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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American Heritage History of World War II
by Stephen E. Ambrose and C.L. Sulzberger; read by John Pruden
This book captures the courage, commitment, military genius, and horror of the war that gave birth to a new era in world politics. The American Heritage History of World War II is the definitive single-volume work on the subject and will endure as a major narrative of world history. Learn More
American Inheritance
by Edward J. Larson; read by David de Vries
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. Learn More
American Injustice
by John Paul Mac Isaac; read by Tom Parks
As seen on Tucker Carlson Tonight: the story of how John Paul Mac Isaac tried to get the Hunter Biden laptop evidence to the authorities. Learn More
American JewBu
by Emily Sigalow; read by Rebecca Gibel
American JewBu highlights the leading role that American Jews have played in the popularization of meditation and mindfulness in the United States, and the profound impact that these two venerable traditions have had on one another. Learn More
American Journey
by Wes Davis; read by Mitch Crawford
The epic road trips―and surprising friendship―of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age. Learn More
American Manifesto
by Bob Garfield; read by Bob Garfield
Do you fear for our democracy? Are you perplexed by Trumpism? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don’t! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by cohost of WNYC's On the Media, Bob Garfield. Learn More
American Messiahs
by Adam Morris; read by Joel Richards
Buzzfeed’s 37 Spring Reads 2019
A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about "cult" leaders and their messianic power. Learn More
American Restoration
by Timothy S. Goeglein & Craig Osten; read by George W. Sarris
In this clear-eyed but hopeful guide to restoration, Tim Goeglein and Craig Osten explain how patriotic Americans, with God's help, can renew fifteen critical components of our culture. Learn More
American Routes
Nick Spitzer
Take a journey across the American soundscape—from the bayous to the beltways, from crossroads to crosstown, from coast to coast, embracing a wide swath of our musical culture and exploring the boundaries where genres meet and overlap. Learn More
American Sanctuary
by A. Roger Ekirch; read by Tom Zingarelli
The extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the HMS Hermione from "one of America’s most imaginative historians" (Gordon S. Wood). Learn More
American Schism
by Seth David Radwell; read by Mike Lenz
American Schism reveals the roots of the rifts in America since its founding and what is really dividing red and blue America; the core issues that underlie all of today's bickering; and a detailed, effective plan to move forward, commencing what will be a long process of repair and reconciliation. Learn More
American Sucker
David Denby; read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Join David Denby, New Yorker critic and otherwise sensible man, on a whirlwind ride through an exuberant stock market, investment feeding frenzy, and the cataclysmic result of greed and illusion. Learn More
American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
by Elizabeth Duquette; read by Diana Blue
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book. While some nineteenth-century Americans informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source—Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Learn More
American Visions
by Edward L. Ayers; read by Brandon Pollock
A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today.
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American Zion
by Benjamin E. Park; read by Tom Parks
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. Learn More
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood; read by Peter Johnson
Gordon S. Wood, a leading historian of the revolutionary era, gives a convincing reappraisal of Benjamin Franklin and his remarkable life. Learn More
Americans in a World at War
by Brooke L. Blower; read by Nancy Peterson
A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. Learn More
Anatomy of 55 More Songs
by Marc Myers; read by Michael Butler Murray
Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories of iconic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column. Learn More
Anatomy of a Song
by Marc Myers; read by Jonathan Yen
Every great song has a story that needs to be told. In Anatomy of a Song, based on the ongoing Wall Street Journal column, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through forty-five transformative hits and oral-history interviews with the artists who created them. Learn More
The Anatomy of Deception
by Sara E. Gorman; read by Jennifer Walden
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Veteran health writer Sara Gorman compellingly argues that the backbone of medical conspiracy theories is not misinformation but lack of trust—in our hospitals and in our democracy writ large. Learn More
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