Don't Know Much About History - Updated and Revised Edition

Written by Kenneth C. Davis
Read by Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $49.95

A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don’t Know Much About® series.

When Don't Know Much About® History first appeared, it created a sensation. With humor, great stories, and a trademark conversational style, the book brought Americans a fresh new... Read more >

American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham
Read by John H. Mayer

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $39.95

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more >

The American Civil War
A Military History
Written by John Keegan
Read by Robin Sachs

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $38.00

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and... Read more >

The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Read by Ken Burns

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $30.00

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >

The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, Madness, and the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson
Read by Tony Goldwyn

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $19.95

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more >

The Princes of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by John Keating

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $19.95

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence... Read more >

The Greatest Generation

Written by Tom Brokaw
Read by Tom Brokaw

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: December 7, 1998
Price: $30.00

3 CDs  / 4 hours
Read by the Author, Tom Brokaw
Also available on cassette

In this superb audiobook, Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell - through the stories of individual men and women - the story of a generation, American's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression... Read more >

Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Written by Jon Krakauer
Read by Jon Krakauer

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $19.99

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil... Read more >

America's Hidden History
Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
Written by Kenneth C. Davis
Read by Sam Freed and Kenneth C. Davis

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $29.95

Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation’s fate hung in the balance.

Spanning a period... Read more >

The Accidental Billionaires

Written by Ben Mezrich
Read by Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $35.00

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math... Read more >