Biography & Memoir audiobooks

LeMay

By: Barrett Tillman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Packed with breathtaking air battles and ground tactics, this new addition to the Great Generals Series features the controversial command and strategies of the former Air Force Chief of Staff.Curtis LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when atomic bombs... Read more

What a Party!

By: Terry McAuliffe

Narrated by: Terry McAuliffe

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For a generation of Democrats, Terry McAuliffe has been the ultimate political insider: strategist and spokesperson for the party, confidant for the candidates, mediator among party leaders, and without question the most successful fundraiser in political history. Now, McAuliffe’s energetic memoir provides readers with a fly-on-the-wall view,... Read more

Eisenhower

By: John Wukovits

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This new addition to Wesley Clark’s Great Generals Series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and his relevance today.World War II expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower’s contributions to American warfare. American general and thirty-fourth president of the United States, Eisenhower... Read more

The Life of Thomas More

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This book, as much a work of history as a biography, is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history.Thomas More (1478–1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political treatise, Utopia, that gave a political worldview; and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint. Born into... Read more

Grant

By: John Mosier

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this addition to the Palgrave Great Generals Series, John Mosier brings to life the brilliant military strategist Ulysses S. Grant. A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming president of the re-united states. Grant revolutionized military... Read more

Patton

By: Alan Axelrod

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the... Read more

Crazy For Me

By: Wambui Bahati

Narrated by: Wambui Bahati

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"It wasn't until I left the mental health system that I really got crazy. Crazy for Me!"This spirited survivor rose to new heights when everyone around her felt her life as a productive citizen was over. Her doctors told her she would spend the rest of her life in and out of mental institutions.When it seemed that her life couldn't worsen, she... Read more

Pitching in a Pinch

By: Christy Mathewson

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Christy "Matty" Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the "Five Immortals," he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World... Read more

String of Pearls

By: Priscilla Buckley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Priscilla Buckley is probably best known as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded by her brother, William F. Buckley Jr. But in String of Pearls, we meet young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, the United Press Radio News Department’s fresh and eager fledgling employee. The atmosphere in UP’s New York... Read more

All in the Family, Doctor Included

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more

Michael and Natasha

By: Rosemary Crawford & Donald Crawford

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Everything was wrong…yet for Michael, it was love at first sight—an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by... Read more

Song of Survival

By: Helen Colijn

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Colijn’s account of her wartime experiences is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War II: the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese and how these prisoners of war responded to their dire circumstances. The conditions were harsh, terrible. Food was scarce, medicine unavailable. Held in... Read more

Mussolini

By: Jasper Ridley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascism: Benito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writers—and their wives. From his early years, raised in the traditions of... Read more

P. G. Wodehouse

By: Frances Donaldson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has come to love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie. But what of their creator, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, whose ninety-three years produced a volume of work “unsurpassed in the history of literature”? Was he really a traitor to his country who broadcast dangerous propaganda from Germany during the war? And how can this be... Read more

Baseball in ’41

By: Robert W. Creamer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World series—and that the United States went to war.In this look at what he calls "the best baseball season ever," Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all these epochal baseball... Read more

The Lees of Virginia

By: Paul C. Nagel

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The descendants of Richard and Anne Lee, among the first families of Virginia, have occupied a preeminent place in American history. Two were signers of the Declaration of Independence, several others distinguished themselves during the Revolutionary War, and one, Robert E. Lee, remains the most widely known as a Civil War legend.In The Lees of... Read more

Victory

By: Peter Schweizer

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This explosive book chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union. Based on exclusive interviews with key participants including Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and William Clark, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details of how the Reagan inner circle undermined the Soviet... Read more

Lucille

By: Kathleen Brady

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In twenty years of show business, Lucille Ball had only modest and sporadic success. Her television program, I Love Lucy, was her last chance to fulfill the ambition that had sustained her through the frustrations of her professional life and the anguish of a failing marriage. The role of Lucy Ricardo revealed her true gifts, but it changed her... Read more

Shark

By: Lauren St. John

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Norman is golf's most complex and controversial celebrity and perhaps its most gifted and charismatic player. He reigned as the world's number-one-ranked golfer for most of a decade and began 1998 as the PGA Tour's career-earnings leader with almost $12 million. As ruthless in the boardroom as he is on the golf course, the Shark turned a $2... Read more

Babe

By: Robert W. Creamer

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life.In this extraordinary biography, Robert W. Creamer uncovers the complex and captivating man behind the legend. He presents... Read more

Portrait of an Artist

By: Laurie Lisle

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most original painters America has ever produced. Her vivid visual vocabulary—sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth—has had a profound and lasting influence on American art in this century.Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, O'Keeffe had a... Read more

iWoz

By: Gina Smith & Steve Wozniak

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.



Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a... Read more

Edmund Burke

By: Russell Kirk

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined the public and the private man into a living whole. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy and offers a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time.Kirk defines four great... Read more

Autobiographical Reflections

By: Eric Voegelin

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of Eric Voegelin, a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness; his key intellectual breakthroughs; his theory of history; and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age.The book also... Read more