History audiobooks

The Great Explorers

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 25 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The great voyages of discovery to the New World are here brought to life by one of the twentieth century's most eminent historians, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Samuel Morison. A master seaman himself, Morison personally retraced the voyages of the early explorers, charting his travels in maps and photographs and comparing these to the maps... Read more

The Predictioneer's Game

By: Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have... Read more

The Clinton Tapes - Abridged

By: Taylor Branch

Narrated by: Taylor Branch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.

This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an... Read more

The Murder of King Tut

By: James Patterson & Martin Dugard

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall.

But what if his fate was actually much more sinister?

Now, in THE MURDER OF TUT, James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their epic quest to find out what... Read more

Bobby and Jackie

By: C. David Heymann

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose biographies of Jackie, Robert, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Caroline together have sold millions of copies and have shed light on the private lives of the most prominent members of this iconic American family. Now he draws on... Read more

Bogart

By: Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is Humphrey Bogart: the pro’s pro on the set and the Hollywood renegade off it; the man’s man, the ladies’ man, the hard worker, and the man who liked to drink too much; the husband in three roller-coaster marriages and finally one perfect match; the proud father and absentee parent; the good friend and even better enemy.Writing with the... Read more

Nathan Bedford Forrest

By: Jack Hurst

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America’s most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.In this detailed and... Read more

Old Soldiers Never Die

By: Geoffrey Perret

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 29 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Always colorful, always controversial, Douglas MacArthur is one of the dominant characters in American military history. To his admirers, he was the greatest American soldier; to his critics, he was a five-star fake. With unprecedented access to official military records, reports, correspondence and diaries, Geoffrey Perret’s groundbreaking... Read more

Churchill and Secret Service

By: David Stafford

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war as well as of peace. Historian David Stafford makes the compelling case that one cannot understand Churchill's astounding success as a modern-day statesman without reference to his deep involvement in the world of espionage.With absorbing detail about... Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left and an editor of Ramparts, the magazine that set the intellectual and revolutionary tone for the movement. From his vantage point at the center of the action, he populates Radical Son with vivid portraits of people who made the radical decade, while unmaking America at the same time. We are... Read more

The Case for God

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities,... Read more

Arguing with Idiots

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Glenn Beck

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, provides the ultimate handbook for tackling and winning life’s most important arguments.

FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that gives you the right answers when idiots leave you speechless!

It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

By: Neil Sheehan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 19 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a... Read more

How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

By: Roger E. Olson

Narrated by: Jeremy Johnson

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Many people equate evangelical Christianity with conservatism in religion, politics, theology and social attitudes. Some are scandalized by any separation between them. As one evangelical pastor's wife declared to a church group "We are a conservative people!"In fact, however, evangelicals have not always been conservative; radical stances on... Read more

The Ground Truth

By: John Farmer

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer led the team charged with reconstructing the tragedies of 9/11 and assisted in writing The 9/11 Commission Report. But many of the relevant records remained classified when the report was written, and the "ground truth" of the day was further obscured by the fundamentally false version of... Read more

Too Big to Fail

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Ross Sorkin's websiteAndrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie RoseWatch a VideoAndrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South... Read more

The Dead Hand

By: David Hoffman

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll

The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.

The Cold War was an... Read more

The Dead Hand - Abridged

By: David Hoffman

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll

The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.

The Cold War was an... Read more

Sixty Feet, Six Inches - Abridged

By: Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson & Lonnie Wheeler

Narrated by: Mirron Willis & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in... Read more

The First Family

By: Mike Dash

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative... Read more

Liberty and its Price

By: Donald Sutherland

Narrated by: Donald Sutherland

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations. He examines how massive counterrevolutionary movements profoundly affected the course of the Revolution, leading to the failure... Read more

Plato and Aristotle

By: Aryeh Kosman

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an introduction to the philosophical thought of the two most important philosophical figures of ancient Greece. By working through parts of their central texts and thoughts, we will gain an understanding of Plato and Aristotle's relevance in the past and today as well. After each section of this guide, you will find some questions... Read more

Wars That Made the Western World: The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, and the Punic Wars

By: Timothy B. Shutt

Narrated by: Timothy B. Shutt

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This course addresses three wars fought in antiquity, each of which had-even two thousand years and more later-a decisive effect in shaping our communal sense of who we are, not only in Europe, but throughout the European cultural diaspora, in the Americas, in Oceania, and to some degree, at least, in Asia and Africa as well-wherever, in short,... Read more