History

Fighting for Justice

by Mark Shaw; read by Greg D. Barnett

Packed with shocking new evidence, Fighting for Justice exposes the cover-ups of the JFK assassination and the murders of Dorothy Kilgallen and Marilyn Monroe, while revealing for the first time the corrupt inner workings of the Warren Commission based on the firsthand "whistleblower" account of an actual Commission member never identified before. Learn More

Fighting Mad

edited by Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger; read by Deanna Anthony

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Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care. Learn More

The File

by San Charles Haddad; read by Paul Boehmer

Over eighty years of international turmoil, discriminatory agendas, and vicious acts of violence . . . This is the haunting Olympic history of Israel and Palestine. Learn More

Finding Francis

by Elizabeth J. West; read by Machelle Williams

A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Learn More

First Ladies

by Betty Boyd Caroli; read by Susan Ericksen

Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Learn More

Five

by Hallie Rubenhold; read by Louise Brealey

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Amazon Editors' Pick

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Learn More

Five Nickels

by Jim "Boots" Demarest; read by Tom Parks

Five Nickels is the true story of Captain Steve Phillis, a decorated Air Force A-10 fighter pilot killed under heroic circumstances while trying to save his downed wingman on their thirtieth Desert Storm combat mission. Learn More

Flight of the Diamond Smugglers

by Matthew Gavin Frank; read by Jonathan Yen

Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. Learn More

A Fool's Errand

by Lonnie G. Bunch III; read by JD Jackson

AudioFile Earphones Winner

Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. His story is by turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, bittersweet, and above all, a compelling listen. Learn More

For a Dollar and a Dream

by Jonathan D. Cohen; read by Tom Lennon

This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Learn More

Forever Prisoners

by Elliot Young; read by Paul Brion

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Learn More

The Forgotten Creed

by Stephen J. Patterson; read by Ramon De Ocampo

This is the story of that first, forgotten creed, and the world of its begetting, a world in which foreigners were feared, slaves were human chattel, and men questioned whether women were really human after all. Learn More

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre; read by Steve Marvel

Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. Learn More

Four Lost Cities

by Annalee Newitz; read by Chloe Cannon

Amazon Editor’s Pick, Best History

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Learn More

The Fragile Middle Class

by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, & Jay Lawrence Westbrook; read by Suzie Althens

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and what they imply for the future vitality of the middle class. Learn More

France

by Graham Robb; read by Tom Lawrence

Kirkus 20 Best Books to Read in July

A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion―by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Learn More

Franchise

by Marcia Chatelain; read by Machelle Williams

From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Learn More

Frank Ramsey

by Cheryl Misak; read by Liam Gerrard

When he died in 1930 aged twenty-six, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life. Learn More

Freedom on Trial

by Scott Farris; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. Learn More

From Cold War to Hot Peace

by Michael McFaul; read by LJ Ganser

From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present Learn More

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