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: Nonfiction, Audiobook, 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

[Ursula Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wonderful series is a lot of fun. It tells the stories of famous rivalries with a fun and entertaining presentation. The cast is fantastic as usual. This edition contains the rivalries of Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs, Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur, the Kellog Brothers and two Medieval queens. Each story tells a story with wit, humor and some fun songs. I hope the author continues the wonderful series.

[Evakonec · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skvěle namluvené. U příběhu Brunhilda vs. Fredegunda jsem se smála nahlas i při poslouchání v mhd.

[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

[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.

[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.

[Yinglan · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Megan Rath · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐ The kids loved this series, but I was so over the silly accents and sound effects by this 3rd installment.

[Emily Easton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as good as the first 2. I mean what is…. But overall still really enjoyable.

[Heidi · Rating 2 out of 5]

too slapstick for me

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Kellogg vs Post rivalry was the most interesting in this one.

[Diana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I technically finished this book but not really, as I don't remember it. Not as good as the first one, stories aren't memorable.