Politics & Economy audiobooks

قلوبهم معنا وقنابلهم علينا

By: أحلام مستغانمي

Narrated by: عائشة خراط

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

«عندما تكون الديمقراطية هبة الاحتلال.. كيف لك أن تتعلم الحرية من جلادك؟!». بطريقةٍ سلسلة وكلماتٍ منتقاة بعناية شديدة، تكتب الكاتبة الجزائرية أحلام مستغانمي هذا الكتاب؛ إذ تستعرض آلام الوطن العربي بأسلوبٍ ساخر ومحزن، وتسرد حقائق تاريخية وسياسية في قالبٍ أدبي فريد لتخرج مقالات سياسية بنكهةٍ مختلفة. تتحدث الكاتبة عن أهم الأحداث السياسية في... Read more

Carl Adolf Bratter: John H. Patterson. Der amerikanische König der NCR-Registrierkassen. Eine Biografie

By: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte von Registrierkassenpapst John Patterson! Read more

Carl Adolf Bratter: Harry F. Sinclair und Edward L. Doheny. Amerikanische Öl- und Räuberbarone. Eine Biografie

By: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte der Ölbarone Harry Sinclair und Edward Doheny! Read more

From Running Back to Giving Back

By: Brandon A Yosha

Narrated by: Charles Hewitt

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Attorney Brandon Yosha and his father, Buddy Yosha, have devoted their lives to advocating for their clients. They offer legal support to families who have suffered the devastating effects of negligence, and for Brandon, every client presents an opportunity to advocate for those affected by such wrongdoing.When a family member is electrically... Read more

Carl Adolf Bratter: Harvey S. Firestone. Der amerikanische Kautschuk-König. Eine Biografie.

By: Carl Adolf Bratter

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Die amerikanischen Großindustriellen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Waren sie Räuberbarone oder Philantropen? Clevere Geschäftsmänner auf jeden Fall! Hier die Geschichte von Autoreifengigant Harvey S. Firestone! Read more

SAS

By: Joshua Levine

Narrated by: Dan Morgan

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The authorised history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they... Read more

Aburto

By: Laura Sánchez Ley

Narrated by: Yopa Ponce

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Déjenme decirles que me tengo que bañar, porque el olor a chivo expiatorio es muy fuerte." -Mario Aburto, carta desde Almoloya- Una sorprendente crónica periodística que cuenta la verdadera historia de Mario Aburto, el hombre acusado de haber asesinado a Luis Donaldo Colosio. "Huye, José, huye, José, ven, pacá, cuidao con la culebra..." La... Read more

El valor de las cosas

By: Mariana Mazzucato

Narrated by: Marta Fernández

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

¿En qué mundo queremos vivir? Mariana Mazzucato, la economista del momento, prende la mecha de un debate necesario. «Mucho ojo con Mazzucato, la economista más temible del mundo.»
Helen Rumbelow, The Times ¿Quién crea realmente la riqueza? ¿Qué actividades la impulsan? ¿Cuáles se limitan a extraerla? ¿Cuáles la destruyen? Nuestras economías... Read more

Kein Ende in Sicht

By: Otto Eder

Narrated by: Klaus G. Förg

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Fotograf Otto Eder ist als Funker in Frankreich stationiert, bevor er mit seiner Division nach Jugoslawien geschickt wird. Als der Befehl kommt, an die Ostfront zu ziehen, verlieren viele seiner Kameraden in schweren und zum Teil sehr verlustreichen Kämpfen das Leben. Die Versorgungswege der Truppe werden immer länger, Verpflegung und... Read more

Bridgebuilders

By: William D. Eggers & Donald F. Kettl

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Our government is in crisis, mired in bureaucracy and often unable to fix tough problems. This book provides an essential new model for transforming the system and getting things done.



COVID. Climate change. Refugee resettlement. Global supply chains. We're facing a new generation of complex problems, stretching across the public and private... Read more

The Last Honest Man

By: James Risen

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting” (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. ​
 
For decades now, America’s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and... Read more

Celebrity Nation

By: Landon Y. Jones

Narrated by: Jean-François Montoya

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives—for better or worse

From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby boomer” comes Celebrity Nation, an exploration into how and why fame no longer stems only from heroic achievements but from the number of “likes”... Read more

The Phoenix Economy

By: Felix Salmon

Narrated by: Felix Salmon

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for Investing and Personal FinanceAn award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy.We are living in a... Read more

Washington

By: Dr. Paul Vickery

Narrated by: Chad Escue

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated,... Read more

Words Like Loaded Pistols

By: Sam Leith

Narrated by: Alan Medcroft

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“An entertaining history of great oratory” (New Yorker) and a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques
 
Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us, whether you’re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their vegetables. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your... Read more

Leveraging Latency

By: Tristan A. Volpe

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When does nuclear latency—the technical capacity to build the bomb—enable states to pursue effective coercion?



In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe argues that having greater capacity to build weaponry doesn't translate to greater coercive advantage. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear... Read more

The Watchdog

By: Steve Drummond

Narrated by: Steve Drummond

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman.

Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The... Read more

Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco: The History of Europe’s Other Fascist Dictators

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Arthur Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. It is hard to conceive a territory with such a long and ancient history was once young and troubled with constant conflict and instability. Similar to Germany, Italy was unified in 1861, but contrary to its northern cousin, its previous history was one of... Read more

Wild Democracy

By: Anne Norton

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished revolutions; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. This is an ethic for those who hold fast to the rights they have by nature.



Democracy is... Read more

Age of Danger

By: Andrew Hoehn & Thom Shanker

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe—and what we can do to fix it.

Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical... Read more

An Unspeakable Hope

By: Leon Ford

Narrated by: Leon Ford

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A “powerful and insightful” (Cyntoia Brown-Long, author of Free Cyntoia) memoir in the vein of Just Mercy and The Sum of Us that upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States and explores how we can begin healing from systemic injustice.

In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police... Read more

The President's Daughter

By: Nan Britton

Narrated by: Anne Marie Lewis

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite attempts to suppress its publication and the advertising ban placed on it, The President’s Daughter enjoyed bestseller rankings after its eventual publication in 1927. Written so that Britton could raise enough funds to support her (and Harding’s) daughter and thus argue for the true legitimacy of children born out of wedlock, this... Read more

La sucesión 2024

By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Narrated by: Paco Valdovinos

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

¿ESTAMOS FRENTE A LA ELECCIÓN PRESIDENCIAL MÁS IMPORTANTE EN LA HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA DE MÉXICO? ¿Por quién votarán los mexicanos en 2024: por los viejos políticos que intentan rejuvenecer su imagen y discurso, por la continuidad del obradorismo, o por un proyecto completamente distinto que prometa reiniciar el curso social y político de... Read more

The Joy of Politics

By: Amy Klobuchar

Narrated by: Amy Klobuchar

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and revelatory memoir—on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy—narrated by one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar.

During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens—on the Senate floor for... Read more