The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation runs 21.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Allen (about 14.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 21.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 44 days |
| 1 hour / day | 22 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 21.6 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Richard Allen
Richard Allen narrates 43 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 411 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
255 World 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 Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is an audiobook by Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts: a 21.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Allen, released December 29, 2007, on the World shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 21.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Allen
- Released
- December 29, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World
- ISBN
- 9781423351405
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation as an audiobook?
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation runs 21.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.4 hours.
Is The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation?
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is narrated by Richard Allen.
Is The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.4 hours, saving 7.2 hours.