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The Case for Democracy
By: Natan Sharansky
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Natan Sharansky has lived an unusual life, spending nine years as a Soviet political prisoner and nine years as an Israeli politician. In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, Sharansky and his longtime friend and advisor Ron Dermer make the case for democracy. The authors put nondemocratic societies under the microscope to reveal the... Read more
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Unfit for Command
By: John E. O’Neill & Jerome R. Corsi
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In their book, Unfit for Command, John O’Neill and coauthor Jerome Corsi bring together the words of more than two hundred Navy veterans who served with Kerry and who feel it their duty to tell why John Kerry is unworthy of the presidency.In 1971, John O’Neill, the officer who took over John Kerry’s swift boat in Vietnam, returned home from... Read more
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Let Me Go
By: Helga Schneider
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Helga Schneider was four when her mother suddenly abandoned her family in Berlin in 1941. When she next saw her mother, thirty years later, she learned the shocking reason why.Helga’s mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a “correction” unit and... Read more
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The Long March
By: Roger Kimball
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The architects of America’s cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated... Read more
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Raoul Wallenberg, Revised Edition
By: Harvey Rosenfeld
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an international symbol of twentieth-century humanitarianism, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, issued countless “false” visas and other documents which were virtual life certificates that saved approximately one hundred thousand Jews from the Nazis in wartime Hungary. Then in 1945, as the war drew to a close, he disappeared after being... Read more
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Anti-Americanism
By: Jean-François Revel
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
After the 9/11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon began giving way to blame. In France and other quarters of Europe, and elsewhere in the world, it was said that the Americans had brought this violence upon themselves. The United States was a “cowboy” nation disinclined to abide by the will of the... Read more
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Into the Rising Sun
By: Patrick K. O’Donnell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Patrick O’Donnell has made a career of uncovering the hidden history of World War II by tracking down and interviewing its most elite troops: the Rangers, Airborne, Marines, and First Special Service Force, forerunners to America’s Special Forces. These veterans were often the first in and the last out of every conflict, from Guadalcanal and... Read more
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The War over Iraq
By: Lawrence F. Kaplan & William Kristol
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Fox News political analyst William Kristol was intimately involved (along with Bush administration figures Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle) in pushing proposals to militarily attack Iraq and project American military power for a “New American Century.” Here, he and New Republic senior editor Lawrence F. Kaplan present the justification for that... Read more
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The Future of Freedom
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Ned Schmidtke
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
More democracy means more freedom. Or does it?American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria points out that the American form of democracy is one of the least democratic in use today. Members of the Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve, institutions that fundamentally shape our lives, are... Read more
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Charlie Wilson’s War
By: George Crile
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 20 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history.In the early 1980s, after a Houston... Read more
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Transforming Leadership
By: James MacGregor Burns
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Transforming Leadership examines how leaders evolve from ordinary "transactional" deal-makers into dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers. Pulitzer Prize-winning author James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute... Read more
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Voucher Wars
By: Clint Bolick
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more
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Marx in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief... Read more
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Civil Rights
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: James Bundy
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the Civil Rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric. In the decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time, and which have proven to be... Read more
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A Conflict of Visions
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a... Read more
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Compassion versus Guilt, and Other Essays
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Michael Kevin
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sociologist-economist Sowell, a noted conservative, draws this collection of essays from his Scripps-Howard syndicated column and his contributions to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.Sowell offers opinions on social and foreign policy, law, education, and race, criticizing the trend of American politics since... Read more
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One Man’s War
By: Tommy LaMore & Dan Baker
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Escaping certain death—not once but several times—lies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II. In One Man's War, B-17 pilot Tommy LaMore vividly details his experiences in war-ravaged Germany, from the horrific to the romantic and beyond.LaMore's saga began when his plane collided with another... Read more
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Six Days of War
By: Michael B. Oren
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 17 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as “the Setback.” Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish... Read more
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The Triumph of Liberty
By: Jim Powell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 26 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Of humankind’s great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny’s iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this inspiring story through sixty-five biographical portraits. From the millions of men and women whose struggles and successes have made... Read more
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The Sword and the Shield
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on unprecedented access to a secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign... Read more
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To Hell and Back
By: Audie Murphy
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war. Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By V-E day, he had killed... Read more
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The Fighting Pattons
By: Brian M. Sobel
Narrated by: Adams Morgan
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This book gives readers a unique look at a bold and legendary general, and the compelling story of his only son, who followed in his father’s footsteps.In America’s triumph over Nazi Germany, no name was more legendary than Patton, the general feared and admired even by his enemies. While Patton cut a path of victory in Europe, his son was... Read more
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The Sage of Monticello
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more
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Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 24 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Jefferson series completes the story of his presidency, carrying him through his troubled second term but also to the end of an official career that spanned some forty years. Although Jefferson remained the major unifying factor in his party, the government, and the country, he was confronted by a... Read more
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