Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year audiobook runs 17.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Robertson Dean (about 11.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 17.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 35 days |
| 1 hour / day | 18 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 17.1 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 3,098 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Robertson Dean
Robertson Dean narrates 129 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,500 hours in all.
- Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
- The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
- Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II’s Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- I Am Legend, and Other Stories
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
271 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- The Only Plane in the Sky (Revised and Expanded Edition for the 25th Anniversary): An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year is an audiobook by David Drehle: a 17.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Robertson Dean, released December 11, 2012, on the Law & Politics and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 17.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robertson Dean
- Released
- December 11, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Law & Politics, The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781469270302
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How long is the Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year audiobook?
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year runs 17.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.4 hours.
Is the Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year audiobook free?
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Who narrates Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year?
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year is narrated by Robertson Dean.
Is Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.4 hours, saving 5.7 hours.