton's presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the... Read more
Puppetmaster
By: Richard Hack
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
For over fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was the most powerful lawman in America. He was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover... Read more
View audiobookMekong First Light - Abridged
By: Joseph W. Callaway, Jr.
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.”
—Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell
December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three when he arrived in Vietnam to lead forty-two untested men into... Read more
All the Way to Berlin - Abridged
By: James Megellas
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.
In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army... Read more
Terrible Terry Allen - Abridged
By: Gerald Astor
Narrated by: Reathel Bean
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point—twice—ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University’s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I,... Read more
View audiobookHouse of Bush, House of Saud - Abridged
By: Craig Unger
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
How did the Bushes, America's most powerful political family, become gradually seduced by and entangled with their Saudi counterparts?
Why did the Bush administration approve the secret airlift of 140 Saudis, including two dozen relatives of Osama bin Laden, just after September 11? Did one of the Saudi royals on the planes have any advance... Read more
Against All Enemies - Abridged
By: Richard A. Clarke
Narrated by: Richard A. Clarke
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The real war on terror has happened largely behind closed doors, run by the White House, drawing on secret intelligence and operations around the world. There is no man who knows more about it than Richard Clarke, the former Counterterrorism Czar for both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the man who has led our efforts against al Qaeda and all... Read more
View audiobookSons of Camelot - Abridged
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Laurence Leamer
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes THE SONS OF CAMELOT, the second volume in a multi-generational history bound to be considered an American epic.Almost a year before publication, THE SONS OF CAMELOT: The Fate of an American Dynasty was already being widely discussed and... Read more
View audiobookRed, White & Liberal - Abridged
By: Alan Colmes
Narrated by: Alan Colmes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In Red, White & Liberal, Alan Colmes addresses a fundamental question: In this time of uncertainty, how can we protect our freedom without diminishing our liberties, while burnishing our rightful place as the world's beacon of democracy? Colmes urges Americans to see past the tactics of the vocal right and to combat the problems that... Read more
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