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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Kingdom of Nauvoo
by Benjamin E. Park; read by Bob Souer
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding American history writ large. Learn More
The Kingdom of Rye
by Darra Goldstein; read by Suzanne Toren
Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes listeners on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. Learn More
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Nikolaus Wachsmann; read by Paul Hodgson
In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called the gray zone. Learn More
Know-It-All Society
by Michael P. Lynch; read by William Sarris
The "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) returns with a clear-eyed and timely critique of our culture's narcissistic obsession with thinking that "we" know and "they" don't. Learn More
The Know-It-Alls
by Noam Cohen; read by Adam Grupper
In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life. Learn More
The Knowledge Machine
by Michael Strevens; read by Julian Elfer
A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Learn More
Kompromat
by Giorgi Rtskhiladze; read by Bruce Mann
Kompromat is Giorgi Rtskhiladze's story of growing up in Soviet Georgia, emigrating to the US, and his dealings with Donald Trump. Learn More
The Lagoon
by James Michael Dorsey; read by Graham Rowat
A voyage to a magical marine haven, the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico, where the connection between man and beast is like no other on Earth. Learn More
The Lake on Fire
by Rosellen Brown; read by Emily Lawrence
An examination of family, love, and revolution, The Lake on Fire is a profound tale that resonates eerily with today's current events and tumultuous social landscape. Learn More
The Land of Flickering Lights
by Michael Bennet; read by Michael Bennet
Michael Bennet eloquently chronicles the dramatic full stories behind five debates and decisions crucial to all Americans, each of which exemplifies the hyper-partisan politics that have upended our democracy. Learn More
The Last Butterflies
by Nick Haddad; read by Eric Martin
A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction. Learn More
The Last Campaign
Thurston Clarke; read by Pete Larkin
An intimate and absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated man and the heightened dramas of his times. Learn More
The Last Englishmen
by Deborah Baker; read by James Cameron Stewart
Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker's The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. Learn More
The Last Job
by Dan Bilefsky; read by Chris MacDonnell
The definitive account of one of the most brazen jewel heists in history. Learn More
The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome
by Ian Worthington; read by Gareth Richards
Viewed as postscripts to the kingdom's heyday, the last Macedonian kings (Philip V, his son Perseus, and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI) have often been denounced for self-serving ambitions, flawed policies, and questionable personal qualities. Likewise, they have been condemned for defeats by Rome that saw both the end of the monarchy and the fall of the formidable Macedonian phalanx before the Roman legion. In The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome, Ian Worthington reassesses these three kings and demonstrates how such denunciations are inaccurate. Learn More
Last of Its Kind
by Gísli Pálsson; read by Paul Woodson
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How an iconic bird's final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction. Learn More
The Last Platoon
by Bing West; read by Stephen Graybill
This authentic war story vividly displays how a warrior must replenish his own moral courage and not allow ambition to coarsen his sense of decency. Learn More
The Last Stargazers
by Emily Levesque; read by Janet Metzger
Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. Learn More
The Last Stargazers
by Emily Levesque; read by Janet Metzger
Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. Learn More
Latino Americans
Ray Suarez; read by the author
AudioFile Best of Year Selection
This companion to the PBS documentary series, Latino Americans, vividly and candidly tells how the story of Latino Americans is the story of the United States. Learn More
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