William Milz

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Laton McCartney
• Narrated By William Hughes

The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oil - hundreds of millions of dollars� worth of petroleum. When the scandal finally broke, the consequences were tremendous. President Harding's legacy was forever tarnished, while �Oil Cabinet� member Albert Fall was forced to resign and was imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the affair suffered prison terms, commitment to mental hospitals, suicide, and even murder.

Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix Them

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Robert B. Reich
• Narrated By Robert B. Reich

Robert B. Reich urges Americans to get beyond mere outrage about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilize and to take back our economy and democracy. Americans can’t rely only on getting good people elected, Reich argues, because nothing positive happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington are organized to help make those things happen after the election. But in order to be effectively mobilized, we need to see the big picture.

Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Steven M. Gillon
• Narrated By John Pruden
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct; the events of that day - when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor - ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl Harbor, acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon provides a vivid, minute-by-minute account of Roosevelt's skillful leadership in the wake of the most devastating military assault in American history. FDR proved both decisive and deceptive, inspiring the nation....

Holiday Classics by O. Henry

• UNABRIDGED (51 mins)
• By O. Henry
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis

When it comes to the holidays, no story brings us back to the true spirit of giving like O. Henry’s classic "The Gift of the Magi". So this year we’ve asked some of your favorite Audible narrators—Audie Award winners Katherine Kellgren, Oliver Wyman, and Jonathan Davis—to bring to life this timeless tale, plus two more of O. Henry’s gems: "The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Last Leaf", in this holiday collection.

Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By James P. Duffy
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles A. Lindbergh.

Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 32 mins)
• By David Bianculli
• Narrated By Johnny Heller

Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour proved there was a place on television for no-holds-barred political comedy with a decidedly antiauthoritarian point of view. In this explosive, revealing history of the show, veteran entertainment journalist David Bianculli tells the fascinating story of its three-year network run---and the cultural impact that's still being felt today.

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By James Hansen
• Narrated By John Allen Nelson

In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen - the nation's leading scientist on climate issues - speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although Hansen was Al Gore's science adviser for the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, his recent data shows that our situation is even more dire today.

The Numerati

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Stephen Baker
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves simply by living in the modern world: we click web pages, flip channels, and shop with credit cards. Now, in one of the greatest undertakings of the 21st century, a savvy group of mathematicians and computer scientists is beginning to sift through this data to profile us as workers, shoppers, patients, voters, potential terrorists, even lovers. Their goal? To manipulate our behavior.

While America Aged

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Roger Lowenstein
• Narrated By Michael McConnohie

Roger Lowenstein explains how corporations and governments ran up ruinous pension and health-care promises to workers - promises that are now coming due and that will hit America like a tsunami if nothing is done.

Negotiating high benefits means gambling with future finances - and when the farm gets sold out from underneath major corporations or public institutions, it affects all of us, and in ways we might not imagine. With his trademark narrative panache, Lowenstein unravels the truth about how pensions work in America and illuminates the impending crisis.

Crunch

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Jared Bernstein
• Narrated By Erik Synnestvedt
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a "living wage?" Why do I feel so squeezed? If you'd like to know the answers to these questions, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help.