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The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution by Tom Shachtman

The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution runs 10.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins (about 7.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.9listening hrs
The Americasstore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

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Based on 10.9 hours of listening.

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30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.9 hours, it runs longer than 61% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.

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 Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution is an audiobook by Tom Shachtman: a 10.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Sean Patrick Hopkins, released January 21, 2020, on the The Americas and Economics shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.9 hrs
Narrated by
Sean Patrick Hopkins
Released
January 21, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
The Americas, Economics
ISBN
9781250261304

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution as an audiobook?

The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution runs 10.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.2 hours.

Is The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution?

The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution is narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins.

Is The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.2 hours, saving 3.6 hours.