We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy audiobook runs 13.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Beresford Bennett (about 9.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 13.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 13.7 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Beresford Bennett
Beresford Bennett narrates 20 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 200 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
499 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is an audiobook by Ta-Nehisi Coates: a 13.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Beresford Bennett, released October 3, 2017, on the Memoirs and Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Beresford Bennett
- Released
- October 3, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, Social Science
- ISBN
- 9780525494812
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy audiobook?
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy runs 13.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.1 hours.
Is the We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy?
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is narrated by Beresford Bennett.
Is We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.1 hours, saving 4.6 hours.