History audiobooks
Our Sacred Honor - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: Philip Bosco, William J. Bennett & Barry Bostwick
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort.
In Our Sacred Honor, Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and... Read more
Taking Charge - Abridged
By: Michael R. Beschloss
Narrated by: Michael R. Beschloss
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Taking Charge brings you into the room with an American political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and punishes, and reveals a bedrock core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversations from his first day in... Read more
Wait Till Next Year - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were... Read more
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
By: Jean Fritz
Narrated by: Jean Fritz
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone knows about Paul Revere's midnight ride. But not everyone knows the harrowing details and narrow escapes that occurred along the way.Paul Revere comes to life in this meticulously detailed story of what he did before, between, and after his patriotic adventures. This timeless and witty work highlights little-known facts about patriot... Read more
View audiobookAll but My Life - Abridged
By: Gerda Weissman Klein
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
All but My Life tells the haunting story of Gerda Weissman Klein’s experience under the Nazi regime. Taken from her home in Bielitz, Poland, and sent to German labor camps, Gerda survived and was liberated by American troops. In her memoir, Klein takes audiences on an alarming journey from the comforts of life in Poland to the horrifying... Read more
View audiobookThe Big Show - Abridged
By: Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick
Narrated by: Keith Olbermann & Dan Patrick
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the audiobook that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair. For the first time, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the tag-team partners of ESPN's award winning Sportscenter, bring what People magazine calls their "Letterman-like loopiness and Koppel-esque smarts" to... Read more
View audiobookA Picture Book of Rosa Parks
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Charles Turner
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"Teachers will welcome [this treatment of]...a simple, clear biography of Rosa Parks...The male narrator reads clearly and unemotionally, presenting the facts as Adler reports them...A good addition to collections." - School Library Journal Read more
View audiobookLost Christianity - Abridged
By: Jacob Needleman
Narrated by: Jacob Needleman
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Embark on a worldwide journey with renowned scholar of comparative religion, Jacob Needleman, as he gathers together ancient texts and writings of the modern practitioners of essential Christianity. Needleman demonstrates that a more effective, contemplative tradition existed in the early church and continues today in the lives of extraordinary... Read more
View audiobookFalse Prophets - Abridged
By: Dale Jakes & Connie Jakes
Narrated by: Dale Jakes
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dale and Connie Jakes, working for the FBI, provide a firsthand account of life under the deepest cover inside the violent, armed strongholds of the Montana Freemen organization. In 1995, the Jakes lived in the Montana mountains, discovering a major center of American terrorism. They exposed vital information about how widespread,... Read more
View audiobookHazardous Duty - Abridged
By: Colonel David H. Hackworth
Narrated by: Colonel David H. Hackworth
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Colonel David H. Hackworth— one of America's most decorated soldiers— served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea,... Read more
View audiobookPsychic Warrior - Abridged
By: David Morehouse
Narrated by: David Morehouse
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For nearly two decades, the United States military intelligence community delved into the dark world of psychic espionage, recruiting a team of individuals who used their paranormal gifts to transcend time and space and uncover the highly guarded military secrets of other nations. After David Morehouse— a highly decorated Army... Read more
View audiobookUndaunted Courage
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 21 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more
Undaunted Courage - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more
The Physics of Star Trek
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the science behind one of television’s greatest series. Star Trek shaped and defined the science-fiction genre for generations of television viewers and writers, and now readers can learn more about the science presented on the show. What’s it like traveling at warp speed? What are the different types of dark matter and black holes?... Read more
View audiobookBlood Sport - Abridged
By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart takes readers behind the scenes in the Clinton White House as it reels in the wake of the Whitewater scandal, Vincent Foster’s suicide, and Paula Jones’ allegations of sexual misconduct.
In July 1993, White House official Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: “in Washington...ruining people is considered... Read more
Megatrends Asia - Abridged
By: John Naisbitt
Narrated by: John Nesbitt & Jesse Boggs
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's #1 trend forecaster reveals the global transformation that affects the future for us all!
The most momentous global development of the 1990s.
The #1 bestselling author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 now offers a glimpse of your future that begins on the other side of the globe -- where the once isolated nations of Asia are networking... Read more
Caesar's Women - Abridged
By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the blockbuster tradition of The First Man in Rome -- Colleen Mccullough's monumental Masters of Rome series continues.
The man behind the legend...the women behind the man.
Villain or hero? Debated for centuries, the volcanic soul of Julius Caesar comes dramatically to life in the new masterpiece of historical fiction from the #1 bestselling... Read more
The Oregon Trail - Abridged
By: Francis Parkman
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Francis Parkman's journal—written more than 150 years ago in 1846—provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age twenty-three, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as... Read more
View audiobookA Good Life - Abridged
By: Ben Bradlee
Narrated by: Ben Bradlee
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.
The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the... Read more
Dark Sun - Abridged
By: Richard Rhodes
Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet... Read more
No Ordinary Time - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.
With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more
Iron Rose - Abridged
By: Cindy Adams & Susan Crimp
Narrated by: Cindy Adams
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Iron Rose takes an intimate look at the incredible life of Rose Kennedy—head of the Kennedy dynasty and one of the 20th century's most influential women—and her nine famous children. A riveting account of the power behind America's political throne for several decades, Iron Rose reveals the secrets behind the triumphs and tragedies of the... Read more
View audiobookA Picture Book of Anne Frank
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrator, reading with clarity and precision, tells the well-known story of the Jewish girl and her family who hid during the Holocaust...[This] high-quality read-along...[is] excellent for school and public libraries." - Booklist Read more
View audiobookThe Influence of Seapower Upon History
By: Alfred T. Mahan
Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
Length: 20 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have "devoured" this book, and it was avidly read by presidents (including both Roosevelts), kings, prime ministers, admirals, and chancellors.
... Read more