Politics & Economy audiobooks

Seeing Red

By: Sarah Oates & Gordon Neil Ramsay

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The US media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the news media as a vehicle for propaganda. This could not have happened without Donald Trump, who has been aided and abetted by politicians and news outlets that favor persuasion over information. From... Read more

How to Run Wars

By: Abigail R. Hall & Christopher J. Coyne

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A copy of the top-secret memo below recently came into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention!“Dear National Security Elite:In an ideal world, the public would simply accept whatever their leaders—you, in other words—told them. They would comply with restrictions and mandates, not as a matter of mere obedience, but as a... Read more

Decade of Disunion

By: Robert W. Merry

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.

The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the... Read more

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

By: Noliwe Rooks

Narrated by: Danielle Lee James

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation

When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount... Read more

...And a Hard Rain Fell

By: John Ketwig

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic, must-listen Vietnam war memoir



The classic Vietnam war memoir, ...and a hard rain fell is the unforgettable story of a veteran's rage and the unflinching portrait of a young soldier's odyssey from the roads of upstate New York to the jungles of Vietnam. Updated for its twentieth anniversary with a new afterword on the Iraq War and its... Read more

Takedown

By: Laila Mickelwait

Narrated by: Laila Mickelwait

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire.

Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested... Read more

Reap the Whirlwind

By: Peter Houlahan

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car.



Penn was an idealist who believed in the power of... Read more

Think It Over

By: Oliver L. North & David L. Goetsch

Narrated by: Rand Archer

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the past, one of the most cherished American values was the truth. When people dealt with dilemmas, issues, opinions, and decisions, their first question was “What is the truth in this situation?” Now people are concerned only with what they think, feel, and want.
We have lost touch with the importance of truth in our lives. This reality has... Read more

Project 2025

By: Carl Young

Narrated by: Jerry Dugan

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Your job. Your health. Your family. All targeted by a radical plan YOU don't even know about.Project 2025 is a blueprint for a future that's not yours. It threatens your right to choose, your financial security, and the very fabric of American life.In Project 2025: Exposing the Radical Agenda, you'll discover: How this plan could impact your... Read more

Behind Closed Doors

By: Ken Khachigian

Narrated by: Dean Gallagher

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.



"Ken Khachigian has written... Read more

Tilak

By: Vaibhav Purandare

Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was considered to be the biggest threat to the British hegemony.He was prosecuted thrice for sedition.Was termed ‘the father of Indian unrest.’He was convicted for his fiery writings in his nationalist daily Kesari.Tilak, the first definitive biography of the man who raised the slogan that ‘freedom is my birthright and I... Read more

Macro Economics

By: Daniel Shore

Narrated by: Kevin Brooker

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Macroeconomics is the branch of economics that focuses on the overall performance of the economy, including factors like unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policies. It analyzes how these factors interact to shape the economy as a whole and how government policies can influence them.The circular flow of income and... Read more

The Yeager Tapes

By: Chuck Yeager

Narrated by: Chuck Yeager

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Chuck Yeager, American Hero, the Original Right Stuff, tells his own story. Hear Glennis Yeager, Chuck Yeager's first wife tell stories, too. Here it is in General Yeager’s and Glennis Yeager’s own words.If WWII hadn’t come along when it did, Chuck Yeager probably would have been content to stay in the hills of West Virginia.But the war in... Read more

Micro Economics

By: Daniel Shore

Narrated by: Kevin Brooker

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Microeconomics is a branch of economics that focuses on the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of limited resources. It typically deals with the interactions between buyers and sellers and the factors that influence their decisions. Microeconomics is a critical branch of economics that focuses on the... Read more

Operation Ark

By: Pen Farthing

Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing’s actions were nothing short of heroic. - Ricky Gervais   67 People. 171 Animals. Getting out was only half the battle.   August 2021. The Taliban invaded Kabul.   The British Government was Missing in Action.   The evacuation was disastrous, shambolic and deadly.   Pen Farthing... Read more

International Economics

By: Daniel Shore

Narrated by: Kevin Brooker

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

International economics explores the intricate dynamics of economic interactions between countries, delving into a myriad of topics and theories. At its core, it examines the flows of goods, services, capital, and labor across borders, and the resultant impact on economies worldwide. This discipline encompasses: Trade Theories, which elucidate... Read more

Project 2025

By: William Wurth

Narrated by: Cory Rodis

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A ticking clock. A nation at a turning point. A bold blueprint for the future!
In the crucible of the upcoming 2025 elections, America stands on the precipice of unprecedented change. The choices we make now will determine the course of our nation for generations to come.
Will we embrace a path of revitalization, restoring our economic vitality... Read more

Lopsided

By: Dave Martin

Narrated by: Dave Martin

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

America today is lopsided. Although there are millions of Americans who disagree with the prevailing progressive orthodoxy, they nevertheless tolerate it to avoid heated debate. Meanwhile, progressives push their agenda relentlessly and passionately and have achieved dominance over many American institutions including the News Media, Big Tech,... Read more

Growth Theory

By: Daniel Shore

Narrated by: Kevin Brooker

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Growth theory is a branch of economics that seeks to understand the mechanisms behind sustained economic growth and development. It emerged in response to the question of why some countries experience rapid and sustained increases in per capita income over time while others do not. One of the foundational models in growth theory is the... Read more

How Tyrants Fall

By: Marcel Dirsus

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Thought-provoking' THE ECONOMIST

'Compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE

'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA HOYER

'Utterly compelling . . . jaw-dropping' BRIAN KLAAS

Strongmen are rising. Democracies... Read more

A Modest Proposal

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Bryan Matthews

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal offers a scathing commentary on 18th-century Ireland's poverty. The narrator, with chilling seriousness, proposes a solution to the burden of poor children: selling them as food to the wealthy. This outrageous idea, delivered in a satirical tone, mocks the indifference of England towards Ireland's struggles. Read more

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

By: Andrea Freeman

Narrated by: Heni Zoutomou

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era

In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is... Read more

To Kill a Nation

By: Michael Parenti

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy. Read more

The Reactionary Spirit

By: Zack Beauchamp

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With keen insight, Vox journalist Zack Beauchamp traces how a reactionary antidemocratic ethos born and bred in America has come to infect democracies around the world.

There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American politics that has endured since our nation’s birth. In The Reactionary Spirit, Zack Beauchamp explains what he calls... Read more