American Heritage

Jimmy Breslin

by Richard Esposito; read by Eric Jason Martin

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The first-ever biography of America's greatest crime reporter. Learn More

Johnny B. Bad

by Stephanie Bennett; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his sixtieth birthday. Now, on the heels of Berry's death, comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Learn More

Keeping Family Secrets

by Margaret K. Nelson; read by Janet Metzger

From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era. Learn More

Kill Switch

by Adam Jentleson; read by P.J. Ochlan

An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Learn More

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

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

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 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

Lead Like Walt

by Pat Williams; read by BJ Harrison

Whether you are building a small business from the ground up or managing a multinational company, you can learn the seven key traits for leadership success from one of the greatest business innovators and creative thinkers of the twentieth century: Walt Disney. Learn More

A Legacy of Discrimination

by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective. Learn More

Let the Children Play

by Pasi Sahlberg & Wiliam Doyles; read by Randye Kaye

In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren. Learn More

Let the People Rule

by John G. Matsusaka; read by Christopher Grove

With a crisis of representation hobbling democracies across the globe, Let the People Rule offers important new ideas about the crucial role the referendum can play in the future of government. Learn More

Let Them Eat Tweets

by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson; read by Peter Berkrot

A groundbreaking account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals—and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy. Learn More

Lewis and Clark

by Ralph K. Andrist; read by Joe Barrett

Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the dramatic story of the epic journey of Lewis and Clark. Learn More

Library of Small Catastrophes

by Alison C. Rollins; read by Janina Edwards

Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins's ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Learn More