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Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All by Jedd McFatter, Susan Crabtree

Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All audiobook runs 10.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Brian Troxell (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.4listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day21 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.4 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 9,905 Social Science 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

Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All is an audiobook by Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree: a 10.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Brian Troxell, released March 11, 2025, on the Social Science and Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.4 hrs
Narrated by
Brian Troxell
Released
March 11, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
ISBN
9781668646960

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All audiobook?

Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All runs 10.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.

Is the Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All audiobook free?

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Who narrates Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All?

Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All is narrated by Brian Troxell.

Is Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.5 hours.