That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back audiobook runs 16.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Jason Culp (about 11.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 16.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.9 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 4,722 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jason Culp
Jason Culp narrates 104 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,191 hours in all.
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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
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is an audiobook by Michael Mandelbaum and Thomas L. Friedman: a 16.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Jason Culp, released September 5, 2011, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jason Culp
- Released
- September 5, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9781427213723
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How long is the That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back audiobook?
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back runs 16.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.3 hours.
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Who narrates That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back?
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is narrated by Jason Culp.
Is That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.3 hours, saving 5.6 hours.