American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane audiobook runs 10 hours unabridged, narrated by Cotter Smith (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10 hours, it runs longer than 56% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Cotter Smith
Cotter Smith narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 98 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
1,161 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane is an audiobook by Walter Isaacson: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Cotter Smith, released November 24, 2009, on the World and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- Cotter Smith
- Released
- November 24, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Essays & Anthologies, The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781442304086
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane audiobook?
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is the American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane audiobook free?
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Who narrates American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane?
American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane is narrated by Cotter Smith.
Is American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.