American Heritage

Saving the News

by Martha Minow ; read by Eliza Foss

A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. Learn More

A Sand County Almanac

by Aldo Leopold; introduction by Barbara Kingsolver; read by Cassandra Campbell

First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Learn More

Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody

by James H. Cone; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

In this powerful and passionate memoir—his final work—James H. Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those—like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow—who had no voice. Learn More

The Saddest Words

by Michael Gorra; read by Joe Barrett

Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today. Learn More

Rough Magic

By Lara Prior-Palmer; read by Henrietta Meire

A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book of the Season
The Millions Most Anticipated in May
O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019

Told with terrific suspense and style, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of the world's longest, toughest horse race. Learn More

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

by Manisha Sinha; read by Deepa Samuel

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available June

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. Learn More

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

by Gary Gerstle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. Learn More

Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783

by William L. Kidder; read by Paul Heitsch

Discover how eighteenth-century Princeton and its residents—including two signers of the Declaration of Independence—contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution. Learn More

Revolution

by KT McFarland; read by KT McFarland

When Trump's first Deputy National Security Advisor left Washington, she disappeared from sight. Now former government official and political commentator KT McFarland returns with tenacity, resolve, and the truth about the Trump Administration and those seeking to destroy it. Learn More

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Andrew Preston; read by Teri Schnaubelt, Steve Menasche

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy.
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Reports from Hell

by Chas Smith; read by Peter Berkrot

A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Learn More

Reluctant Race Men

by Joan L. Bryant; read by Deanna Anthony

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available April

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges nineteenth-century Black American reformers lodged against the concept of race. Learn More

Reaching for the Moon

by Roger D. Launius; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

Fifty years after the Moon landing, a new history of the space race explores the lives of both Soviet and American engineers. Learn More

Rating America's Presidents

by Robert Spencer; read by Rick Adamson

This book offers what should be the only criteria for rating the occupants of the White House: were they good for America? Learn More

Psychologically Sound

by Sheldon Roth, MD; read by John McLain

A highly respected psychiatrist challenges the media narrative that President Trump is mentally unstable. Learn More

Presumed Guilty

by Erwin Chemerinsky; read by Perry Daniels

Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Learn More

The President and Immigration Law

by Adam Cox & Cristina M. Rodriguez; read by Gary Tiedemann

In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became the United States' immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy, they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Learn More

Prairie Fever

Michael Parker; read by Gabra Zackman

Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. Learn More

Practical Equality

by Robert Tsai; read by David Shih

A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice—and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Learn More

The Poverty Paradox

by Mark Robert Rank; read by Barry Abrams

The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. Based on decades of scholarship and research, it provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead. Learn More

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