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The Cost of Free Money
By: Paola Subacchi
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order
When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone—and especially Donald Trump—is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade.... Read more
Anti-System Politics
By: Jonathan Hopkin
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges—from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, signaled a dramatic shift in... Read more
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Grant's Victory
By: Bruce L. Brager
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanders—whom... Read more
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Maternal Optimism
By: Danna Greenberg & Jamie Ladge
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Every working mother's path is unique and should be celebrated, not lamented. Yet all too frequently, working mothers are presented with advice, rules to follow or guidelines as if all women's experiences are the same and a one-size-fits-all solution is appropriate.
Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood aims to... Read more
The Socialist Awakening
By: John B. Judis
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
There is renewed interest in socialism in the US and the UK, particularly among young people. Who are these new socialists? Why now?
In The Socialist Awakening author John B. Judis, who brilliantly explained the rise of populism and nationalism in his two most recent books, The Populist Explosion and The Nationalist Revival, charts the path of... Read more
Trump: America First
By: Corey R. Lewandowski & David N. Bossie
Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling authors and close advisors to the president Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie write from the front lines of Trump's battle to keep America great.
Trump: America First gives the reader a firsthand and inside account of the Trump administration's battle for the soul of America.
As we face the most critical... Read more
The Man Who Ran Washington
By: Peter Baker & Susan Glasser
Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
Length: 26 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.
For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency... Read more
How to Educate an American
By: Chester E. Finn, Jr. & Michael J. Petrilli
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt & Rick Adamson
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives' ideas to reform America's lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country.
Today, these gains are in retreat, ceding ground to progressive nostrums that do little... Read more
Personality Wins
By: Merrick Rosenberg
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Another US presidential election is underway, and Americans are engaged in the time-honored tradition of judging candidates by their personalities. It may sound unwise to pick the future leader of the free world based on personality traits rather than platforms, policies, and ideology, but that is exactly what Americans do. In fact, personality... Read more
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Abe
By: David S. Reynolds
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 33 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln's Dilemma, airing February 18, 2022.
One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
"A marvelous... Read more
The End of India
By: Khushwant Singh
Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"I thought the nation was coming to an end,’ wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the violence in Gujarat in 2002, he had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, is still to... Read more
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The Socialist Temptation
By: Iain Murray
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
IT'S BACK!Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited.An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away—and socialism has come back with a vengeance.A generation of young people who don’t remember... Read more
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Mosul
By: Ben Mckelvey
Narrated by: Nick Farnell
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line.
Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney and Australia's military army bases, to the... Read more
Climate Courage
By: Andreas Karelas
Narrated by: Sean Duffy
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
How Americans can take action in their own communities and unite across the political spectrum in pursuit of solutions to climate change.
Andreas Karelas has a message we don’t often hear: we have all the tools we need to solve the climate crisis and doing so will improve our lives, our economy, and our society.
But to engage people in the climate... Read more
In the Dragon's Shadow
By: Sebastian Strangio
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia
Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economic,... Read more
The Emperor's New Road
By: Jonathan E. Hillman
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A prominent authority on China's Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing's project of the century
China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi's flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend over one trillion dollars for... Read more
Liberty from All Masters
By: Barry C. Lynn
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of America's preeminent thinkers provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America's new monopolies.
Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we... Read more
Rise Up
By: Al Sharpton
Narrated by: Al Sharpton & Leon Nixon
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This man is a gift from God to the world. This book is a gift from Al Sharpton to us. Let’s appreciate them both.”—Michael Eric Dyson
Beginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, Rise Up is a rousing call to action for our nation, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Al Sharpton’s unique experience as a... Read more
One Vote Away
By: Ted Cruz
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s sudden passing, control of the Supreme Court—and with it the fate of the Constitution—has become the deciding issue for many voters in the 2020 presidential election. And the stakes could not be higher.With a simple majority on the Supreme Court, the left will have the power to curtail or even abolish the... Read more
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As the World Burns
By: Lee van der Voo
Narrated by: Lee van der Voo
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“The story of Juliana v. United States and the committed young people behind it will give you hope in the next generation.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Do our children have a right to inherit a livable planet? Is the government obliged to protect it? Twenty-one young people from across America have sued the federal... Read more
Big Dirty Money
By: Jennifer Taub
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class."--The New York Times
How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.
There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and... Read more
Irreversible Damage
By: Abigail Shrier
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis “gender dysphoria,” transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls?Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America... Read more
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When More Is Not Better
By: Roger L. Martin
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
For its first 200 years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with ever-increasing levels of efficiency, spurred by division of labor, international trade, and scientific management of companies. But since then, outcomes have changed... Read more
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Red Pill, Blue Pill
By: David Neiwert
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Conspiracy theories are killing us. Once confined to the fringes of society, this worldview now has adherents numbering in the millions—extending right into the White House. This disturbing look at this alt-right threat to our democratic institutions offers guidance for counteracting the personal toll this destructive mindset can have on... Read more
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