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The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt

The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy runs 11.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Stephen M. Walt (about 7.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.3listening hrs
The Americasstore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy at common listening paces
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30 min / day23 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 11.3 hours, it runs longer than 65% 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 Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy is an audiobook by Stephen M. Walt: a 11.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephen M. Walt, released October 16, 2018, on the The Americas shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.3 hrs
Narrated by
Stephen M. Walt
Released
October 16, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
The Americas
ISBN
9781250303448

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy as an audiobook?

The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy runs 11.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.5 hours.

Is The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy?

The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy is narrated by Stephen M. Walt.

Is The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.5 hours, saving 3.8 hours.