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.
An electrifying account of human courage and endurance, this is the story of the 1996 Vendée Globe, the most dangerous of all sailing races, as experienced by the fourteen men and two women competitors. Learn More
Robert Cowley, Ed., Various authors; read by Leo Burmester
No End Save Victory will find a large and appreciative audience eager to hear what our era's most distinguished historical thinkers and writers have to say about this most crucial of 20th-century conflicts, World War II. Learn More
Robert Cowley, Ed., Various authors; read by Leo Burmester
This second set of essays from No End Save Victory will find a large and appreciative audience eager to learn more about his most crucial of 20th-century conflicts, World War II. Learn More
Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf; read by Harry Chase
Two prize-winning journalists, Brian Hicks and Schulyer Kropf, have chronicled this fascinating story of military daring, momentary victory, sudden death, buried secrets, persistence, and ultimate payoff. Learn More
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles posited the notion that the Old Testament God was a person, and then pondered his motives and actions as though the deity were a character in a novel. Now he turns his attention to Jesus in the New Testament. Learn More
Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Learn More
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Learn More
Franken trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, earning him the nickname the "master of political humor" (Washington Post) . Learn More
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
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
Reason is a passionate and urgent statement about liberalism: what it is, the measure of its importance for America, and how it can return to the forefront of American politics. Learn More
Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. Learn More
Produced by the Kitchen Sisters with Jay Allison; hosted by Francis Ford Coppola
The follow up to Lost & Found Sound, featuring a historic as well as intimate soundscape: letters from a soldier in the foxholes of Vietnam, Mohawk iron workers at the World Trade Center, a 1977 home recording made by Francis Ford Coppola and his five-year old daughter Sofia, and much more. Learn More
