History - Audiobooks

A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union"This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at...

New York Times bestselling author Michael Dobbs reconstructs the thrilling inside story of the climactic nuclear crisis of the Cold War, revealing the tension between "the human in the loop" and the algorithms that could trigger World War III.The year is 1983. Ronald Reagan...

"What an incredible life of triumph and tragedy, faith, and love." -- Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author of VanderbiltA vivid, intimate biography of American icon Ethel Kennedy by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, told through her firsthand memories and exclusive access to...

The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The 2nd and 4th Rangers were among the units initially assigned to the Eighth Army and were considered to be "combat ready."...

By the mid-1960s, Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His...

Author: Brian MurphyISBN-10: 1549120492ISBN-13: 9781549120497Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2018Format: Pre-Recorded Audio PlayerNot available to be shipped via Media Mail

A deadlier sequel to 9/11--and the race inside the CIA, FBI, and pentagon to stop it In 2003, United States intelligence uncovered evidence that al Qaeda had acquired nuclear materials, plotting to smuggle them into American ports. The "Second Wave" threat triggered one of...

Examining over a century of US intervention in Latin America, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin reveals how the region has long served as a laboratory for US foreign policy, providing generations of Washington policy makers with an opportunity to rehearse a broad range of diplomatic...

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, #1 New York Times bestselling author and FOX & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade profiles six early Americans whose courage helped define freedom for our fledgling nation.When the colonists threw off British rule, they launched a great experiment in...

As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin's atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War.Facing the global...

The definitive and riveting investigation into how Vladimir Putin successfully mounted a decade-long covert war against the United States and how Donald Trump aided and abetted the operation and upended America and the worldHow Russia Won tells the little-understood yet crucial story of how...

From New York Times bestselling author William I. Hitchcock, a riveting, revelatory portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II, tracing his--and America's--awakening to the threat of fascism.How did FDR and the American public respond to the rise of dictators...

The definitive account of America's most haunting maritime disasterOn the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the "Mighty Fitz."For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe...

An epic true story of a group of courageous grandmothers who fought to find their grandchildren who were stolenIn these pages, a regime tries to terrorize a country, but love prevails. The grandmothers' stunning stories reveal new truths about memory, identity, and family.On March...

So-called liberalism has been twisted out of shape by both the left- and right-wing who incorrectly conceive of it in ideological terms, without understanding what a liberal philosophy really entails. In untangling these misconceptions, Wooldridge reveals why the world desperately needs to adopt a...

Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba...

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering...

At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that...

This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that successfully pursue disruptive innovation can gain a major advantage over their rivals, while those that fail...

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous--the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered...

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the...

The son of Weather Underground radicals tells the story of a childhood on the run and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America.Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the...

The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwideJonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin's oral vaccine that made the goal...

In this audiobook, the world-renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) describes the three extraordinary lives of Moses Dobrushka. Beginning his life as a Bohemian Jew in the antinomian cult of Sabbatean Frankism, Dobrushka first re-invented himself as the Catholic Austrian nobleman Franz...

From the author of American Eden--finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more--comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young...

The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas nativeWeaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long...

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition--the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as...

From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II exiles and one famed Paris hotel.Since its birth in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here,...

As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off...

A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear scienceFrom the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration...

A revelatory, insight-filled playbook for doing business in China and a probing look at why the country, despite the challenges it faces, still possesses unrivaled prospects for growth and entrepreneurial opportunity--by two leaders who, over the course of decades, have taken turns helming McKinsey's...

It is not too often one can read or listen to a 2600 year-old book and know that it still has relevance and importance today. The Art of War has long been considered not only a military classic, but a classic book in general....

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence.Not too long ago, you could still envision a future for America not marked by gun idolatry, blood-stained classrooms, and empty offers...

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a new and riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with traders, explorers, settlers, and the United States Army.Author: Larry E. MorrisISBN-13: 9798228943582Publisher: TantorLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Inflation rages. Crime is rising. Abortion rights take center stage at the Supreme Court. China poses an existential threat. Black lives are under attack. The president battles the press as he seeks to subvert not just the political order but the rule of law...

The four canonical gospels contain little information about the childhood of Jesus. To provide details of this period, a number of infancy gospels were composed in the second century, the text of this recording being one of the most notable. In this book, the...

The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and IranFor the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to...

The Kingdom is the story of a country--a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words "In the name of God," where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers...

A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay. Our lives are collections of information--from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never...

Professor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn't Suck, proves that while today's political climate may be dark, these aren't as unprecedented times as we may think.Our nation's past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground. The...

The story of the making, loss, and recovery of some of the greatest treasures of antiquity, raising questions about ancient mosaic art and its creation, the work of archaeology, and museum practice.In 1932, after years of fundraising and flurries of letters back and forth,...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel, a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports--seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.Can one person change the world?In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs,...

The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis's first openly transgender player, Renée Richards, featuring never-before-seen archival photos and untold stories nearly lost to history, until now.Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in the women's draw...

AN NPR SUMMER READING PICKFrom clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power, for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.Long before writing existed, at the dawn...

Audiobook narrated by the author."A spellbinding tour de force!" --Walter Scheidel, author of What Is Ancient History?"This is non-fiction storytelling at its finest." --Eric H. Cline, author of 1177 B.C.The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity's...

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.The Age of Cures is the in-depth history of the birth of the pharmaceutical industry...

AUDIOBOOK READ BY THE AUTHOR "In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie--that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning...

'Remarkable and haunting ... a revelation' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes 'A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity 'Truly beautiful and melodic ... a...

The definitive story of the making and legacy of Graceland, Paul Simon's still-beloved, career-topping 1986 album, drawn from extensive research and exclusive interviews with nearly 100 participants and witnesses: musicians, producers, engineers, record executives and journalists from Africa, the US, and Europe. In 1984,...