History audiobooks
My Father, My President
By: Doro Bush Koch
Narrated by: Doro Bush Koch
Length: 25 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Revised and updated with six new chapters and many new photographs following his death at age 94, this is the definitive account of George H.W. Bush's life and career written by his only daughter with his full cooperation.
Much happened to George H.W. Bush and the country since the initial publication of My Father, My President: His nemesis,... Read more
Amsterdam
By: Russell Shorto
Narrated by: Russell Shorto
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for... Read more
If Kennedy Lived
By: Jeff Greenfield
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the country’s most brilliant political commentators, the bestselling author of Then Everything Changed, an extraordinary, thought-provoking look at Kennedy’s presidency—after November 22, 1963.
November 22, 1963: JFK does not die. What would happen to his life, his presidency, his country, his world?
In Then Everything Changed, Jeff... Read more
History Decoded
By: Keith Ferrell & Brad Meltzer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer’s hit show on the HISTORY network, History Decoded explores fascinating, unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman ‘Spear of Destiny'? What’s the government hiding in Area 51? Where did the Confederacy’s $19 million in gold and silver go at the end of the Civil War?... Read more
View audiobookDays of Fire
By: Peter Baker
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 29 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.
Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon... Read more
The Tuscarora War
By: David La Vere
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than five hundred Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. During the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and... Read more
View audiobookMoment of Battle
By: James Lacey & Williamson Murray
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization. In gripping narrative accounts they bring these conflicts and eras to vivid life, detailing the cultural imperatives that led inexorably to the... Read more
View audiobookThe Anunnaki of Nibiru
By: Gerald Clark
Narrated by: Gerald Clark
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Zeus and his son Apollo are reigning in the New World Order! How are Obama and the Pope involved? This book will shake the foundations of your belief system. The NWO is tearing down sovereign nations and establishing a universal governing council right before our very eyes. Will the Enkiites thwart Enlil’s NWO? Former Canadian Defense... Read more
View audiobookWriting on the Wall
By: Tom Standage
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon.
From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used to exchange news across the Empire to the advent of hand-printed... Read more
The Men Who United the States
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman,... Read more
View audiobookOur Oriental Heritage
By: Will Durant
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 50 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture,... Read more
View audiobookThe Rise Abraham Cahan
By: Seth Lipsky
Narrated by: Wes Talbot
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, the iconic Yiddish-language newspaper of the laboring masses that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers, helped redefine journalism during its golden age, and transformed American culture.
Abraham Cahan took the helm of a failing Yiddish... Read more
JFK, Conservative
By: Ira Stoll
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws. His champions insist he would have done great liberal things had he not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.But what if we have completely misunderstood him? What if we judge him by the lengthy record... Read more
View audiobookThe Everything Store
By: Brad Stone
Narrated by: Pete Larkin
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless... Read more
The Family
By: David Laskin
Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family
With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth century through the story of one family, three continents, two world wars, and the... Read more
Taking the Stand
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Ella Dershowitz & Alan Dershowitz
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in.
“Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and... Read more
Old Man River
By: Paul Schneider
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance,... Read more
View audiobookDavid Jason: My Life
By: David Jason
Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
David Jason: My Life, now available as an unabridged audiobook.
National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year 2013.
Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing. Giving up on an unloved career as an electrician, he... Read more
Humanity Moving From Adolescence To Maturity
By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Judith takes us on a historical journey and moves us into the present era. She has hope for the future and points out that there is an under-reported grassroots movement taking place today, but warns, “We need to be careful not to judge it as a system that doesn’t work just because it’s young… we have to move through the chaos and find a new... Read more
View audiobookWho Discovered America?
By: Gavin Menzies & Ian Hudson
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into... Read more
View audiobookThe Interloper
By: Peter Savodnik
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself; the twenty-four-year-old Oswald's hazy background and motivations—and his subsequent murder at the hands of Jack Ruby—make him an... Read more
View audiobookYoung Mr. Roosevelt
By: Stanley Weintraub
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Mr. October
By: Reggie Jackson & Kevin Baker
Narrated by: Reggie Jackson
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years—1977 and 1978—when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legend
In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed... Read more
The Investigator
By: Terry Lenzner
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“A time capsule of adventuresome sleuthing [that] traces the contours of U. S. political history.” —The Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times once called Terry Lenzner “one of the most powerful and dreaded private investigators in the world.” Since graduating from Harvard Law School, Lenzner has investigated the infamous murder of three civil... Read more