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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 by David Kipen

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 audiobook runs 14.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman and David Kipen and others (about 9.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.8listening hrs
The Americasstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 is an audiobook by David Kipen: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Lynnette R. Freeman, David Kipen and Jeanine Bartel and others, released March 29, 2019, on the The Americas shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.8 hrs
Narrated by
Lynnette R. Freeman, David Kipen, Jeanine Bartel, Eva Kaminsky, Tom Picasso, Korey Jackson
Released
March 29, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
The Americas
ISBN
9781980034391

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 audiobook?

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.9 hours.

Is the Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 audiobook free?

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Who narrates Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018?

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 is narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman, David Kipen, Jeanine Bartel and Eva Kaminsky and others.

Is Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.9 hours, saving 4.9 hours.