Senator North: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Senator North, credited to Gertrude Atherton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Senator North by Gertrude Atherton. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Richard Kilmer; Kimberly Krause. "When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what he will have to encounter. He may be well read in public affairs, but he is unaware of the difficulties which must attend and embarrass every effort to render what he may know available and useful. He may be upright in purpose and strong in the belief of his own integrity, but he cannot even dream of the ordeal to which he cannot fail to be exposed; of how much courage he must possess to resist the temptations which must daily beset him; of that sensitive shrinking from undeserved censure which he must learn to control; of the ever recurring contest between a natural desire for public approbation and a sense of public duty; of the load of injustice he must be content to bear even from those who should be his friends; the imputations on his motives; the sneers and sarcasms of ignorance and malice; all the manifold injuries which partisan or private malignity, disappointed of its object, may shower upon his unprotected head. All this, if he would retain his integrity, he must learn to ear unmoved and walk steadily onward in the path of public duty, sustained only by the reflection that time may do him justice; or if not, that his individual hopes and aspirations and even his name among men should be of little account to him when weighed in the balance of a people of whose destiny he is a constituted guardian and defender." —WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN Miss Betty Madison embarks on an adventure in Washington and has much to learn before she can enjoy the triumph of success. (Summary from Foreward )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Senator North
• Author credits: Gertrude Atherton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 11:11:54

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 01 - Part 1, Chapter 1 — 18:30
2. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 — 4:39
3. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 — 22:18
4. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 — 10:58
5. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 — 21:45
6. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 — 13:43
7. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 — 4:27
8. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 — 13:40
9. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 — 15:14
10. 10 - Part 1, Chapter 10 — 20:54
11. 11 - Part 1, Chapter 11 — 6:07
12. 12 - Part 1, Chapter 12 — 10:10
13. 13 - Part 1, Chapter 13 — 8:39
14. 14 - Part 1, Chapter 14 — 4:59
15. 15 - Part 1, Chapter 15 — 14:38
16. 16 - Part 1, Chapter 16 — 6:14
17. 17 - Part 1, Chapter 17 — 9:26
18. 18 - Part 1, Chapter 18 — 13:55
19. 19 - Part 1, Chapter 19 — 15:11
20. 20 - Part 1, Chapter 20 — 7:37
21. 21 - Part 1, Chapter 21 — 7:57
22. 22 - Part 1, Chapter 22 — 5:47
23. 23 - Part 2, Chapter 1 — 2:35
24. 24 - Part 2, Chapter 2 — 6:29

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