The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama runs 22.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by William Hughes (about 14.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 22.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 45 days |
| 1 hour / day | 23 days |
| 2 hours / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 days |
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What our data says
- At 22.2 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by William Hughes
William Hughes narrates 86 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 964 hours in all.
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- The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition: Text and Documents
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- Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
108 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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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
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama is an audiobook by Ethan Michaeli: a 22.2-hour unabridged recording, read by William Hughes, released July 12, 2016, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 22.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- William Hughes
- Released
- July 12, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781504729963
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama as an audiobook?
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama runs 22.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.8 hours.
Is The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama?
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama is narrated by William Hughes.
Is The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.8 hours, saving 7.4 hours.