First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents audiobook runs 15.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Robert Petkoff (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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What our data says
- At 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Robert Petkoff
Robert Petkoff narrates 385 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,502 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
653 World 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
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents is an audiobook by Gary Ginsberg: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert Petkoff, released July 6, 2021, on the World and Law & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robert Petkoff
- Released
- July 6, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Law & Politics
- ISBN
- 9781549184611
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents audiobook?
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.
Is the First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents audiobook free?
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Who narrates First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents?
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents is narrated by Robert Petkoff.
Is First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.2 hours.