The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression runs 8.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Macleod Andrews (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.9 hours, it is shorter than 54% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Macleod Andrews
Macleod Andrews narrates 214 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,938 hours in all.
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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 Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression is an audiobook by Ben Montgomery: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Macleod Andrews, released September 18, 2018, on the World and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Macleod Andrews
- Released
- September 18, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, History & Culture, The Americas
- ISBN
- 9781478920953
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression as an audiobook?
The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.
Is The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression?
The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression is narrated by Macleod Andrews.