Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Jay Parini
• Narrated By John Lescault
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The product of 30 years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well - a virtual who's who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Princess Margaret, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood.

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Gore Vidal
• Narrated By Paul Hecht, Gore Vidal

Volumes have been written about George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Inventing a Nation does. Vidal's consummate skill takes you into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.

The Golden Age

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Gore Vidal
• Narrated By Anne Twomey

The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire.

Also available abridged.

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Gore Vidal
• Narrated By Dan Cashman

The Last Empire is Gore Vidal's ninth collection of essays in the course of his distinguished literary career. Vidal displays unparalleled range and inimitable style as he offers incisive observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, Tony Blair, and the Clintons, interwoven with a rich tapestry of personal anecdote, critical insight, and historical detail. Written between the first presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and the electoral crisis of 2000, The Last Empire is a sweeping coda to the still-existing conflicted vision of the American dream.

Insane Clown President

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Matt Taibbi
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist.

The Habsburg Empire: A New History

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Pieter M. Judson
• Narrated By Michael Page
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 38 mins)
• By William F. Buckley
• Narrated By William F. Buckley

In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of 10 children; Buckley the daring young political enfant terrible, whose debut book, God and Man at Yale, was a shocking New York Times best seller; Buckley the editor of National Review, widely hailed as the founder of the modern conservative movement; and Buckley the husband and father.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens
• Narrated By Christopher Hitchens

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Al Franken
• Narrated By Al Franken
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.

The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Roger Stone
• Narrated By BJ Pottsworth
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In the early hours of November 9, 2016, one of the most contentious, polarizing, and vicious presidential races came to an abrupt and unexpected end when heavily favored presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called Donald J. Trump to concede, shocking a nation that had, only hours before, given little credence to his chances. Donald Trump pulled the greatest upset in American political history despite a torrent of invective and dismissal of the mainstream media.

Nevertheless: A Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Alec Baldwin
• Narrated By Alec Baldwin
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One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir.

Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Robert Strauss
• Narrated By Tom Perkins
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Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening - and highly entertaining - account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse. But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading listeners out of Buchanan's terrible term in office to explore with insight and humor his own obsession with presidents, and ultimately the entire notion of ranking our presidents.

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Brinkley (foreword)
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times best-seller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye on the Clinton political machine and offers a searing indictment of a president who sought to hold power at any cost. With blistering wit and meticulous documentation, Hitchens masterfully deconstructs Clinton's abject propensity for pandering to the Left while delivering to the Right, and he argues that the president's personal transgressions were ultimately inseparable from his political corruption.

And Yet...: Essays

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Christopher Hitchens
• Narrated By Steve West
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The death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than 40 years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly wide ranging and provocative.

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 52 mins)
• By David Sedaris
• Narrated By David Sedaris

For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in print. Now, in Theft by Finding, Sedaris brings us his favorite entries. From deeply poignant to laugh-out-loud funny, these selections reveal with new intimacy a man longtime fans only think they know.

Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Shaun Considine
• Narrated By January LaVoy

This joint biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford follows Hollywood's most epic rivalry throughout their careers. They only worked together once, in the classic spine-chiller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and their violent hatred of each other as rival sisters was no act. In real life they fought over as many men as they did film roles.

Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Andrew Lownie
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
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Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies" - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Bernie Sanders
• Narrated By Bernie Sanders, Mark Ruffalo

When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment. By the time Sanders' campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong.

Unspeakable

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs)
• By Chris Hedges
• Narrated By Chris Hedges, Michael Quinlan
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Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb-thrower who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else.

A Streetcar Named Desire (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Tennessee Williams
• Narrated By Rosemary Harris, James Farentino

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche, until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed.

Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Helen Rappaport
• Narrated By Xe Sands
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eyewitness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.

I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Robert Wagner
• Narrated By Robert Wagner
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In a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming a beloved star in both media. During that time he became acquainted, both professionally and socially, with the remarkable women who were the greatest screen personalities of their day. I Loved Her in the Movies is his intimate and revealing account of the charisma of these women on film, why they became stars, and more.

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

• UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Robert A. Caro
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Stephen Kinzer
• Narrated By Robert Petkoff

How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat - until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country.