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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Crystal Eastman
by Amy Aronson; read by Elizabeth Wiley
As the first biography of Crystal Eastman, this book gives renewed voice to a woman who spoke freely and passionately in debates still raging today—gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, and freedom. Learn More
Cyberwar
by Kathleen Hall Jamieson; read by Emily Durante
Drawing on path-breaking work in which she and her colleagues isolated significant communication effects in the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the eminent political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson marshals the troll posts, unique polling data, analyses of how the press used the hacked content, and a synthesis of half a century of media effects research to argue that, although not certain, it is probable that the Russians helped elect the 45th president of the United States. Learn More
Damnation Island
by Stacy Horn; read by Pam Ward
For history fans, and for anyone interested in the ways we care for the least fortunate among us, Damnation Island is an eye-opening look at a closed and secretive world. In a tale that is exceedingly relevant today, Horn shows us how far we've come—and how much work still remains. Learn More
Dancing Down the Barricades
by Matthew Frye Jacobson; read by Jonathan Yen
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Learn More
Dannemora
by Charles A. Gardener; read by Jonathan Yen
In June 2015 two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's "North Country," launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Now Charles A. Gardner—a lifelong resident of the community and a former prison guard—tells the whole story from an insider's point of view. Learn More
Dark Carnivals
by W. Scott Poole; read by Enrique McGavin
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power. Learn More
Dark Constellations
Pola Oloixarac; read by Justine Eyre
A Remezcla Best Book by Latino and Latin American Authors of 2019
Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac's wildly ambitious second novel investigates humanity's quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the nineteenth-century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Learn More
Dark Places of the Earth
Jonathan M. Bryant; read by Tom Zingarelli
A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significantand long-forgottenSupreme Court cases in American history. Learn More
The Darkest Glare
by Chip Jacobs; read by Joel Richards
In The Darkest Glare, Chip Jacobs recounts a spectacular, noir-ish, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. You'll never gaze out windows into the dark again. Learn More
Darwin's Backyard
by James T. Costa; read by Sean Runnette
In Darwin's Backyard, James T. Costa tells how Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. Learn More
Data for the People
by Andreas Weigend; read by Barry Abrams
Vital reading for anyone who owns a mobile phone, internet connection, or even a debit card, Data for the People puts the power of data back into our hands. 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
The Day I Die
by Dr. Anita Hannig; read by Linda Jones
An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of our lives. Learn More
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
by Sady Doyle; read by Chloe Cannon
Sady Doyle, hailed as "smart, funny, and fearless" by the Boston Globe, takes listeners on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula's Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. Learn More
Dead Presidents
Brady Carlson; read by Tom Zingarelli
An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents. Learn More
Dear Mom and Dad
by Patti Davis; read by Emily Sutton-Smith
NEW! Now Available
A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the power of redemption in this poetic letter to her long-gone parents. Learn More
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon
Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Learn More
A Death in the Rainforest
by Don Kulick; read by Paul Woodson
Smart, engaging, and perceptive, A Death in the Rainforest takes listeners into a world that will soon disappear forever. Learn More
Death is Hard Work
by Khaled Khalifa; translated by Leri Price; read by Neil Shah
2019 National Book Award Finalist
Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. Learn More
The Death of the Banker
by Ron Chernow; read by Michael Kramer
With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end. Learn More
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