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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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
by Jia Lynn Yang; read by Laural Merlington
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates. Learn More
One Nation Under Gold
by James Ledbetter; read by Jonathan Yen
In One Nation Under Gold, acclaimed author James Ledbetter traces the origins of our national obsession with gold and expertly explores the controversies around this hallowed metal. Learn More
The One-Cent Magenta
by James Barron; read by Jonathan Yen
An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world’s most sought-after stamp. Learn More
Only the Clothes on Her Back
by Laura F. Edwards; read by Stephanie Richardson
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. Learn More
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
by Mark Valeri; read by Bob Johnson
Using a variety of sources, The Opening of the Protestant Mind traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization of North America. Learn More
Opening Strategy
by Richard Whittington; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Opening Strategy recounts the origins and development of Strategy as a profession from the middle of the last century to the present day. Learn More
Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You
by Charles Taylor; read by A.T. Chandler
Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the secrets of the times." Learn More
Operation Underworld
by Matthew Black; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano—the US Mafia boss who put the "organized" into organized crime—was recruited by US Naval Intelligence to turn the tide of WWII. Learn More
Orca
by Jason M. Colby; read by Paul Heitsch
Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place. Learn More
Orchid Muse
by Erica Hannickel; read by Nicol Zanzarella
A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature’s most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired. Learn More
Origin Story
by Howard Markel; read by Mike Cooper
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A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More
The Origins of Elected Strongmen
by Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Joseph Wright; read by Suzie Althens
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January
Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform. Learn More
The Other Paris
Luc Sante; read by the author
Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Learn More
The Other Side of Prospect
by Nicholas Dawidoff; read by Diontae Black
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. Learn More
Our Data, Ourselves
by Jacqueline D. Lipton; read by Corinne Davies
A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Learn More
Our Man in Charleston
Christopher Dickey; read by Antony Ferguson
As tension over slavery and western expansion threatened to break the US into civil war, the Southern states found themselves squeezed between two nearly irreconcilable realities: the survival of the Confederate economy would require the importation of more slaves, a practice banned in America since 1807, but the existence of the Confederacy itself could not be secured without official recognition from Great Britain, who would never countenance reopening the Atlantic slave trade. How, then, could the first be achieved without dooming the possibility of the second? Learn More
Our Own Worst Enemy
by Tom Nichols; read by Tom Nichols
A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Learn More
Out of One, Many
by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Petrea Burchard
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A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Emily Midorikawa; read by Rachael Beresford
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Learn More
Out of the Shadows
by Emily Midorikawa
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Learn More
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