10 audiobooks for fans of Truman
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John Adams
Narrated by Nelson Runger
★ 4.46 BLT Score (388.8K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (379.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (9.4K)More about this pick
McCullough's prose sings in Runger's hands: Adams emerges as a brilliant, prickly man whose love for Abigail proved as revolutionary as his politics.
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Mornings on Horseback
Narrated by Nelson Runger
★ 4.03 BLT Score (37.3K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (35.7K) ★ 4.34 Audible (1.6K) - 3
The Wright Brothers
Narrated by David McCullough
★ 4.47 BLT Score (113.7K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (99.5K) ★ 4.68 Audible (14.2K) - 4
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Narrated by David McCullough
★ 4.08 BLT Score (9.7K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (8.0K) ★ 4.48 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
Hearing McCullough tell his own stories, you get what most audiobooks can't: a historian's genuine conviction that each life mattered.
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Grant
by Ron Chernow
Narrated by Mark Bramhall
★ 4.77 BLT Score (58.4K ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (44.7K) ★ 4.87 Audible (13.8K)More about this pick
Chernow shatters Grant myths and reveals the brilliant, complex figure history got spectacularly wrong. Bramhall guides you through 48 hours of essential American biography.
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts
Narrated by Stephen Thorne
★ 4.62 BLT Score (16.3K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (11.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (4.8K)More about this pick
Roberts' definitive biography finds its perfect narrator in Stephen Thorne, whose commanding voice makes this 50-hour epic feel essential. Churchill the man, not the myth, in all his contradictions.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Narrated by Nelson Runger
★ 4.29 BLT Score (160.5K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (151.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (9.2K)More about this pick
Isaacson makes Franklin irresistible: ambitious inventor, pragmatic schemer, and so thoroughly human you'll understand why he still defines America.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.63 BLT Score (168.1K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (149.4K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.7K)More about this pick
Grover Gardner's measured, authoritative narration transforms Shirer's monumental scholarship into something gripping—57 hours that feel essential, not exhausting, when you're learning how a civilization collapses into barbarism.
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My Name Is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
Narrated by Barbra Streisand
★ 4.38 BLT Score (25.9K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (21.6K) ★ 4.69 Audible (4.2K) - 10
Efeito Bola de Neve - A biografia de Warren Buffett
by Alice Schroeder
Narrated by Erika Riba
★ 4.31 BLT Score (54.6K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (54.6K)More about this pick
The only Buffett biography he authorized, with complete access to his thinking. Fifty hours exploring how an investing genius sees the world and builds his empire.
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