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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good runs 14.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mike Chamberlain (about 9.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.6listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 14.6 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 9,905 Social Science 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 White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good is an audiobook by William Easterly: a 14.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Mike Chamberlain, released July 4, 2017, on the Social Science shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.6 hrs
Narrated by
Mike Chamberlain
Released
July 4, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science
ISBN
9781541477001

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good as an audiobook?

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good runs 14.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.7 hours.

Is The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good?

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good is narrated by Mike Chamberlain.

Is The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.7 hours, saving 4.9 hours.