Politics & Economy Audiobooks
Fire and Fury
By: Michael Wolff
Narrated by: Holter Graham & Michael Wolff
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Holter Graham] uses his deep, elastic voice to punctuate key ideas, and he speeds up and slows down to create tension...The result is a wonderful performance of a most important audiobook." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes an author's note read by Michael Wolff
#1 New York Times Bestseller
With extraordinary access to the West... Read More »
What Happened
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
2018 Audie Award Finalist
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened
For the first time,... Read More »
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A Higher Loyalty
By: James Comey
Narrated by: James Comey
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In his forthcoming audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an... Read More »
We Were Eight Years in Power
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
New York Times Bestseller • One of Time’s Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the Year • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year • A... Read More »
Collusion
By: Luke Harding
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An explosive exposé that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia’s decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administration’s ties to Moscow.
“Harding…presents a powerful case for Russian interference, and Trump campaign collusion, by collecting years of... Read More »
On Tyranny
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one... Read More »
Hacks
By: Donna Brazile
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This book is a triumph."---Walter Isaacson
From Donna Brazile, former DNC chair and legendary political operative, an explosive and revealing new look at the 2016 election: the first insider account of the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled a... Read More »
Playing with Fire
By: Lawrence O'Donnell
Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell
Length: 17 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has... Read More »
Bobby Kennedy
By: Chris Matthews
Narrated by: Chris Matthews
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR!
New York Times Bestseller
A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC’s Hardball.
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of... Read More »
Our Revolution
By: Bernie Sanders
Narrated by: Bernie Sanders & Mark Ruffalo
Length: 18 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
*Nominated for a 2018 Grammy for spoken word album*
"Senator Sanders's gravelly voice and dramatic presentation are surely familiar to listeners. He reads with the same sincerity and earnestness he brought to audiences throughout his extraordinary primary campaign for president of the United States. A seasoned orator, he's particularly good at... Read More »
Understanding Trump
By: Newt Gingrich & Eric Trump
Narrated by: Eric Trump
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The presidency of Donald Trump marks a profound change in the trajectory of American government, politics, and culture. Like his administration, the movement that put him in office represents a phenomenon that is worth studying. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent:... Read More »
The Federalist Papers
By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
These eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution have become recognized as the most important political science work ever written in the United States. Written primarily by Hamilton, assisted by Madison and Jay, these essays are considered to be the foremost commentary on the US Constitution. Today lawyers, historians, and Supreme Court... Read More »
A River in Darkness
By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi & Martin Brown
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book.
The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes.
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from... Read More »
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
By: Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Craig Malkin, Ph.D., Tony Schwartz, Lance Dodes, M.D., John D. Gartner, Ph.D., Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D., David M. Reiss, M.D., James A. Herb, M.A., Esq., Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H., Henry J. Friedman, M.D., James Gilligan, M.D., Diane Jhueck, L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P., Howard H. Covitz, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Betty P. Teng, M.F.A., L.M.S.W., Jennifer Contarino Panning, Psy.D., Harper West, M.A., L.L.P., Luba Kessler, M.D., Steve Wruble, M.D., Thomas Singer, M.D., Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C., Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D., Nanette Gartrell, M.D. & Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Narrated by: Bandy X. Lee, Betty P. Teng, M.F.A., L.M.S.W., Alex Hyde-White, Luba Kessler, M.D., Hillary Huber, P. J. Ochlan, Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C., Jennifer Contarino Panning, Psy.D., Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H., Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Thomas Singer, M.D., Nanette Gartrell, M.D., William Dufris & Steve Wruble, M.D.
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Alex Hyde-White, William Dufris, Hillary Huber, Nanette Gartrell, Leonard L. Glass, Luba Kessler, Bandy X. Lee, Elizabeth Mika, P. J. Ochlan, Jennifer Contarino Panning, Thomas Singer, Rosemary Sword, Michael J. Tansey, Betty P. Teng, and Steve Wruble.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump describes the consensus view held... Read More »
The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Edited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this volume features an especially helpful introduction that serves as a guide to Marxist political and economic theory and to placing the specific writings in their contemporary setting. Included are a bibliography and list of important... Read More »
Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela & Sharon Gelman
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 27 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been... Read More »
Let Trump Be Trump
By: David N. Bossie & Corey R. Lewandowski
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller!
LET TRUMP BE TRUMP: THE INSIDE STORY OF HIS PRESIDENCY is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how he became President of the United States.
Donald Trump was a candidate, and now a president, like none that have come before. His startling rise to the White House is the... Read More »
The 48 Laws of Power
By: Robert Greene
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 23 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. Read More »
Recommended
Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES AND TIME MAGAZINE "BEST BOOK OF 2017"
“A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time.” –NPR.org
“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly... Read More »
Recommended
A Gentleman in Moscow
By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 17 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count’s refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we’re longing for.” —Ann Patchett
“How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance.” —The Washington Post
He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
... Read More »
Russian Roulette
By: Michael Isikoff & David Corn
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency.
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Grant
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 47 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review.
Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is... Read More »
Recommended
Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself,... Read More »
Recommended
The Storm Before the Storm
By: Mike Duncan
Narrated by: Author
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization.... Read More »