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The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose Audiobook— narrated by Martha Raddatz
ABC News veteran Martha Raddatz gathers a dozen portraits of post-9/11 service members and the people who love them. It's narrative nonfiction about endurance: what pushes ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and what they keep carrying long after the moment itself has passed.
Why the audiobook wins
Martha Raddatz narrates her own reporting here, and that's the whole case for the audio edition: these are people she spent twenty-five years getting to know, and you can hear that familiarity in how she reads them — not with a broadcaster's polish but with the quiet weight of someone who was actually there for the worst days she's describing.
This is narrative nonfiction built from a dozen individual portraits, and hearing Raddatz move between them in her own voice keeps the book feeling like testimony rather than a compiled report. It suits a long commute or drive where you want stories about endurance to sit with you one at a time, rather than being flipped through.
At twelve and a half hours, it's a substantial but unhurried listen, and having the journalist herself in your ear — rather than a hired reader — is the kind of authenticity that one Audible credit rarely buys elsewhere.
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- Who narrates the The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose audiobook?
- Martha Raddatz narrates the audiobook edition of The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose.
- How long is the The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 12 hr 30 min.
- Is the The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose 4.6 out of 5. Martha Raddatz narrates her own reporting here, and that's the whole case for the audio edition: these are people she spent twenty-five years getting to know, and you can hear that familiarity in how she reads them — not with a broadcaster's polish but with the quiet weight of…
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- Is The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose on Kindle Unlimited?
- No. The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 7, 2026.
- How much does The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose cost?
- On Amazon: Kindle $16.99, Hardcover $24.25. Prices as of August 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.
