By: Steven Johnson / Narrated By: Alan Sklar
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
The rambling Epilogue can’t mar what’s a really nifty story of sage sleuthing
The Ghost Map
The Other Side of the Night
The Five
Bygone Badass Broads
The Vietnam War in American Childhood
Children, Youth, and War Series
By: Joel P. Rhodes / Narrated By: Chris Sorensen
Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
This world, yes, became my foundation
The League of Wives
Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
By: Steve Sheinkin / Narrated By: Ray Porter
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Oh wow—This is for kids?!? No wonder I found it so accessible, so enjoyable, so, well, even I could grasp all the nuances!!!
Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
By: Modris Eksteins / Narrated By: Michael Prichard
Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
So suuuuue me—Best intro to Springtime EVER!
The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson / Narrated By: John Lee / Epilogue By: Erik Larson
Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
WOW! Can chaos and carnage and political machinations be good ol’ rollicking fun? YES!!!
In the Shadow of Liberty
The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
By: Kenneth C. Davis / Narrated By: Kenneth C. Davis, Frankie Faison, Keith David, JD Jackson, Adenrele Ojo, Adam Lazarre-White, Dion Graham, Mark Bramhall
Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
Behind our great men? An army of enslaved men, women, and children… Happy Presidents Day, y’all…
Enemies in Love
The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
By: Wayne Coffey / Narrated By: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Structural problem turns an exciting event into a, dare I say it: Snooooze fest?!?
Insane Clown President
Prince of Pleasure
Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
Series: The King Legacy
By: Martin Luther King Jr. / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
Ponderous narration (And I mean PONDEROUS!) doesn’t mar this incredibly fine account
The Man Who Invented Christmas
A Christmas Far From Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War
By: Stanley Weintraub / Narrated By: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
The real heroes were the troops fighting and dying—Don’t look to MacArthur for heroism…
North Korea Confidential
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
A HIGHly respectful look at what we don’t know about North Korea
