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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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
Turning the Tide
Ed Offley; read by James Adams
A rousing military history of the winning of the second Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, when German U-Boats terrorized American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean, nearly severing the lifeline between the US and Britain and costing the Allies the war in Europe. Learn More
The Tutor
Andrea Chapin; read by Elizabeth Knowelden
A bold and captivating novel about love, passion, and ambition that imagines the muse of William Shakespeare and the tumultuous year they spend together. Learn More
The Twenty-Ninth Year
by Hala Alyan; read by Hala Alyan
LitHub Most Anticipated Books of 2019
A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love, and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities. Learn More
The Twice-Born
by Aatish Taseer; read by Neil Shah
In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge. Learn More
Twilight Warriors
by James Kitfield; read by Tom Perkins
Grounded in fifteen years of reporting, Twilight Warriors provides a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of the American defense system and the men who have brought it into the twenty-first century. Learn More
Two Trees Make a Forest
by Jessica J. Lee; read by Nancy Wu
One of The Guardian's Best Books of the Year
An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan, perfect for fans of Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations and William Finnegan's Barbarian Days. Learn More
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