How the States Got Their Shapes: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How the States Got Their Shapes audiobook runs 6.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Brian Holsopple (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.5 hours, it is shorter than 70% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Brian Holsopple
Brian Holsopple narrates 41 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 307 hours in all.
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- Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know
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- Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption is Worse than You Think
- Death Sentence
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
366 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Book of Charlie
- MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
- Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
- The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
- The Final Witness
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
How the States Got Their Shapes is an audiobook by Mark Stein: a 6.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Brian Holsopple, released October 14, 2011, on the Military (History) and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Brian Holsopple
- Released
- October 14, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Military (History), The Americas
- ISBN
- 9780062131881
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the How the States Got Their Shapes audiobook?
How the States Got Their Shapes runs 6.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.
Is the How the States Got Their Shapes audiobook free?
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Who narrates How the States Got Their Shapes?
How the States Got Their Shapes is narrated by Brian Holsopple.