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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Totally Wired
by Andrew Smith; read by Adam Lofbomm
From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. Learn More
Toxic Water, Toxic System
by Michael Mascarenhas; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
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Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality. Learn More
Trade Battles
by Tamara Kay & R.L. Evans; read by Pam Ward
A timely contribution, Trade Battles seeks to understand the role of civil society in shaping state policy. Learn More
Trading with the Enemy
by Hugo Meijer; read by Liam Gerrard
Trading with the Enemy is the first monograph on this dimension of the US-China relationship in the post-Cold War. Learn More
The Tradition
by Jericho Brown; read by JD Jackson
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Lambda Literary Award Winner 2019 National Book Award Finalist Publishers Weekly Best of 2019
Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Learn More
Trafficking Data
by Aynne Kokas; read by Hannah Choi
From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. Learn More
The Traitor
by V.S. Alexander; read by Christa Lewis
Drawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history's darkest hours. Learn More
Transforming Harry
Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller; read by Shaun Grindell and Esther Wane
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. Learn More
Transient and Strange
by Nell Greenfieldboyce; read by Nell Greenfieldboyce
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. Learn More
The Transpacific Experiment
by Matt Sheehan; read by PJ Ochlan
In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan lays bare the new reality of twenty-first-century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. Learn More
Trauma, Tresses, and Truth
by Lyzette Wanzer; read by L. Malaika Cooper
From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Particularly relevant during this time of emboldened White supremacy, racism, and provocative othering, this work explores how writing about one of the still-remaining systemic biases in schools, academia, and corporate America might lead to greater understanding and respect. Learn More
The Tribe
by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; read by Gary Tiedemann
Teeming with life and compulsively listenable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the US, to the death of Fidel Castro, to the convulsions of the San Isidro Movement. Learn More
The Triumph of Doubt
by David Michaels; read by Paul Boehmer
Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy—and where it's happening today. Learn More
The Triumph of Injustice
by Gabriel Zucman & Emmanuel Saez; read by Steve Menasche
Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Learn More
Trolling Ourselves to Death
by Jason Hannan; read by Ray Greenley
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Learn More
Trumbo
Bruce Cook; read by Luke Daniels
An intimate, essential biography of the man who broke the Hollywood blacklist. Learn More
Trump and Churchill
by Nick Adams; foreword by Newt Gingrich; read by Liam Gerrard
In his new book, complete with never-before-told anecdotes, bestselling author Nick Adams explores how Donald Trump and Winston Churchill both turned their day's prevailing politics on its head. Learn More
Trumping Obama
by Matt Margolis; read by John McLain
Within the blink of an eye, nearly the entire Obama legacy has been undone before the end of Donald Trump's first term in office. This remarkable book details the scope of the Trump upheaval, exploring the destructive path Obama set the nation toward, how Trump has begun to right the ship . . . and how much more still needs to be done. Learn More
The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change
by Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, foreword by Marc Morano; read by Bob Souer
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available June
Want to know the truth about how energy, temperature, and climate work? Listen to The Truth about Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change—but prepare to be shocked. Learn More
Try Common Sense
by Philip K. Howard; read by Mike Chamberlain
Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society. Learn More
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