John Biewen Audio Books

In this streaming audio presentation from American Radio Works, listeners can hear a chronological history of the Korean War. Soldiers, historians and military leaders explain how this "forgotten war" was an essential event that defined global politics for the next 40 years.

In this hour long audio documentary from American Public Media, Chris Farrell and John Biewen jump all over the world to see how the latest wave of globalization is affecting people from Pittsburgh to Bangladesh to India to China.

Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States....

This documentary explores the prison industrial complex which has become a $50 billion-a-year industry. It examines the tough laws which the corrections industry lobbies for.

This documentary looks at life for the 600,000 inmates that are released from prison each year in America. It follows how life after prison affects the ability to get a job, the toll prison has taken on family life, and many other aspects of life after prison.

In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism....

After the longest peace-time expansion in American history, one in five American children is growing up poor.

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested....

Why are so many mentally ill Americans behind bars....

Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific....