Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

By: Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the "republican form of government" the Constitution requires. But as Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show in this retelling of constitutional history, a commitment to prevent oligarchy once stood at the... Read more

Invaded

By: J.J. Carrell

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the final year of the Trump presidency, America’s borders were within reach of being completely secure as the daily arrests had dwindled to the lowest numbers in United States Border Patrol history. Nations south of our border, which once violated America’s sovereignty and blatantly disrespected it, now adhered to our strong president who... Read more

Hasta aquí hemos llegado

By: Rodrigo de Rato

Narrated by: Rodrigo de Rato

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

«Acepto mis errores, pero alguien tiene que contar algunas cosas. Pueden ser ilustrativas.» La trayectoria de Rodrigo de Rato fue paralela a la de la propia economía española. Ascendió con ella hasta lo más alto, incluida la entrada de España en el euro, y cayó sacudido por la crisis mundial que se desató a finales de la década del 2000, que... Read more

Erich Hartmann: The Life and Legacy of the Luftwaffe’s Top Fighter Ace during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it... Read more

Left Holding The Bag

By: Bob Westbrooks

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside the largest public fraud scandal in American history

With a mask-wearing nation under stay-at-home orders while a deadly virus ravaged the population, during toilet paper and PPE shortages and people dying alone in ICUs, before vaccines and immunity and time reopened the American way of life after three years—the federal government,... Read more

Die dreckige Seidenstraße

By: Philipp Mattheis

Narrated by: Markus Krochmann

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lange galt China als eine Art sanfter, schlafender Riese. Zwar war das politische System und dessen Menschenrechtsverletzungen nur schwer vereinbar mit westlichen demokratischen Werten, doch man setzte auf das Prinzip »Wandel durch Handel«. China würde sich mit steigendem Wohlstand schon öffnen. Doch das Gegenteil ist eingetreten: China... Read more

The New Fish

By: Simen Saetre & Kjetil Ostli

Narrated by: Erik Madsen

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?

In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to make more food for the growing population of the world. They looked to the sea. They sampled genes from salmon in 41 Norwegian and Swedish rivers and designed a new salmon that was fatter and faster... Read more

Excluded

By: Richard D Kahlenberg

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it

The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to... Read more

Against the World

By: Tara Zahra

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its... Read more

Outrage Machine

By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Narrated by: Justin Price, Bolton Marsh & Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage.
 
The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features... Read more

No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

Narrated by: Jane Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

""A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul.Jane Ferguson... Read more

Atomic Days

By: Joshua Frank

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl.



The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in... Read more

The Deepest Map

By: Laura Trethewey

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.Five oceans—the... Read more

Missing in Action

By: Pranay Kotasthane & Raghu S. Jaitley

Narrated by: Ashish David

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Search of an Adarsh Indian StateIn India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pervasiveness, yeh public sab nahin jaanti hai (the public doesn't know it all).Questions are rarely asked of the Indian State-the institution that makes rules, bends them and punishes others for breaking the laws it creates. The privileged can afford... Read more

Red Memory

By: Tania Branigan

Narrated by: Rebecca Lam

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens.



"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students... Read more

A Madman's Will

By: Gregory May

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s... Read more

Symbols of Freedom

By: Matthew J. Clavin

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to "life, liberty, and... Read more

The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Most Famous Trading Companies across the World

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most famous trade company in all of history, the East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its... Read more

General Grant and the Verdict of History

By: Dr. Frank P. Varney

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union. But has he received too much credit? Have others who fought the war with him suffered unfairly? General Grant and the Verdict of History explores these issues.



Professor Frank P. Varney examines... Read more

Killing for Coal

By: Thomas G. Andrews

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring morning in 1914, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado's industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children among the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least thirty men, destroyed six... Read more

Laughter in the Dark

By: Yasmine El Rashidi

Narrated by: Ali Nasser

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?

A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world’s attention and sent ripples across the Middle East. But the so-called “Arab Spring” quickly faded, and a return to the status quo—of authoritarian rule—was cemented. What happened to the energy... Read more

Horas extra

By: Will Stronge & Kyle Lewis

Narrated by: Gustavo Dardes

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

El tiempo de trabajo es, y siempre ha sido, un asunto político relacionado con la distribución de la riqueza y del poder. Cuando desnaturalicemos la forma en que trabajamos (un objetivo al que este libro pretende contribuir) y tengamos más capacidad de tomar decisiones sobre el propósito de nuestras economías, nos enfrentaremos a las preguntas... Read more

On the Tracks of a Shadow

By: Carlos Usín

Narrated by: Luis Cruz

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour,... Read more

Crossing the Line

By: Nick McKenzie

Narrated by: Stephen Phillips

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE 2024 DANGER AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME

'There is no doubt the truth would have been concealed and our concerns buried without Nick McKenzie's relentless pursuit of... Read more