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How long does it take to read Drift?

Rachel Maddow, Paul Barratt

Drift by Rachel Maddow, Paul Barratt takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 10 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2012. 282 pages, about 77,550 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 37 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 14 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

Subjects: Politics and government, Political culture, National security, Appropriations and expenditures, Military policy, Militarism

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