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Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country by Shelby Steele

Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country audiobook runs 4.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Randall Bain (about 3.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4.8listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 4.8 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country is an audiobook by Shelby Steele: a 4.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Randall Bain, released February 25, 2015, on the Social Science shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
4.8 hrs
Narrated by
Randall Bain
Released
February 25, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science
ISBN
9781501209697

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country audiobook?

Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country runs 4.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.2 hours.

Is the Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country audiobook free?

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Who narrates Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country?

Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country is narrated by Randall Bain.