The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Thom Hartmann Hidden History series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy runs 4.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sean Pratt (about 2.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 4.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.2 hours, it is shorter than 84% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 25.1 hours before it; books 1 to 9 run 38 hours in all.
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Sean Pratt narrates 595 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 5,025 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
424 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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 Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy is book 7 of Thom Hartmann's Thom Hartmann Hidden History series: a 4.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Sean Pratt, released March 8, 2022, on the Social Science and Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Sean Pratt
- Released
- March 8, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- Series
- The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series #7
- ISBN
- 9781663737960
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy as an audiobook?
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy runs 4.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.8 hours.
Is The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy?
The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy is narrated by Sean Pratt.