It takes the average reader 15 hours and 57 minutes to read Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Essential reading for the twenty-first [century].” —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives,...
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman is 928 pages long, and a total of 239,424 words.
This makes it 313% the length of the average book. It also has 293% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 21 hours and 48 minutes to read Gorbachev: His Life and Times aloud.
Gorbachev: His Life and Times is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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