Ron DeSantis in Office: An Unauthorized Account of the Florida Republican's Efforts to Uphold the Constitution as a Congressman and Governor
By: Cason Longhurst
Narrated by: Frank Block
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Ron DeSantis made Florida the freest state in the country. While other politicians advocated lockdowns and masking policies, DeSantis did everything he could to keep businesses open and protect civil liberties.DeSantis began fighting for civil liberties years earlier, though. He launched his political... Read more
View audiobookThe Poverty of Philosophy
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Trayvin Leroy
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The Poverty of Philosophy is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. Read more
View audiobookReport of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms
By: Nicholas F. Brady
Narrated by: Patrick McHaffie
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("Dow") fell 769 points or 31 percent. On October 19, 1987, alone, the Dow fell by 508 points or 22.6 percent. Since the early 1920's, only the drop of 12.8 percent in the Dow on October 28, 1929 and the fall of... Read more
View audiobookReflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
By: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Narrated by: Jeff Edward Dumas
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth was a treatise written by French Enlightenment philosopher and civil servant Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. "This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the Treatise on The Wealth of Nations, written by the Celebrated Smith" - Condorcet's Life of Turgot. Read more
View audiobookWar Is a Racket
By: Smedley Butler
Narrated by: John Greenman
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, "I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I... Read more
View audiobookKiller in the Kremlin
By: John Sweeney
Narrated by: John Sweeney
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of... Read more
The U.S. COVID-19 Crisis
By: tim allston
Narrated by: tim allston
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The Washington Post, April 27, 2022:
When White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci declared then and there that the U.S. was finally “out of the pandemic phase” of COVID-19, . . .
. . . That pushed tim allston - probably the world’s first COVID-19 victim-turned-Victorious - to publish his experiences in print, digital, audio, and video... Read more
GSG 9
By: Martin Herzog
Narrated by: Martin Herzog
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Am 18. Oktober 1977 wurde in der Wüste Somalias ein deutscher Mythos geboren: Auf dem Flughafen von Mogadischu befreite die GSG9 aus einer entführten Lufthansa-Maschine 86 Menschen. Es war der erste große Einsatz der Antiterroreinheit, und er machte sie schlagartig weltbekannt. Der Mythos zerbrach 16 Jahre später auf dem Bahnhof von Bad Kleinen,... Read more
View audiobookDie Inflation schlagen
By: Hermann Simon
Narrated by: Robert Gregor Kühn
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Sofortmaßnahmen gegen die Inflation! Das Inflationsgespenst ist zurück. Nach Jahrzehnten der Stabilität erleben wir die höchsten Preissteigerungen seit den 1970er Jahren. Die Krise trifft Staat, Verbraucher und Unternehmen gleichermaßen. Für viele Firmen wird es künftig schwierig, die Gewinnlinie zu verteidigen. Deshalb ist es wichtig zu wissen,... Read more
View audiobookViele Stimmen sind ein Chor. Lieder für den Frieden - Abridged
By: Ulrich Maske
Narrated by: Ulrich Maske
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: Yes
Wir alle wünschen uns, friedlich miteinander zu leben. Das gilt im Kleinen wie im Großen: innerhalb der Familie oder der Schulklasse, aber auch über Ländergrenzen hinweg. Mit Liedern für den Frieden und gegen Krieg, über Freundschaft, Freiheit und Zukunftsträume werden Kindern in dieser Produktion wichtige Themen wie Zusammenhalt und... Read more
View audiobookInflation
By: Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis & Elizabeth Ames
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks.The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.”... Read more
View audiobookAny Given Tuesday
By: Lis Smith
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerAn irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most sought-after operatives in the Democratic PartyLis Smith isn’t your average political strategist and Any Given Tuesday isn’t your typical political memoir. At once a revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate... Read more
View audiobookA Short History of Financial Euphoria
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds." —The Atlantic.
With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy... Read more
The Illusion of Control
By: Jon Danielsson
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail
Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools... Read more
Manifesting Justice
By: Valena Beety
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct.
Seeking change, Beety began... Read more
How to Be a Patriotic Christian
By: Richard J. Mouw
Narrated by: Jim Seybert
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean to love our country?
Some Christians see loyalty to America as central to our faith and identity. Other Christians are skeptical that our nation warrants such devotion or attachment. But Richard Mouw encourages Christians to have a healthy sense of national peoplehood that promotes civic kinship and responsible citizenship. He... Read more
The Listeners
By: Brian Hochman
Narrated by: Phil Thron
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century—and they have spied on their... Read more
View audiobookThe Prison Angel
By: Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan
Narrated by: Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins... Read more
View audiobookIn the Lion's Den
By: Danny Danon
Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Lion's Den is a book about the life events that encouraged Danny Danon to pursue his chosen career path and take his distinct and direct approach during his time as Knesset Member and later on in his political career. It is a book that tells the story of his journey to the United Nations and the key events that occurred during the five... Read more
View audiobookWhy They Stay
By: Anne Michaud
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hillary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket.Veteran political journalist Anne... Read more
View audiobookThe Inheritors
By: Eve Fairbanks
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
This “elegant” and “unfailingly empathetic” narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced.
Dipuo, who grew up in apartheid-era Johannesburg’s largest Black... Read more
On Distant Service
By: Susan M. Stein
Narrated by: Bryan Carmody
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie’s loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career.Susan M. Stein tells... Read more
View audiobookPolitical Masculinity
By: Susanne Kaiser
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Men with assault rifles, balaclavas, and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos. The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one another only online in the Manosphere. These were men with a common interest, followers... Read more
View audiobookThe People of the Abyss
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Peter Yearsley
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a pitiful existence. He grew to know and empathise with these forgotten (or ignored) people as he spoke... Read more
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