(Abridged)
By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
No Silent Night
Mayflower Chronicles
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Cassandra Speaks
When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
By: Elizabeth Lesser / Narrated By: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
First time? Liked it. Second time? Oh gosh! juuuuuust what I NEEDED!!!
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert
Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!
The Real History of Witches and Witch Hunts
Final Salute
A Story of Unfinished Lives
By: Jim Sheeler / Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
A MUST-Listen for every American…
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Unwomanly Face of War
Wilmington's Lie
Assassination Vacation
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Catherine Keener, Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Jon Stewart
Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
Uneven guest narrators don’t throw off a delight. Morbid meets Road Trip
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson / Narrated By: George Newbern
Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
Oh how I do so love Steven Johnson! This one neither disappoints, nor does it go off on a meandering tangent in the end. Rather, it’s one looooong meandering and delightful tangent!!!
The Radical King
Series: The Radical King
By: Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Cornel West / Narrated By: LeVar Burton, Gabourey Sidibe, Cornel West, Mike Colter, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael K. Williams
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
More notable for Cornel West’s Commentary—soooo, I think, while this is good, I’m looking for MLK Jr’s Autobiography narrated by LeVar Burton to be better
Everything Trump Touches Dies
Denali's Howl
Dawn of Infamy
Day of Infamy
By: Walter Lord / Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
If you want heavy-duty history, look elsewhere. Aaaah, but if you want Living History? Here it is!!!
Target Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By: James M. Scott / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
AWEsome! Breathtaking! Riveting! Holy cow! …and I could go on and on and on!!!
