History audiobooks
Ulysses S. Grant - Abridged
By: Josiah Bunting, III
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well
As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms—the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the man who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But... Read more
Nothing Down for the 2000s - Abridged
By: Robert G. Allen
Narrated by: John Dossett
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the '90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his readers are now financially independent and many actual millionaires attribute their wealth to his techniques. Why has this blockbuster bestseller... Read more
View audiobookTreason
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
View audiobookAmerican Soldier - Abridged
By: Tommy R. Franks
Narrated by: Tommy R. Franks
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
To America, he was a hero.To his troops, he was a soldier.Now hear his story.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism.In this... Read more
View audiobookEleventh 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
View audiobookFounding 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
View audiobookPublic 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
View audiobookNamath: 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
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookScribbling 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
View audiobookBlood 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
View audiobookAbsolutely 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
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