First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country audiobook runs 11.9 hours unabridged, narrated by James Lurie (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 11.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.9 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by James Lurie
James Lurie narrates 42 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 464 hours in all.
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
850 The Americas 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
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country is an audiobook by Thomas E. Ricks: a 11.9-hour unabridged recording, read by James Lurie, released November 10, 2020, on the The Americas and Law & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Lurie
- Released
- November 10, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas, Law & Politics, Lessons in Philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780062997487
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How long is the First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country audiobook?
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country runs 11.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country audiobook free?
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Who narrates First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country?
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country is narrated by James Lurie.
Is First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.