FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression audiobook runs 9.5 hours unabridged, narrated by William Hughes (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 19 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 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 50% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
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William Hughes narrates 86 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 964 hours in all.
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About as long, on the The Americas shelf
874 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression is an audiobook by Jim Powell: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by William Hughes, released January 1, 2008, on the The Americas shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- William Hughes
- Released
- January 1, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781481583060
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression audiobook?
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is the FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression audiobook free?
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Who narrates FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression?
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression is narrated by William Hughes.