Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Long Surrender

By: Burke Davis

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over.



Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled the burning capital city. With Union troops in... Read more

Just Price in the Markets

By: Charles R. Geisst

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle. Should a seller sell to the highest bidder, or is there some other standard, such as a morally defined price, to be applied? Charles R. Geisst traces the ways that philosophers, religious leaders, and economists have sought to... Read more

Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner

By: Mario López-Goicoechea

Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a certificate of naturalistion mean to an immigrant in Brexit-plagued modern Britain? How do we navigate the various identity markers we acquire through life? Which ones stand out? Which ones blend in and get forgotten? And why? How does language affect the process of adaptation to a new country? Should writing from an “English as an... Read more

How States Shaped Postwar America

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in... Read more

Gossip Men

By: Christopher M. Elias

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will... Read more

Life in the UK Test Study Guide 2025

By: Freddie Ixworth

Narrated by: Alan Turton

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you preparing for the Life in the UK test to obtain British citizenship? Look no further!Our comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide is the ultimate resource to help you pass on your first attempt.Key Features Included Inside:Complete Coverage: This guide covers all the essential topics tested in the Life in the UK exam, including British... Read more

Maos deutscher Topagent

By: Bernd Ziesemer

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer den Einfluss verstehen will, den China auf die deutsche Wirtschaft ausübt, muss den Namen Gerhard Ludwig Flatow kennen. Er war wohlhabender Stahldirektor und Kommunist, Abenteurer und Lobbyist, sprach fließend chinesisch und wurde in den Fünfziger und Sechziger Jahren zum wichtigsten Agenten der Chinesen in Deutschland. Dabei hat er es... Read more

A Thousand Places Left Behind

By: Peter K. Lutken Jr.

Narrated by: David Lutken

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions... Read more

Sant Kabir Das

By: Saurabh Kumar

Narrated by: Saurabh Kumar

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Sant Kabir Saheb also known as Kabir Das and Kabir Saheb was born in 1398, Varanasi and brought up in a Muslim weavers family by Niru and Nima. He was a mystic poet and a musician and was one of the important saints of Hinduism and also considered a Sufi by Muslims. He is respected by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. Read more

The Birth of Anarchism

By: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr ...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than just choosing how to meet the needs and demands of capital. Inequality is structural and intentional, not inevitable and necessary. It does not have to be this way. In solidarity, we are better.Think for yourself, and question authority.
This is the essence... Read more

البرازيل الحمراء - Abridged

By: Jean-Christophe Rufin

Narrated by: سمعان فرزلي

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

تدور أحداث هذه الملحمة الحقيقية في عام 1555، على جزيرة صغيرة في خليج جوانابارا في ريو دي جانيرو، حيث قامت قوة استكشافية فرنسية، مكونة من بحارة وحرفيين وكهنة ومدانين سابقين وفارس. كانوا يهدفون إلى إنشاء مستعمرة فرنسية في هذه القارة الغنية البعيدة للتنافس مع البرتغاليين، وإلى تحويل الهنود إلى المسيحية. قاد الحملة الأدميرال الفرنسي «دو... Read more

How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?

By: Suchitra Vijayan & Francesca Recchia

Narrated by: Anu Anand, Sam Dastor, Sahera Chohan, Raj Ghata...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Silencing and punishing critical voices is a project that lies at the heart of Narendra Modi's authoritarian regime in India. The BJP's political dream is clear: to achieve the ethno-nationalist aim of an exclusively 'Hindu' India, while targeting anyone who dares to question or dissent.In this unique book, Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia... Read more

Pricing the Priceless

By: Paula DiPerna

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Pricing the Priceless, renowned environmental strategist, speaker, world traveler, and author Paula DiPerna brings a unique voice and optic to demystify and unveil today's most fascinating financial disruption—pricing the priceless to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why. She asks the provocative question long... Read more

Survivor Injustice

By: Kylie Cheung

Narrated by: Dana Wing Lau

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state.
For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.

Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times,... Read more

24/7 Politics

By: Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Narrated by: Patricia Shade

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with... Read more

Overrun

By: Todd Bensman

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The time has come to acknowledge that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the southern border, starting on Inauguration Day in 2021, and millions more will cross over by the end of President Joe Biden's term in 2024. This event is historic by all... Read more

Lincoln

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into... Read more

American History

By: Paul S. Boyer

Narrated by: Lee Goettl

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country.

Here is a masterful picture of America's achievements and... Read more

Kabul

By: Jerry Dunleavy & James Hasson

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This explosive national bestseller is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the world.​ America’s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans fell... Read more

Ageing without Ageism?

By: Axel Gosseries & Greg Bognar

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal... Read more

Nasty Politics

By: Thomas Zeitzoff

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel explanation for why politicians insult, accuse, and threaten their opponents, even though voters say they don't like it.



Why do politicians engage in nasty politics? Why do they use insult, accusations, intimidation, and in rare cases violence against their domestic political opponents? In Nasty Politics, Thomas Zeitzoff answers these... Read more

Marijuana Legalization

By: Jonathan P. Caulkins, Beau Kilmer & Mark A.R. K...

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Should we legalize marijuana? If we legalize, what in particular should be legal? Just possessing marijuana and growing your own? Selling and advertising? If selling becomes legal, who gets to sell? Corporations? Co-ops? The government? What regulations should apply? How high should taxes be? Different forms of legalization could bring very... Read more

Nobody Needs to Know

By: Pidgeon Pagonis

Narrated by: Pidgeon Pagonis

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth.Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls—a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they... Read more

The Problem of Twelve

By: John Coates

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The forces behind an economic crisis in the making

A “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation. The Big Three index funds of Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a... Read more