Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Splendid and the Vile

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post • HuffPost • The Seattle Times • Lit Hub • The Week • PopSugar

On Winston Churchill’s first day as... Read more

Jesus and John Wayne

By: Kristin Kobes du Mez

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which explains how... Read more

Surviving Autocracy

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Masha Gessen

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times

“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview

As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to... Read more

Hiding in Plain Sight

By: Sarah Kendzior

Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.

This program is read by the author.

The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because... Read more

Surrender

By: Bono

Narrated by: Bono

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR***

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained... Read more

Hope in the Dark

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that... Read more

Invisible Rulers

By: Renee DiResta

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.

Renée DiResta’s powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed... Read more

The Truths We Hold

By: Kamala Harris

Narrated by: Kamala Harris

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller

From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, comes a book about the core truths that unite us and how best to act upon them. 

"A life story that genuinely entrances." —Los Angeles Times

“An engaging read that provides insights into the influences of [Harris’s]... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more

Just Mercy

By: Bryan Stevenson

Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

Prequel

By: Rachel Maddow

Narrated by: Rachel Maddow

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
 
“A ripping read—well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same... Read more

So You Want to Talk about Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race,... Read more

Democracy Awakening

By: Heather Cox Richardson

Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post

“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the... Read more

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history
 
A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 3 of 3

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

Chaos

By: Tom O'Neill

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

Strongmen

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.



For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers:... Read more

If We Burn

By: Vincent Bevins

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next
 
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How... Read more

War

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.

War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.

We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers... Read more

The Anarchy

By: William Dalrymple

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, read by Sid Sagar.

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET... Read more

How We Show Up

By: Mia Birdsong

Narrated by: Mia Birdsong

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection

After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're... Read more

That Librarian

By: Amanda Jones

Narrated by: Amanda Jones

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more

Maid

By: Stephanie Land

Narrated by: Stephanie Land

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE."
  "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."

-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading... Read more

Consumed

By: Aja Barber

Narrated by: Aja Barber

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. 
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more