Audible Releases Robert A. Caro’s On Power, an Original Production Narrated by the Author
May 09 2017 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
The Winner of Two Pulitzer Prizes and Two
National Book Awards Creates a Short, Penetrating Reflection on the
Evolution and Workings of Political Power, Exclusively for
Audible
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of On Power, by acclaimed bestselling author
Robert Caro. In the audio-only project, adapted from two of the
legendary historian’s recent speeches, Caro discusses what drew him
to investigate political power as a young journalist, and what his
fifty years of writing about political power has taught him about
its uses and abuses in American democracy. He also reminisces about
the moment when he first realized that in order to write about
power truthfully, it would be necessary to write about those
without power. Narrated with emotion and humor by Caro, On Power is
now available for download exclusively from Audible at
www.audible.com/caro.
“My books are an attempt to examine and explain political power:
how it is created, how it works, how it can be used – for good and
for ill,” said Caro. “I thought it was important to try to do that
because that power shapes all our lives – in large ways and small.
And I felt that the more America understands political power, the
better informed our voters will be, and then, hopefully the better
our democracy will be.”
“Listening to On Power is like having a private audience with
the author often hailed as our greatest living historian,” said
Audible Chief Content Officer Andy Gaies. “Robert Caro’s newest
work is uniquely suited to the audio format, and we’re thrilled to
provide listeners access to this intimate and revelatory project
that was not only written for Audible, but can’t be experienced
anywhere else.”
Robert A. Caro is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in
Biography; two National Book Awards, three National Book Critics
Circle Awards, for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best
Biography; and many other awards. His first book, The Power Broker,
was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest
nonfiction books of the twentieth century and by Time magazine as
one of the hundred top nonfiction books of all time.
With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can
enjoy any one audiobook, including this beautifully performed
production of On Power, free.
In addition to Caro, among the acclaimed performers who have
narrated works of literature for Audible are Sean Penn, Nick
Offerman, Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Emma
Thompson, James Franco, and Jesse Eisenberg. In 2013, Audible
Studios won its first Grammy Award, for its production of Janis
Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award for
Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham
Greene’s The End of the Affair.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. In 2016, Audible members downloaded an average of
17 books over the course of the year. More than half of new Audible
members are first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
350,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the provider of
spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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