Politics & Economy audiobooks

Madam Speaker

By: Susan Page

Narrated by: Susan Page

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 

The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by New York Times bestselling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page.
 
Featuring more than 150 exclusive interviews with those who know her best—and a series of in-depth, news-making... Read more

Overheated

By: Kate Aronoff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.

It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the... Read more

I Am a Girl from Africa

By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.

When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to... Read more

The Punitive Turn in American Life

By: Michael S. Sherry

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of... Read more

Ages of American Capitalism

By: Jonathan Levy

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 31 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.

“The best one-volume history of American capitalism . . . It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding its economic history. This... Read more

Der Fall Julian Assange

By: Nils Melzer

Narrated by: Stefan Lehnen

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

2010 veröffentlicht WikiLeaks das größte Leak der US-Militärgeschichte – das "Afghan War Diary" mitsamt Beweisen für Kriegsverbrechen und Folter. Kurz danach verdächtigt Schweden Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange der Vergewaltigung; die USA ermitteln verdeckt. Nach jahrelangem Botschaftsasyl überstellt ihn Ecuador 2019 der britischen Polizei. Die... Read more

Our Next Evolution

By: Laura Calandrella

Narrated by: Melanie Hensch

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale. It will outpace us if we don’t turn our attention to an even deeper concern regarding the future of humanity: we need to work together to create change.

Our current approach to collaboration is outmoded. To transform our world, we must transform the way we lead. We... Read more

Different Essays

By: Charles Pinwill

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

These are easily the most challenging essays on the planet. Pinwill is an original conceptual thinker with a dry sense of humor and turn of phrase. Whether its politics, national economics, history, theology or money his writing all comes from somewhere different. You’ll need to buy his essays to discover whether you love or hate them. He has... Read more

The Best War Ever

By: Michael C.C. Adams

Narrated by: Alister Austin

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The most readable-and searingly honest-short book ever written on this pivotal conflict. Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A... Read more

The Federalist Society

By: Michael Avery & Danielle McLaughlin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to... Read more

The World as I See It

By: Albert Einstein

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein wrote about his hopes for the League of Nations, his feelings as a German citizen among the growing anti-Semitism and nationalism of his country, and his myriad opinions about the current affairs of his day. In addition to these political perspectives, The World as I See It reveals the... Read more

Transition to Common Work

By: Joe Mancini & Stephanie Mancini

Narrated by: Graham Yeates

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Chapter 11: Transition to Common Work

Joe Mancini and Stephanie Mancini

Describes the evolution of Working Centre philosophy where social inclusion and local democracy have helped people shape the tools they use in a community setting. A social infrastructure that combines cooperation and enterprise can teach new models of working together. Read more

The Duchess Countess

By: Catherine Ostler

Narrated by: Catherine Ostler

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times
'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked Bridgerton, you’ll love this. . . and her research is impeccable' Evening Standard

When the... Read more

An Undelivered Speech: Annihilation of Caste

By: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Narrated by: Siddhartha Valicharla

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous speech that was never delivered - ANNIHILATION OF CASTE - by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.

Along with his paper, Castes in India: their mechanism, genesis and development!

Combined to form one cohesive audiobook, the way Babasaheb envisioned it.

For an abridged video version of it by the narrator, please see:... Read more

Ayodhya

By: Krishna Jha & Dhirendra K. Jha

Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

22 December 1949: A conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little-known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Rama inside it. While it is known that the Hindu Mahasabha had a role in placing the idol in... Read more

Radicalizing Her

By: Nimmi Gowrinathan

Narrated by: Pratima Mani

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent corrective to the erasure of the female fighter from narratives on gender and power, demanding that we see all women as political actors.

“Violence, for me, and for the women I chronicle in this book, is simply a political reality.”

Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up nearly 30% of militant movements... Read more

Headhunter

By: Peter C. Svoboda

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar.... Read more

Green Swans

By: John Elkington

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his twentieth book, John Elkington—dubbed the "Godfather of Sustainability"—explores new forms of capitalism fit for the twenty-first century.

If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are... Read more

The Triumph of Nancy Reagan

By: Karen Tumulty

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 25 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of the fiercely vigilant and politically astute First Lady who shaped one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century: Nancy Reagan.

The made-in-Hollywood marriage of Ronald and Nancy Reagan is more than a love story—it’s the partnership that made him president. Of the pair, Nancy was the one with the... Read more

Weapon of Choice

By: Ian Ayers & Fredrick E. Vars

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court's current interpretation of the Second Amendment. And gun rights advocates have joined a politically savvy firearm industry in a powerful coalition that... Read more

What's Luck Got To Do With It?

By: Edward D. Kleinbard

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs.

In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our... Read more

Spite

By: Simon McCarthy-Jones

Narrated by: Chris Clarkson

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.

Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?

As psychologist Simon... Read more

Bird Uncaged

By: Marlon Peterson

Narrated by: Marlon Peterson

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
 
Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and... Read more

I Somehow Survived

By: Klaus G. Forg

Narrated by: Janet Metzger & James Anderson Foster

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a series of books, I Somehow Survived is an extraordinary collection of true stories giving testimony to those who survived World War II. Based on interviews with numerous veterans from across the spectrum of wartime experience, the book documents and reflects upon one of the most gruesome times in history.



From anti-partisan warfare... Read more