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The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making runs 6.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jared Yates Sexton (about 4.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6.7listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 6.7 hours of listening.

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2 hours / day4 days
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What our data says

  • At 6.7 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 10,266 Memoirs 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 Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making is an audiobook by Jared Yates Sexton: a 6.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Jared Yates Sexton, released May 14, 2019, on the Memoirs and Social Science shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
6.7 hrs
Narrated by
Jared Yates Sexton
Released
May 14, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, Social Science
ISBN
9781684572496

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making as an audiobook?

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making runs 6.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.5 hours.

Is The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making?

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making is narrated by Jared Yates Sexton.