Rivals! 3 Even More Frenemies Who Changed the World

Rivals #3

by Scott McCormick, Piper Goodeve (Narrator), Gabriel Vaughan (Narrator)

Exclusively on Audible, hilarious history for ages eight and up.

Limber up, ready the troops, and prepare your Rivals 3! Even More Frenemies Who Changed the World takes a hilarious look at the petty squabbles and bitter feuds that shaped history.

Hear how a single tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs changed women’s sports, how the blood feud between Medieval queens plunged Europe into a decades-long war, how the sibling rivalry between the Kellogg brothers revolutionized breakfast, and how the grudge match between President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur nearly brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

This audiobook has it flaming sanitariums, calamitous maps, empowered haberdashers, tennis dogs, singing nuns, marching trees, and heaping bowls of hand-harvested, free-range insults.

Genres: Audiobook, Nonfiction, History, Humor

Audible Audio

Published September 11, 2025

About the author

Scott McCormick is the author of more Scott McCormick bios than any other Scott McCormick who ever Scott McCormicked. Look it up if you don’t believe me. He also writes the Mr. Pants graphic novels and the hilarious Audible Originals The Dragon Squisher, Spies! Sneak, Snoops, and Saboteurs Who Shaped the World, Mutually Assured Detention, and the number-one bestseller Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World. But who are we kidding? The real money is in writing bios. You take that advice to the bank. Tell ‘em Scott McCormick sent you. And if they ask you which Scott McCormick, you tell ‘em the Scott-McCormick-bio-writing Scott McCormick of the North Carolina Scott McCormicks. They’ll know who you mean.

Reviews

[Jennifer Baratta · Rating 5 out of 5]

History made fun. Although Not for young kids by chapter 2 definitely 3 and extremely 4.

[Mia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great Frenemies book. Listening fun, while getting a good history lesson.

[IDK · Rating 5 out of 5]

love it again

[William Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book by Scott McCormick! There's so many relationships and rivalries that get buried in history. I love these types of books that dig them up and show how they affected what we know of the world.

[Rich Thornton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun listen. The stories are interesting and full of details that I didn’t know before. The narrator and actors are very easy to understand and the effects and music add to the whole production.

[Glenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rivals 2 was the best so far, I feel like this returned to the lame cheesy humor that was abundant in the first Rivals. The “Joisey!” running gag/ shoutout wasn’t funny the first time and it definitely didn’t become funny after another dozen times.

[Yinglan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it, learned a lot of history in a fun way.