William Hughes

Too Big to Fail

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Narrated By William Hughes

A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.

The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition: Text and Documents

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
• Narrated By William Hughes

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and the public for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program - The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production.

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Steve Silberman
• Narrated By William Hughes
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What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.

Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Gregg Jones
• Narrated By William Hughes
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The vivid, fast-paced account of the siege of Khe Sanh told through the eyes of the men who lived it. For seventy-seven days in 1968, amid fears that America faced its own disastrous Dien Bien Phu, six thousand US Marines held off thirty thousand North Vietnamese Army regulars at the remote mountain stronghold called Khe Sanh. It was the biggest battle of the Vietnam War, with sharp ground engagements, devastating artillery duels, and massive US air strikes.

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Ruchir Sharma
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Shaped by his 25 years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art. Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country's fortunes to 10 clear rules, Sharma explains how to spot political, economic, and social changes in real time. He shows how to read political headlines, black markets, the price of onions, and billionaire rankings as signals of booms, busts, and protests.

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Charles R. Morris
• Narrated By William Hughes

Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings these men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and verve, they built an industrial behemoth - and a country of middle-class consumers.

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By George Friedman
• Narrated By William Hughes
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In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his eye on the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, experiencing the dawn of a new historical cycle.

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Steve Lopez
• Narrated By William Hughes
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When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than 30 years ago, Ayers was a promising classical bass student at Juilliard - ambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americans there - until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia.

Over time, the two men form a bond and Lopez imagines that he might be able to change Ayers' life. The Soloist is a beautifully told story of devotion in the face of seemingly unbeatable challenges.

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Radley Balko
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Rise of the Warrior Cop traces the arc of US law enforcement from the constables and private justice of colonial times to present-day SWAT teams and riot cops. Today relentless "war on drugs" and "war on terror" pronouncements from politicians, along with battle-clad police forces with tanks and machine guns, have dangerously blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. Balko's fascinating, frightening narrative shows how martial rhetoric and reactionary policies have put modern law enforcement on a collision course with the values of a free society.

Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Patrick K. O’Donnell
• Narrated By William Hughes
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In August 1776, a little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like there was no escape. But thanks to a series of desperate rear-guard attacks by a single heroic regiment, famously known as the Immortal 400, Washington was able to evacuate his men, and the nascent Continental Army lived to fight another day.

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Thomas E. Ricks
• Narrated By William Hughes
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A widening gulf between performance and accountability has caused history to be kinder to the American generals of World War II than to those of later wars. In The Generals we meet leaders from World War II to the present who rose to the occasion - and those who failed.

Freud: The Making of an Illusion

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Frederick Crews
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Drawing on rarely consulted archives, Crews shows us a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who never produced a corroborated cure, who promoted cocaine in one decade and was deluded by it in the next, who misunderstood the psychological controversies of the era, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise.

Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Edward M. Hallowell, Peter S. Jensen
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Dr. Edward Hallowell - a veteran pediatric psychiatric clinician, best-selling author, and himself a man with attention deficit disorder (ADD) - teams up with Peter S. Jensen, M.D., one of the country's foremost academics on ADD and the father of an ADD child, to present a specific and detailed program for parents to assist their ADD child in finding success, health, and joy. Sure to become an invaluable parenting resource and a classic in ADD literature, this book will help parents unlock the gifts of ADD.

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
• Narrated By William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, and others
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During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.

The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Andrew Wiest
• Narrated By William Hughes

When the 160 men of Charlie Company were drafted by the US Army in May 1966, they were part of the wave of conscription that would swell the American military to eighty thousand combat troops in Vietnam by the height of the war in 1968. In the spring of 1966 the war was still popular, and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company returned home, only thirty men were not casualties.

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 29 mins)
• By P. W. Singer
• Narrated By William Hughes
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A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. Singer’s previous books foretold the rise of private military contractors and the advent of child soldiers - predictions that have proved all too accurate. Now he explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: robotic warfare. We are now seeing a massive shift in military technology....

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 48 mins)
• By David Stockman
• Narrated By William Hughes
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David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution that was meant to restore sound money principles to the U.S. government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America and provides a surprising, nonpartisan catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis shows how both liberal and neoconservative interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous.

It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
• Narrated By William Hughes
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Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress' approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get anything done. In It's Even Worse Than It Looks, Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led Congress - and the United States - to the brink of institutional failure.