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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How Do We Get Out of Here
by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.; read by Frank Block
How Do We Get Out of Here? is R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s intimate memoir, detailing his leadership in the conservative movement and his relationships with its major personalities from 1968 to the present. Learn More
Taking Back the Constitution
by Mark Tushnet; read by Peter Lerman
In Taking Back the Constitution, Mark Tushnet offers a passionate and informed argument for replacing judicial supremacy with popular constitutionalism. Learn More
Kill Anything That Moves
Nick Turse; read by Don Lee
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Supported by classified documents and first-person interviews, this reexamination of American actions against Vietnamese civilians during the war suggests a dark, pervasive policy that belies the “isolated incidents” narrative used to explain away the most notorious of the atrocities. Learn More
Hallucinations from Hell
by Gregg H. Turner; read by Gregg H. Turner
From his time at Creem Magazine in the 1970s and '80s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occurred after, Gregg Turner takes us through a wild ride of stories he's heard, stories he's lived, and some he may or may not have made up. Learn More
Planet Simpson
Chris Turner; read by Oliver Wyman
Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Learn More
The Wars of the Lord
by Matthew J. Tuininga; read by Bob Souer
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The epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it. Learn More
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung; read by Rebecca Lam
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"—now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party—that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Learn More
Practical Equality
by Robert Tsai; read by David Shih
A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice—and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Learn More
The Science of Breaking Bad
by Dave Trumbore & Donna J. Nelson; read by Tom Perkins & Tiffany Morgan
All the science in Breaking Bad—from explosive experiments to acid-based evidence destruction—explained and analyzed for authenticity. Learn More
Dawgs
by Diane Trull; read by Tiffany Morgan
How elementary-school teacher Diane Trull and her fourth graders started their own animal shelter is a story of dedication, commitment, and perseverance. In this eye-opening, deeply personal book, Trull describes the challenges they faced, from rescuing and caring for the animals to teaching children about compassion and responsibility, to facing local interests opposed to having a shelter in their town. Learn More
Tales from the Tummy Trilogy
Calvin Trillin; read by Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin is America’s funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cooking—not haute cuisine but genuine good food. Learn More
Piece By Piece
Calvin Trillin; read by the author
This original recording—his first—features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Learn More
To Walk the Earth Again
by Christopher Trigg; read by Mike Cooper
The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Learn More
Mission at Nuremberg
by Tim Townsend; read by James Anderson Foster
Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg. Learn More
Ghost Road
by Anthony M. Townsend; read by Peter Lerman
A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive. Learn More
The First 50
by Natascia Tornetta-Mallin; read by Jean Ann Douglass
A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War, and The Great Recession set the stage as a young woman navigates the ambient decadence that has long defined Los Angeles. Learn More
Levon
by Sandra B. Tooze; read by Rosemary Benson
A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm—the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. Learn More
In the Matter of Nat Turner
by Christopher Tomlins; read by Paul Boehmer
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South. Learn More
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
by Sallie Tisdale; read by Gabra Zackman
A straightforward, wise, and humorous narrative field guide for both the dying and those who love them by an author who brings a unique set of qualifications to this delicate subject—she's a Pushcart Prize-winning writer, a palliative care nurse with more than ten years of experience, and a lifelong Buddhist. Learn More
Well-Being as Value Fulfillment
by Valerie Tiberius; read by Tavia Gilbert
What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. Learn More
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