History audiobooks

The Myth of the Rational Market

By: Justin Fox

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review “Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former... Read more

When Everything Changed

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

An enthralling blend of oral history and Gail Collins' keen research, this definitive look at 50 years of feminist progress shimmers with the amusing, down-to-earth liberal tone that is this New York Times columnist's trademark. "An engrossing account . deadly serious and great fun to read at the same time . sure to become required... Read more

Manufacturing Depression

By: Gary Greenberg

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Am I happy enough?" This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured—not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at... Read more

It's Only a Movie

By: Mark Kermode

Narrated by: Mark Kermode

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

To avoid fainting, keep repeating

It's only a move
..only a movie
..only a movie
..only a movie

If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage exposé of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your... Read more

The Quants

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel... Read more

The Quants - Abridged

By: Scott Patterson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel... Read more

A Shot in the Arm for Social Activism

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Activist and author Paul Loeb has been at the hub of social change for more than three decades. He has a rare understanding not only of the issues we face today, but also of how change happens. Most importantly, he understands that each of us can be instigators of change no matter what our background is, or what our level of involvement has been. Read more

The Outline of History

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 44 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind... Read more

The Roosevelts

By: Peter Collier

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents—Theodore and Franklin—separated by time and politics, and of two families—the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches—that had little to do with each other. Collier and Horowitz paint an explosive new portrait which offers a completely unique view of America's longest lasting and... Read more

The Spy Wore Red

By: Aline

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model would be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society to... Read more

Tea with Hezbollah

By: Ted Dekker & Carl Medearis

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it really possible to love one's enemies?



That's the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel-and-glass high-rises of Saudi Arabia, then wound through the bullet-pocked alleyways of Beirut and... Read more

Daring Young Men

By: Richard Reeves

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Second World War had been over for three years when pilots, navigators, and air traffic controllers all over America were recalled to active duty to rescue Berlin. They were there within days and weeks, flying tired planes filled with food, coal, medicine, and mail. Many had bombed the place to rubble in 1944 and 1945. Now they and the... Read more

Bomb Power

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots—by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state—in ways still felt today. A masterful reckoning from one of America's preeminent historians, Bomb Power... Read more

The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 21 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of... Read more

Unlikely Allies

By: Joel Richard Paul

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamboyant and... Read more

Hero of the Pacific

By: James Brady

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a single night define a man's life?  From the summer of 1943 to early 1945, John Basilone was one of the most famous and admired people in America. As the first enlisted man to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, for extraordinary bravery under fire at Guadalcanal, he toured the nation with movie stars, shared podiums with mayors... Read more

Nothing to Envy

By: Barbara Demick

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings... Read more

Homeland

By: George Obama

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkable memoir, President Obama’s Kenyan half-brother, twenty-seven-year-old George Obama, describes his unique struggles with family, tribe, inheritance, and redemption and the seminal influence his brother had on his own future.The elusive father that both brothers shared died when George was only six months old. George was raised... Read more

Intellectuals and Society

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about—but not for—intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large.The thesis ofIntellectuals and Societystates that the influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by... Read more

Hayek

By: Eamonn Butler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel prize winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler’s clear, systematic, perceptive study fills this gap. Starting with a short survey of Hayek’s life, Dr. Butler goes on to analyze... Read more

Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus

By: Ann Spangler & Lois Tverberg

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What would it be like to journey back to the first century and sit at the feet of Rabbi Jesus as one of his Jewish disciples?Join award-winning author Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg as they reveal the Jewish Jesus that his first disciples knew.Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus takes you on an in-depth tour of the Jewish world of Jesus, offering... Read more

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II.  Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war’s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue,... Read more

Our Times

By: A. N. Wilson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, few could have any inkling of the stupendous changes that were going to take place in Britain and around the world. In this third book of his acclaimed histories, A. N. Wilson paints a panoramic portrait of the development of modern Britain. He begins in the 1950s with the Suez crisis, immigration,... Read more

Worse Than War

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 26 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon of genocide, which has caused... Read more