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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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Pax Transatlantica
by Jussi M. Hanhimaki; read by Mike Cooper
A bold argument that tackles current trends, such as rising nationalism, arguing that they strengthen rather than undermine transatlantic ties. Learn More
The Peacemakers
by Bruce W. Jentleson; read by Mike Chamberlain
In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Learn More
The Pearl Harbor Collection
Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon; read by Tony Roberts
There is no better, more authoritative chronicle of Pearl Harbor and its repercussions than the three Gordon W. Prange titles collected here. Learn More
Pearl of the Desert
by Rubina Raja; read by Christopher Hallett
Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive history of Palmyra in English. Learn More
Penman of the Founding
by Jane E. Calvert; read by Kitty Hendrix
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Despite the key part he played in the country's founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Early chroniclers and historians cast him as a coward and Loyalist for not signing the Declaration. Many later historians have simply accepted and echoed this distorted and dismissive view. Jane Calvert's fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson's life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation's formative years. Learn More
The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore
by Jared Yates Sexton; read by P.J. Ochlan
Like the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer—books that have paved the way for important narratives that shape how we perceive not only the politics of our time but also our way of life—The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is an instant, essential classic, an authoritative depiction of a country struggling to make sense of itself. Learn More
A People Betrayed
By Paul Preston; read by Peter Noble
Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. Learn More
The People Versus Socialism
by Stephen A. Smoot; foreword by Congressman Alex X. Mooney; read by Mike Chamberlain
A ten-count indictment on how socialism not only ruins countries and their economies, but also destroys civil societies while denying natural rights. Learn More
People We Meet: Unforgettable Conversations
NPR; hosted by David Greene
The beauty, genius and heroism of the human spirit shines throughout this collection of encounters with exceptional individuals, selected and presented by NPR personalities whose lives have been enriched by a single conversation. Learn More
The Perfume Burned His Eyes
by Michael Imperioli; read by Michael Imperioli
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Screenwriter and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Imperioli presents a must-listen coming-of-age story set in New York City. Learn More
The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King
by Jerom Charyn; read by Danny Campbell
Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Learn More
Permanent Damage
by Mercy Fontenot, Lyndsey Parker; read by Natasha Soudek
Mercy Fontenot was a Zelig who grew up in the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury scene, where she crossed paths with Charles Manson, went to the first Acid Test, and was friends with Jimi Hendrix (she was later in his movie Rainbow Bridge). Written just prior to her death in 2020, Permanent Damage shows us the world of the 1960s and 1970s music scene through Mercy's eyes. Learn More
Permanent Present Tense
Suzanne Corkin; read by Pam Ward
The riveting story of the man who couldn’t remember: H. M., the famous brain-damaged patient whose case afforded untold advances in the study of memory. Learn More
Personality
by Daniel Nettle; read by Matthew Waterson
Written by Daniel Nettle—author of the popular book Happiness—this brief volume takes the listener on an exhilarating tour of what modern science can tell us about human personality. Learn More
Personality Disorders
by Allan V. Horwitz; read by Jonathan Yen
The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders. Learn More
Personality Wins
by Merrick Rosenberg with Richard Ellis; read by Jonathan Yen
Personality has determined the winner of the last twenty-two US presidential elections—and it will decide who wins in the future. If you're wondering whether Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or another Democratic candidate can beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, this book has the answer. Learn More
Pessoa
by Richard Zenith; read by Hannibal Hills
Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Learn More
The Petroleum Papers
by Geoff Dembicki; read by Steve Menasche
Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More
The Philadelphia Chromosome
Jessica Wapner; read by Heather Henderson
Science journalist Jessica Wapner goes beyond the headlines to share the fascinating backstory on ground-breaking cancer research and the genetic science behind it.
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