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 Wing,... 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 »
A Higher Loyalty
By: James Comey
Narrated by: James Comey
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"Comey's conversational tone instantly connects with the listener, and hearing him deliver the book's highly charged contents in his own voice brings authenticity and immediacy to the presentation...This greatly anticipated, revelatory memoir needs to be heard." — AudioFile Magazine
In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James... 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 »
The Soul of America
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Jon Meacham
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of... 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 »
Hacks
By: Donna Brazile
Narrated 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 Trump... 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 »
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 »
The Restless Wave
By: John McCain & Mark Salter
Narrated by: Beau Bridges & John McCain
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life—and what matters most.
“I don’t know how much longer I’ll be here. Maybe I’ll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they’ll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life. Maybe I’ll be gone before you read... Read More »
The Assault on Intelligence
By: Michael V. Hayden
Narrated by: Michael V. Hayden
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important
In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile,... 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.
Donald Trump is unlike any president we've ever had. He is the only person ever elected to be commander in chief who... 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 »
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Tailspin
By: Steven Brill
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for... Read More »
I'm Still Here
By: Austin Channing Brown
Narrated by: Austin Channing Brown
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.
Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up... Read More »
Killing the Deep State
By: Jerome R. Corsi
Narrated by: Dan Crue
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
At 2:45 AM on Nov. 8, 2016, television networks announced to a stunned nation that Pennsylvania had gone for Donald Trump, making him the president-elect of the United States, defying all odds in a surreal victory that sent the Deep State-well-funded hard-left extremists, the mainstream media, Obama/Clinton holdovers in the government... Read More »
Facts and Fears
By: James R. Clapper & Trey Brown
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller
The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America
When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President... 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 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 »
The Great Revolt
By: Salena Zito & Brad Todd
Narrated by: Bob Hess
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Standout syndicated columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito, with veteran Republican strategist Brad Todd, reports across five swing states and over 27,000 miles to answer the pressing question: Was Donald Trump's election a fluke or did it represent a fundamental shift in the electorate that will have repercussions--for Republicans and... 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 »
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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 »