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 Escape Line
by Megan Koreman; read by Christa Lewis
Using recently declassified archives, The Escape Line tells the story of the Dutch-Paris and the thousands of people it saved during World War II. Author Megan Koreman, who was given exclusive access to many of the archives, is herself the daughter of Dutch parents who were part of the resistance. Learn More
The Esperanza Fire
John N. Maclean; read by Pete Larkin
A riveting, you-are-there account of the tightly-knit forest service engine crew that perished battling “the perfect storm of wildland fires,” which led to the first-ever conviction of a wildland arsonist for first degree murder. Learn More
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
edited and introduction by Jelani Cobb; with Matthew Guariglia; read by Mirron Willis
Recognizing that a historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today's canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. Learn More
The Eurasian Century
by Hal Brands; read by Tim Fannon
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January
An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran. Learn More
Everybody's Doin' It
by Dale Cockrell; read by Jonathan Todd Ross
Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. Learn More
Everything Explained That Is Explainable!
Denis Boyles; read by Corrie James
The audacious, improbable tale of how twentieth-century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica. The Britannica's astonishing success changed newspaper and reference book publishing and resulted in the beloved eleventh edition. Learn More
Evolutions
by Oren Harman; read by Oren Harman
Science is an astounding achievement, but are we really any wiser than the ancients? Has science revealed the secrets of fate and immortality? Has it provided protection from jealousy or love? There are those who believe that science has replaced faith, but must it also be a death knell for mythology? Learn More
Except for Palestine
by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick; read by Paul Boehmer
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on US policy in the region.
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The Exorcist Legacy
by Nat Segaloff; read by Joe Hempel
Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original movie release, this is the definitive, fascinating story of the scariest movie ever made and its lasting impact as one of the most shocking, influential, and successful adventures in the history of film. Written by Nat Segaloff, an original publicist for the movie and the acclaimed biographer of its director, with a foreword from John Russo, author and cowriter of the seminal horror film Night of the Living Dead. Learn More
Eye of the Beholder
Laura J. Snyder; ready by Tamara Marston
AudioFile Earphone Award Winner
The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. Learn More
Eyes in the Sky
by Arthur Holland Michel; read by LJ Ganser
The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens. Learn More
A Fabulous Failure
by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein; read by Tom Campbell
This book reveals why Bill Clinton's expansive agenda was a fabulous failure, and why its demise still haunts us today. Learn More
Failures of Imagination
Michael McCaul; read by Jonathan Yen
From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security and the actions needed to protect us. Learn More
Fallout
by John Solomon & Seamus Bruner; read by John Solomon & Rick Adamson
An exhaustively researched book that reads like an investigative thriller, Fallout reveals how Obama's "Russian Reset" led to corruption, scandal, and a desperate bid to impeach Donald Trump. Learn More
The False Promise of Superiority
by James H. Lebovic; read by David Stifel
During the Cold War, American policymakers sought nuclear advantages to offset an alleged Soviet edge. Policymakers hoped that US nuclear capabilities would safeguard deterrence, when backed perhaps by a set of coercive tactics. But policymakers also hedged their bets with plans to fight a nuclear war to their advantage should deterrence fail. In The False Promise of Superiority, James H. Lebovic argues that the US approach was fraught with peril and remains so today. Learn More
Falstaff
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—one of Shakespeare's greatest enduring and most complex comedic characters. Learn More
Familiar Violence
by Heather Montgomery; by Jennifer M. Dixon
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available December
Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. This book looks at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the social responses towards it. Focusing primarily on England, it is a history of violence against children in their own homes, covering a large timeframe which extends from medieval times to the present. Learn More
A Family Christmas
Selected and Introduced by Caroline Kennedy; read by Caroline Kennedy and an ensemble cast
Just in time for the holidays: a collection of beloved Christmas stories and writings that every family will cherish. Learn More
Family, Friends and Neighbors
by Richard Estep; read by Perry Daniels
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November
Murders committed to escape a marriage, or out of dire desperation, or from an insane separation from reality, these and other less comprehensible motivations fill the pages of Family, Friends and Neighbors. It's an unflinching look into humanity's dark side! Hear the stories, investigate the facts, and meet the vicious killers who murder the people who should have been nearest and dearest to them. Learn More
Fanatics and Fools
Arianna Huffington; read by Arianna Huffington
New York Times best-selling author Arianna Huffington takes another sweeping look at how right wing zealots have taken charge of the Republican Party and the government—and the American leadership who let it happen. Learn More
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