Politics & Economy audiobooks

A State of Emergency

By: Richard Chambers

Narrated by: Richard Chambers

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The incendiary untold story of Ireland’s response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers, and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll. ... Read more

Race for Tomorrow

By: Simon Mundy

Narrated by: Simon Mundy

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on CNN’s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times’ best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world –... Read more

Soldiers

By: Max Hastings

Narrated by: Max Hastings & Ric Jerrom

Length: 24 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian Max... Read more

Venezuela. Más allá de mentiras y mitos

By: Arantxa Tirado

Narrated by: María Laura Cassani

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Todos los días, por todos los medios de supuesta comunicación, tenemos un bombardeo incesante de noticias sobre Venezuela que nos presentan un panorama apocalíptico del país suramericano: «En Venezuela no hay comida, no hay pan, no hay luz, los hospitales no funcionan, se están muriendo de hambre, el país es un desastre…», «En Venezuela no hay... Read more

The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir

By: Appu Esthose Suresh & Priyanka Kotamraju

Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir is a fresh account of one of the most controversial political assassinations in contemporary history-that of Mahatma Gandhi. Based on previously unseen intelligence reports and police records, this book recreates the circumstances of his murder, the events leading up to it and the investigation afterwards.... Read more

Unsettled

By: Ryan Hampton

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking inside account of reckless capitalism and injustice in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case.



In September 2019, Purdue Pharma—the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family—filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the US overdose crisis. Author and... Read more

Net Positive

By: Paul Polman & Andrew Winston

Narrated by: Tom Parks, Paul Polman & Andrew Winston

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Runaway climate change and gross inequality are ravaging the world. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business.

These and other massive challenges threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together.

At this critical time in history, the imperative to... Read more

Sunbelt Blues

By: Andrew Ross

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"De Ocampo's performance is admirable. It is well paced, and he employs voices and strategic pauses to good effect. In sum, both the writing and narration are first-class." - AudioFile Magazine

An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's... Read more

Sorry Not Sorry

By: Alyssa Milano

Narrated by: Alyssa Milano

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Alyssa Milano’s sharply observed, uproarious, and deeply intimate ode to the life she has lived and the issues that matter most.
 
Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, delivers here a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays are unvarnished and elegant, funny and... Read more

Entender la Rusia de Putin. De la humillación al restablecimiento

By: Rafael Poch-de-Feliu

Narrated by: Adrián Antelo

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La Rusia poscomunista y el particular régimen del presidente Putin, su nacionalismo, su crítico desdén y desconfianza hacia Occidente y su cínico escepticismo hacia los valores reclamados como «occidentales», así como el considerable consenso que todo ello tiene en la sociedad rusa, no se comprenden sin atender a los años noventa, a la forma y... Read more

Code of Silence

By: Lise Olsen

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 IRE Book Award

Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction

In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to uphold

Code of Silence tells the story of... Read more

The Shattering

By: Kevin Boyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, social... Read more

The Mantle Of Command

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR’s White House Oval Study—his personal command center—and into the meetings where he... Read more

MRF Shadow Troop

By: Simon Cursey

Narrated by: Johnathan Rufus Welsh

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Some thought it stood for 'Military Reconnaissance Force', others 'Mobile Reconnaissance Force'. Many people thought it didn't exist at all . . .



For decades there has been argument in the media and amongst politicians about the possible existence and extent of a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland. MRF Shadow Troop confirms there was such... Read more

The Long War

By: David Loyn

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies?and failures?that prolonged America’s longest war.

Three... Read more

The Chancellor

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Alex Allwine & Kati Marton

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.

Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a... Read more

The Behavioral Code

By: Benjamin van Rooij & Adam Fine

Narrated by: Danny Hughes

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award Winner

A 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and Criminology

A 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist

A Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Book of 2021

Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain... Read more

Time for Socialism

By: Thomas Piketty

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding
of a... Read more

The Life and Death of Sambhaji (Part 1)

By: Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran

Narrated by: Vasundhra Bose

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that his father has fled from the clutches of the Mughal badshah Aurangzeb and left him behind. He must now find his way back home with the help of strangers . . .
Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the Maratha-Mughal conflict from a tender age.... Read more

Master of the Game

By: Martin Indyk

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 24 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
 
“A wealth of lessons for today, not only about the challenges in that region but... Read more

The Presidency of George W. Bush

By: John Robert Greene

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic study to analyze the entirety of his presidency—domestic, social, economic, and national security policies—as well as the administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror. In so doing, John Robert Greene argues persuasively that the judgment of most scholars—that... Read more

Nixon's War at Home

By: Daniel S. Chard

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands of pages of... Read more

Woke Racism

By: John McWhorter

Narrated by: John McWhorter

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.

Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the... Read more

Her Honor

By: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Narrated by: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts.

Judge Cordell, the first African American woman... Read more