Audiobooks Narrated by Chuck Williamson

Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them is a survey of the popular spiritualism trend that was taking the U.S. by storm in the late 19th and early 20th centures.

Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form fiction written by Walt Whitman during the earliest part of his career.

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation.

A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing.

This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form.

An authorized biography of D.W. Griffith, the self-proclaimed "Father of Filmmaking."

Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of crime, licentiousness, and moral transgression.

Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the motion picture industry.

The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist. So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the Movie, a posthumously published indictment of Hollywood.