A People's History of the United States
  • By Howard Zinn
  • Duration: 8:45:20
  • Narrator: Matt Damon
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and...

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Once Upon a Town
  • By Bob Greene
  • Duration: 6:06:17
  • Narrator: Fritz Weaver
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska on troop trains, en route to Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town...

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life [abridged]
  • By Walter Isaacson
  • Duration: 7:15:00
  • Narrator: Boyd Gaines
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders...

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Heretic
  • By Bernard Cornwell
  • Duration: 6:20:26
  • Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

Thomas of Hookton is a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army and a natural leader in what will be remembered as the Hundred Years' War. Accompanied by a small but able band of...

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Grand Pursuit: The Story Of Economic Genius
  • By Sylvia Nasar
  • Duration: 20:14:30
  • Narrator: Anne Twomey
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who...

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The Fifties: An Underground History
  • By James R. Gaines
  • Duration: 8:11:39
  • Narrator: James Fouhey
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity...

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Marvel Comics
  • By Sean Howe
  • Duration: 17:52:23
  • Narrator: Stephen Hoye
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in...

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The Savage City
  • By T. J. English
  • Duration: 10:18:32
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA

“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected...

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment In Literary Investigation [abridged]
  • By Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  • Duration: 21:52:58
  • Narrator: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late...

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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors From Augustus To Constantine
  • By Barry Strauss
  • Duration: 12:51:14
  • Narrator: Arthur Morey
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of...

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