An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics runs 16.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mark Deakins and Roger Cohen (about 11.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.6 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mark Deakins
Mark Deakins narrates 211 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,380 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
372 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
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- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,
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
An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics is an audiobook by Roger Cohen: a 16.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Deakins and Roger Cohen, released February 21, 2023, on the Social Science and Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Deakins, Roger Cohen
- Released
- February 21, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9780593628102
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics as an audiobook?
An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics runs 16.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.1 hours.
Is An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics?
An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics is narrated by Mark Deakins and Roger Cohen.
Is An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.1 hours, saving 5.5 hours.