Politics & Economy audiobooks

Other Rivers

By: Peter Hessler

Narrated by: Peter Hessler

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century

More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to... Read more

My Glorious Defeats

By: Barrett Brown

Narrated by: Barrett Brown

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story.

After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free... Read more

Pattern Breakers

By: Mike Maples Jr & Peter Ziebelman

Narrated by: Mike Maples Jr & Peter Ziebelman

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on extensive research and real-world examples, Pattern Breakers upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve breakthrough success, and provides a playbook for anyone launching a startup or creating a new product.

Pattern Breakers had its roots in the time when Mike Maples, a seasoned venture capitalist, was stumped, unable to get a grip on... Read more

Money Capital

By: Patrick Bolton & Haizhou Huang

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience—including the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 and the economic development of China—contradict this basic prediction. In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel... Read more

Unit X

By: Raj M. Shah & Christopher Kirchhoff

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah & Christopher...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit.

A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or... Read more

To Be a Problem

By: Dara Baldwin

Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color

For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are made. Disenfranchisement of people of color and... Read more

Winston Churchill

By: Peter Caddick-Adams

Narrated by: Hugh Kermode

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, author Peter Caddick-Adams writes that the recipe for Winston Churchill's success during his wartime premiership of 1940-45 can be found in the First World War. He argues that Britain's survival under Churchill was precisely because the nation, and its leaders, had undergone a "dress rehearsal in... Read more

Night of Power

By: Robert Fisk

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation... Read more

Off The Beat

By: Nusrit Mehtab

Narrated by: Shaheen Khan

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When Nusrit Mehtab joined the Met Police in the late 80s the organisation was rife with racism and misogyny. Officers refused to patrol with her, or even call her by her name. Her attempts to get promoted were met with hostility and ridicule and she was subject to cruel pranks.

As the years passed and her seniority grew,... Read more

A Thousand Days

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 43 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." —Time



Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days,... Read more

Ask Not

By: Maureen Callahan

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem.

The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the... Read more

The Air They Breathe

By: Debra Hendrickson

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.

Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time.... Read more

Second Class

By: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it’s my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way. — Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in... Read more

Private Revolutions

By: Yuan Yang

Narrated by: Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, Naomi Ya...

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary.” —Vogue

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the BBC

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society

While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times,... Read more

Niemand kann sagen, er hätte es nicht gewusst - Die ungeheuerlichen Pläne der AfD (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: CORRECTIV & Marcus Bensmann

Narrated by: Günther Harder

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In diesem Buch vereint Marcus Bensmann die Erkenntnisse vieljähriger Recherchen des CORRECTIV-Netzwerks über die AfD. Anhand ihrer eigenen Aussagen rekonstruiert er die Pläne der Partei: vom Potsdamer Geheimtreffen bis zur geplanten Abschaffung von Grundwerten. Als Rechtsextremismus-Experte des Recherchenetzwerks CORRECTIV war Marcus Bensmann... Read more

Wem gehört Deutschland?

By: Jens Berger

Narrated by: Markus Böker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Der Traum einer Gesellschaft, in der jeder die gleichen Chancen hat und ohne materielle Sorgen sein Glück suchen kann, ist vorbei. Die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich klafft in Deutschland immer weiter auseinander. Die breite Mittelschicht, die einst unser Land gekennzeichnet und unsere Gesellschaft getragen hat, erodiert. Die Krisen der letzten... Read more

A Revolutionary Friendship

By: Francis D. Cogliano

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha Washington's worst memory was the death of her husband. Her second worst was Thomas Jefferson's awkward visit to pay his respects. Indeed, by the time George Washington died in 1799, the two founders were estranged. But that estrangement has obscured the fact that for most of their thirty-year acquaintance they enjoyed a productive... Read more

Weltreise eines Kapitalisten

By: Rainer Zitelmann

Narrated by: Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bukarest, Danzig, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tiflis, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zürich – das sind nur einige der Stationen auf der Weltreise von Rainer Zitelmann. Der Historiker und Soziologe hat in 20 Monaten 30 Länder auf vier Kontinenten bereist und dabei 260.000... Read more

The Presidents and the People

By: Corey Brettschneider

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.

In this propulsive history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such... Read more

True West

By: Betsy Gaines Quammen

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging... Read more

Gaslight

By: Jonathan Mingle

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the "public interest"—because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called "bridge... Read more

Memory and Authority

By: Jack M. Balkin

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court's current embrace of originalism is only the most recent example of how lawyers and judges try to use history to establish authority for their positions. Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often... Read more

God, Guns, and Sedition

By: Bruce Hoffman & Jacob Ware

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the latest flashpoints in a process that... Read more

Beyond Vietnam \ MAs allA de Vietnam (Spanish edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Emil Matos

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermosa edición conmemorativa del discurso Más allá de Vietnam del Dr. Martin Luther King, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. En 1967, en la iglesia Riverside de la Ciudad de Nueva York, el Dr. King se paró frente a una audiencia entusiasmada y criticó la guerra de Vietnam como un acto de fuerza... Read more