Politics & Economy audiobooks

Presidenta

By: Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Narrated by: Enrique Cardenas

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

La victoria de una mujer en un país de hombres, Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Por primera vez en 200 años México eligió a una mujer como presidenta. El reconocido periodista y escritor, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, construye la narración más completa y documentada sobre la vida personal y política de Claudia Sheinbaum: el activismo de sus padres... Read more

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

By: Charlotte Lydia Riley, Suzanne Nossel & Intelli...

Narrated by: Charlotte Lydia Riley & Suzanne Nossel

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat?

Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues that alongside the necessary and long-overdue elevation of minority voices in recent years,... Read more

The Art Of War

By: Lionel Giles & Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic... Read more

Arthashastra, or, The Playbook of Material Gain

By: Chanakya

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Truly radical "Machiavellianism", in the popular sense of that word, is classically expressed in Indian literature in the Arthashastra of Kautilya (written long before the birth of Christ, ostensibly in the time of Chandragupta): compared to it, Machiavelli's The Prince is harmless.
— Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1919)
Chanakya's treatise,... Read more

Left Adrift

By: Timothy Shenk

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today

Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Electorates that were once divided by economics—with blue-collar workers supporting leftwing parties while the wealthy trended right—are now more likely to split along cultural lines. Campaigns have gone high-tech, hoping to... Read more

A Life in the American Century

By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"—a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power—be it political, economic, or military—on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world... Read more

Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words

By: Zinga A. Fraser

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

LOOKING BEYOND HER POLITICAL SYMBOLISM TO CELEBRATE NOT ONLY WHO SHIRLEY CHISHOLM WAS BUT WHO SHE IS—A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER WITH MUCH TO TEACH US TODAYIn the midst of her groundbreaking twenty-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, “Everyone—with the exception of the black woman... Read more

Hotel Lux

By: Maurice J. Casey

Narrated by: Maurice Casey

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters.



Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in... Read more

Unredacted

By: Christopher Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Steele

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The intelligence officer behind the explosive “Steele Dossier” steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get... Read more

Countdown 1960

By: Chris Wallace

Narrated by: Dylan Baker & Chris Wallace

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024

It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the... Read more

Bankia desde dentro

By: Juan Emilio Maíllo Belda

Narrated by: Simon Gómez & Santiago Gómez

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato en primera persona del caso bancario que conmocionó a España El 7 de mayo de 2012, Rodrigo Rato anunció su dimisión como presidente de BFA y de Bankia para dar paso a José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, banquero de prestigio. Ese mismo día había amanecido con varias noticias en medios de comunicación apuntando a la inminente inyección de... Read more

Madrid, metrópolis (neo)fascista

By: Pablo del Hierro

Narrated by: Simon Gómez & Santiago Gómez

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La capital de España como una urbe fundamental en el proceso de reconfiguración del viejo movimiento totalitario. De la mano de Pablo del Hierro redescubrimos un Madrid que actuó como centro de negocios oscuros a menudo vinculados al mundo del arte, como refugio seguro para jerarcas fascistas donde la naciente justicia internacional no se... Read more

Secret Agenda

By: Jim Hougan

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after the infamous Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency, Jim Hougan—then the Washington editor of Harper's Magazine—set out to write a profile of Lou Russell, a boozy private-eye who plied his trade in the vice-driven underbelly of the nation's capital. Hougan soon discovered that Russell was "the sixth man, the one... Read more

HAMAS

By: Beverley Milton-Edwards & Stephen Farrell

Narrated by: Hannibal Hills

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the... Read more

The Freedom Shield

By: Maj. John D. Falcon (Ret)

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire.



The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, who were tasked with carrying troops into battle, attacking enemy positions, and evacuating the wounded in their UH-1... Read more

Vigilante Nation

By: Jon Michaels & David Noll

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy—and prescribe a plan for beating the Christian nationalists at their own game.

Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white... Read more

Good as Gold

By: Judy Shelton

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From financial crises, to pandemic price-spikes, to recurring cycles of inflation, everyone agrees: the economy has seen better days.But as soon as pundits and politicians start discussing economics, things get murky. Most books ask more questions than they answer.Most books … but not this one.Judy Shelton—Senior Fellow at Independent Institute,... Read more

A Most Extraordinary Ride

By: Marc Garneau

Narrated by: Marc Garneau

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.

On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one... Read more

Euroshock

By: Charles H. Dallara

Narrated by: Bryan Tudor

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning to recover from the global financial crisis that had shaken global markets and had led to a sharp recession. At the same time, Europe was entering a new phase of economic stress. By the spring of 2011, the European economy had exploded into a full-blown crisis with Greece at the center. The... Read more

The Era of Liberation

By: Louis Kossuth, Abraham Lincoln, Swami Vivekanan...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of all creeds demanded their equality.
We begin with two speeches that represent the old order, by Bismarck. Between the two speeches he went from being Prussia’s last Minister President to being the Germany’s first Chancellor. A statesman in the oldest mold, he... Read more

Civil War in the Roman Republic

By: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Mark Anthony, Caius M...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how easily they could be translated into a modern day context. Frequently, a speech has reminded me of the news of the day, somewhere in the world. Nowhere has this been more evident than in these speeches. Given over two thousand years ago, every single one could be applied... Read more

From Enlightenment To Revolution

By: Maximillian Robespierre, Edmund Burke & William...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine... Read more

Demosthenes

By: Demosthenes

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Demosthenes is generally acknowledged as the greatest orator in history. He overcame a stammer and the theft of his inheritance by his legal guardians to become as foundational to oratory as his contemporaries Plato and Aristotle are to philosophy.
Much like a major contemporary political figure, he overcame a stammer on his journey to greatness,... Read more

The Rise of Socialism

By: William Morris, Annie Besant, Eduard Bernstein,...

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of workers.
William Morris believed decries the belief “not that Commerce was made for man, but that man was made for Commerce”, with the profit motive that renders all work miserable when “It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall... Read more