American Heritage

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

A Life For A Life

by Kevin Shird; read by David Sadzin

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A gripping true story exploring violence, mental health, and trauma. Learn More

Life In Ancient Rome

by Lionel Casson; read by John Glouchevitch

Award-winning historian Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome. Learn More

Life in the Middle Ages

by Richard Winston; read by Shaun Grindell

Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages. Learn More

Listen Up!

by Mark Howard & Chris Howard; read by Peter Berkrot

An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field. Learn More

Living I Was Your Plague

by Lyndal Roper; read by Michael Page

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image. Learn More

A Long, Long Way

by Greg Garrett; read by Tom Perkins

A Long, Long Way incorporates both cinematic and religious truth-telling to the subject of race and reconciliation. In acknowledging the racist history of America's national art form, Garrett offers the possibility of hope for the future. Learn More

The Loud Minority

Daniel Q. Gillion; read by David Sadzin

An exploration of how protests affect voter behavior and warn of future electoral changes, The Loud Minority looks at the many ways that activism can shape democracy. Learn More

Love and the Working Class

by Karen Lystra; read by Lisa S. Ware

Using letters written to parents, siblings, husbands, wives, friends, and potential mates between 1830 and 1880, Karen Lystra identifies the shared conceptions of love and practices of courtship and marriage within a racially diverse population of free working-class people born in America. Learn More

MacTrump

by Ian Doescher & Jacopo della Quercia; read by Susan Bennett, Rachel Botchan, Eliza Foss, Christopher Gebauer, Johnny Heller, Brian Hutchison, Jennifer O’Donnell, Thomas Picasso, Jonathan Todd Ross, T Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier, Jaine Ye, and Adam Grupp

For listeners craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration. Learn More

The Making of Black Lives Matter

by Christopher J. Lebron; read by Diontae Black

A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. Learn More

Malcolm Before X

by Patrick Parr; read by James Fouhey

Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison years of civil rights icon Malcolm X. Learn More

The Man of the Crowd

by Scott Peeples & Michelle Van Parys; read by Daniel Henning

The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Edgar Allan Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. Learn More

The Man Who Ate Too Much

by John Birdsall; read by Daniel Henning

The definitive biography of America's best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. Learn More

Manhattan Phoenix

by Daniel S. Levy; read by Mike Lenz

This work shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan, also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. Learn More

Mapping Humanity

by Joshua Z. Rappoport, PhD; read by Peter Lerman

Thanks to the popularity of personal genetic testing services, it's now easier than ever to get information about our own unique DNA—but who does this information really benefit? And, as genome editing and gene therapy transform the healthcare landscape, what do we gain—and what might we give up in return? Learn More

The Martians

by David Baron; read by Rob Greenbaum