It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State audiobook runs 7.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.8 hours, it runs longer than 50% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
Malcolm Hillgartner narrates 285 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,361 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
2,310 Memoirs 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
It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State is an audiobook by Jonathan Starr: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Malcolm Hillgartner, released January 10, 2017, on the Memoirs and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- Released
- January 10, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, History & Culture
- ISBN
- 9781504798952
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How long is the It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State audiobook?
It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.
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Who narrates It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State?
It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World’s #1 Failed State is narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner.