History • Culture
Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
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Coding Democracy
by Maureen Webb; read by Wendy Tremont King
Coding Democracy is not just another optimistic declaration of technological utopianism; instead, it provides the tools for an urgently needed upgrade of democracy in the digital era. Learn More
Cold Peace
by Michael W. Doyle; read by Paul Heitsch
An urgent examination of the world barreling toward a new Cold War. Learn More
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis; read by Jay Gregory and Alan Sklar
From “the dean of Cold War historians” (New York Times): an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age. Learn More
The Cold War
by Odd Arne Westad; read by Julian Elfer
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world Learn More
Collateral Damage
by Mark Shaw, read by Phil Thron
In a breakthrough book that is sure to be relevant for years to come, bestselling author (The Reporter Who Knew Too Much) and distinguished historian Mark Shaw investigates the connection between the mysterious deaths of motion picture screen siren Marilyn Monroe, President John F. Kennedy, and What's My Line? TV star and crack investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Learn More
The Collector of Lives
by Ingrid Rowland & Noah Charney; read by Jennifer M. Dixon
Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as "insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable," The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art. Learn More
The Collector’s Apprentice
by B. A. Shapiro; read by Xe Sands
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B. A. Shapiro presents an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance. Learn More
College Girl, Missing
by Shawn Cohen; read by Kyle Snyder
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With original reporting including new testimony witnesses never shared with police, College Girl, Missing dives into the disappearance that captured front-page headlines around the world. Investigative journalist Shawn Cohen breaks more than a decade of silence as he pursues the truth: what really happened to Lauren Spierer? Learn More
The Colony
by Sally Denton; read by Ann Richardson
An investigation into the November 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico—an event that drew international attention—The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost. Learn More
Combee
by Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black; read by Machelle Williams
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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Learn More
Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are
by Abigail C. Saguy; read by Coleen Marlo
Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are systematically examines how coming out has moved beyond gay and lesbian rights groups and how different groups wrestle with the politics of coming out in their efforts to resist stigma and enact social change. Learn More
The Comey Gang
by John Ligato; read by Mike Chamberlain
An FBI insider explains how a group of high-level bureaucrats attempted to alter history and unseat a sitting president. Learn More
Coming of Age
Introduction read by Studs Terkel; read by Shirley Venard and Allen Hamilton
For Coming of Age, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host Studs Terkel interviewed a diverse assortment of men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. This audio includes the stories of 14 people who lived through the defining moments of the 20th century. Learn More
The Coming of Democracy
by Mark R Cheathem; read by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Drawing on period newspapers, diaries, memoirs, and public and private correspondence, The Coming of Democracy is the first book-length treatment to reveal how presidents and presidential candidates used both old and new forms of cultural politics to woo voters and win elections in the Jacksonian era.
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The Commanders
by Lloyd Clark; read by Julian Elfer
From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Learn More
Comparative Mythology
by Jaan Puhvet; read by Nigel Patterson
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In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-European origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to Comparative Mythology as both a general introduction and a detailed reference. Learn More
Concussion Rescue
by Dr. Kabran Chapek; read by Rick Adamson
With a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Amen, Concussion Rescue gives listeners the natural and effective protocols for healing from traumatic brain injury. Learn More
Confronting Saddam Hussein
by Melvyn P. Leffler; read by Christopher P. Brown
A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003—an outcome that was in no way predetermined. Learn More
The Contagion Next Time
by Sandro Galea; read by Roman Howell
Following on the themes of his award-winning publication Well, Sandro Galea's The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Learn More
A Continent Erupts
by Ronald H. Spector; read by BJ Harrison
A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II―and determined the fate of the continent. Learn More
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