Audiobooks narrated by Richard McGonagle

The City on the Edge of Forever Audiobook

"The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an “eviscerated” version—which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series’ history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966–67 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award. The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the listener on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future, all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe—or his one true love. This edition makes available the astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author’s introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a “fatally inept treatment” of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?"

Harlan Ellison (Author), Alex Hyde-White, Bonnie MacBird, Christian O’Connell, David Gerrold, Jean Smart, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Larry Nemecek, LeVar Burton, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Richard Brewer, Richard Gilliland, Richard McGonagle, Robert Forster, Ryan C. Britt, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Veronica Scott, a full cast (Narrator)

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Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities

"A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations The testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record."

Eric Bentley (Author), Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Burt Reynolds, Christian Rummel, Claire Bloom, Coleen Marlo, Dean Sluyter, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Jean Smart, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Kirby Heyborne, Kristoffer Tabori, Lee Rosch, Molly Underwood, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Richard Gilliland, Richard McGonagle, Robertson Dean, Roscoe Lee Browne, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Sunil Malhotra, Ted Scott, Theodore Bikel, a full cast (Narrator)

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Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Ac

"A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations Eric Bentley has chosen highlights from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee to demonstrate HUAC’s focus on artists, intellectuals, and performers. Volume 1: 1938–1948 includes the testimonies of Hallie Flanagan, Ayn Rand, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Gary Cooper, Bertolt Brecht and many others. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record."

Eric Bentley (Author), Alex Hyde-White, Claire Bloom, Coleen Marlo, Dean Sluyter, Gabrielle De Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Orson Scott Card, Paul Boehmer, Richard McGonagle, Stefan Rudnicki, Ted Scott, Theodore Bikel, a full cast (Narrator)

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

"The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson's presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama-the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers- that shaped Jackson's private world through years of storm and victory. One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will- or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House-from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman-have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision. Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe-no matter what it took."

Jon Meacham (Author), Richard McGonagle (Narrator)

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The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and Diplomats

"This book tells the story-for the first time-of the United States government's response to Guevara's ill-starred insurgency in Bolivia in 1967. Henry Butterfield Ryan argues that Guevara's life must be reevaluated in light of secret documents only recently released by the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council. Ryan's dramatic account of the last days of Che Guevara is sure to appeal to scholars and students of United States foreign policy, Latin American history, military history, and to all others interested in this modern revolutionary's remarkable life."

Henry Butterfield Ryan (Author), Richard McGonagle (Narrator)

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The Long Night of Winchell Dear

"The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way. In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dear’s ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by a campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving along the ridge of Guapa Mountain an hour ago, thinking about the gambler’s housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned far from civilization and what undefined presence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and begins to run across the desert floor. And boring toward all of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from Los Angeles on a mission they’ve been given, they are professionals, cool and implacable at the start, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they are passing through. Forty minutes from their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long night of Winchell Dear. The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us into the shadowy world of high-stakes poker fought in the back rooms of Amarillo and Little Rock, and headlong toward the story’s stunning finale of chaotic terror, where an unexpected hero emerges."

Robert James Waller (Author), Richard McGonagle (Narrator)

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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963

"Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had he survived. Robert Dallek succeeds as no other biographer has done in striking a critical balance -- never shying away from JFK's weaknesses, brilliantly exploring his strengths -- as he offers up a vivid portrait of a bold, brave, complex, heroic, human Kennedy."

Robert Dallek (Author), Richard McGonagle (Narrator)

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The Fast Forward MBA in Technology Management: Quick Tips, Speedy Solutions, Cutting-Edge Ideas

"Get instant access to cutting-edge ideas and the hard-won wisdom of one of today's leading experts on information technology (IT). Using real-world examples, this audio guide delivers the facts you need to navigate complex IT issues, including: Which technologies are most important in running a business today How to manage the use of and direction of your company's technology issues Ways to measure workplace performance with IT How leading companies use and manage technology and much more!"

Daniel P Petrozzo (Author), Meredith MacRae, Richard Cox, Richard McGonagle (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Richard McGonagle