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20th Century Audiobooks

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    Chaos

    Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties

    by Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring ...
    Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 14 min

    As featured on The Joe Rogan ExperiencePenguin presents the audiobook edition of Chaos written by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring, read by Kevin Stillwell.______________________________A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI’s involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Road to Jonestown

    Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

    by Jeff Guinn ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 30 min

    2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson.In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Failure Is Not an Option

    Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

    by Gene Kranz ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 14 min

    Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Fourth Turning

    by William Strauss ...
    Narrated by Neil Howe ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 1 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    To Marry an English Lord

    by Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles-just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus photographs, ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    No Ordinary Time

    by Doris Kearns Goodwin ...
    Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

    Unabridged

    39 hours 15 min

    Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable ... Read more

    $117.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Truman

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

    Unabridged

    54 hours 12 min

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess ... Read more

    $146.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by David McCullough ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Command and Control

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 33 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Read by the award-winning narrator Scott Brick.A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 39 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better lifeFrom 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Raven Rock

    The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

    by Garrett M. Graff ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 5 min

    Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV!The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall Street Journal).Every day in ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Nineties

    A Book

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    **An instant New York Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history.**It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Glory and the Dream

    A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972

    by William Manchester ...
    Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach ...

    Unabridged

    57 hours 23 min

    This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Malcolm X

    A Life of Reinvention

    by Manning Marable ...
    Narrated by G. Valmont Thomas ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 1 min

    Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    American Sherlock

    Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

    by Kate Winkler Dawson ...
    Narrated by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Pentagon Papers, The

    The Secret History of the Vietnam War

    by Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, Hedrick Smith, James L. Greenfield ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    37 hours

    The basis for the 2018 film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict.With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning story ... Read more

    $71.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

    Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition

    by Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes, Matthew Denhart ...
    Narrated by Terence Aselford ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past … to America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge.Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Dead Are Arising

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

    by Les Payne, Tamara Payne ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 6 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Finalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990... ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Presidents Club

    Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

    by Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 1 min

    The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    American Midnight

    The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 6 min

    From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor"A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.”—Kirkus, STARRED ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Lie Too Big to Fail

    The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

    by Lisa Pease ...
    Narrated by Donna Postel ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 53 min

    In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public. Pease reveals how ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Poisoner in Chief

    Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

    by Stephen Kinzer ...
    Narrated by James Linkin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Great and Inspiring Speeches of the 20th Century

    by Charles Lindbergh, Joseph McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, Alan Freed, Amelia Earhart, Babe Ruth, Barry Goldwater, Calvin Coolidge, Casey Stengel, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Edward Kennedy, Frank Borman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Bush, Gerard Watson, Gloria Steinem, Hank Aaron, Harry S. Truman, Howard Taft, J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing, Jerry Rubin, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, John Foster Dulles, John Glenn, John Kennedy, King Edward The VIII, Len Spencer, Lou Gehrig, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X, Mario Cuomo, Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong, Neville Chamberlain, Nikita Khrushchev, Oliver North, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Richard Daley, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Dewey, William Jennings Brian, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson ...
    Narrated by The Peter Pan Players ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world history. Hear presidents, politicians, activists, sports figures and more in their own words as they talk about some of the most important events in the 20th century. ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    The American Presidents Series: The 32nd President, 1933-1945

    by Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ...
    Narrated by Richard Rohan ...
    Audiobook 32 - The American Presidents

    Abridged

    2 hours 56 min

    A masterly, posthumous work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial