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It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans by David Shulkin

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans audiobook runs 11.4 hours unabridged, narrated by David Shulkin and Daniel Thomas May (about 7.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.4listening hrs
Current Affairs, Law, & Politicsstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 11.4 hours, it runs longer than 72% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf

1,425 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

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About this listen

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans is an audiobook by David Shulkin: a 11.4-hour unabridged recording, read by David Shulkin and Daniel Thomas May, released October 22, 2019, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics and Military (History) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.4 hrs
Narrated by
David Shulkin, Daniel Thomas May
Released
October 22, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, Military (History)
ISBN
9781549145322

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans audiobook?

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans runs 11.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.6 hours.

Is the It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans audiobook free?

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Who narrates It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans?

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans is narrated by David Shulkin and Daniel Thomas May.

Is It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.6 hours, saving 3.8 hours.