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Precious Objects by Alicia Oltuski
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“The author writes and reads with a great understanding and love for the diamond trade and will make you especially appreciate any diamonds you might be wearing.”
History Archive
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire by HW Crocker, III
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“Liberals will find the point of view annoying but conservatives will rejoice at Crocker's take as Winston Churchill passes the mantle of world domination to America after World War II.”
Why Read Moby Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Given the author’s enthusiasm for Melville, it is hard to imagine anyone else doing the narration. Philbrick provides a good clear presentation, and his authority over the subject matter, as well as his passion for it, is obvious.”
*Confidence Men by Ron Suskind
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“James Lurie is an excellent narrator, light and swift in a fast-moving, well-written narrative.”
Redirect by Timothy D. Wilson
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“Grover Gardner delivers an always solid, crisp, reading that matches the content.”
Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Hornfischer's epic study is narrated by actor Robertson Dean, who handles the dry facts of personnel and equipment as well as the bloody battle scenes with equal aplomb. Highly recommended to students the Pacific war.”
*Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Fifteen C.D.'s worth of incredible and incredulous reporting, the velvety smooth voice of Annie Jacobsen....
Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Christopher Evan Welch’s narration of his challenging, sometimes dangerous, nautical pursuit of the rubber duckies and of the scientific studies being funded by various research organizations on what lies ahead for the world’s seas is fine.
*Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Wicked Bugs is beautifully narrated by Coleen Marlo who does a full-voiced reading with great intonation and nuance as she describes the bug attacks, their impact on history and their continued attacks today as in the case of the recent rash of bed bugs in American cities.
The Floor of Heaven by Howard Blum
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
Narrator John H. Mayer does a great job with the single-voice narration of this lengthy history.
*The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Mon, Aug 01, 2011
... this book is a riveting and important work of history and sociology, emphasizing an era which should never be forgotten. Narrator Robin Miles is perfect.
In Deep Water by Peter Lehner
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Listeners may agree or disagree, but Tom Weiner’s deeply authoritative, self-assured and compelling narration of the facts provided by Lehner makes it almost impossible not to believe that there must be drastic change about our search for and use of oil or we are doomed.
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent a new ambassador to Germany. From all outward appearances, it was a marvelous place to be - quaint villages, a vibrant and happy populace, bustling outdoor cafes, music and arts flourishing.... This new ambassador was William E. Dodd, a quiet, frugal and rather naive man, who would prove to be initially uncomfortable with the required social graces of his new position
Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Long time print journalist Charles Pierce is outraged, and amused, at the idiocy that has overtaken the mainstream media, our politicians, this country.
The Next Decade by George Friedman
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Respected geo-political forecaster, George Friedman, states in the introduction to this production that the United States is an unintentional empire, shaped not by deliberation but more neutrally, by the events of history… Bruce Turk narrates with force and precision
Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
Sun, May 01, 2011
Nelson Johnson practiced law for 30 years, during which time he was active in Atlantic City and Atlantic County politics. He is currently a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, sitting in the Civil Division of Atlantic County. He lives in Hammonton, New Jersey.
To You We Shall Return by Joseph M. Marshall III
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
JOSEPH M. MARSHALL III was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and holds a Ph.D. from the reservation university, which he helped to establish. The award-winning author of ten books, he has also contributed to various publications and written several screenplays. His first language is Lakota, he handcrafts primitive Lakota bows and arrows, and he is a specialist in wilderness survival. His work as a cultural and historical consultant can be seen and heard on Turner Network Television and the Dreamworks epic television miniseries ''Into the West.'' He has won an Audie Award, Earphones Award, ''Nammy'' Award, and was named Best American Indian Fiction Writer by True West magazine in 2009.
The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Ben Hewitt was born in northwestern Vermont and raised in a two-room cabin; his father was a poet and his mother worked on a nearby dairy farm. He now lives with his wife and two sons on a diversified, 40-acre farm in Vermont, where they produce dairy, beef, pork, lamb, vegetables, and berries. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Best Life, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, and Skiing.
*Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Bruce Watson's previous books include Sacco and Vanzetti, a finalist for the Edgar Award, and Bread and Roses, a New York Public Library Book to Remember. His journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian, and Reader's Digest. He lives in Massachusetts.
American Colossus by H.W, Brands
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and for Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His Web site is www.hwbrands.com.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010) was the author of the bestselling books Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis, which make up his Blowback Trilogy. He also wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, and TomDispatch.com.
Crash of the Titans by Greg Farrell
Tue, Feb 01, 2011
GREG FARRELL is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Merrill Lynch had paid out its 2008 bonuses a month ahead of schedule, in December, even though Merrill was in the process of losing $28 billion for the year, and Bank of America needed an extra $20 billion in taxpayer funds to complete its acquisition of the firm. That story sparked an investigation by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo. Greg is a past winner of the American Business Press’s Jesse Neal Award for investigative reporting and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalism. He earned a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
The Oil Kings by Andrew Scott Cooper
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“Using recently declassified documents, Andrew Scott Cooper pieces together a portrait of geo-petro-political intrigue.”
