History

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

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

Love Lives

by Carol Dyhouse; read by Rachael Beresford

The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been reshaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr. Right, and happy endings. Learn More

The Lowells of Massachusetts

by Nina Sankovitch; read by Jo Anna Perrin

For the first time, Nina Sankovitch tells the story of the Lowells—a fascinating and powerful dynasty—in The Lowells of Massachusetts. Learn More

Macbeth

by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance

From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes—the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iago, Macbeth. 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 Mad Ones

Tom Folsom; read by Josh Clark

The New York Times bestseller and true story of the 1960s trio of rebellious young gangsters, the Gallo boys, who inspired a Bob Dylan ballad and The Godfather trilogy. Learn More

Madison's Gift

David O. Stewart; ready by Grover Gardner

Overshadowed by his fellow Founders, David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation, through his successive partnerships with mentor George Washington, co-author Alexander Hamilton, political ally Thomas Jefferson, successor James Monroe, and his wife, Dolley. Learn More

Making Eden

by David Beerling; read by Shaun Grindell

In Making Eden David Beerling reveals the hidden history of Earth's sun-shot greenery, and considers its future prospects as we farm the planet to feed the world. Learn More

Making Makers

by Michael P. M. Finch; read by Kent Klineman

Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy. 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

Making the Arab World

by Fawaz A. Gerges; read by James Cameron Stewart

Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, Making the Arab World is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Learn More

Making the Supreme Court

by Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec; read by Lee Goettl

Based on rich data and qualitative evidence, Making the Supreme Court provides a sharp lens on the social and political transformations that created a new American politics. Learn More

Malcolm Before X

by Patrick Parr; read by James Fouhey

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

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

A Man on Fire

by Douglas R. Egerton; read by Paul Boehmer

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson played a role in nearly every progressive movement of the nineteenth century, earning a place in studies of abolitionism, feminism, education, temperance, and Victorian fiction, as well as films, novels, and books featuring Dickinson and Harriet Tubman. These reveal only aspects of his storied life. Douglas Egerton's biography embraces all the facets of this American whirlwind, illuminating the ways in which Higginson's lifelong crusade for a more just world resonates today. Learn More

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington

Jonathan Horn; read by David Drummond

A young, enormously talented historian tells the story of why Robert E. Lee, the one soldier who most embodied the legacy of George Washington, chose to fight for the South, a decision that changed American history. Learn More

Mandela: An Audio History

Radio Diaries; hosted by Desmond Tutu; commentary by Nelson Mandela; foreword by Joe Richman

Audie® Award Winner: Audiobook of the Year!

The award-winning radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela himself as well as those who fought alongside him and against him. 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

Manual for Survival

by Kate Brown; read by Christina Delaine

National Book Critics Circle Finalist

A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Learn More

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