History

The Petroleum Papers

by Geoff Dembicki; read by Steve Menasche

Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More

Pessoa

by Richard Zenith; read by Hannibal Hills

Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Learn More

Personality Wins

by Merrick Rosenberg with Richard Ellis; read by Jonathan Yen

Personality has determined the winner of the last twenty-two US presidential elections—and it will decide who wins in the future. If you're wondering whether Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or another Democratic candidate can beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, this book has the answer. Learn More

Personality Disorders

by Allan V. Horwitz; read by Jonathan Yen

The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders. Learn More

The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King

by Jerom Charyn; read by Danny Campbell

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Learn More

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

by Michael Imperioli; read by Michael Imperioli

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Screenwriter and Emmy Award–winning actor Michael Imperioli presents a must-listen coming-of-age story set in New York City. Learn More

A People Betrayed

By Paul Preston; read by Peter Noble

Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. Learn More

Penman of the Founding

by Jane E. Calvert; read by Kitty Hendrix

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

Despite the key part he played in the country's founding, few Americans today have heard of John Dickinson. Early chroniclers and historians cast him as a coward and Loyalist for not signing the Declaration. Many later historians have simply accepted and echoed this distorted and dismissive view. Jane Calvert's fascinating, authoritative, and accessible biography, the first complete account of Dickinson's life and work, restores him to a place of prominence in the nation's formative years. Learn More

Pearl of the Desert

by Rubina Raja; read by Christopher Hallett

Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive history of Palmyra in English. Learn More

The Pearl Harbor Collection

Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon; read by Tony Roberts

There is no better, more authoritative chronicle of Pearl Harbor and its repercussions than the three Gordon W. Prange titles collected here. Learn More

The Peacemakers

by Bruce W. Jentleson; read by Mike Chamberlain

In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Learn More

Pax Transatlantica

by Jussi M. Hanhimaki; read by Mike Cooper

A bold argument that tackles current trends, such as rising nationalism, arguing that they strengthen rather than undermine transatlantic ties. Learn More

Patriot Presidents

by William E. Leuchtenburg; read by Tim Fannon

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

A nuanced account of the early leaders who shaped the American presidency. Learn More

Patrick Henry

by Jon Kukla; read by Paul Woodson

This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry—the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"—restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence. Learn More

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

by Richard A. McKay; read by Paul Woodson

The search for a "patient zero"—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? Learn More