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow by James Mauro
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
James Mauro is a former editor of Spy magazine and executive editor of Cosmopolitan. Most recently he was editorial director for Moffly Media, publishers of the Connecticut periodicals Greenwich, Stamford, Westport, New Canaan Darien, and AtHome. His writing has been featured in Radar, Details, Spy, Psychology Today, and a host of other publications.
When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times from 2001-2007--the first woman to have held that position. She currently writes a column for the Time's Op-Ed page twice weekly.
American Insurgents by T.H. Breen
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
T. H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. The author of several works of history, Breen has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilization, and The History of Money.
The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Jonathan Gross, Ph.D. (Columbia University) is Professor of English at DePaul University and the author of more than five books. He has played with City Rhythm (1987-1992), Jimmy D. Lane (1993), Breezin' (1994-2009), and Lush Life, a jazz trio that has performed at fundraisers for Rahm Emanuel, Lookingglass Theatre, and the Chicago Cultural Center (2001-2005).
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
Tony Judt was born in London in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley and New York University, where he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute, which he founded in 1995, which is dedicated to the study of Europe. He was the author of twelve books and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Permanent Fellow of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna). His book Reappraisals: Reflections On The Forgotten Twentieth Century and Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Professor Judt died in August, 2010.
Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
A native of Memphis, HAMPTON SIDES is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers.
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Miranda Carter is the author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, which won the Orwell Prize for political writing and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Award, and was chosen as one of The New York Times Book Review’s seven Best Books of 2002. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
*Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A recent Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named "New Literary Idol" by New York magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A Rainbow in the Night by Dominique Lapierre
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Dominique Lapierre is the author of numerous best-sellers, including City of Joy and A Thousand Suns. He is coauthor with Larry Collins of Is Paris Burning?, O Jersusalem!, and Freedom at Midnight.
Cahokia by Timothy R. Pauketat
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Timothy R. Pauketat is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions and Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians. He lives in Illinois.
*Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Jill Jonnes is the author of Conquering Gotham, Empires of Light, and South Bronx Rising. She was named a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar and has received several grants from the Ford Foundation.
*Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Tamim Ansary is the author of the memoir West of Kabul, East of New York, co-author with Farah Ahmadi of the New York Times bestseller The Other Side of the Sky, and has been a major contributing writer to several secondary school history textbooks. Ansary is director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Ansary is the director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop and writes for Encarta.com, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
James Bradley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. He lives in New York.
The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram, and international fame with The Guns of August -- a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed other successes, including The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, The First Salute, and The March of Folly.
Our Times by A.N. Wilson
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
A.N. Wilson, Oxford Educated novelist, biography, and journalist, is a Fellow of the Royal Soceity of Literature. He is an award-winning biographer (of John Milton, C.S. Lewis, the apostle Paul, Hilaire Beloc, Leon Tolstory and Jesus Christ) and a celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
*The Tudors by G.J. Meyer
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
G. J. Meyer is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota, a onetime journalist, and holder of Harvard University’s Neiman Fellowship in Journalism. He has taught at colleges and universities in Des Moines, St. Louis, and New York. His books include A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, Executive Blues, and The Memphis Murders, winner of an Edgar Award for nonfiction from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Goring-on-Thames, England.
The Renaissance in a Nutshell by Peter Whitfield
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Peter Whitfield is an historian and a poet. His books include A Universe of Books: Readings in World Literature and Landmarks in Western Science, New Found Lands – Maps in the History of Exploration. He is a keen cyclist and has written books on his sport.
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post, where he previously served as White House correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia.
Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Richard Reeves is the author of presidential bestsellers, including President Nixon and President Kennedy, acclaimed as the best nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine. A syndicated columnist and winner of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, he lives in New York and Los Angeles.
English Society in the 18th Century by Roy Porter
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Roy Porter was, until his retirement, Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He died in 2002.
The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Patrick Radden Keefe is a writer who focuses on international security, immigration, espionage, and the globalization of crime. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate, and the author of THE SNAKEHEAD: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Doubleday, July 2009), and CHATTER: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005).
American Passage by Vincent Cannato
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Vincent J. Cannato teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
The Commission by Philip Shenon
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Philip Shenon is an investigative reporter with The New York Times, based in Washington. He was the lead reporter on the investigation of the 9/11 Commission and has held several of the most important assignments of the Washington Bureau, including chief Defense Department Correspondent, Diplomatic Correspondent, Congressional Correspondent and Justice Department Correspondent. He was one of two New York Times reporters embedded with American grounds troops during the invasion of Iraq and worked in pre-war Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran for the New York Times foreign staff.
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
TIMOTHY EGAN is a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of five books and the recipient of several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
How to Win a Cosmic War by Reza Aslan
Tue, Sep 01, 2009
Reza Aslan is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and Senior Fellow at the Orfalae Center for Global and International Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara. His first book, No god but God, has been translated into thirteen languages and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award.